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Show THE LADIES IN IT. They are Opposed to Some Proposed Enactments. ECONOMY AND FREEDOM Their Watchword They "Will Guard Against Centralization of Power lat Every Step and Object to 'the Increase of Taxation A Territorial move. Springville, Feb. 10. Correspondence Corres-pondence Dispatch. The ladies of this place held a mass meeting here today to-day under the auspices of the Woman's feuilrage association. A goodly number num-ber of gentlemen met with the ladies. Mrs. S. A. Boyer presided. Mrs. Ellen jakeman of Frovo was first Epeaker. She addressed the meeting meet-ing on the merits and demerits of Dr. Park's new school bill now before the legislature. Referred to the meeting held at Provo on the 6th inst., which was fully reported in Tue Dispatcii. Contrasted the proposed law with the present law and spoke of the exorbitant exorbit-ant sslaries proposed by the new bill. Thought it bad policy to create appointive ap-pointive offices and deplored the tendency ten-dency toward centralization indicated by the text of the bill. Mrs. Clara Hall, Mrs. M. J. Madsen and Mrs. Elizabeth Boyer were appointed ap-pointed a committee to draft resolutions, resolu-tions, voicing the sentiments of the meeting on the bills being considered. Wm. II. Kelsy presented the main objectionable features of the proposed horticultural bill and David Clark spoke of the present indebtedness of the territory and deplored the evident intent of the present legislature to run us further into debt and their eyident intent to increase unnecessarily our taxation. He referred also to the obnoxious ob-noxious features of the horticultural bill. James Holley addressed the meeting on the terms of the protest published recently in Tite Dispatch sent in to the legislature by the committee on the horticultural bill, the grievous burdens bur-dens of taxation aPeady borne by the people, and the fact that tne passage of the irrigation bill alone wrnnlil intmlvA t.ho tprritnrtr in on in debtedness of millions. He would like to see the ladies get up and present to our governor one grand petitfon not to sign any bills that would increase our present heayy taxation. Mrs. S. P. Packard delivered an able speech after which the committee on resolutions reported. The resolutions concerning the school bill prepared at Provo. and the protest from here on the horticultural bill were adopted by the meeting. '1 he provisions of the irrigation bill were condemned as having an appointive ap-pointive board, being enormously expensive ex-pensive and interfering with local self-government, self-government, and in creating new of fices, the expense of such to be met by an already tax-burdened people. Frank Boyer and Mr. Packard of this place, Mrs. Marilla Daniels, James Daniels and M. L Pr;itt. nf Pmun oic epoke. Mrs. Ellen Jakeraau, Mrs. Marilla Daniels and Mrs. S, A. Boyer were appointed ap-pointed a committee to wait upon Mrs. E. B. Wells, territorial president of the suffrage associations, and lay this matter mat-ter before here with a view of making the move a territorial one. The ladies have set in to prevent the passage of these bills if possible as they now are, and to protest against the passage of any and all iills that have been or will be introduced, the enforcement en-forcement of which will increase taxation. |