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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE SHOULD DISCOURAGE EXTRAVAGANCE The Salt Lake Tribune, in the following fol-lowing editorial In opposition to the proposed transfer of capitol bonds to the cood roads commission. serep notice that the capitol of I'tah now in construction Is to cost an unlimited amount : "There is a suggestion, however, connected with this matter that should be kept entirely out of it That is the proposal to make part of the $1 f.i'iMKKi good road bonds the fl,200,- of CapltOl bonds already provided for. bul not issued or negotiated. "It Is true that the Harriman inner itance tax. some $780,000, has been set aside for capitol use This, with the 11,200,004 capitol bonds will go a long wa toward the completion of the capitol Rut it Is not true, as assumed as-sumed by some persons, that all the inheritance taxation is to be transfer red to the capitol fund as it is received re-ceived Tin- legislature authorized such transfer of the Harriman Inheri Mine tax. but not of any other portion por-tion of that taxation. As it stands therefore, I he capitol has less than Si:. OOn.OOii for Its completion, including '!.. capitol bonds. So far from thil being an exiravagant amount it li In fact less than will be needed for it is not to be expected that the capitol. under the most favorable auspices, can be completed and furnished for much less than $?.. 000,000 So fa;-, i in i. from there being any surplus to spare from the capitol resource:,, these resources will have to be added to in order thai the capitol may he nils completed and tarnished. V do not mention this matter of the capitol as in any way opposing the good roads propaganda On the contrary wo are emphatically foi good roads, just as we are for the capitol but the oint Is that we see no need whatever for either joining the two in any propaganda or putting the two in opposition Each should Stand on its own merits, and each should he eonsldered always as a sep arnle proposition." Rleht at the very beplnninp of this capitol building, the legislature should put a quietus to this talk of &,000,- 000 or more to be expended There Is not a state in which such extrava gance has been encouraged by a foil ure to fix a limit on the expenditures, that there has been other than scandal scan-dal after scandal The amount to be outlayed on the eapitol should be definitely stated and the commission required to keep with in those figures. This state Is not rich enough lo 1 proceed at this time to give, any body of men carte blanche in the erecting of a capitol, nor should the leglsla Hire encourage Salt Lake to belles a I that the state house Is to go beyond answering the necessities of the state now and in the near future. State taxes today are too high to tolerute extravagance In any department ol lit' affairs, and If less than 2,000,-000 2,000,-000 can be made to answer the needs of a capitol. then that sum should I mark the extreme limit of expendi tures. and any surplus remaining In the treasury should go to build good roads or reduce the state tax levy. |