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Show ; APPROPRIATION FOR N. E. A. HELD ILLEGAL SALT LAKE, April 7. Who is going go-ing lo pay for the entertainment which Salt' Lake City provided the National Na-tional Education association Is a qu'es tion that is causing a great deal of excitement ex-citement in certain quarters of the cap ,itol city. By an opinion handed to ihe city auditor. H. S. McCann, yesterday from the olfice of W. II. Folland, city attorney, ihe sum or ?2,500. appropriated appropria-ted by the city, commission for the purpose pur-pose mentioned is illegal .Money raised by taxation can be used "for corporate purposes only" says the city attorney who quotes legal le-gal authority extensively lo prove his point. Mr. Foland savs: "If iho appropriation is intended to cover hotel bills, entertainment, main-tence main-tence of hcadquaners for the convention conven-tion orrioials. or other similar purposes, pur-poses, it is my opinion that such purposes pur-poses are noi corporate, and, to that extent, the appropriation is unlawful. oo |