Show KNOOKKD OUT I I i About tho best piece of news which has I i come over the wires lately was conveyed in TUB HERALDS Washington special on I I Sunday morning saying the House Committee I Com-mittee on Appropriations had reported the legislative judicial and executive appropriation appro-priation bill with the customary sum for I the Utah commission left out The announcement an-nouncement is peculiarly gratifying to our people wbo have been a good deal annoyed in their feelings since the statement was made some time ago that that sturdy Democrat Demo-crat and economist Chairman HOLMAN had been led astray by the pleadings of 1 Governor THOMAS and Colonel GODFREY the former of whom wanted the commission I continued that he might remain one of its I masters and the latter of whom is naturally j natur-ally eager to keep on drawing 5UOO a year and expenses for spending hIs holiday season on the shor s of Great Sail Lake I The local rejoicing will not be limited to the prospect of very soon being relieved from the useless and shamelessly partisan 1 par-tisan board Of course that will I be the occasion of the greatest I joy but the circumstance that Judge HOLMAN came back Into line before his splendid record was broken will give much pleasure hereabouts where the distinguished distinguish-ed Hoosier has as many admireas in proportion propor-tion to population as In any other part of the republic When he swerved from the straight path in this case the Utah Democracy felt that they and their cause had lost a friend We must not assume that the committiees report settles the problem of the life of the commission It probably disposes of the question so far as the passage of the bill through the House is concerned but there will be a fight in the Senate for the restoration restora-tion of the appropriation It has already been announced that the eftort will be to induce the Senate to put the usual amount In the bill and then try to force the House to yield It is probable the Senate can behold be-hold on the side of the commission There is one Democrat in the upper house who has a personal friend in the commission and that fact it is expected will de privo economy and the cause of right of one vote although the Senators friend referred to has been in Utah less than any other member of the commission and has really been the least useful member of the useless board However How-ever the situation is much more encouraging encour-aging than it ever before has been It is believed that Utah has two or three friends in the Senate other than the Democrats in which event the matter may never reach a conference committee and in any event the House should stand by the proposition propo-sition which is fortified by right to a great community and is clearly in the interest of economy Speaking of this matter the gentlemen of the commission should understand that if they had been as the boys say half white if they had shown a disposition to perform their fow and simple duties in a spirit of fairness and decency It is doubted that tho people of Utah would have made a fight against them and they might have gone on holding the sinecures until the territory obtained home rule or statehood The vicious partisanism I I of the commission their flat denial of tho I claims of justice their rank subserviency to a conscienceless faction in every official act notably in the appointment registration registra-tion officers and election judges and in the outrageous gerrymander of the legislative districts last year are what have antagonized antagon-ized all the voters of Utah who believe in fair elections and majority rule Colonel GODFREY the oilytongued chairman of the commission will have himself largely to blame for being knocked out Ho knew better yet didnt have the courage to do I bettor |