| Show A BILL TO PREVENT ELEMON ELECTION FRAUDS VETOED TODAY we publish the text of another bill passed by the legislature and vetoed by governor thomas it was opposed aud and ridiculed in advance of its passage by the governors organ and adviser sad and therefore its doom might have been anticipated but it was so necessary and reasonable a measure and ami the ignorance of the tribune as to its meaning and merits merit was so palpable that it was thought the governor would not be InAuen influenced ced by such senseless attacks however the bill if allowed to become law would have had the effect of preventing in future the shameful things which disgraced the last municipal registration and election and this would not have suited a certain coition of the liberal element and so the measure is dead read bead it citizens who desire honesty in elections and point out if you can anything in it that is wrong or it unreasonable orea or part izan or likely to do anything except guard the rights of voters and secure fairness fai raes rod and prevent haud at the polls we also publish the text of the die governors veto read bead that and discover if you can any rational legal or defensible objection to the bill it assassinates it should be understood that the bill was only designed ssi at an w amending I 1 dg act it was not to repa existing laws it was not to tc interfere in anyway any way with the powers of the utah commission as pretended or rather insinuated by the governor it did not intend to till fill any office either for registration or election therefore the act of congress congre which specially provides that a law of this territory for the filling ailing of such offices must be approved by congress co ogress before it becomes operative does doea not apply to this measure the governor in his inference that it does exhibits either dither a lack of understanding or A desire to rills misinterpret interpret th power of congress to disapprove any act of the territorial legislature is hot interfered with or ot disputed in this bill it is common and always has been 10 lo io designate in an act of the legislature when ben it shall go luto into effect nothing unusual is attempted in this bill lb in that respect the governors intimation to the contrary to is childish and insincere he knows better and should have been ashamed to put his name to the mais of herile generalities by whomsoever prepared with which his veto of this ul bill I 1 I 1 is accompanied in stating what the bill contains he does not point out a single thing that is not requisite anti and proper in one sentence he be complains of changes in the law without showing they are wrong in the next he complains that the chanke change is not sweeping enough without show showing ng that would be right the double set of registration officer 1 1 to td which he be alludes is an arrangement of the utah commission as the legislature did not wish to interfere with it 4 the election law provides that the assessor sessor shall be the registration officer and that his deputies for whom he to is responsible may assist when the commission came cam into power they appointed a registration officer and nd a number of deputy registrars and nd put the responsible work upon the latter leaving ane former office a sinecure sine curf that was not the fault of the law hut but 0 the commission this billias bill was framed so as not to interfere with the authority of the commission rightly or wrongly exercised exercise iJ because it was well known that the governor would havu have seized such much an interference as a pretext tor for killi killing tig the bill the provision for a board of three persons to at ai t judicially on an objections to voters was designed to prevent a repetition of the In famlet perpetrated at the recent city elty election 6 by the deputy registrars attal sitting tig in judgment on their own acts acts the law under which the commission are required to ac act acl L makes tw no provision for such a tribunal as they arbitrarily Irp appointed pointed the registration officers were not to act in thi this judicial capacity the justices of the pence peace being judicial officers under bonds for the faithful performance for mance of their duties and from whose judgments there is always an n appeal were the officers to hear bear objections the commission ap pointed deputy regi saws to act in bis judicial capacity who are not judicial officers who are not under bonds and from whose dicta there is no appeal to put the blame of df this outrage upon the law of which it is a plain violation is worthy of the other misrepresentations which characterize the governors governor s veto we do not believe any fair minded citizen would object to the change of a board of three responsible persons not all of the same political party to hear bear and decide object objections iotis to voters in lieu of one irresponsible individual who has already acted on some at least of the questions brought before him and who has a personal or parti part izan zan inter interest in the whole matter at issue we can understand why the manipulators of the late election deviltries devil tries do not want such a change the reasons that actuated the governor may be imagined since he has glien given no explanation of then in his veto message the rho power of the legislature to amend the election laws jaws on which the governor casts a doubt saying nothing positive however is not disputed even by the utah commission and it has been admitted by the astute sud and subtle attorney for the liberal contra central committee com that the words under existing laws were not intended to mean that no other election laws should he be passed by the legislature is clear from the fact that they apply equally to the laws of congress as to the acts of the legislature if the latter are limited thereby so tire are the former if those words forbid any amendment of the election laws by the utah legislature they also forbid any similar action by congress the governor gives his implied objection away when he says the wor s would not of course prevent congress from making any des desired red change the bill referred to by the governor in tm the closi closing ng paragraphs of his bis veto message was designed to cover broader ground than the measure now under consideration if it had been considered probable that ane governor would sign the greater hill bill this amen amending diug hill bill would not have been passed knowing that the governor under the influences that control him would not dare to pass the more comprehensive measure the bill we now publish was prepared as one that he could sign without fear unless he was afraid of those who desire to perpetuate the condition of affairs by which the fraud and injustice of the late municipal registration and election were possible again we invite a careful perusal of the bill and of the veto if the former is in the interest of fairness justice and the purity of elections what shall be said of the latter if the signature of the governor would have completed a barrier in the way of fraud corruption and villainy what are the natural effects of lilis his refusal to subscribe it if at another election part izan zan officials without conscience anti and without honor deprive hundreds of legal voters of the franchise and open the wy w y for hundreds of illegal voters it where will the blame lie it will not be upon the shoulders shoulder of the legislature and if the governor can afford to 0 carry it he is perfectly welcome Vel come to the load |
