Show thirty first legislature the first republican legislature ha held ita session it have done gome things that it did not do and left others undone which did do and thu amade a better record on the whole however we have reason to feel proud of the thirty first legislative assembly its primary policy deemed to be in response to the cry of the people for ao onomy it never lost sight of this and it provided for the running expenses of the territory without bonding or raising the taxes true the governor vetoed the means provided for raising money enough in the next two years to equal the amount appropriated pria ted and there will created a deficit but the blame of that will have to rest with the demo crapio side tha people called for a cutting down of the expanses of public institutions and the appropriations were accordingly lowered but that is a result of the tight into which democratic rule has plunged the country and not un the part of the be cuna hiir only that was made in alie wan in the L ira allowing the worlds pair nan rb over sixty thousand dollars when fiely thoua aud dollars donld have well compensated them for meagre exhibit if that appropriation had been allowed to take its regular cobrae and been placed upon the appropriation bill it would have been cub down salt lake capitalists were enough however to railroad the worlds fair bill through both houses in the early part cf the session and they made thousands of dollars by aa doing another favor to the wealthy was the failure of the legislature to repeal the law exempting mortgages from taxation an issue that that was well considered in the baat campaign and should have been promptly met by the republican legislature under th operations of that law about forty millions of bollara in the territory escapes taxation exempting the rich and adding to the burdens of the poor we ought to have gona back to the old law it nothing under which utah mortgages were taxed for over twenty years the exorbitant official boea that ara making our county offices BO desirable still remain in force to vex the doorman it waa impossible to get a bill considered looking to a revision tion of the fee system th will be heard on this issue as well ax tho others that we have mentioned when they go into the next campaign are some of the things tho legislature did not do which it ought to have done coupled with thorn we may mention last though it i not least in importance the fact that a union between the bcd agricultural college was not accomplished it means a sad crippling of both institutions on the other hand the first republican legislature will be praised for ita excellent mechanics lien law ita revision of the school law its modification of the stringent medical law its passage of a military code and ita corrections of many bad lawa already upon the statute books mor e work has been done aa the records will show by th thirty farat legislative assembly than any other in the history of the territory more billa were considered and more killed by both houses and the governor than ever before |