Show I THE GOVERNORS VETO t ApproprIation For the Salt Palace C Goes Onto I + IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL 4S I PRIVATE ENTERPRISB AND CANNoTBEGBIv STATE AIDS AID-S + The Eigb ± hour Act and Public Print ilig Bills Also VetoedFive Meaures Receive Executive Al > S provallteasons As Set Out By the Governor t Governor Wells yesterday vetoed the clause in the general appropriation bill appropriating 8000 for the Salt Palace He also vetoed the eighthour act and Jacksons bIl requiring execution of contracts for state city and county printing binding and stationery work Within each respective district Five bills were transmitted to the secretary of state with exec ive approval SIn prval In explanaton of his action vetoing the Sal Palace appropriation item the governor has the following to say in his letter to Secretary Hammond A 1 nave the honor to file in your i office with mv approval senate bill No 94 An act making appropriations for general purposes except the item to aid the Salt Palace assocIation of Utah to estIsh and maintain an in termountan exposition in Salt Lake City during the yea 1899 on condition I that the Sat Palace association shall raise by private subscription the sumS S sum-S of 40000 before any portion of this appropriation ap-propriation shall be available provided J that the money herein appropriated shall only be drawn on the approval of the state hoard of examiners 800 I whIch is disapproved for the following reonsGOVERNORS GOVERNORS REASONS From the prospectus of the association I associa-tion in aid of which this appropriation i5 mae 1t is learned that I is a aso elation of individuals who have perfect edt an ornizatIon with the ultimate I purpose of incorporating under the laws of the state that ofcer have bn eJected and an organizing committee I com-mittee selected It also appears that the capital stock of the association has ben fixed at 50OOO in shares of 1 I each and that careful estimates give e gve good reason to believe that the stockholders stock-holders wi receive back their moneyS invested 1 While it is stated that the purpose of erecting the Sat Palace is to attract and Salt Lake City attention to Utah Sat Lae Ciy in particular it is also equally clear that the association in charge thereof expects to derive a profit therefroman enterprise for private gin and of a private character Assuming such to be the fats the item in question would be in direct violation of section 21 a S tide 6 of the constitution which pro ides Te legislature shall not authorize au-thorize the state or any county vitv town township district or other polt cal subdivision of the state to lend its credit or subscribe to stock or bon sin s-in aid of any railroad telegrah or other private individual or corporate enterprise ar undertakingS undertaking-S I therefore regard this appropriation appropria-tion a a unwarrantable and unconstitutional unconsti-tutional diversion of the publc funds EIGHTHOUR LAW The governors veto of the labor bill S Is a follows To the Secretary of State Sir I have the honor to file in your afce without pprval senate bill No 29 being a act io nrnend section 1336 chapter 2 title 36 of the revised statutes of Utah of 1898 relating to labor la-bor with my objections thereto as follows The bill provides that in all contracts in whIch the state 01 county ar municipal munici-pal subdivision thereof is a party i shall be stipulated that nO laborerS laborer-S workman or mechanic in the employ of the contractor or subcontractor shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in one calendar day except in extraordinary emergency and that such contract shall stipulate a penalty of 10 fer each violation of the stipulation therein contained The third seton provides that any person violating any of its provisions shall be guilty af a misdemeanor The evident purpose of the act i to make it a criminal offense for any person in the employment of the state county or any municipal subdivision thereof t work longer than eight hours in anyone any-one calendar day Another purpose of the act is to prohibit the laboring man from working moze than eight hours in the same day even though he desires and his necessIties require him to do so The provisions are not only of doubt but to be ful constitutionality seem Ian I-an unwarrantable and unreasonable interference i in-terference with the natural rights of I persons as enumerated in section 1 of article 1 of the constitution I seems Ito I-to me to provide that a man shal I not labor more than eight hours in each calendar day notwithstanding his own necessities or the necessities of those I dependent upon him might render it absolutely necessary for him to dO SO would be an interference with the natural nat-ural rights that every man ha to labor la-bor for the support of himself and lam iy or far the purpose of acquiring possessing and protecting properti The effect of he law would be to pre elude a laborer from working more than eight hours even though he might receive extra compensation for the ad ditona tme Not only this but if he should do so hc becomes amenable to a criminal prosecution for a misde meaor I the character of the employment was such that the purpose of the law could be based upon the grounds of health and safety of laborers a is the I purpose of the law in force prescribing an eIghthour day for laborers in mines I and smelters the constitutionality of S which has been sustained by the supreme su-preme court of the United States there would be justification for the compul sr feature of this bill but it is not believed that any sanitary or police necessity can be urged in this case necsit cn ure cae AsIde from the question af unconstitutionality tutOnaIty the policy propos cd by this act Is not warranted by the industrial conditions which exist at present in this state I belce the act if it should become a law would result not only in great inconvenience in may cases but would prove a positive detriment to the interests of the laboring classes Very respectfully HEBER M WELLS Governor PRINTING BILL VETO The governors reasons for dIsapproving dIsap-proving of T ckons public printing bill are I follows To the Secretary of State pet r SirI have the honor to file herewith in your office without my approval I I ap-proval house bill Ko 152 entitled An act providing that the state county I I and municipal printing bInding and stationery work for the several counties coun-ties and municipalities throughout the I state shall be executed within the state county or municipality for which the work is done Seton provides that municipal printing binding and stationery work shal be executed withIn with-in the muncpalty for which the work is done wh n there are practicable fa cltes within the said municipality for executing the same but when it 1 I shrJI be necessary for want of necesar proper facilities to execute the work without I I sad unicpaltes then the same shall be executed at some place withn the county I would be an impossibility I for officerS of municipalities within counties where no printing establish ments are conducted to comply with the uirements of this section and I seton 7 of this act makes i a mi deeanor to Violate any of the provisions pro-visions of this act f I cannotgv my appmVaIto an act which requires a public officer to do tin Impossibility and ten makes his fall ure a miadenuhnbr Very esp ctu y HBERI vELL1 S Governor BIIS AEPROYED S S A list ofthe bills approved follows House bill No 84 by Shepard providing pro-viding a general law on negotiable in strum nts uniform with the laws of other states on the subject House bill No 15 by ONei appropriating appro-priating 34600 for construction and improvement of roads and bridges in the several counties outside of Salt Lake Senate bill No 35 by Thomas providing pro-vidIng for the purcha of the Utah I state table and appropriating money to pay for the same S same I House bill No 97 by McQuarie es tblshing a branch of the experiment station under the direction of the state board of horticulture in southern Utah Sdnate bill No 94 by Thoma genera appropriaton measure all items e cepting Salt Palace appropriation proved Palae appropriaton ap |