| Show A NEEDED MOVEMENT TIRS movement for the revision of abe e salt bait lake city charter la Is to be 1 commended mended there have been so BO many additions editions to the original instrument jabat t it t in ie difficult for lawyers let alone to 0 db determine termine what provisions avo been super superseded superceded ceded and what remain 0 force anew A new charter should be prepared red embodying all the essential pro lons existing clearly denning defining the were and duties of all the city officials stis and enlarging municipal author atey to meet growing public requirements and then the old charter with Us tto numerous amendments should be tj repealed led r this work it may be argued prop aly erly belongs belonge to the legislature and P to be left for that body when it inema les but there is too much left I 1 to the members to originate and for after the assembly is organ aed A bill like that which is needed in the present case requires 1401 long 9 deliberation and great care in its preparation ration it ought not to be en gored by the haste which usually ads the deliberations of our terri tordal ai legislature every point should ik scanned and the bearings of each t of the charter to the other should be well weigh that there may be no contradictions intra dictions and aid no doubtful defini alons one if if a committee pre jakres such a bill and the legislature then gives it a thorough examination in both houses before passing it we baay nay reasonably hope for such a mea as will meet the demands of the so and the probable requirements 0 o a couple of decades at least I 1 i the committees appointed on the ant of the chamber of commerce and if atthe the city council should lose no time in organizing for the work and dividing it up so that it may be thoroughly done in detail it would be a good thing if other measures necessary to be pawed passed were prepared before the meeting of the legislature and submitted to the examination of competent persons persona the crudeness deness exhibited in some oi of the laws passed lie is evidence of the haste with which they were formulated and rail through the assembly and the governor to is generally so crowded with bills toward the end of the session that though aided by any number of attorneys he la Is liable to overlook inaccuracies that should be corrected we hope a thoroughly good and competent city charter will be prepared by the committees dand that it will receive the favorable action of the legislature and tape th executive |
