| Show THE IW LATURe AND THE ASYLUM abo legislature of two years ago as was at tho time generally entertained no very friendly feeling toward tho territorial insane asylum located in this y it may hao boon toward tT j city itself that this r andly disposition was directed a not so much the institution oj anions perhaps were divided on those respective points anyway must have boon a cause for the unfriendliness no mat which was the object the institution or the city what was that cause we have heard it said that i largo and influential portion of the assembly viewed with jealousy jea loupy and distrust the peiss toncy with which a few directly associated with ha conduct 0 tho institution bought to influence appropriations for its benefit to abe exclusion of other objects of like consideration and that persistent lobbying was decidedly offensive to most of the m embers of the legislature pr bably the mind of the legislator had been unused to this method 0 soliciting or urging public aid oven for public purposes though it may have been the rule and practice the world over these primitive statesmen possibly considered it inadvisable and fresh on the part of abe pro voiles to attempt its introduction tro here in bo that as it may the asylum certainly failed two boais ago to secure the coveted appropriation and has suffered in consequence how i it now two years later Though WB cannot accuse tho pro sent legislature of entertaining any unfriendly feeling toward provo city there is certainly manifested on its part a disposition to ignore the pressing demands of the institution or eliod within its limits what is the matter now we are told that tho bamo old lobby is again at work and urging an this time in abo sum of to make room enough for n hundred or so more patients Is that a crime Is it anymore money than tho necessities of the institution require Is not that a question for the legislature to decide should the mem bois of that body in a tantrum run down to heaver and talk about buying out an ox military post in which to herd tho chronic cabes would it not be more consistent and statesmanlike and in the public economy to investigate the wants of the institution already elected at the public expense and also the estimates of those charged with its conduct as to its pi csont and future 10 quire ments before any such rash movements as that referred to tho fact of two or three individuals appearing on tho scene with every successive to whoop up appropriations should not be con adored for a moment as prejudicial to the public interests the legislative assembly has the power aith in itself to effect tho necessary and desiron core every fiscer connected with the territorial insane asylum is tho creature of tho legislative As dambly and can bo replaced with others less presuming or exacting by the same body it may bo that the blaid of directors have exceeded their delegated and legitimate in assuming to direct legislature choso whoso appointees poin tees chev are but then that fact is not sufficient of itself to warrance tho legislature in its efforts to correct that assumption in crippling or breaking up an institution of such general and excellent benefit as the ono aider discussion the present legislature can do one thing and that is to remove horn office or con tol of the asylum tho men they seem to believe have been engaged by present and past efforts in improperly influencing legislation in favor of one public institution as against another THE will as readily denounce wrongdoing wrong doing on tho part of public officers as any member of the legislature but it wants to see justice done to all parties concerned this system of lobbying for political purposes is distasteful to w and wo it is especially objectionable tio to the people of utah that is the majority of them the legislature will do well to express its condemnation dem nation of the practice whether the subjects be tho officers of the territorial rit orial insane asylum the reform school or any other public institution |
