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Show A BIG DEFICIT, The Territory Must Get Some Money Somehow. TAXES TO BE INCREASED. The Fool Killer Missed a Han in Spanish ForkSalt Lake Puts Out a Feeler on the Capital Removal and Gets Bit-Other Bit-Other Matters Considered. Tne financial report of the territory was presented in the house yesterday by the committee on wava and means. It states that during the sessions ot 1SS8. 1K90 and 1892, appropriations were made in excess of revenue amounting in all to $740,099.04, and that to meet these deficits bonds to the amount of 1 $700,000 were issued, leaving an unpaid balance of $40,099.04. The deficit for the next two years, it is estimated, will amount to $295.000, without taking into i account any expenditures for militia, repair and erection of public buildings, bounties or university supplies, and even after road appropriations are cut down to $16,000 and salaries and expenses expen-ses lopped off $10,000. They do not fa vor the issuance of any more bonds, but recommended that the taxes be raised to 3i mills. They recommend the issuance issu-ance of $200,000 in bonds, $12F,000 to be used in the erection of a wing of. the capitol building and the remainder to be used to tide over the time between the appropriation of moneys and return re-turn of taxes. Dougall earned everlasting notoriety by presenting an absurd petition from George O. Hicks, evidently a demented resident of Spanish Fjrk, who Drates , .bout issues dead Ion? years ago. There "s some merriment created over it the ridicule to which it was sub-ted, sub-ted, and some remarks on the right petition. This took up most of the le. The amendments of the council to I p eight hour bill were concurred in v .id it will be sent to the Governor. ! ie bill to regulate the proceedure in e presentation of guardi ans' reports 3 the Dill to relieve Wiiliain J. s I", .ields from a judgment were unani-0f1jLt unani-0f1jLt I jously passed. Nj new bills were presented, but a number of petitions I and claims came in. 1 In the council the afternoon was. spent almost wnoiiy in aeoate ana out little was accomplished. The bill to give women places on boards of directors direc-tors of public institutions met with some opposition on the ground that the proposed action would be contrary to the laws of Congress in such case made and provided, and the bill was 1 finally recommitted. The measure ap- ' propriating $.2,000 to be used on the capitol grounds for the relief of needy and deserving laborers, was taken up, discussed and a great deal of opposition opposi-tion having n- 'loped, referred to the capitol coma, on. This measure is viewed as a 'or by Salt Lake to learn how ti e legislators stand on capital remove1. A b 11 to have spurious dai: u Lic'es so stamped that the unsuspec .a,r !ir tsewife may know whether she: 'a;... butter or oleo-niargaiine oleo-niargaiine vrea p-cu and on it the elephantine Swiiy ldh le bis maiden speech, in whiob t.. jwed forth the emooth eloque i' t; ' a Demosthenes and the oratorio;.' erc.ce of a Webster. A bill to exemp-. the libraries of lawyers law-yers frcm taxation was ruthlessly Killed, because it would discriminate. The judiciary committee scored first blood in the right against taxation ot Mortgages by bringing in a report un-Sarorable un-Sarorable to Varian's bill, but the measure wa3 not reached on the calendar. calen-dar. Several bills of minor importance were introduced, |