| Show diore legislation fon eok UTAH WE publish in another column tile the new amendments to the latest edmunds bill offered by sanator senator hoar ori ohl the of april it will ivill be ba remembered ed that senator edmunds new bill de signed as a a supplement to the act W which aich popularly bears his lils name naine was referred to the committee on the judiciary and that committee through senator noar hoar reported the bill back with several additional sections providing for the compulsory attendance of vivo vives as witnesses against their husbands the management of Mor mormon church funds by trustees appointed by the president and senate of the united states the disposition of P I 1 I 1 E fund assets etc tue the present bill offers additional sections sections and a substitute section for section eighteen of the former amendments so that thi this makes a complicated piece of patchwork we do not intend to make any comments on the latest less it be a f few ew remarks i in u relation to the section providing for the appointment of the territorial superintendent ot of district schools by the tha supreme rhe court instead of his election by the people opie ople his payment out of the treasury and to regulate labethe the text test books in ane dietr district lct schools the tile S senators who make matke this emendation men dation have evidently been imposed upon by the falsehoods of governor bernoi murray and ana others concerning the district schools of this territory senator hoar aloar was deceived in a similar manner introduced that price of egregious r tolly toily known as the hoar hour amendment providing that certain aukers in lii utah were to by bp appointed by tae tac Goyer goyen governor nor neiter nelter NL he nor uhe the very great majority of the senate understood anything about the real of utah affairs at the time of its passage re as is demonstrated rated beyond doubt oy by the debate that then oc cured in tile the present Initta instance ce he and his colleagues on the judiciary committee cittee a are justas just as much at sea athas it has been beun represented that 11 mormon church books are used in the district schools of utah and i that 1 mormon I 1 tenets are t taught aut h therein Go governor vornor murray has endorsed this untruth officially knowing that there was no foundation for it and his official statement lias has been relied upon without further invests investigation atlon aaion to remedy this supposed state of affairs 1 it t is ii now proposed to put the control of f the text test books books used in tho the schools of the peo pleto some extent in iii the hands of a person ell eli entirely lwe ide irresponsible to the people which Is a ahagh ld gh elianow piece of autocratic assumption and something so methin beyond the constitutional purview purvil of the cone cong congress gress of the un united I 1 te d states it is provided that this of officer licer who would be a united states and not nol a territorial pointed by united states judges wro who are appointed P Z anted by the president and senate of the united states shall be paid out of the treasury of the territory congress has as much right to appropriate money out of the treasury ot of the peo of utah as out of the vaults of thede the des s eret erel bauk bank or the utah central railroad company we think a superintend superintendent anti so appointed would experience a tough time in getting his salary if we do not anticipate the passage of these hoar amendments 1 attached to the previous amendments joined on to tile the edmunds amendments during the present session of congress they th may in some modified form get through the senate which is doubtful doubt tul tui but we ve N think it quite improbable that that they will succeed in the house and when they are brought forward for consideration they have becu merely ordered to be printed without any huy other action at the present w it is to be e hoped that correct information in re regard vard to our district schools and their an entirely ti rely nonsectarian non sectarian character j will v ill lii 1 be i impressed M r essed sufficiently upon t the h e in minds ige eis cis of af pf some outspoken senators to cause tiie tile presentation of the truth in the upper house and to remove the influence of the fa falsehoods that lige hayo haye been told officially and otherwise to 0 pre prejudice judice judica congress and the country A adust utah |
