Show the capitol appropriation the scene reported to have been witnessed yesterday in the halls of the utah legislative assembly during the discussion in the honsa of that portion of the appropriation bill providing for the expenditure of ano hundred and twenty five thousand dollars tor the erection of one wing of the capitol building in halt lake should causa tha people of chis territory to seriously reflect as to tace wisdom of establishing the seat of government at the metropolis for weeks there had been repeated et forts made probably by real estate speculators to keep up aa agitation over the of erecting the capitol on the unsightly spot designated as capitol hill evidently the unemployed crowds of salt lakes laboring classes were used as instruments in these efforts to influence or perhaps force the to ap prop the coveted funds for this object public meetings were several times held in the streets under the pretest of planning work for theun the un employed workmen at which politic tans and speculators harangued the the governor baran guad the by special and as a ehst desperate re a ramire was adopted at one of these meetings in which it was arranged that a crowd of these so called woric agmen should assemble yesterday and march in a body to the legislative halls to aid the capitol ampro their presence this latter scheme appeared eo like what we have been accustomed to witness in connection with W pow EESS political campaign work that we are almost inclined to give that crafty politician the credit of devising it suffice to say the pro gramme was carried out and a mob of several hundred men invaded aba legislative and mada known the purpose of visit it BO happened that the browda were there in time to hear POWERS plead in their behalf that the money be appropriated for the erection of the capitol wing and thereby furnish employment to salt lakes needy workmen somebody had that these workingmen were only and could not resist the opportunity such an insinuation offered said he it has been suggested that many of these jsn are residents but ha cried growing warmly eloquent they are human beings and entitled to live an uproar followed of course the crafty dis claimed any intention of calling forth the tumultuous applause that greeted his eloquence from the crowds that filled the hall and lobbies and which the presiding officer of the house vainly endeavored for sometime to suppress now who will deny that all this maneuvering was for the express purpose of unduly influencing that legislature in appropriating the enormous sum named in the appropriation bill and thua commit the territory to the selection of a capitol site by the crowd of who own the building lots rounding it fortunately a majority of tho legislators could not be deceived and the appropriation was very properly pre perly voted down bat do not these occurrences show conclusively clu the truth and force of the arguments offered by THE that the metropolis of the territory or state thai is to be ii not the proper placa at which to build the capitol or have the seat of government T haa not the danger of such occurrences aa abey described been a primary coraa in locating elate capitols in cities other than the of most of the states in tha union tha locating of our future capitol is a grave question and before another legislature con tones should ba duly considered by tho whole people of the territory |