| Show A VERY MEAN ASSAULT ap ef the wages of hasty legislation in the declining hours of congress is the in operation of an important bill which but for the incompetency of delegato delegate caine might have secured to salt lake city a government institution the discovery made that the act approved on march 8 providing for the erection of three united slats prisons and the confinement therein of united stale convicts Is ren rendered derod absolutely in operative for the purposes it was in bended through a blunder in drawing tile the bill IN intention was to authorize tho attorney general and the secretary of the interior to burch purchase 0 three sites and cause to be 16 erected on them suitable sons ons for the incarceration of united S MOB atos prison prisoners erp convicted of crimes by any w courts u arts under the jurisdiction luris diction of tho the do p apartment part a ment of justice one was to he north andi another south of the thirty Y ninth parallel of latitude and east of the rocky mountains while the third was to be west of the irocky mountains not a dept capt however is appropriated for the 1 site I etc as authorized although it i said that the limit of cot cost for the guidance of the architects in preparing paring the plans and estimada estima oa alia shall preparing Fre Inot not exceed each moreover not a cent is appropriated oven for folz the expense of pro preparing aring those plans and krefl preliminary inary to the pur aase 0 chase of ground and erection of buildings A correspondent says it 80 seems adms tobe a clear ce case either dither of gross oversight or of stupidity on the pert part of those who had the affair in charge harge 0 and closely resembles t the h 0 c case e of the new philadelphia mint in III that its framers doubtless thought an ap at least an initiatory one was tarried in the bill when lieu in reality it ic N was as not the foregoing appears in the salt lake lants of tuesday march 17 it I 1 la a about the meanest fhlug we hackell have hav Kell in that paper it is a miserable attempt to cast blame upon the delegato delegate from utah when it is clear that he was iu in oo ao way responsible for the error which chich it is ia ela claimed limed avas wa made in the bill bili carofill Care Caro full reading of the article J in n the www will make this ibia mr dr caine was not the author of the bill it la Is not clear that if drawn in the way the times thinks it should have been framed utah would have been the place for the erection of the buildt building ng and ami it is not certain that the measure is by any means fatally defective in any event no blame can be fairly laid upon mr caine nud and this paltry as aej sault upon him to is as an twid bad as tribune mudslinging mud slinging which the times has taken occasion to deprecate |
