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Show TitiiMi in nirmir. The Australian ballot law which liss been ado; ted by most of the states la a good thing In Its way, but It dcea not seem to fill the bill completely. It has scolcheJ th snake, not killed It. Corrupt Cor-rupt practice a at elections are still rile and evldenco thereof occasionally comet to thu surface. Ai t. uieana to a long dtslred end tho legislature of Connecticut has before It a bill for preventing such corruption and the chaniea stem to favor lU pasngu. It la said to go some distance beyond the Massachusetts law on the ramo sulject, as stringent aa the latter Is, and la eplte definite In relation to tbo prohibition and regulation regu-lation of thu usu of money or any other corrupting iniaua for Influencing elections, aud contains the chief features fea-tures of the l'ngllsh corrupt practices act. This it pronounced a kind ot legislation that Is greatly ne edud lu all thu states, as curruitlon Is all over Ibu country. The evidence) of It Is shown to tw tho large sums In cxciss of all roor requirements which are contributed con-tributed to and disbursed by campaign commlttiia. Tbu proposed Connecticut tsw requlroa repona of all sums re-reived re-reived und extended to be inadu lu detail b con mltleeeand agontaaawcll as by candidate. New Yuri, baa a law requiring the successful racdldatca In any slate election to glvu a statement under oath oa to Hie amounts exended by them forosmpnlgn lurroses; but as no epecl-flcatlone epecl-flcatlone are required this does not soem to amount to much. All In all, It seems our own Utah Is about aa free from that (articular feature of polltlca aa uny other commonwealth In tho Union; the Is ve ry much more to than tbu majolll of tbem. |
