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Show THINK SCHOOL 1 LI CHANGED Friends ol Amendment No. 2 Believe It Was Adopted at Election SALT LAKE. Nov. 6. With election of candidates settled, Note on the proposed pro-posed amendments In the recent clec-'ions clec-'ions occupied the center of the stage. In some quarters yesterday, and friends of amendment No. 2, in particular, par-ticular, wer confident that this amend-tioular.werc amend-tioular.werc confident that this amendment amend-ment proposes state support of schools to the extent of $25 per capita ' of School population in each school district. dis-trict. The fate of the other amendments is more In doubt, thought some hope is held out that the amendment per-mittlng per-mittlng cities to have greater authority! over their own Charters, and that to: make the workmen's compensation act effective without restraint In cases of fatal acledent arising out of or in I th" course of emplovment, mav be carried. car-ried. Little hope is expressed that the amendment raising tim state's limit of Indehetedness from l 1-3 to 2 per cent of the assessed valuation of the state will carry. Hopes for the school amendment were based on the estimate that the Salt Lake county vote was about 3000 or 4000 against the amendment It Is said by friends of this amendment that In all probability the amendment would carry even if Salt Lake county; were to go 6000 against. The results in Salt Lake and in Og-den Og-den however, are In doubt, and Will not be known until after the boards of election complete the canvass of the returns, early next week. The result In Salt Lake county is almost certainly against, while nu estimate based on ihjl safe basis was obtainable from! W'ebf-r county last night. It was con- j templated) however, that Weber county might go against the amendment The result In Box Elder is taken as somewhat typical Box Older has an assessed valuation such that the proposed pro-posed amendment would neither add to nor take front its taxe. In Salt i Lake county, especially, and in Weber and one oi two other counties, if the legislature makes the proposed amendment effective the result will be that these counties will pay more than they are now pacing towards the edii-eation edii-eation Ot children of other counties In . Utah. Similarly heavy otes for the amendment in Provo and Logan could be based on the same considerations But Box lilder represents about the average assessed aluatlon per capita In the st:'te I A tabulation of the results In that j county shows 2C07 voting for the amendment, and S!M against It. or a I majority for the amendment of 1718 It will "be noted that the total vote on this amendment wa ."301 Th tctla vote cast, for example, for justice jus-tice of the supreme court was 56-13, so that only about three persons out of every five who went to the polls In Hvx Elder county ote I on the amendment amend-ment at nil It Is said that In som-other som-other counties the proportion Is oven less. In Salt Lake county It Is stated that many persons oted no simply , on the theory that they did not kn,.- J what the amendment' meant, and therefore were unwilling to vote to change the present condition?. rtt. |
