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Show THE ARGUS. LEGISLATIVE SNAP-SHOTS. HEARD ON THE ELEVATOR. version to the doctrine of cleanliness. However, to be consistent he should cut off the expense of heating the building—there would be a saving of Tt vaul ACTION of the Legisla money there. : The Operator Repeats The Wails of the Woe| ture in deciding that they *% ** * 3 Begones. will hold evening sessions ‘‘T was correct in my prediction last week HAVE about given up in de© and finally dispose of the rethat the Commissioners were. going to employ female janitors. They have done so, fixing their ‘spair. Here I have been port of the Code Commission salaries at $20 a month each. They talk about waiting all this month for is the best piece of legisla-— the saving éffected over the old plan, but these the County Commissioners to a tion attempted so far. It is wholesouled, capable watch-dogs of the county 2 A do something that I could treasury did not go for enough. They should = SV A high time something was point to with pride, somehave employed Chinamen, and I believe ComHo done beside balloting for missioner’ Hall would have proposed drawing thing that could be said to ee United States Senator. upon his Chinese Sunday-school class for this reflect credit on the new ad* *k *k new kind of cheap help had he the courage of his ministration, add lustre to convictions. This idea of employing women to Hamer hit Dick Shepard a body blow on the once proud name of the do men’s work is bad business. Think of the Wednesday when he said it was impossible for number of mouths that a man working for $40, Democratic - Populist comthe House Committee on Judiciary to get to$50 or $60 a month would feed on his earnings; gether on account of the chairman . being tidal bination and convince the people that the how many he would clothe. Yet the Commis‘“wrapped up’’ in the Senatorial fight. Shepard | wave last November carried the right men into sioners take the bread out of the mouths and the is rapidly developing into a cheap politician inSo said my office. But it is a vain hope.’’ clothes off the backs of those who are dependent stead of making of himself a legislator of the first on the men of large families who rustled to get official friend, and continuing, his observations water as he declared he would when a eandidate. the wise trio intto office. This action of the ComFor all the influence Shepard has he might as ran about as follows: missioners, who have demonstrated that they are ‘ well say nothing, but keep at work. He could ob Ge aes overflowing with the milk of human kindness, do nothing toward electing a Senator other than ‘““The developments of the past week again will please the mass of tax-payers, I don’t think. cast his own ballot. | indicate that the crisis will soon be reached, Mind you I have no objection to the employment 2 * x when forbearance will cease to be a virtue with of worthy, competent help for the positions of George Hayes of Juab and Magnus Ralph us who are most directly affected by the revolutypewriter, stenographer and copyists—I believe tionary and retrograde doings of the illustrious in that—but I do protest against women filling — of San Pete are the two committee clerks of the House. Both are incompetent, but rather than trio at the head of our county government. The men’s places in politics as well as in other have them go back home to tell their constituents effort to find that the late administration exavenues of employment. The ladies, God bless they were compelled to resign they have been ceéded the lawful debt limit still goes on, but, them, certainly under such circumstances should permitted to employ a cheap typewriter to peras I said before, it will result in no benefit to the receive the same pay as the men for like servicss. form their duties. The ‘‘farmer boy’’ racket taxpayers or warrant-holders. It is a farcical * * * deesn’t seem to: be working at this session. And and needless expenditure of publicfunds. I just in the face of all this there are several clodhop» found out the real motive prompting this repudia‘¢One thing more about the women taking the ping legislators whe want to cut the salaries of tion business. First, it is to make a record on men’s places in public office. I could write a competent clerks. Oe the theory that we can best build ourselves up by volume of absorbing interest on this subject, and pulling our predecessors down, and incidentally when I got through it could all be summed up by * ** ** , to afford, if possible, a basis for anulling some saying it is all the legitimate result of female or The chief clerk of the House, up to date, has contracts entered into by the late administration, equal suffrage. Another case in point, which sent one communication to the Senate which did notably the contracts with Emery and Squires will serve to illustrate a thing or two, occurred not have to be corrected. The young missionary __ for recopying dilapidated deed records. But it onee upon a time lately when a cow-hooking from Davis county seems to be handier with the ~ won't work. inéy Cant HUnioug the-community damage case was being tried. Counsel for the prayer book than with the pen. 3 defense found it necessary when cross-examining all the time. * % *k ** x es | one of the witnesses to make use of a medical Scipio Africanus Kenner will make no more ‘Now, if Commissioner Hall industriously term, couched in the most polite language posdemonstrations at Mrs. Anderson of Weber; circulated the statement that sewing machines sible under the circumstances. To the utter neither will he offer any suggestions. The lady he sells were inferior in quality and excessive in astonishment of the Judge, attorneys, witnesses delegate from the town of the three-throw switch price his business would soon go to ruin. You and jury the female court reporter, in a great introduced a bill, the reading of which prompted would not think Frank Armstrong a prudent huff and with a look of injured innocence, the ex-Missouri coon hunter to suggest that the business man were he to give out the report that dropped her work and bolted out of the court title be reversed. Mrs. Anderson gave him to his bank is ina shaky condition, with more liaroom. She remained in her sulk until the bailiff understand that the measure was just what she bilities than assets, and the only way to get back was sent after her with a message from the Judge wanted and withered Kenner with a look, alon the right track again being to employ only to come back and attend to her knitting. The though Scipio doesn’t usually care for looks. dollar-a-day men, regardless of their experience reporter who feigned insult to her innate modesty or ability to run up and set down ininka column will, I believe, learn what modesty is before she * ** * of figures. Should Bishop Rawlins attempt to repeats a similar performance. The eagerness with which ‘‘ Journalist ”’ sell a lot of potatoes, telling his prospective pur*e * * Johnny Hanson rose to put a motion displacing chasers they were frozen, whether they were or Quil Nebeker as chairman of the joint session on ‘My observations don’t apply to all females. not, he would be rated as aman who has outMonday last shows his anxiety to hear his own Iam not a woman-hater in politics—I love the lived his usefulness. Probably these are odd voice overbalances his reasoning power. The ladies at all times, wherever circumstances may comparisons, but they serve as correct illustraethics of the occasion should have prompted him place them.’’ And so does tions. It is on just such strange theories that the Commissioners are conducting the business of the county. To me it is plain that their purpose» is to make paupers and serfs of all who get employment from the county in any capacity whatever. I am not the only one, bya long shot, | who entertains this view. First thing you know they will have all the competent, reliable subordinates weeded out and their places filled with ne’er-do-wells, with no regard for the service that is rendered the public. *k ‘‘Now, as to some * * other matters. This re- funding of the illegally-collected school tax is going to be an expensive, complicated affair before the end is reached. I believe the County School Superintendent is the one who ought to have the drawing and issuing of the refunding, warrants. There will be a large amount of salvage in this fund, ultimately about $5000, and I submit that the aggregate of unclaimed rebates should go into the county school fund. I don’t _know what the Van Cotts think about it, but they should make known their position on this subject. * 6 * ‘* The furnishing of towels and soap is a small matter, but none the less important. After waiting a month Commissioner Hall concluded that it was the part of wisdom to provide these little necessaries to insure the neat appearance of the public records. Hall opposed such extravagance, and itis a mystery to me to see his sudden. con- | | to permit Mattie Thomas to’put motions Tue Eievator Boy. sort. | of that ee If the good people of Salt Lake will try to think that this is a live, progressive age, they will awake to the semse of. the high importance of helping the newly-elected officials of the Chamber of Commerce to make their administration a tri- umphant success. Now is the accepted tinte to start anew by shaking off the mantle of lethargy and by carrying out some approved plan for’ attracting the world’s attention to Utah’s unrivaled resources and splendid attractions for the safe and profitable investment of capital. The Chamber is a public institution, which, if properly — supported, will accomplish an immense amount | of good for the people. The outcome of the Idaho Senatorial contest whereby Henry Heitfeld, an illiterate Populist, sueceeds Hon. Fred T. Dubois, is, to say the Idaho has brought a least; disappointing. shame upon herself that must and will be shared by every silver State, and the reproach is all the more stinging in that it furnishes the East with a solid argument against the character of the men who represent the Western States in Congress. Heitfeld is a representative of that class which the sectionalism of the East has delignted to depict, but which heretofore has had no : existence im fact. The action of President John W. Hess of the Davis Stake of Zion, when, in the Kaysville pulpit last Sunday, he publicly endorsed Representative Stewart for voting for Rawlius,: was a disgusting exhibition of a high Church official prostituting the robes of his priesthood in his efforts to secure a desired political result. Inthe eourse of his harangue, Hess stated that ‘‘Brother Stewart has the faith and prayers of the Saints in doing as he is.’’ To complete the repulsive spectacle, Hess ought to have stated that prior to the convening of the Legislature, Brother Stewart had the hands of the elders laid upon him and was duly consecrated and set apart to perform the work of the Lord, i e.: labor for the defeat of Moses Thatcher, in the State House of Representatives. If there is any difference between the pulpit harangue of Hess and the rantings of a blasphemer, some one who is expert at fine distinctions ought to figure it out. Country Press: We hope this legislature will not succeed in what several of its predecessors have done—stir up an antagonism between met- ropolitan, especially Salt Lake and country members. That very thing has worked against some good legislation, and we believe, with caution and courtesy, it can be avoided. — |