Show P PASSING i EVE EVENTS TS The legislature Is moving along and it is pretty free freak legislation legislation leg leg- but not entirely free from freak ideas It has seen Been stubborn about some things that it should have ve adopted It refused to pass the following bills offeree uy Dy me The school district segregation bill the school architect bill and the bridge bill it laid raid on on tJ the e table at my suggestion suggestion suggestion sug sug- to save its Hs instant decapitation decapita decapita- tion and the tax sale bill I made the strongest effort possible to pass the last but no use it went weIlt to the scrap heap But they are gett getting ng acquainted with me and I with memo I know better who is who and aaa I maintain a afree afree free hand I now have some other pretty prett good bills chief among which a at the present time is the bill to to repeal repeal repeal re re- re- re peal the public utilities law I am mustering considerable support for it I am getting letters and aud encouragement from over the state and no doubt the tIle opponents of the bill are getting some pointers from their constituents There was an effort recently to pass a rule giving giving giving ing a man only ten minutes to speak and that was aimed directly at myself myself myself my my- self to shut me off of the floor when the debate comes on the bill to abolish the public utilities commission I immediately ely named it on the floor of the house as an effort to invoke gag rule and enough help came to my aid to defeat the proposed rule tend land since then we have b been n having public public public pub pub- lic hearings on the bill before the judiciary committee This measure Is not yet set down for hearing but butwill butwill will probably ly come oil off during the latter part of the coming week On the a resolution came tame from the senate sponsored by Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Irvine asking congress congre s and the president to 10 appoint a commission I to regulate foreign Immigration I 1 It aroused a lot of opposition although althou it had been passed passe unanimously inthe in inthe the tho senate The house seemed to think that the bars were about to be belet belet belet let down to let in a flood nood of foreign Ignoramuses and the flood of oratory from seigniors that that had scarcely ever before said la Ia word was interesting and Instructive I didn't get a chance to say a word except to explain my vote and land to say that the tIle resolution was framed to prevent just what they thought it was framed to encourage and I voted in favor or of It and I was alone and today the leader of the I Republicans Mr Callister took the floor and moved for a reconsideration tion and it almost carried Another time I l' l voted against the whole boneh lalone and three c or four tour days after they t turned anu anit unanimously unanimously unanimously unan unan- adopted the opposite view Jew and for what I stood for in the first place This shows what a legislatUre legisla legisla- cure tUre will do Well Veil I have the satisfaction batis- batis s faction of telling them what I 1 think and although they disagree with m ran more often than they agree gree with me yet ym they seem to I like e the llie theold theold old scout after all and are getting netting to be quite chum chummy y This of course is reciprocal The The house passed passed my bill to toll ll prevent pre pie vent the state board of or eq equalization equalisation from riding rough shod over the county commissioners in making a blanket raise of real estate values But my tax sale bill was vas opposed oppose by bythe bythe the whole Salt Lake bunch Dunch dud and a good part of the state house and aud I 1 argued the points in Its favor with all the force I c could uld muster They gave me careful attention and no lawyer in the house nad the nerve to dispute my constitutional al reasons but still It was no go as Salt Lake City had to have its pound of flesh by speculating in taxes to the tune of about a year So there was little or no encouragement for me when it came to voting yoUng and nd of oC course at that time timo everybody loved each other to the extent that I was not in the reckoning They complImented complimented me and voted against me This mutual love to the point of extreme extreme extreme ex ex- stand will soon vanish away and I believe that the member from Duchesne will not suffer sutter seriously seri sell in III the windup windup windup-L. L L. L A. A H. H 0 |