Show tiie THE GOVERNOR AND THE appropriation nill binl THE legislative assembly did not con cou elude clude its long iong on sitting until after nine clock on friday nl night ht the principal cause ot of detention was the dispute with the governor over the appropriation bill the public are aware that the governor claimed the right to nominate the chancellor Chancel lorand and regents of the deseret university and that the legislature denied that right and in in pursuance of a law that had been on the statute books and had governed the action ot ol their predecessors for thirty four years elected those educational officers in joint session of the assembly the governor subsequently agreed as understood by the members floathe that he would sign sig a the bill including the item for the appropriation of for university purposes if the clause was inserted on which he insisted at the jast last session but which the legislature then declined to insert namely that no doctrinal sectarian tenets should be taught or any particular belief be required of the teachers or pupils the reason why this clause was objected to was that no such requirement hadeler had ever been made of teachers or pupils in the university neither had any sectarian doctrine or theological tenet been taught there and as the governor had fa falsely ise lse I 1 endeavored to make it appear gat lat that the university was a sectarian school it was considered that the insertion of such a clause in an appropriation bill might inight be construed as a tacit acknowledgment ent of its necessity and the truth of the governors allegation when the Gover governors written objections to the bill were received they were in the following form or OF OFFICE 0 salt lake march 13 isai hot 1 jnoes sharp speaker of the house giouse i 1 sa s1 SIR R 14 L 4 I 1 return herewith H 1 F no 85 entitled an act making appropriations for general purposes to be amended if it meets with your approval as follows item 8 should be lic corrected so as to read witnesses witness eg in criminal cases and jurors item 9 same correction I 1 item term 10 1 I object to this appropriation because the organization is illegal in that the regent hegent and chancellor are arc not named in accordance with section 1857 of the revised statutes of the united states and because over of said appropriation is set aside to pay debts of the university there are no debts of the university contracted by any warrant or authority of law all appropriations of public money received by taxes upon all classes of citizens for educational pur pos fos poses e sd should be made with an unqualified qua ed provision that no doctrinal sectarian tenets should be aught or any particular belief required of any pupil in attendance or appl appi applying yin for admission 11 with such amendments I 1 shall shail be pleased to approve this appropriation the im improvement p ro of our common schools is ot of primary gilmary importance the amounts appropriated in this section if the legislature is not pleased to appropriate to the university I 1 respectfully fully suggest should 6 be divided pro rata to the thie school districts for common school purposes 1 under a alike like ilke provision that no sectarian teaching 11 should be kauv taught therein the appropriation proposed in item 64 1 disapprove the objects for which this is made may not apply to past years such provision for the tho f future in my opinion will be gustand just and proper I 1 approve of all the other items in the bill but I 1 digap disapprove brove item ten making the appropriation to the deseret university 1 am v ery cry ELI 11 governor this message is somewhat contradictory to but the assembly after much debate te a agreed reed as they supposed to all the arnena amendments ments here suggested that is they inserted the clause about sectarian education amended items eight nine and four as pro proposed ased and nl made the appropriation for university purposes u without naming an any auy amount fo for r debts incurred on tb the building hug bug but bat they having yielded so far the governor demanded further concessions he responded as follows OE OFF UTAJI EXECUTIVE OFFICE salt lake city march 13 14 H mon bon on james mantes sharp speaker of the house sir 1 I return herewith H F no 85 entitled an act making appropriations for general purposes while an attempt has apparently been made to meet the suggest suggestions lons ions contained in the latter portion of my I 1 former message returning the bill as to item 10 the former portion which can alone give life and effect to the endeavor to release the university I 1 from rom sectarian control has been entirely ignored the university with the added strength of this large appropriation would be continued for the futures future as in the past subject to the saule sauie same objections presented ui la my I 1 former ormer message in order to assure the necessary appropriations under the law for the ordinary of the bov gov government emment there apparently remains but two ways by which we maybe enabled to secure the necessary and items of the bill the one is to organize the university in accordance with the requirements of sec 1837 1857 of the revised statutes and make it possible to be non nonsectarian sectarian in fact the other is to strike the objectionable item from the bill I 1 am very respects respectfully ully nily ELI ell H 31 governor under these thase circumstances the assembly after much touch consideration by vote of the majority decided to strike out the clause making he ap appropriation copria to the university the till bill was then signed by the executive thus governor ell 11 II murray has gon son contrived once more to place a block in in the was way vay ot of the cause of higher education in utah the objection which he interposed at this session I 1 was not insisted upon at the last he was then willing to sign the appropriation bill in including the items for the university if the clause about sectarian education was inserted but this time he would not consent to the appropriation unless men of his appointment should have the control ot of the money modey lie ile claimed this authority under section seven of mark marr had not a word to say about the appropriation pria tion for the asylum for lor the insane the officers of which are not nominated and appointed under his rendering of section seven but by direct act of the legislature the governor himself Is constituted one of the officers of this institution and it is one of his favorite meas measures ures and therefore he swallows section seven in this case without aitho 1 I murmur and approves of the appropriation without any special clause or qualification if the legislature has the general power to provide forthe filling of offices which it creates the case of the tile asylum it has the same power in the case of the university if section seven of the organic act bars the legislature from filling the educational offices without nomination from the governor it also aiso also aiso forbids the appointment of asylum offices without such suell nominations why then does he obstruct the cause of higher education with his strained construction of a clause in the organic achand act and leave the ins insane and ane business clear w which klch rich logically and lawfully is open to the same pretended objection Is it not lot because his vanity is gratified in the latter and not pandered to in the former ins r the deseret university has never been in any sense a sectarian institution it is not a IMor mormon college if the fact that its officials are mor r mons makes it a sectarian establishment then the territory of utah as organized by the national government was a sectarian establishment because it was officered by mormons cormons Mor mons appointed by the president and senate semite as well as those elected by the people Is mormons cormons Mor mons establish a banking of other purely financial business it a sectarian institution on the shallo low v reasoning reasoning rea sonino that calls the university a Mor mormon monIr school it is not and never has been sect sectarian aftan and no part nicular belief has ever been required of its ita teachers or students eora Fora ion lon longtime time this worthy institution organized under the territorial laws has been in need of a suitable gul gui table tabie buil bull building din salt SaIt lake city donated one of its finest squares on condition that it should be used for university purposes the sum of 20 OW was appropriated at the session of isso icso to start the building the f foundation oun was put in and materials were placed on the ground round to continue its erection under the expectation that a further appropriation ton 1 would be made in 1881 but this was prevented by the action altion of governor IN murray furray materials including large quantities uan titles of valuable lumber would Tave have been spoiled lying useless on the gound huud if money had not been procured by the university officials to prosecute the work they borrowed funds and proceeded with the building the present legislature sought to provide fo for r this and for the completion of a structure of which the would be proud but the governor again interposed it was not claimed that ilat t the he exl debt bt contracted was authorized by law but the legislature in their judgment assisted the university as its needs need s amand demanded the governor has for the present nullified their praiseworthy act and intention there are many comments on the action af the legislature in consenting to strike out the appropriation for the university most people would prefer to have had the whole ap appropriation bill vetoed than the legislature to have receded from its position of right tight and dignity but this would have blocked the wheels of justice and public business there would be no f funds ands for the expenses of courts or for any other public pu purpose r ose and a certain amount of for this could perhaps be charged to the legislature for the governor intimated fels eels his fils approval of all other items in the bill but that for the university although inthe in the same message besig he signified his disapproval of other othier items the legislature legislature or rather a majority of that body though resisted by a strong minority concluded that it was bett better betterto eito elto to let the university s sunner sumner for a while than to obstruct the public progress in so many other directions the governor has succeeded in hampering the cause of education but he has as not succeeded in his main purpose that is to bulldoze the legislature an and force a number of inexperienced lawmakers to acknowledge his usurpations and unlawful assumption of authority ills his unjustifiable attempts by threats in his message c at the opening and contemptible temp tible offers of bargaining at the close of the session to overawe or cajole the assembly stamp him again with the brand of tyrant and will mark him forever as a demagogue and a usurper |