Show 1 A BILIAS pending in the territorial 1 legisla legislature tuie entitled A bill for an act for the publio publication tion of acts of the thirtieth legislative assembly upon the approve 4 al thereof And otherwise which gives one of those subsidies to the salt lakeri Lake City ity papers section 1 reads that whenever an au act t shall be parsed by the legislative assembly of this territory rif cory wherein it is provided that the hatae shall take effect upon the approval the thereof beof the secretary of the territory s shall hall immediately upon the approval thereof ba b the governor cause such act be published twice a week for three successive ve weeks i in d t favo 0 daily 4 newspapers printed in the english language and ad having a general circulation I 1 a tion throughout ghost the territory this bill is undemocratic and should be im 1111 r medially amended do as to provide that the acts ot oi the legislature should be published in at least one paper in each county while it might be true that salt lake papers have bavo a general circulation throughout the territory yet it cannot be claimed that these pa pers have anything like the circulation outside the county in which they are published as the papers published in said counties besides if it is necea feces i ary that those laws be published peo cy 0 pie ii ia othar parts of the territory have as much right to read them as the people of salt lake county lot let fews papers throughout the territory stand as a unit upon this question and domai demai d that the bill be amended so ad as to include one newspaper in each county in the territory provo dip path such a system as that proposed by the dispatch in ia in operation itina and several other states with excellent results it is manifest that ignorance of law should be grounds for defense when the govern no measures to make the laws public the amount used in prosecuting offenders through igno ignorance of the statutes would easily pay for their publication awarding the contract to pairs gives a 8 splendid chance for political jobbery |