Show judge burton binton bin ton monopolizing lWi ng time of state legislature introduces FREAK XEA MEASURES that our former judge thomas H burton thinks he has monopoly on the time and rights of the present state legislature might be inter red from his actions since that body convened up to thursday night when the legislature had been li la session ony eniy four our parts ot of days two of 0 which had been devoted entirely to organization and to hearing the governors Gover norra message judge burton had managed to introduce twelve bills and two I 1 le solutions the first nine bills introduced la in the house were all burtons bartons Bur tons between and following his hie next three however some other members 0 of that branch of the lawmaking law mabilli making body managed it if seems to get the floor long ellough to 10 introduce two or knite ula measures out jut of nineteen bills ond ind tour four joul resolutions nad been introduced up to thursday evening lo urleen of 0 were by burton not a bad record is it it if they aero all sound measures and we netted mole moie laws lawse out bin the lament atno abio part of it is 13 that sune sone su ne of binem propose ino lund kind tf of legisla ton 1011 A typical illustration is his bill io ao 13 WHICH a that cities of ihlia cl includes bacil alt lea iea as carowan ta rowan post tue ordinances ti cacir councils pass of t U them imagine lai agne a group of Pa rowans feminine motorists standing around a iree over on oil the hotel corner comer tring 0 a learn from a faded and torn sheet what the new traffic regulations might inight be or oua one of our busy sheep wall men coming up town and halt sit an hour on the same corner try ing ang to 0 ascertain a BI dust covered i and tobacco spattered sheet nailed 0 a a tice what he must do to keep che dug dog c catcher acher from killing ins his collie chose wound woul be some of the re suits of the judges proposal another one hla his bill no lo 10 11 would make it unlawful tor for any motor vehicle to pass toy public school conveyance le the same is standing on the highway can an you imagine a group of tourist cars held bold up between hero here and ud Para paragonah gonah nab waiting for lowe carton r to change a tire on his school bus some botne oeners re of his bis proposals are tc bc arcely leaf liburd arid and the end apparently Is not yet he threatens as at least one othera jill to abolish tile 15 0 A U I fortunately some of his acas ures bound better the one to do away with tue too tor for criminals one to make parties to civil suits pay for their jury rather than having the county pay it one to abolish abo liali the offee ut lit attorney and possibly sime others have a ring more true arid and deserve serious the motives tor for his proposed sed if 13 A U C bill and two tuo or three of his n measures it aures directly L ers ere of weekly papers are likely to be called into question by iron and other counties he appear to like us down here acre since he lent a judge in this district anymore be his motives as they may it Is in hardly probable that he will stampede the entire legislature into pars bafs ing all his hia bills and it la is very possible that many members of the house will resent his monopolizing so much of the time of the legislature and its various committees certainly the bourga Four lii estate the press ot of utah will not be to ell cn thug lastic in supporting some of at h a leibish ideas and lea bh N in III caned to minimize mini mise its strength we would respectfully refer the judge jude to an editorial in the deseret news of jan 14 tile the country press in astion it to la ie produced on OB the editorial page of this issue W carnef mitchell PT |