Show THE LAWS OF 0 F UTAH thoss these ol of the list last legislature compre compare Fayora favorably bly witti with THOSE PASSED A FEW YEARS CAGE when hammond aud howells were representing prea entine this county in the legislature EDITOR JOURNAL while it is 13 not hot expected that your readers will have lave their attention aU cution called to every silly and and ridiculous redi culous article cougan tai in tho the republican republic all or organ of this city the correspondence of taxpayer tax payer paver in the nation natio of the dinst anit is so absurd that I 1 ask space for a brief reply taxpayer tax payer assumes that because lie does not know what use was iras made of the 1200 appropriated early arly in the season of the last ter a rit it orial legislature le i slature for the puarose of f defraying contingent expenses that said amount was not honestly and economically used what citizen has been told that it is none of his business how or for what purpose that amount was used did taxpayer tax payer expect to find upon our statute books for his special information an ail itemized statement ol oi the contingent contin yent expenses of the last lei legislature legislature slature our last legislature va handled liand led between and and if the nation scrib is desirous of knowing how cat each h dollar of the same was used there is is a way way for him to learn but lie he should not expect to find the itemized statement upon the statute stat ate books the correspondent seems to object to each house having a chaplain A republican legisla legislature might dispose with a man of prayer but so long as the united states remains a ch christian ristian country chaplains will continue to meet with legislative assemblies minute clerks clerics and messengers are also a necessity in every legisla IM were paid no more b by y the last legislature than by previous when the peoples party was in power any one who knows anything about legislative work will say that the last in our territory was run economically in im the ci extreme the business ot 0 our lawmaking body is rapidly this fact was emphasized emphasis ed by the last session under tho the control of the peoples party by tile the memorial to congress representing that a CO 60 days term of the le legislature was inadequate qa u e to meet the increasing I 1 magnitude of the interests of the territory and asking congress t to extend the term to i not 0 t less les a than 90 00 days and to allow the members six dollars per day instead of four the printing 0 bill of our legislature usually amounts to about 2000 if it cost more for printing in 1892 it was because of the increase in business tax payer 2 seems to think that it should cost no more to run a le legislature 0 than a threshing in 0 machino or a steam sawmill saw mill the correspondent must have been indeed anxious to find fault with our last session laws when lie talks about tile the niort mort mortgage age sage law and the law out of about 80 laws he thinks lie can call condemn the whole work because two of that number does docs riot not suit him under the old law for taxing mortgages local capital was discriminated against in favor of foreign captian capt ial nine tenths of the money invested in mortgages 0 0 and trust deed securities curi ties was from erbig foreign n states state sand ind countries we could only tax tile the owners of securities livin living in the territory besides to tax tile the creditor class was 01 eln ail indirect way of taxing the debtor class As soon boon as tile old law became known moneylenders money lenders in the eart instructed their agents a to inform applicants for loa loans ns that if tile money lenders had to pa y any lareson lax tax eson loans that t the he bor borrowers rowers would have to make the sum up by an additional interest to be this way the old law worked great hardships upon the borrowing class for 1 or instance I 1 poor men inen who held stock in loan and building associations were taxed as aa stockholders st stock ock holders on oil the money loaned out then they were taxed on the money they had biad borrowed from the association tu build with and were taxed on oil the house built with tho the borrowed money in this avav way tho the poor man mail was taxed two and three times timea on virtually the same property tile tho low that tax taxpayer paver condemns was enacted to take tak e tile the place of tile cabray estra y law of 1890 which was unconstitutional and void the present law is riot not what the representative rep rose n tati veis from northern utah wanted but the same is suitable to a large part of the territory the he southern part in particular A t 1 general law must bo be most suitable to the whole people and can not lie be made suitable to the needs of till people and all regions the present law lav is as near what the people of cache want as the southern representatives would w ou I 1 d permit it the samo same scribe has something also to say about the sugar bounty and the condition of finances being the direct result of the works of the democratic party but as lie he evidently knows nothing about either cither matter and has prematurely rushed into print wo we refrain from devoting further attention to him yours your Tm iELLA logan lo 10 ar sept milt 1893 |