Show NOT A LAUGHING LAUy HING MATTER la IS the constitutional convention thursday afternoon judge hammond of SAD BAD juan county offered a resolution which the press prees report says was read amid peals peala of laugh laughter terP from the delegates dele gatea the resolution contained the suggestion that the legislature should by law bet apart san ban juan county as ai a reserve in order to protect the remains of the ancient cave and cliff dwellers of that land J now with all due allowance for the visibilities of the delegates at humorous occasionally made by the member from ban juans juan we fall to see bee any occasion for greeting this serious suggestion with laughter with most moat people a refer enoe ence to the resting place of the she dead la is not considered a proper subject of levity the very tory r reading a aal of the resolution even in the midst inki 0 of a time of hilarity should have appealed to the reverential nature of the convention to a degree that would have bave made merriment as ae impossible as an it was wag inappropriate on such an occasion if it were not that still more laughter might have been evoked mr hammond might well have declared himself in an exclamation that seems to have become very popular in the convention only omitting the profanity dol you see aee ism im terribly in earnest 10 so 80 far as inserting anything in the constitution with respect to a reserve in san juan county is concerned that would be as opportune as are many other provisions which have been proposed but which should be left to the legislature that gives no warrant however bower that the matter should be received with ridicule and denied ordinary deference the constitution makers might have done a great deal worse than eldoree and recommend by their action the spirit of the resolution for one of the very best beat things the next legislature can do both as a proceeding of respect to the dead who formo formerly rIv dwelt on this land and as preserving a valuable educational and historical feature to present and future generations in our state is to protect the dwellings dwell togs and graves of the prehistoric inhabitants from the hands of the speller the scientific and literary world handis baa dis played without any peals of merriment vast interest in the ancient ruins and remains at thebes and nineveh Nio eveh in egypt and else elsewhere the preserve of similar antiquities in utah for the people of the future Is something whose value cannot be overestimated estimated dg and which certainly deserves more respectful consideration than a jeer and a borai horselaugh |