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Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1902-1919, January 11, 1913, Image 5

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GOODWIN'S WEEKLY 5 H
WITH THE LAWMAKERS
WEEKLY REVIEW OF LEGISLATURE AND LEGISLATORS
AND SOME COMMENT
THBJ biennial legislative clrous,
billed for sixty days and some
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nights at the public hippodrome at
the City and County building, opens
next Monday, and once more the peo
ple of the state will ascertain just how
high is the constitutional barrier be
tween them and needed laws. Aside
from legislation on state finances
Utah isn't poverty-stricken in the
matter of laws, and since the people
had a chance to revise Important
lawg, relating to revenue and taxation
and the handing of the state moneys
and passed it up it ill becomos
them to demand similar legislation
now. At the recent election every
constitutional amondomnt relating to
revenue and taxation and they were
Important was turned down by the
people. Governor Spry says It is be
cause the folks won't study the needs
of the state government. At any rate,
the people voted blindly or not at all
on the resolutions submitted by the
last legislature.
This may bo taken as a warning
from the people that there are entfugh
laws now on the statute books. A
great many people in Utah believe
that And there is reason to be
lieve that if the legislature would
amend, "some of the faulty laws and
wipe out some of the unnecessary
legislation that has been passed in
recent years It will then be time to
adjourn.
The governor, in his inaugural ad
dress, calls attention to the indlf
I forenco of the people to the constl-
tutlon, the basis of legislation. Cer-
i talnly tho people pay little atten-
I tlon to any proposed amondment to
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it when the matter of personality of
candidates is also to be touched upon;
and at special elections the vote Is
quite as light and equally as indif
ferent as in a genoral election whon
other issues are at stake.
The coming session will find the
Progressives of the state engaged In
tho sordid business of lobbying for
(progressive leglsaltion. They havo
oven gone so far as to name their
organlzod lobbyists, not even leaving
off that most essential of all function
aries the treasurer. Just what
chance the Progressives have of get
ting desired legislation at the com
ing sosslon which ,is controlled by Re
publicans depends entiroly upon the
extont of the desire of tho Repub
lican majority to placate tho Progress
ive element within the party by con
ciliating upon some of the most moot
ed measures of the time.
Over In Colorado the lady senator
kissed tho lady representative whon
tho legislature opened. Here there
may also be a kissing bee, for four
fair lawmakers will sit in the house
and it is only fair to assume that tho
smacking will be confined to the
lower branch of the legislature.
The state boards and state officers,
in their biennial reports, are making
recommendations touching nearly all
branches of the state government.
The state treasurer and state auditor,
not to mention the secretary of stato,
have recommended changes In tho
handling of the state's finances, while
the state board of corrections has,
among other things, recommended
that electrocution bo substituted for
hemp or lead at the penitentiary for
condemned murderers.
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Opportunities for Homeseekers
HOMESTEAD lands In Utah to the
amount of approximately 125,
000 acres are now open to entry
By the interior department through
an ortlor to the local United Statos
land office with tho provision that
entry cannot bo made before January
20. Tho lands are situated in Rush
1 valley, in wostorn and southwestern
.Tooele county, ranging from thirty to
i sixty miles from Snlt Lake and most
of tho homestead lands thus opened
are within one to ton miles from tho
, Salt Lake Route. Those lands como
under tho Smoot enlarged homestead
act, sections 1 to 5, under which res-
Idence is required, but entrants may
I take up 320 acres each and title Is
to be perfected by living up to the cul
tivation requirements of tho act as re
cently amonded. Theoiciically these
j lands are all adapted to dry farming
and tho reports of the United States
i ' waathar bureau for the last twelve
j years show an annual precipitation
I , jremglng from twelve to sixteen Inches
' over most of tho tract. The opening
of those lands to entry under tho
Smoot act also Implies that govern
ment examinations havo shown that
water for domestic and stock pur
poses can be obtained at reasonable
expense, although the lands are not
susceptible to practioal Irrigation on
an economical basis. A largo propor
tion of the Rush valley lands desig
nated are known as good sagebrush
lands, although there are a few scat
tered and small portions where grease
wood and rabbit brush indicato Che
presence of alkali in such quantity
that dry farming cannot bo success
fully carried on.
The Buckhorn Land company, with
C. W. Nlbley as president, an irriga
tion project, has been organized in
this city and proposes to consorvo the
waters t)f the Iluntlngtorr river in the
northern part of Emery county and
Irrigate tho v khorn flat, consist
ing of 15,000 ares of some of tho
richest land In Utah. A dam will be
constructed and canals dug to divert
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Claude T. Barnes of Salt Lake has
a new idea of city government which
ho will Introduce in the form vt a
bill early In the coming sosslon. The
bill Is a merry mixture of municipal
Ideas that have passed the experi
mental stage In larger and older
cities than Salt Lake, and It Is the
intention of the author to make his .
plan applicable not only to cities of
tho first and second class but to all
cities of the state. The people of each
city will have the privilege of voting
upon the proposition as to whether or
not they want a change In form of
government. Thus tho legislature will
not be permitted to foist upon the city
any old form of government it sees
fit to dish out.
The Barnes Idea comprises two dis
tinct plans. One is to elect a olty
council which wi" Le i epresentati e
of municipal districts and which will
appoint a commission or board to
handle the departments of the city,
the council to attend merely to the,
'legislative and executive divisions.
The other plan is to elect a commis
sion form, dissimilar to that in effect
at present, and one that will central
ize rather than distribute the govern
ing poweis. Civil sorvlce, the Initi
ative and referendum and the recall,
are features of the proposed plan.
Who Is to be speaker of the house?
A numbor of the lawmakers are gath
ering In Zion to lay plans for the
capture of this coveted position and
rivalry In the coming caucus will b
as wldo as tho state Itself. In tho sen
ate Henry Gardner will probably be re
elected without opposition.
tho stream, a large portion of which
is going to waste.
This company Is purely a construct
ing concern, and when the improve
ments are made about a year from
now, the farms will bo sold by the
National Savings and Trust company,
a local concorn, which Is Interested
in several similar enterprises through
out tho state and with which the
Buckhorn company is affiliated.
Tho officers of tho now company
are, besides Bishop Nlbley: Lorenzo
N. Stohl, vice president; Preston Nlb
ley, secretary; John C. Cutler, treas
urer; Lloyd Slglor, general manager.
Tho offices are on the top floor of
tho Walker bank building, in a suite
occupied by the savings and trust
company.
Columbia unlv. nlty reports special
funds in excess of $8,356,000.
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