Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-08-22 | Page 10 | Mass of Lawmaking

MASS OF LAWMAKING MAKING MAKIN laws like making making- books Mi j is without end This is to be expected so long as organized governments governments govern govern- ments meats exist And in a government like ours with Congress to make laws for the nation legislatures to make laws for tho the states and legislative bodies to to enact ordinances ordinances' for the municipalities municipalities mu mu- tho the making of laws might bo be regarded n a well established in indu industry in- in du try in the United States The figures figure look large but it is not extraordinary that bills were introduced during the three sessions of the third Sixty-third Congress as reported by one of the committees at the meeting of the American Bar association nor that bills were introduced in the three forty-three state legislatures which held sessions this year that of them were enacted ed of which more than 1000 were vetoed by the governors About the best sign looming through these figures is that tho the governors governors governors gov gov- of the states exercise their prerogative prerogative pre pre- c in the making of laws and the ratio between tho the number of bills enacted and vetoed is fair proof that tho the executive function is used in this regard with great care and a full sense of responsibility Only the aggregate ta looks large Dissected Dissected Dis Dig and digested nothing abnormal is found in tho the detail The fhe United States is not a small domain Its fod forty eight eight states and its territorial and insular possessions together with municipal legislation for the federal capi capital al conjure a multitude of diversified diversified diversified diver diver- issues Tho The states have their separate and somewhat local questions questions questions ques ques- just ns as each city or town to ha has its internal affairs to govern goern Some aff so cut the tho entire bod body politic as to encourage the effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort for uniformity in iu state legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion as evinced e in the discussions of tho commission on uniform laws in recent session here Anent tho tim tendency to extend federal federal federal fed fed- eral power over the states these data would indicate that absolute federal control would bo be o a stupendous under under- taking In this respect tho the remark of former President Taft is noteworthy He lie S said id hero here recently liTho Tho The federal government go should not interfere in matters which are purely local V Wo We 0 are tending toward too much supervision by tho the federal government and every time a case ease arises which wo think cannot be handled by the tho state wo we G try to make it a S. national proposition I think such matters should be settled locally as they are local questions