Show strictures ON legislative WORK I 1 A correspond 0 t DOOM does not lithe like the he school an ana Knutel vall bills SALT LAKE CITY febuary 3 1888 editor deseret news alews your strictures a tew few days dave since on marshalls marchalls Mar classification bill were timely and proper but did not go half far enough the object lof of the bill to give municipal precincts the right to nomi dominate and elect their own aldermen and council councilor orsis good aad should receive the full vote ok of both branches of the legislature but in addition to this it should define the full fall nowara and rights of cities of the first second and third grades and should plainly say how each grade shall be determined and when it shall change from one grade to another in advance and it if the voting population decrease how bow any city hialit be relegated gated to the less leae expensive manage ment meat i it if this is thoroughly done all the people would have to do would be to ascertain to which grade their city b belonged e and easily find the powers of the same let the bill ber amended to take in all the cities or for goodness sake kill it and bury it on OB reading the proposed new L school chool law published a few evenings aeo I 1 came to the conclusion that the author author of the bill as well as tile the house committee on education eda cation who fathered it hy presenting it did not possess much legislative ability or they would never have presented such an ambiguous and impracticable measure your comments of the last two days do not begin to take in all the defects of the bill and notwithstanding your nea men that it should be amended considerably I 1 am free to express roy my con COB vict diction on that it should be n 11 hed 1 and feurier so deep thatis that it will he im impossible possible to ever heat hear from or see sec it ia print any more to puzzle the brains of the public in trying to find fand out what the author was krivine at in several places placer la in the bill it befera to th powers and rights of trustees under existing laws and claim tog ing for the board baard of education all that the trustees now enjoy as belonging to the ithe board and then deliberately and expressly repeals all of the sect loBS of the present law chati that confer any powers oo on the trus tees to amount to anything except the one trustee this bill proposes to elect and bv implication repeals everything else that is any good in the present school law except the election of a territorial superintendent and denning his duties and a few dead forms that are no longer of much use what we want as a school law is some thing definite and plain coasto so as to be easily casily understood by any one who can read and embodied all in one statute aud an d not as that thing thine contemplated part in one law and part in another and no one able to tell which is which in the next place we do not want any centralization of power in our democratic territory gry we want no section seven appointive power to be always quarreled about but we want the people the source of all power and authority to still hold it and say on election days who they want fort for their bel public servants and see that they get there every time we also want it distinctly understood that they are the servants of the people and not their masters let the legislature give ns us better laws or none at all they are ambiguous enough now LOKER ON |