Show THE UTAH AUTOCRACY WE publish today the text of the bill vetoed by the governor and known as C F no 85 35 over which there has been much dispute dip the Glover nors organ in a characteristic display of spleen and inexactitude itu je attempts to apologize for foe the governors governor 8 inexcusable course in rela relation tiou to this measure it refers to the plain statement of facts made by the deseret NEWS of monday evening as a savage attack on en governor thomas 11 and says the city bill introduced and passed when submitted to the legal counsel of the governor was found to be so verbose unintelligible covering so much ground in its enactments ang and its clause repealing a large number of sec tlona of the compiled laws that it was pronounced by both governor and counsel unsafe to act upon it in the limited time given ter for its consideration especially in connection with the joint resolution previously e v bously passed approving CO I 1 ing the com compiled wed laws alq 0 0 0 T the governor vernor did not receive the bill until wednesday morning and then found it in an envelope a to hin him in the rooms of the commission first let us dispose of the excuse that the governor did not have time to consider the bill he announced to the assembly that he not promise to consider important M measures as that came to him less lem than three days before adjournment no fault is to be found proof to is abundant that this hilf hill was sent to the fhe Govier governor nor with two other im portana measures on monday at 2 p m which gave him all the time he demanded the council record shows this several members of the council know it one member saw the three bills rn in the hand of the messenger and the governor considered the two accompanying bills they were C IF 61 51 the abe free school bill wech affet some chaD changes geff he approved and C F 40 amen amending dinc the election laws which be arbitrary vetoed we do not dot dispute the statement by whomsoever made that thai the governor found the bill in question on Wed wednesday niday morning in the place mentioned we do not know who put out it there or why it was placed there that is not the point that the three bills went together on monday afternoon to the Gover governors office which is lu iu the same building as that of the utah commission is certain and this wednesday morning subterfuge does nut not count As to the unintelligibility of the measure every person of common commod ability and ordinary education can decide for himself he who reads it and u understands plain english can comprehend its provisions the joint reso ution approving the compiled laws has no connection with this subject and is lugged in by the governors organ and adviser to confuse the mutten matters if the legal counsel to whom it was was submitted pv could collid not dot understand it so 80 much the worse for their cerebral condition at the time they might have called in the aid of some sober school schoolboy boy to explain it the bec sections of the compiled Lawalt repeals are numbered and consecutive and a few minutes reading would show the necessity of their repeal on the passage of this bill great care was exercised in tee ahe preparation of this essential measure that it might be perfected and rendered reasonably unobjectionable and reach the go governor arnor tu in the designated time mem bers of the council sat mt up in the be nights preceding its final passage sage and studied every provision there Is not a party political point in ila it the object kept in view was to bottle the disputes that have arisen over the application of the law which it was framed to amend sad and which is now subject to those conflicting decisions by the utah courts which have helped in the cause of fraud in the tao ogden and salt lake city elections the bin bill first sent to the governor contained several sections not in an the bill its arnow now printed they provide for sti an annual fegi registration of voters in cities catle of the first claw class instead of a revision the registration to take place at the offices of tho the registrars the number and street of each voter to be designated and the lists and affirmations to be filed and become public records open to inspection no intimation was received from the governor or as to his bis purpose concerning the bill until he be was questioned about it late on friday night and about or after midnight the following low jag message was received by the council EXECUTIVE bornoz salt lake Take city march 13 1890 ron hon F 8 Bic richards hards president of the sir I 1 return herewith 0 F no an entitled an act amending an set act providing for the incorporation of cities approved march 11 this act has been in my hands I 1 think since wednesday morning last it is a very important act and I 1 regret that in the rush of the closing days of the session I 1 have not been able to take it up and give it the careful consideration which so BO important a measure demands I 1 do not believe it would be wise to attempt to make it a law without such cons aeration ration de prom from a casual examination I 1 find it contains some provisions 11 would be unwilling to approve and hence as there is now a statute covering the same subject which hits has been passed upon by the supreme court of the territory I 1 deem it best to return it I 1 am very respectfully L U THOMAS I 1 governor members of the council then waited op on the governor and after a very lengthy conversation learned verbally I 1 is alleged objections to the bill thoy they were chiefly in relation to the now new registration provisions he took the ground that under the edmunds act the legislature could not change the law in these respects when informed that the chief justice the commission and v learned counsel on the liberal side took the opposite view he had to waive that point in argument but as he still objected to the changes every section in rt relation lation to them was stricken out the governor was well acquainted by actual observation with some of the flagrant frauds at the ogden city election which these sections were vere designed ao to guard against yet he strongly opposed them nd ad to save the bill in its main maick features sad and stopp the litigation likely likely to continue e unless some definite provisions were made fox for the purpose everything the governor objected to in conversation was expunged from the bill and it was sent to him in the form in which it to is now printed in another part of this paper thereupon the council received the annexed hon F p 8 richards president of the sir I 1 return herewith C P F no 86 35 entitled an act providing for the classification and government of cities 11 the purpose of the act is to clear the ambiguities which exist in the present law and which purpose has my hearty sympathy I 1 enclose a substitute bill which will I 1 believe meet the case and will approve it if adopted by the legislature I 1 am very respects respectfully n ARTHUR L U THOMAS governor this was late an saturday aar after noon when everybody was utterly wearied by three night inight sessions and the governor know knew his substitute could not receive proper consideration L we publish its full text in another column the principal objections to its purpose are that it very bunal cunningly angly makes an additional tax of five mills on the dollar in cities before they reincorporate incorporate re without saying so 80 in terms that it gives the veto power to mayors which the legislature had already voted town and that it takes away the power of the county courts to appoint or regulate election precincts within city limits tarse se provisions were not germane to the bill and the objection as ae to repeals and ambiguities alleged against the council bill is much greater in the substitute as will be seen when it is examined carefully the failure of this important legislation is chargeable to toe executive the responsibility for tiie the litigation and frauds that may be repeated iu in consequence of that failure will lie on his shoulders he feared to do what he be know knew was because of the pressure brought upon him by his ill advisers whose influence appears to control his acts all the talk which his organ indulges in shout about church pros pressure suro is the vilest falsehood and baldest baldesi absurdity and the evidence to is overwhelming wh elming that influences are exercised on the gubernatorial will which limit its ite free exercise and which are far more potent than anything etui etu stu i 1 eidly charged and constantly repeated by his infamous organ the spec spectacle tople of a governor log the absolute veto ard and wielding it with supreme autocratic power over t thirty six representatives representative a of people and then actually usurping their functions function by preparing measures for them to pass at his dilation has been reserved for utah in the great american lift and in the enlightened and liberty developing nineteenth century |