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Show (RUSHED THROUGHWITH LEAST CONSIDERATION Dcfcnueig of tho mine tux imiundment cry Krnvoly nurture un that the JiiciiMurc wn paused by a vote of "more than two-tbirdft I of the IcsrJHluture," asHerta Monday'n Snlt Iako Tribune. A It could not have been Htibmitted iinlcaH ttupportcd by at least to-tliirdrt to-tliirdrt of both houses, its presenco in our midst is incontioverti-blo incontioverti-blo proof that our talented constitutional rcp.iirmen arc KivinK correct information on this point. It is not necessary to review Hip nmondnu'iit's Ii'jrislativu history for their benefit. They lenow i.ll about it. Tlioy were riht on the job, as usual, to see that this or t-omo other kind of an amendment was passed. But it is woll to ttll the stoiy briefly to refresh tho public recollection recollec-tion of that night, 'or it all huppened in one night, the last night of tho Mission. The amuudmi'iit was prepared outside tlio ranks of the legislator legis-lator and font to the senate a little after 1) o'clock as a substitute for a rojohition nhendy parsed by thu house. It was ho different from the house resolution thnt thu author of the original measure refused to vote for tho substitute when it came back to the house. It was a proposition tmtirnly unlike anything previously presented to the Utnh leglslatiue or to any other legislative body iih far as we can learn. It wiih passed by a docile senate majority on the nssurtion that it had the administrative approval, although several seuiitor.i ueic sufficiently awake or conscientious to vote ngainst it. It w.is then hurried over to the house, where it was pmtnptlv Killed in accordance with the pleasant practice followed by the house income tax bill. The amendment was resurrected by a liouio member a few minutes later and passed, with only two votes to spare, amid the confusion as the members collected their official and private effects preparatory to going home,. The whole business was completed in less than two hours and Im anothei hour the legislature finally adjourned. There was not oven the pretense of n discussion of thu measure, on its merits, to Miy nothing of a public hearing. In fact, it was never heard of outside the capitol building and very little Inside until after it had been passed. Public business was never more privately transacted trans-acted In tho history of the state. The legislative record of tho amendment nlonu is sufficient to condemn, it. And thu legislators who tl us displned "ch indifference towards the state's organic law are not likely to point to this portion of their record as justification justi-fication for Author opportunity to manifest their statosmnnllkc i.tmlitius |