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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE NOWjNJESSlDN TWELFTH SESSION OPENS WITH DEMOCRATS IN FULL CONTROL CON-TROL IN BOTH HOUSES. Senator Funk of Cache County Chosen Chos-en as Pesldent of Senate, While J. Frank Tolton of Beaver is Speaker of House. Salt Lake City. Both branches of the twelfth session of the Utah legislature legis-lature were organized by the Democrats Demo-crats In less than an hour at the opening meeting on January 8. In the lower house the organization organiza-tion was effected unanimously 'by acclamation, ac-clamation, every member having been elected on a straight Democratic or fusion ticket. Three holdover members mem-bers of the upper house offered a feeble fee-ble resistance to almost every proposition propo-sition submitted by the majority, but in the end voted that the action of the majority be sanctioned unanimously. unani-mously. Senator J. W. Fupk was elected president of the upper house by a vote of 14 to 3, the Republican members mem-bers having caucused as solemnly as though in control, and selected Senator Sen-ator Don B. Colton of Uinta county as their candidate for the presidency. Representative J. Frank Tolton of Beaver county was elevated to the speakership of the lower house by acclamation. ac-clamation. It is generally believed that early action will be secured on the prohibition prohibi-tion and public utilities measures. . Members of the Senate. First District Achibald Bevan (D.), Tooele. Second District James W. Funk (D.), Richmond. Third District Richard Stringham (D.), Woods Coss. Fouth District Joseph Chez (D.) and W. J. Parker (D.), Ogden. Fifth District James W. Clyde (D.), Ileber City. Sixth District George H. Dern (D.), W. W. Armstrong (D.), C. L. Olson Ol-son (D.), Wesley K. Walton. (P.). Fank Evans (P.),, Salt Lake. Seventh District H. T. Reynolds (D.), Springville; J. H. Wootton (R.), American Fork. - Eighth District Daniel Stevens (D.), Fillmore. Ninth District Orlando Bradley (D.), Moroni. Tenth District . Quince Kimball (D.), Panguitch. Eleventh District William Seegmil- ler (R.), Kanab. Twelfth District Don B. Colton (R.), Vernal. Members of the House. First District Wynn L. Eddy (D.), Brigham City. Second District George Y. Smith (D.), Smithfield; Joseh E. Caidon (D.), Logan; W. W. Jones (D.), Well3-ville. Well3-ville. Third District Arch McKinnon (D.), Randolph. Fourth District D. L. Boyle (D.), Ogden; J; S. Campbell (D.), Ogden; D. D. McKay (D.), Huntsville; J. G. Widdison, J. (D.), Hooer. Fifth District James S. Hopkins (D.), Coydon. Sixth District Francis H. Nalder (D.), Syracuse. Seventh District J. Alex Bevan (S.), Tooele. Eighth District Joseph G. Bywater (D.), Elizabeth J. Hay ward (D.), R. V. Young," Jr., (D.), Charles M. Hecker (D.), Robert E. Currie (D.), J. W. McKinney (D.), J. T. Raleigh (P.), Grace Stratton Airey (D.), Salt Lake; Daisy Allen (D.). Garfield; Thomas P. Page (D.), Riverton. Ninth District J. L. Boyden (D.), Coalville. Tenth . District George A. Fisher (D.), Heber. Eleventh District O. II. Berg (D.), Provo; Edward Southwick (D.), Lehi; Alma Greenwood (D.), American Fork; Lorenzo Argyle (D.), Lake Shore. Twelfth District L. W. Curry (D.), Vernal. Thirteenth District Oscar Cazier (D.), Nephl. Fourteenth District H. R. Thomas (D.), Wales; J. H. Mace (D.), Gunnison. Gunni-son. Fifteenth District Frank T. Bar-nett Bar-nett (D.), Storrs. Sixteenth District Nephi L. Williams Will-iams (D.), Castle Dale. Seventeenth District F. B. Hammond Ham-mond (D.), Moab. Eighteenth District J. E. Heppler (D.), Richfield. Nineteenth District Frank Pratt (D.), Hinckley. Twentieth District J. F. Tolton (D.), Beaver. Twenty-first District Reuben De-witt De-witt (D.), Marysvale. ' Twenty-second District Sylvester Williams (D.), Thurber. Twenty-third District John King (D.), Escalante. Twenty-fourth District George W: Decker (D.), Parowan. Twenty-fifth District Arthur Pax-man Pax-man (D.), St. George. Twenty-sixth District David D. Rust (D.), Kanab. Twenty-seventh District George A. Adams (D.), Monticello. Twenty-e'ghth District G. V. Billings Bill-ings (D.), Duchesne. |