Show territorial appropriations while the territorial appropriation bill was before the house of representatives on the loth uit the ilon hon john F kinney called 1 attention to the neglect of utah and placed before congress figures that will do to look at arent the congressional globe dole march 24 1 mr KINNEY moved under rinder the heading beading of territory of utah to add as follows for compensation and mileage i tt of he the members 0 of tho legislative L aksent clrk cl rk and contingent expenses or th the G assembly Provide 43 that the surplus it aw arising arasin nora from roca ibis this or any ant armr may be forlee tor for the of the for tor or sach such territory under the direction dire diro alon aion ef of tha legislative ass asb milr mr KINNEY I 1 desire lo 10 call the attention i of tle chairman 0 af the tho committee of way and ind means and also of the ho house use ube to the tact fact t hat that in these appropriations for tiie the territory t utah in this bill there is no appropriation or the expenses of the legislative assembly t that territory at all by reference to the pria tlona tiona made for the various terri onea by the fairty seventh congress I 1 fiad he following por for the territory of new mexico salary of judges and secretary 1200 contingent expensed expenses and goo compensation of etc 18 I 1 find that the same session of congress appropriated for utah as follows 1 salary of ani and secretary 1000 conting nt expenses es I 1503 of legislature etc goto S 19 thus malinar makenz a difference for precisely the earne samme purpose between the amount appropriated for the respective legislatures of the expenses in each territory being about the same the same sessio session n of congress appropriated for the territory cf washington salary of governor secretary and jollif 12 iggy 1691 of etc 14 the same session appropriated for the te tet of Nebra nebraska Aa salary of Giver governor Gi vernor nory nort secretary 0 nue leo loo vl or legislature etc 13 15 13 wo I 1 desire to explain why this appropriate oo 00 for nebraska is so small through h the delegate from thit th it territory the previous appropriation pria tion for mileage and compensation of tha the members mem berof berot of the legislature was diverted by congress to the payment of the direct tax levied upon the people of the territory and there tas las no session of ot the legislature one year ago in nebraska and the difference between the direct direst tax ta and the amount appropriated with the appropriated for the late session beb bes ion lon was deemed deema sufficient to pay the expenses of the legislature for 1863 64 utah assumed the th payment of her direct tax by legislative enact enactment mett and is cheerfully con coa arb biting the amount assessed against her U toward aiding in putting pulling down the rebeil rabel ioli lioa the same sane congress appropriated for tor colo rado saia sala salay Y of gar Gor ernar etc contingent Zon forent expense 1000 1900 0 of etc 20 PO aw Also gor for nevada salary of etc 0 C eap exp bes ats 1009 of etc 39 noo al albo also so for dakota salary of gover GOTer governor Go vernor nory nors judges jai Jal tes teg eto elo 9 TOO noo condi g ent expenses 1000 of etc 2700 mr chairman I 1 find appropriated by tha the pro provisions vision sot of the bill now before the committee as prepared and recommended by the comm atee of Way sana aano means the following I 1 amount aggregated for each territory k eoll ia new mexico nebraska nevada vadas vadal Ari arl arizona zoni washington colorado deota idaho and utah only onig and nl no appropriation for the expenses mileage and compensation of the legis attire for 4 65 I 1 fiad find by reference to the estimates of the Secret secretary ary arv of the treasury the bolig following ming in regard ie to utah for pr contingent expenses or of th tib territory per act ot september 9 1650 1860 9 laws lawsl page pace imo 1603 campen aboa sad aid mileage or of the ni embers of me ib legislative assembly oer clerks iud and contingent nt expenses of the At nothing li la addition to unexpended balance thia ilia report oc of the secretary is isa atea december T 1853 1863 one week prior to the meeting of the late lew leg ablative assembly for the territory and hen hence ce the expenses of that legisla ture were not before the secretary of the treasury and the committee Com of ways waya ani and means in inn preparing the appropriation bill the appropriated by uy the thirty seventh congress wea waa probably considered sufficient with the unexpended balance of 0 previous appropriations to the credit of utah in the treasury department to defray the expenses of the legislature for the territory of utah for the session of 1863 64 it cannot ba be possible that utah hasso has so far excelled her sister territories in economy of the pubic c money as to have standing to her credit sufficient with the to defray the expenses of two legislatures the one of 1863 64 and also the one for 1864 65 twenty thousand dollars is usually appropriated each congress for the expenses of each territorial legislature and to suppose that utah has still sufficient to her credit for the next legislature can only be done upon the ground that she has saved for the general government of money that vas was appropriated for the benefit of c the territory as tae tile legislature haa baa held heid regular each year of tit forty dirty days jays allowed by the organic act it is true sir air that utah bab hab ha 11 been saving of the public money aa as is evident from the appropriation of last session being so small only and for this the territory is entitled to great credit forming an honorable exception to other territories that annually expend I 1 believe believes all the money appropriated for them by congress I 1 cannot but th thu thi that the secretary of the treasury Trel Bury in stating that no appropriation is necessary for legislative expenses in utah for the next fiscal year has only taken into consideration the unexpended balance and the ampro last year and arid lost sight of the expenses of the legislature which convened one week after his estimates e sti mates were made in other words bh hii estimates were based upon the amount as it stood upon the books of the department part ment with a credit to the secretary of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars for the expenses of the legislature recently closed the amount ivill sta d differently and probably leave nothing unless my amendment is adopted for defrayne defray ng the expenses of the next session which must if it provided for at all be appropriated at this thia session of ot congress I 1 hope tir congress will not discriminate against U ah by withholding the usual appropriation pria tion all the other territories are ate ro zo terri vided bided fer and if juwill you will continue our territorial government you must pay our legislative expenses the estimate of the secretary of the treasury was dated anterior to the last session of the legis that legislature continued conti nixed in session the usual time and I 1 presume con the appropriate n upon the grounds I 1 have stair d then I 1 ask for the concurrence of the chairman ot of the committee of ways and means in my amendment mr air STEVENS I 1 woid wold wold woid be glad to agree with the honorable horo rable gentleman eitleman ent leman ieman if I 1 thought thou bt this was necessary liow flow elow flow much the ampro appropriation ri for a may bs be pertinent ado I 1 do not know but I 1 call the attention of the committee to what the secretary of the treasury Trea sury eury baya says in the estimates ile lle says that for the compensation and mileage of the members of the territorial L legislature of utah officers officer clerks etc nothing more is than the unexpended balance on hand band mr ein kin kinsey KINNEY bev six thousand dollars mr STEVENS it does not say that dir din mr KINNEY six thou and dollars was the amount appropriated by the thirty seventh congress and there has been a legislature in session ic it is riot not quite fair that utah shall be compelled to be so much more economical than other territories mr STEVENS what was waa the balance on hand mr KINNET KINNEY I 1 do not know but it was considered enough for the subsequent legislature it is now probably exhausted I 1 see no possible way for tor our having a legislature unless abia appropriation is passed on a divis division ton x the there re were ayes 30 DO no quorum botine mr HOLMAN HOI MAN demanded tell teli tellers rs tellers were ordered oril tred and beaman and dawson were appointed the tellers reported ayes 43 noes does 33 quorum voting mr STEVENS I 1 withdraw objection to the amendment so that we may go on with the bill Intend intending irig to have a vote on it in the houlb the amendment was wag adopted |