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Show A PERSISTENT VETO. Wc noto that Mayor Morris has again vetoed the Council proposition to allow tho Sealer of Weights and Measures a fair sum for buggy hire In going about to perform his duties of verifying and scaling the weights and measures of the middlemen- of this city. Ho insists that a rig muat be bought for that official, of-ficial, evidently with the purpose of making the office which Mr. Richards Is attempting so much to magnlfs. a permanently per-manently active affair. We would suggest, before going so far In the matter, that there be first a determination of the law. So far as the legality of tho procedure had to date is concerned, there has been no of-firmatlon of-firmatlon of Its validity, It Is stated that thero-'are good lawyers who doubt very seriously whether there Is proper legal foundation for tho acts of the Sealer of Weights and Measures. A test case Is now pending boforo Judge Dichl which Involves the validity of the acts in question and the authority which Is claimed. Until that case Is decided, it might be well to go slow, and it is our Idea that the Council has the better of the position. It provided a sufficient easement ease-ment for the official until his status Is more perfectly defined, and that is all that should be asked at this time. It may be a good thing to make, this wide advertising of the dishonesty of Salt' Lake merchants, and proclamation that they use false weights and measures; meas-ures; but we do not concur in that opinion. We don't believe that there is any substantial basis for such a claim. We believe that the middlemen of this city arc in the main honest; that they use honest weights and measures. Wo don't believe that they mean to cheat lliosd who buy of them, nor those of whom they buy. And as to tho testing of the exactness of those weights and measures, wc are Informed that there is no official standard here; If there had been, as we are told and as seems likely, the tests would have been made long ago. As a matter of fact, what lias been done in this hullaballoo appears ap-pears to have been rather technical than .substantial. Let us first clear the ground, and see Where we are at. If wc have the rcquislto legal enactments and the standards of test, all right; go ahead. If not. let us stpp until we have. But In either case, It is an outrage to advertise ad-vertise as bumptjously as has been done, that Salt Lake dealors arc cheats and rogues. |