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Show Senator Loose's bill, (extending to County Commissioners Com-missioners power to grant ffanchises for one hundred hun-dred years is a beauty. Why not make it one thousand while you are about it? Such grants would turn out to be more troublesome than the old Maryland ground pleases, which are as old as Adam and as hard to get Tid of as Old Kick. They j playeA the devil generally until the Marylanders went to the other extreme and cut all new leases down to fifteen years. , Senator Loose, being such, an excellent lawyer, ought to have heard a little about the English law of entail and something of he Constitution's aversion to it. Itjs an eminently eminent-ly proper question to ask: Who is to be the beneficiaries bene-ficiaries of these next-century grants? " "With the advent of these two new railroads, being built into Salt Lake from the east and th west, this"city is sure to become one of .the best business cities in the country,' says E. T. Doodley of New "York, who is particularly qualified, from his advantages of observation, to speak. And withi like splendid predictions to be heard on every hand, there is yet a handful of malcontents in Salt Lake who surreptitiously speak, thrdugh. a 'little hold-up weekly, Words of malice against our capital-1 ists who are building these roads. They would rule or ruin. But it is certain they will do neither. ; . I ;' Boss Quay is too smooth for the conservative gentlemen' of the Senate. The Pennsylvanian 'surprised 'sur-prised his colleagues when he made victory for the Statehood bill possible by, tacking it to the appropriation appro-priation measure, but just wait, that's only one of the ward machine tricks which Quay carries up his sleey. j 1 . Suppose there are seventy-five cases of smallpox to the 75,000 of Salt Lake's population, or one to each thousand inhabitants. What a condition of affairs that would be were. it. reported that New York's three million had 3000 cases! The whole country would be alarmed. j " Fr.om all indications, it will require a more powerful pow-erful influence than that exercised by the Molineux rabbit foot to save Hooper Young's neck. The discussion of the Statehood bill inthe Sen. ate yesterday may jDeflcceptcd'uS the preliminary skirmish in the Smoot fight. - - - - - The Telegram suggested several months ago that gun play was the proper remedy for the-holdup evil. ' , . Ferhaps that Minnesota anti-kissing bill is aimed at Capt Ilobson. V 1 ' ' |