Show 6 THE UTAH commission SMART and saucy kate field seldom says anything straight on the question her mind mind became warped and biased during a somewhat protracted visit here from causes which we wa do not now cre cire to explain the sharp things she hurls hurla from the point of her pencil lose force because of their fiction and fall short of the intended mark for the same reason she may believe some of the stories she ahe tells because she be a in the persons who invented or repeated thern them for her delectation but when she produces them in the shape of pera personal onal experience we lose joee faith in her good moti motive and cial jerme in her veracity but mise mine field is in ifer her right mind about one matter relating to utah affairs find and we take potap pleasure ure in clipping clip pina her remarks which appear in kate fields washington of july jtb as follows follow with tile the warning that they will not dot be endorsed by her particular crony if the tribune in this city if ever there was an unnecessary commission at the present time it is that established for utah five commissioners have for ten teU years drawn from the treasury ot ol the united states five thousand dollars apiece yearly tor for doing next to nothing two hundred and fifty thousand dollars therefore have been squandered in this direction while utah has asked in vain tor for a public building and more judges fudges the ways way a of national legislation are past finding out oat never was really needed the governor and territorial secretary could readily have done the work 1 which co consists in supervising the elections electia ux and making a yearly report to the secretary of the interior the he theory was that the gentile governor could not noi be trusted if the governor could not be trusted he was unfit for office asa As a matter of fact every governor appointed since the edmunds law went into effect has been the peer of the commissioners appointed by the president outside of utah with no interests at stake these five Commissioner shave not spent event more than two months of every year in the territory yet they have drawn double the salary of the governor and almost double that of overworked judges of the supreme bench beach 1 for orceal least the house has shown sense in its attempt at economy in the legislative executive and judicial ampro 1 privation pria tion bill mr holman and his cora coin cittee abolished the utah commission j out of regard perhaps for ex senator edmunds the senate refuses to accept this provision but adopts amendments reducing the commissioners salaries to two thousand dollars and providing that future appointments shall be made from froin the residents of utah the house is nearer right in this matter and should prevail it would be more sensible to increase the salaries of governor and territorial secretary and hold them res pon sible jar gor what they know far more about than estimable carpet living everywhere but at the seat of war T have never believed in the utah commission it has always disagreed with itself being made up of both political parties and always having at least one jack 1 mormon to make a minority report un necessary in the past it is a useless ex j trava gance in the present the sooner litt it 1 dies the better |