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Show A MISEKA11LE SU5TKBFUGE Tiis action oi the conference committee tf congress in maintaining the Utah commission com-mission but rdueing the salary of its members mem-bers from $5000 to $2000 each, is a miserable subterfuge that will satisfy no one in particular. particu-lar. Tf the Utah commission Is a necessary appendix to our election machinery; that is to say, if our peculiar condition really demands de-mands such supervision 'as the commission is here to exercise, then the duties roust be sufficiently responsible to command a fair salary. If not, then the commission should I be abolished. That is the only honest alter- j aative. When the conference report was presented V) the house. Delesratc Caine made a windv '.peech against its adoption. It was ammunition ammu-nition wasted. What he should have done the moment he found which way the conference con-ference was drifting, was to urge an amendment amend-ment by which only citizens of the territory j should be made eligible for the office whenever when-ever one becomes vacant by resignation, etc., ! of any member now serving. This would have been in accordance with the platforms of both natioual parties, and it would at the same time have taken away the chief stigma that now attaches to the commission. Under any kind of government it will bo necessary for us to have an election board of some sort, and we might as well commence with this one as any other. And whereas the salary of $2000 would not attract a capable man from abroad it would be ample for one already on the spot and in . a position to discharge his oflicial duties without material interference" with his own. But Delegate Cwnf. chased the shadow und fortrot the substance, and a cheap and miserable subterfuge is as usual the result. |