Show PLAN IS fm w mm PRESIDENT OF commission DE CLARES abandonment OF PROJECT WILL NEVER DO speaker richards takes a whack at bill designed to make legal rate far the newspapers of the state of utah salt lake alt A vigorous protest abandoning the mormon battalion monument project as adv located by governor almon bamberger Bim berger and including the idea intended to be cm bodied in the monument lu a memorial hall which mould also memorialize alie part utah has placed in the war and perhaps a few other things was voiced to the utah legislature by the mormon battalion commission in a report and by brigham H roberts president of the commission in a vigorous speech at a joint session of the legislature on february 7 the commission in its report slid that an abandonment of the mormon battalion project now mould not only mean to breier faith with those who had brought the plans to their present state of completion but would imply that the two previous legislatures which had placed their approver app on the plan did not know their own minds the idea of a monument was scouted with the argument eliat there were some that could not be memorialized in a hill or other public building speaker took a liand on february 7 in a debate over the bills presented by representative masters which were prepared by the executive committee of the utah state press as sedation one of the bills debated designates what newspapers are qualified to print legal advertising and fixes a maximum legal ante 1 an and 60 cents for each subsequent insertion speaker richards opposed the measure which was finally re committed for amendment |