OCR Text |
Show I Politico Personals and the Legislature B Tlie State Senate is run by two or three men. Benner X. Smith and George N. Lawrence of Salt Lake county are practically the " whole 8 works," and their say-so is generally taken as B final by their fellow members. Senator Hoi- lingsworth of Ogden tries desperately to be an B influence in the Senate, but beyond an ability jl to carp 'and ipick technical and grammatical 8 Haws in bills and thus excite the wrath of the 8 men who introduced the bills, he has not de-8 de-8 veloped any particular talent of any sort. B Senators Smith and Lawrence have pcsed 8 in the past as untorrified opponents of the Smoot machine. Now, however, there is little I (iiiestion that Senator Smith is at least in part 8 the representative in .the Senate of the Smoot- "Fussy" aggregation. He has been selected to 8 sit on the lid for the apostle-Senator, to steer 8 all legislation designed to perpetuate the grip df 8 the machine, and to kill off anything that doesn't 8 look good to the bosses. 8 Senator Smith made his peace with the ma- B chine on October 8, 190G, between the hours of B 5 and 8 o'clock p. m. Those hours covered the 8 dinner recess of the Republican county conven- tion, and up until that time the Smootltes had 8 determined to nominate Clesson S. Kinney, not B Smith, for the State Senate. There was a con-8 con-8 forenco, however, and just before the conven-8 conven-8 tion was called to order in the evening "Bill" 8 Spry and "Curly" Callister passed out the word 8 to their minions among the delegates that Smith was to be named and Kinney slaughtered. . 8 Just what the deal is nobody seems to know; B but Smith, it is said, imagines that, in return for fi doing the steering for Smoot in the State Senate, B he is to succeed Joseph Howell in Congress, which, if true, goes to show that Benner ;X. is B more gullible than had been commonly sup- llH nncnil I As for George Lawrence he who posed as an ultra-Gentile and anti-Smootor in the past-fie is Smith's chief lieutenant and aids the machine program. He possesses what Smith does not kindly, affable manners and an air of equality and fraternity and is an invaluable aid. Nophi United States Centennial Agricultural College Jensen, the boy wonder of the Houde, aspires as-pires to Congressional honors, and imagines that he can talk himself to fame. With a ribald irreverence, ir-reverence, both shocking and painful, his colleagues col-leagues refuse to take his dozen daily speeches seriously, and go into spasms of hilarity when his Congressional candidacy is mentioned. The other day Kuchlor of Ogden, one of the little handful of men in the House who possess really sterling intelligence, declared flatly that "Centennial" Jensen, in urging the passage of a certain bill, was not acting as a representative of the people, but as a paid attorney for a client. In some places such a charge would have called for pistols and coffee. Jenson, however, took the insult at the time without resentment. Overnight, however, somebody suggested to him that he ought to resent such an assertion, and the next day he made a feeble demand for a retraction re-traction from Kuchler. The latter reiterated his charge, slightly modified, against Jensen, and the young man sat down. Up to date he has not spilled and Kuchler blood or invited the gentleman gentle-man from Weber to the field of honor. j t & Senator HulanlskI of Ogden, who was touted as an intellectual giant prior to his arrival in 2ion, has not as yet left any deep imprint on legislation or exerted any particular influence In the Senate HI efforts thus far have been confined to announcing in a fog-horn voice that "the committee on federal relations will meet B In this chamber immediately after adjournment" Senator Hulanski once ran afoul of Jedediah Skeen, the Ogden reformer, who sought unavail-ingly unavail-ingly to have him bounced as County. Attprney for alleged infractions of the law. So Senator Hulaniski is deeply interested in the bill to make reform impossible. However,, he had the bill introduced by his colleague, Senator Hoi-lingsworth. Hoi-lingsworth. This was for appearance, sake, for Skeen had not started on his crusades when a bunch of bounty frauds were -slipped through the office of County Clerk Hollingsworth of Weber county, and the youthful Ogden Senator, therefore, there-fore, cannot be accused of . entertaining malice toward Skeen.. Representative John Q. Crltchlow seems to have a mania for Introducing bills that cannot possibly pass. He was selected as the "fall guy" to introduce Orson Hewlett's commission bill, because Orson wants lower rates on vanilla extract to Provo. Nobody imagines now that the commission bill will come within forty miles of passing, and its failure will be the first Legislative Legis-lative disaster for Mr. Critchlow. Not content with- that however, Mr. Critchlow Critch-low has Introduced the hopelessly unconstitutional unconstitu-tional measure to place the fire and police departments de-partments of Salt Lake in the hands of a commission com-mission to be appointed by the Governor. This measure may pass; but, if it does, it will unquestionably unques-tionably be knocked out by the Supreme Court. Any intelligent layman who reads the constitution-of the State can see at a glance that the measure is in absolute violation of the spirit and the letter of the fundamental law. tr i W tf?W tv Some exceedingly - well-meaning women are largely responsible for the present Juvenile Court muddle and for the failure of Judge Willis Brown to resign. They believe in Judge Brown's methods, or rather they believe that ho has accomplished ac-complished good results, and have "braced him up" and encouraged him to hold the fort, when practically every friend he has ever had here of the male persuasion believes he ought to get out and stand not on the order of his going. Brown, however, has ignored the advice of his male friends, and listened to the advice of the .women, to whom the logic of the Supreme Court decision, based as it Is upon absolute fact, does not apparently ap-parently appeal. This Is the meat of the whole situation, and wore Brown to bq deprived of his feminine support, he would be forlorn indeed, and would resign out of sheer lonosomeness. The Galveston bills, which propose to turn Salt Lake City's municipal government over to a tripartite autocracy will undoubtedly pass the Senate, and are likely to pass the House. Lawyers, Law-yers, as a rule, do not question the constitutionality constitu-tionality of these measures, however much citizens citi-zens may fear the vesting of three men with practically absolute power. If, however, the promoters of the bills imagine im-agine that they are injuring the American party by the passage of such measures, they are in error. This is an American city; it gave 1,200 American majority last November, and, if the Galveston bills are passed, the grip of the American Amer-ican party on the city government will only be tightened at the election next fall. Under the present system of city government govern-ment the minority invariably gets representation in the governing body of the city; if these crazy bills go through minority representation will be a thing of the past. & If the Salt Lake City government is not "rip-ped" "rip-ped" by the passage of the Galveston bills, a movement will be sprung shortly after the Legislature Legis-lature adjourns to make ex-Mayor Richard P. i ! t Ik'j Morris a "citizens' " candidate for mayor, and to '-r$ "lte both the R0Publican and DemocratIc Par- ' "Hvl'ii ties In his support. Mayor Morris is personally ' ! Jl popular; he is a tithe-paying member of the ly.; Mormon church, and the promoters of his can- ' li ffl fH; didacy imagine that enough time has elapsed for 1 I ! ! M I ''11 5 1hc pooi)le t0 forget tb 1)UllS blundorS UIS - : ; I 'i'i'iSl 1 u,: t 'lministration . ''Ml 'lift il Mr- Morri should bo nominated on a herma- ' ' I !rl phrudite ticket, he would undoubtedly receive the IV i ol - support of that orthodox organ of stalwart and H ill ! undiluted Republicanism, the Inter-Mountain Mor- 9 1 1 mon. It would be able to figure out that the li S policies of Lincoln, Grant .aine and Roosevelt 'l :rm 'M ' could only be subserved in Zion by the election ' H li ,1 of a tithe-paying Mormon Democrat to the ' . laiilf ;' mayoralty of Salt Lake, and would unquestion-;' unquestion-;' 'i'Sflf : ably consign all doubters to the political in- ;; ferno. Besides, the editor of the Inter-Mormon ; UM would feel more at home in supporting a Demo- ; ;U S'9 v crat than a Republican anyway, for he appar- ': i m W : cntly tried to make William 'Randolph Hearst !iM ml;' president of the United States. ; -9 ' '"il tllS Tuo rprtB f tu American party cIty m i -Wwll ce1'8' submitted this week, show a tremendous I i ; M 'ma amount of good accomplished in the city dur- i ;i 'SBf ing the past year, and a saving of thousands of I t'll'fW dollars of the taxpayers money. The Mormon 4 ii aml Jncll-Morraon PredS hftve not attemPted t0 ! ! , ' j; controvert the showing made by the American , ; J .'; party officials, but as soon as they believe that i ' ' ' the reports have passed out of the public mind, I I , ' ' ; jJE :U they will resume their barking about the "waste- f ! V L ; fulness and extravagance of the American ad- I ; , j "A WOA j ministration." |