Show OUR legislature tho the work of the last republican legislature is now in print and the laws passed bieak for themselves and condemn tile the majority in stronger terms titan than we rare care to in the arraignment and trial of tile the republican party of the territory for the work of their legislature all we need do is to introduce in evidence the laws passed the previous legislature which had a democratic majority was criticised criticized fo for its extra extravagance aleco M in appropriating appropriate g 1200 for contingent expenses what will be said then of the last assembly in appropriating 9 2000 for the same purpose and passing passin other bills bill 9 for additional dit ional contingent expenses and then too there was tile the printing outrage 0 the assembly Asmin bly adver sized for bids for printing with this the implied it if not expressed agreement that the lowest re responsible bidder would get the work it so 80 happened that tha john evans eans of the deleat deser et nevii put in a bid which was some or low lower er than the one of the star printing limiting co there was no question about tho bid of mr evans being the lowest for tile the figures were undisputed there wa a no dispute about mr evans responsibility for the bond lie he offered was unquestioned and there was no doubt that his office could do the job for it had done the legislative work before beffie simply because the news did not employ union labor the printing was n nt t given to them and the people lost thereby from to the representatives were guardians of the peoples money and when they deliberately throw threw away so 80 much of the funds entrusted to their keeping to elhat extent teb they broke their trust chapter in relation to dower and chapter per to estates of decedents dece dents and found respectively on pages 9 93 and of the session laws of 1894 were rejected by one ne branch of the law makida body the house houe but became laws law s through V the blunder of the clerks of the council and and I 1 tile the inexcusable oversight of the president and the speaker how many more such mistakes were made no one knows about the last motion n the council was from the democratic side of the chamber to a ap p point a committee to ascertain from the records and files how low many more bills became laws without having first passed either one of the branches of the assembly assem Y and how bow many more mistakes and an blunders had bad been made in the terms of bills passed the motion was rejected by a strict party vote and unless some one will take the trouble to trace through the records and files errors made may never be light ahen the people realize fully fally tle work of the thirty first be session s of the legislative assembly of utah ii id may be termed the last republican legislature of utah and the term taken in any I 1 sense yoa you will |