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Show I SHOWED THEIR HANDS. Ever since the telegraph brought the news that the 'pay of the officers and members of the Legislature would be withheld until provision . was made -for the reimbursement of the United States for the moneys it had advanced to Utah, the Mormon papers and legislators have howled about the injustice J;hat . such a measure would perpetrate upon the innocent attaches of the Legislature, Legis-lature, . who have performed clerical and other work during the past sixty days, and who were in no way responsible responsi-ble for the acts of the Legislature. And not so very long ago, a terrible picture was drawn of the horrible state of affairs that would necessarily follow the refusal of the Governor to approve the bill in which provision was made for the liquidation liqui-dation of the Insane Asylum indebtedness indebted-ness and furnishing that institution with funds for use in the future. . Yesterday, to meet what was supposed to be the desire of the Legislature in these particular cases, Mr. McLaughlin introduced intro-duced in the House a bill providing for an appropriation of moneys to pay all the employes of the Legislature, and also for the appropriation of $40,000 for the Asy-. Asy-. lum. In introducing the measure, Mr. McLaughlin stated that he had good reason to believe that the Governor's Gov-ernor's signature could be obtained thereto, as it was so drawn that the mone's ' would pasa . through the hands of the Secretary of Territory instead of through those of the . man whom the Governor could not recognize as in lawful possession of the office of Territorial Treasurer. Now, what did the Legislature do? After denouncing the Executive in unmeasured terms for refusing to give his signature to a bill providing funds for the Asylum, and taxing tax-ing him with being responsible for the withholding of funds to pay the -attaches of the Legislature, these sanctified gentlemen gen-tlemen sat down on the bill which Mr. McLaughlin introduced and cave th Governor no chance to approve it. There's saintly consistency for you ! The Asylum is left without funds, the clerks, ushers and other employes of the Legislature will not get their salaries, and yet these same agents of the Church will undoubtedly continue to charge that it is the Governor's fault, and not theirs. Yes, we are a peculiar people. |