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Show Of TnE 81,000,000,000 (amoutting to sixteen dollars for every man, woman and child in the United States) expended ex-pended by the late lamented Congress, how much did Utah get? According to population she was entitled to $3,-200,000, $3,-200,000, but our representative in Congress Con-gress would not be allowed even to ask for an appropriation for a public building build-ing for the Territory, although our appropriation ap-propriation for the one year alone should have been nearly seven times the amount asked for, to say nothing of the millions we have paid in tariff in the vears gone by. And so it will always be. When there are millions to be expended, ex-pended, favored spots will get the cream, and those in remote corners must be satisfied with the sour milk. |