Show WHAT IOU Is ft a resolution running in this paper entitled resolution proposing an all amendment to section 3 1 article XI of the constitution relating ja to counties cities and towns tor for the purpose of prescribing manner of ci mottling eating new counties and changing Boun dailes the iden idea embodied in this resolution Is tile lie same that has hag been advocated by re representatives presenta t ives of certain counties and in every legislature during the past six or eight years ears the resolution Reso luton on its face is innocent enough but it is directed particularly toward tills this countr count we ae have nothing tog afta and everything to lose by its adoption the Res resolution proposes the legislature shall have power to enact laws creating new counties out of ten Teril story tory taken prom from one or more of the lie existing counties of this state 0 ALSO TO EXACT ENACT LAWS CHANGING TIM boundaries OP OF ANY COUNTY tills this latter clause is where we are affected in conversation with fix ex senator it 11 S larsen on this subject luring during the past week we were ghen some enide history le ie garding previous efforts in line avith the resolution now in ili question it is lit in substance tills this rii 1001 1901 when john P holmgren was representative front from box elder county an effort was made to get a hill bill through embodying the amend mem incorporated in this mis resolution but mr holmgren was successful in having the bill defeated in the house at the next session lion F IV V fishburn was representing the county and the same bill was introduced through being forewarned of its advent sir mr fishburn Fishbu Tn was instrumental in having the bill pig pigeonholed pigeon geon holed in committee but through the work ot of earnest advocates the bill was e traded bioni the files where it w wa as supposed to have died a natural leath death and presented lit in the senate M mr r larson arsen was glien ghen permission to be 1 I f all p ma ni arte i and was rewarded for ills his efforts by liming haing the bill killed in committee thereafter sir larsen was approached in behalf of a modified bill and the result was the passage ot of chap of the session laws of 1903 ell entitled an act providing the mi manner liner of annexing part of the territory of a county to an in adjoining county the enabling clause of this act reads read I 1 SECTION I 1 Proceed ure of 0 annexation n e aaion whenever a majority oc the legal hotels of any portion gorlion of auy any c county ot of this state in number equal to a majority of the otes cast at the prece proceeding eding general election nathin Vilt liin said portion ot of said county desire to have the territory within which they reside included within the boundaries ri darles of 0 an all adjoining county they may petition to the board ot ct county commissioners ot of the co in which they reside which shall liere hereafter after be referred to as the county from which territory is to be taken as well as to the blaid of county commissioners ot of the county to which they desire to be annexed which shall hereafter ile be referred to as the annexing county such petition must be presented before tile the first monday in june of each year during which tile the general election Is held and the county commissioners must cause the said proposition to be submitted to the legal voters residing in the county front from which territory is to be taken as well as to tile the legal voters oters of the annexing county at the ensuing general election then follows the marner in which cam banass ass shall be made of the election returns you will notice that the law places the matter in tho the hands of the people while it is the purpose ot of the resolution above mentioned to transfer that right to a dative in the lie legislature legisla tuie instead of reading ng whenever a 1 majority ot of ithe legal voters of any ot of any county ot of tills this state a desire to have the monitory toni teril tory in ill which they reside included within the boundaries of lit an adjoining county they may petition etc tills this resolution provides that the LEGIS 1 LATURE shall hale haic power to enact lawt laws creating new counties also aho to enact laws changing boundaries boun darlea of any county it is taking the right out ol of the hands of the people aul and placing it in a representative senta tive which in the case of box elder ekler county would be ol 01 one ie halt a 1 senator the senate 1 two counties in the upper llou house e i and one representative represent athe as against a I 1 dozen times as much representation in salt late lake county and three or four times as much mith front from weber tills this would be placing the tha smaller counties count les in point of population entirely at the lie mercy of tile the larger counties weber county especially would lose no birne in annexing by reason of its greater representation lit in tile the legislature all the country along the line of the lucan cutoff cut off tills this was evident front from the discussion as reported by the artes rt es at the time the question came till in 1903 when the law was passed as embraced at present in said chat chap it Is that prior to the construction of the lucin cutoff cut off the question of straightening ohp north line of weber county was not agitated and that luring during every session of the legislature since that great wort work was projected that coun tys representatives hat haie e acri ked earnestly to the end that the legis fatute shall have power tol to enact laws chan changing ing the boundaries of any county the same solicitude is sho shown by representatives of other large counties the power to take at will any desirably desira bli portions of counties oun ties of 0 less population we think that the lesser populated counties should vote down the resolution and preserve all the power they now possess As the law stands at present we have a wice olee in I 1 tile the matter of our disposition but with this proposed amendment dratted drafted into the statutes we relinquish olit hat voice 1 |