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Show ki 4 truth; municipal matters. was very good for the R. G. W. company and proved very convenient in damage cases against the company. The City Council, it ia believed, Was there any connection between the of passes and the granting of fwould agree to the removal of Chief of Issuing the ordinance? would the if Mayor Ipolice Hilton to the place and Pratt Arthur p0int consent to the salary being raised to The ordinance, while go6d for the jl75 a month. It is understood that the R. G. W. company, was of no benefit iMayor wants George Sheets for Chief, to the Short Line, whose tracks are on a majority of it, but the Council, orSheets and it is not Third West street. The Short Line is do not approve of On the being discriminated against, but an confirmed. be could he thought non is grata ordinance granting it the same priviPratt persona hand other with the machine, and on that acconnt leges as the rival line is now pending to in the Council. Is there any connection he does not appeal very strongly for a would be It good between plan that and the issuance of the the Mayor. the Mayor and the Council to have a passes at this time? The ordinance is friendly conference and agree upon in the hands of the Committee on some one for the place. The absolute Streets, which will make its report to Councilman chaos which reigns in the force for the Council thereon. ft want of a competent head is a menace Sharp is known to favor the ordinance, to the city, and the sooner someone is and it was after considerable railroad and pressure had been brought to bear on appointed who can bring orderincomand disorder of President Cottrell that he appointed efficiency out The be. will better it the duty Sharp as a member of that committee. petency of the administration is to speedily end the present disgraceful state of affairs. A close friend of Mayor Thompson i says that the Mayor was approached by : suggestion, a number of members of the Councilman Davelers City Counwhich was adopted as a rule by the cil with a proposition that if the Mayor Council, that the recorder keep a would appoint a Mormon as Chief of calendar of all matters referred to the Police the opposition to the removal of committees and submit it to the presi- Chief Hilton would be withdrawn. If it comes on reliable audent, who shall at the next regular this is so,ft and shows that the matter of meeting call for reporta thereon is thority, is Police Chief of being made a Mormon very good, and will expedite business. and Gentile a condition which commitfight, to Formerly matters referred to not exist ought the without months there for tees lay I committees being heard from. The new rule will keep them in line and will be the means of compelling action on It would appear from a study of the them of some kind. committee appointments by President Cottrell that the Democrats have been handed up a gold brick as a reward for Angus K. Nicholson, who for over voting for Mr. Cottrell for President. ; two years has held the position of The only committee of which a Democrat was given the chairmanship was Deputy City Recorder, has resigned to the Committee on Street Sprinkling. accept a more lucrative position with the Mutual Life Insurance company. Mr. Nicholson was a very efficient and The members of the Board of Public painstaking official and discharged his Works in a body looks like a duties in a manner satisfactory to his grand-stan- d resigning play, probably planned for chief in the department and to the the Mayor from of the purpose Mayor and City Council. Trilby" is a embarrassmentrelieving in keeping pledge bright young man and his many friends to retire Chairman Dooly his from the field. new success wish him in his Mr. board. will The of feelings Dooly Banker Dooly is rigging up a scheme be regarded to the extent of by which he hopes to retain the citys probably financial account at his bank during an entirely new board being appointed. the next two years. It is a fact that the city will need an overCHATTER. draft on general account in the course of a few months, and Mr. Doolys plan is to have a committee on overdraft Being the personal opinions of writer appointed which he can control and which will direct that the business be and for which no one else is in any done at his bank, on the same or bet- way responsible. ter terms for the bank than prevailed Chaplain Milburn of the United States during the past two years. The city, Senate has prayed for the reporters in while short of funds in the general exSenate to pense account, has large amounts its the press gallery. It is not the credit in the various special funds. The province of the writer to. criticise the credit in the various special funds. These special funds a great deal' more motives of the blind clergyman, but in than balance the amount which will be this instance it would seem as if he needed as an overdraft at its highest, had wasted an effort. The Senators and the consequence is the bank doing need prayers more than the members the business has always large amounts of the press. But perhaps the good of the citys money on hand which it man has discovered it is no use wasthas the use of free of interest. This is ing any efforts pleading with the quite a consideration, and explains Most High on their behalf. True, the why Mr. Dooly is so anxious to con- reporters of the press gallery may tinue to be the citys banker. He need a little prayer now and then, but nearly broke his neck in a rush to get as a general rule the petitions to Provion City Treasurer Morriss bond, but dence in their behalf should be in but after all didnt succeed. The money one direction viz., to give them realized from the sale of city lands to strength to stand the ordeals to which build a and a crematory still lies they are daily exposed. at Doolysjailbank, drawing no Interest. . i i A b f. ' K i a - f well-kno- wn All the elective city officers and the f members of the City Council have been supplied with annual passes over the lines of the Oregon Short Line Railroad company. This is somewhat unusual. The officials last year had no such courtesy shown them. In fact, not since 1897, when passes were furnished by the Rio Grande Western Railroad company, have they enjoyed those privileges. In 1897, at the st of the R. G. W. company, a city ordinance was passed permitting trains to run on streets west of Fifth West a W bocks north and south of the R. g. w. depot at a speed of twelve miles 5? kur and north of about Third North and South of Fourth South there was no limit to the speed. This re-fi- i t The fruitgrowers of the State of New York have met in convention and and resolved. They do not want the arid lands of the West irrigated at public expense, neither do they want the Government to give away any more land. The reason is that to they have to buy their landsnotand treatout acres is here, give away ing them fairly. One should not criticise them harshly, because they do not know what they are talking about. The res-olut- ed average Eastern farmer and fruitgrower knows nothing of the geography of the West All his life he has been confined to his home township, and a trip to Owego, Batavia, Rochester or Syracuse, dependent on the portion of the State he lives in, is all the excitement he ever had. Ten per cent of the 7 a J v population would equal four times the number of the natives of the State that have seen Niagara Falls, not including New York City. Suppose, however, they do have to buy their land; they find it already subdued, and if not, the wood and timber more than pays for the cost. The rain, which falls alike on the just and unjust, waters their trees. Nursery prices are far and away below what they are here. Freight rates are cheaper, and everything is in their favor. The man who invests $5000 in fruit culture in New York State and the man who Invests a similar sum hiere are not to be compared, for the former has all the best of it, even if the Government does give the latter his land. We who live here know what it is to grub sagebrush, dig ditches, buy water, irrigate and pay exorbitant prices for what we get and sell at figures in competition with the Eastern man close to market, but there is no use telling them about it in this article. They would say: Well, by jocks, I dont see why land aout West aint Jest as good as land here, and why the tarnation they hev tew run water on it beats me. Dont it rain thar? Of course it does. And then the Intelligent fellows would get a year-boo- k of the Department of Agriculture and show that we had steen showers every year, and that ought to settle it. The only way you can convince one of those chaps is to bring him here, give him a piece of Government land, and after five years he will be yelling for Government aid as lustily as anyone. But that would not do his neighbors any good, for they would credit him with having become as big a liar as the balance of us. for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting polygamy and disqualifying any person from holding office under the United States or any State, who has been found guilty of polygamy or polygamous cohabitation. It reads as follows: Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemof each House conbled neither polygamy that curring therein), nor polygamous cohabitation, being condemned by the law of Christ governing the marriage relation, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to its jurisdiction. That polygamy and polygamous cohabitation, whether practiced within the bounds of a State or Territory of the United States, shall be treated as a crime against the peace and dignity of this Republic. That no person shall be Senator or Representative in Congress or eligible to President or or hold office of honor or other emolument, any whether civil or military, under the United States or under any State or Territory thereof, or be permitted to vote at any election for such officers in either State or Territory who shall be found guilty of polygamy or polygamous cohabitation; but Congress may, of each House, by a vote of remove such disability in any specific case. Another joint resolution presented by Congressman Taylor of Ohio provides that Congress shall have power to enact uniform laws on the subject of Several Congressmen are working for penny postage. All of which would be very nice if the Postofflce department was a paying institution. But it is not. There is a deficit of about for last year, according to reports. It is not exactly the fault of the Postofflce department, either, but the very men who are shouting for cheaper postage. The Postofflce department would pay if some reforms were Instituted. At present it is made a packhorse for every other department of the public service. Congress burdens it with franked speeches, like Senator Masons, telling of the excellency of a certain kind of champagne; the Department of Justice loads it down with its correspondence, the patent office, and, in fact, all the departments. Tons of matter are sent out yearly, all of which costs money. If every department was charged with the payment of its own postage, then cheaper rates for the common people would be easy. W. H. CLARK, $5,-500,- CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION FOR UTAH. (two-thir- f ds Vice-Preside- two-thir- nt ds marriage and divorce. rSTOCK BROKBR. 1 Mining Stocks and Investments. Money to Loan on Stocks. u 2 22 West Second South Street. WWW BHItlllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS B s s Williams CLB. Williams CL WILLIAMS H D. A. 8. R. G. Williams Williams BROS. COAL CO. A. L. Williams, Mgr. s s in Dealers s ss Rook Springe, E S Lump, Nut and Slack sjj Office, Godbe-PItt- s Drug Co. Castle Gate, Grass Creek. South Main IOI E j Z Yards. Cor. Second South and E Third West. Telephone 021 S niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiimifraiiiiiE WALKER BROTHERS, Truth is indebted to Congressman Sutherland for copies of several bills and Joint resolutions on matters affecting Utah. One is a bill introduced in the House by Mr. Sutherland to authorize the State of Utah to select indemnity lands for the support of common schools in subdivisions of forty acres, and providing for the location thereof. The bill provides that, where sections 2, 16, 32 and 36 in each township in the State of Utah heretofore granted to the said State for the support of common schools, or any part thereof, have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of Congress, other lands equivalent thereto in legal subdivisions of not less than forty acres, are hereby granted to said State for the support of common schools, such indemnity lands to be selected within said State in such manner as the Legislature has provided or may hereafter provide, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; provided, that such indemnity may be selected from any of the public lands of the United States in the State of Utah, except such as lie within permanent reservations for National purposes and such lands as are embraced in Indian, military or other reservations, until such reservations are extinguished and the lands therein restored to the public domain. Another is a joint resolution by Congressman Showulter of Pennsylvania It Bubers Salt Lake City. Utah. A GEIEIAL Established LKt. BAIUN B8SHESS TUNACTEi Safety Deposit Boxes for Bent. Miss Nora Gleason Teacher of Music 8tudlo, 131 E. First South St. City ROBERTSON & CO., PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS. Agents Victor Safe Go. Safes, 315 to 39000. Expert Accountants. Notaries and Typewriters. Books expertea and kept by the month. Incorporation papers drawn up to salt All classes of insurance placed. We represent Delaware Incorporators Trust Go. Write ur Box 111. 44 Central Block, Salt Lake City Porers,!Straup & Lippnan Attobmmts-at-La- w EAGLE BLOCK, Oomer Seoond South and West Temple Sts. ft 38 |
