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Show H Got. West. HH Governor West 1ms shoivn by vetoing HH the bounty bills Hint lio meant what he HH said last fall about his party being HH in the saddle nd lilm li.-wlng tlio nhso- HH Into veto potvnr. Tlio Governor ban a HH right to no bli veto ntul tlio pco'plo n H right to uso their ballot!). B Speaking of bis record tlio Descret HH Evening Keics says; "Tlio record otOov. H' West, in connection w Ith that ot the T-cglsUture, hardly conies up to lb H statesmanship bo had r.n opportunity to HH display. Ills veto ot tlio tax levy bill HH perpetuates n violation f the rule that H prevails in nearly all the stale, under HB which tlio taxes that maintain schools Hh are mainly local, and continues a gross Hll injustico from which Salt Lake county HH has long suffered. Tlio bill proposed to HB take from tlio Territorial school tux half H n mill and ndd it to tlio Territorial gen- H era! tax. Tho amount produced an- Hl nually by tho bait is about 25,000. This H would have removed part of the burden jHJ this county is l'ow carrying to educate HS thocbildrc 1 tho outlying counties, and would i. y greatly relieved tlio Ter- H rltonal treasury. The Governor pathct- Hfl ically and repeatedly appealed to the HH Legislature to appropriate public aioney H in order to provide employment for tlio I poor, but ho killed, by tho pocketing pro- H cess", n bill that was specially intended H toproideemplopmcnt by encouraging H certain manufactories. Wo do not refer H to tho various bounty bills, to which, as Hg n Dcniocra t, be might naturally H bo deomed opposed, but to tho bill, H which samo Democrats in tho Lcglnla H turo and very many out of it approved, HlfjjrS exempting from taxation for n term of Mfl1 years investments in certain nanufac- HV turln&cntorprlscs, chemical works, etc. Hfl This inMsuro seemed well calculated to H induco ,thu centlon of theso industries HH without taking n dollar from tho public HH treasury for tho purpose; but it was H permitted tu die for lack of any action H on tht part of tlt executive; n stato- H ment of objections being made, and con- HH nequontly no opportunity given for a- Hl mendment Hint might hao removed HH the objections." |