| Show WHAT whar IT MEAN the following inquiry has baa been received by the be OCTOBER 4 1895 to the editor will you kindly explain through rh the columns of your widely paper 1 whet what to inferred by the proy bion in the enabling sot for the admission of utah as 9 a state stale in the union that chat the now new S ate shall assume all debts and tee tea of the territory does it mean that the be government has hag a long list of back accounts to pre ent to the now new sta e for settlement if not what whal its is its iia meaning respectfully C the provision means precisely w what list it says that the debts and liabilities of the territory shall be by the now new state this is the usual and necessary eMary brooe ure lure in the be case of merging into statehood the territory has baa debts the bonds bonde for ioB anoe and other obligation to municipalities to counties for salaries balari court expenses etc the now new state cannot repudiate these but must sa ae sume aume them a as a matter or of right A As to any government back account such fluch a 8 thing would be sis ae easily chargeable to the territory as a state it if congress could do it at all As we the territory has baa entered into no contracts contract of that char chair there are none for the state to go assume perhaps mr denney delaney refers refer to the penitentiary expense which Is charged against the territory on the books of the department of justice that to merely a clerical procedure in the department and can have no do con botlon with the provision referred to the government took the penitentiary and meets meet its ita bills bilk when it waite to balance the department aco accounts named it may make an appropriation the territory or r the states state rise nothing to do with it so go far as aa the quotation from the enabling abling eo sot act to con earned that account to t not a debt or liability which has baa been assumed by the territory and therefore does doea not come a as 9 an heirloom to the state of utah |
