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Show LEGISLATE IS 10 DPEPd (THIGH liiOON Third Democratic Lawmaking Lawmak-ing Body Will Be Organized Or-ganized Today. LEADERS ARE CHOSEN James W. Funk Named for j Senate and J. Frank Tol- j ton for House. At high nonn today the third Democratic Demo-cratic legislature in the, history of Utah will convene At the same time tho fiunt opening session of a Utah legislature will be held in the new fctatebousc, and shortly afterward the third Democratic legislature will await the pleasure of the state's first Democratic Demo-cratic governor. .lust two Democratic legislatures prior to the one whicli will convene today to-day have been recorded in Utah's history his-tory since it was admitted to statehood i twenty-one years ago. The first Deoio- I cia-tic legislatnre met in 1SP7, following I the victory of William Jennings Bryan f and free silver in Utah, and the second met two years later. For nine consecutive sessions the Republicans Re-publicans have held undisputed sway in the state lawmaking body. There may have been times when the division in one branch may have .been close, but also there were times when the minority was almost by himself. Democratic Majority. "Rut as to the political complexion of the Twelfth legislature of Utah there ran be no question. Of the forty-six members of the lower house every member mem-ber was elected cither on the Democratic Demo-cratic or the fusion ticket, and about forty were elected on a straight Democratic Demo-cratic ticket. In the upper house there are three Republics n holdovers, one Progressive-Democratic holdover and nine new members listed as straight Democrats. The activities of the two houses to-dav to-dav will be limited to opening formalities. formali-ties. At 12 o'clock both branches will meet in separate sessions and take the oath of office. According to the plans outlined by the caucuses of the two houses, tho oldest member in each bouse will call that particular branch to order and preside until the permanent perma-nent presiding officer is elected. There may be some variation in this plan in the upper house, however, because be-cause Senator James W. Funk of Cache ountv and the oldest member of that bodv." is slated for the presidency. F. B. 'Hammond of Grand county will probably call the lower house to order. . Leaders Are Named. Senator Funk is tho caucus nominee for the presidency of the senate and Representative J." Frank Tolton of Beaver county is the caucus nominee for speaker of the lower house. The indications are that both will be elected without opposition. As soon as the presiding officers are elected the employees of each house will be nominated "in a blanket report prepared by a caucus committee of each branch. It is possible that the rules committee of the senate will present pre-sent its report and the report may be a'-tod upon, but it is questionable whether or not the committee from the lower house will present its report before be-fore tomorrow. The routine business of the opening session probably will not occupy more than an hour, and as soon as the permanent per-manent organization is effected both houses will adjourn to meet again at noon Tuesdav in joint session to hcaT the message of Governor Simon Bamberger, Bam-berger, Utah 's first Democratic chief executive, to the legislature. Legislative Roster. The legislature, which convenes today, to-day, is made up of the .following members: mem-bers: Roster of Senate. Following is a roster of the senate: Archibald Bevan, Tooele (Tooele county). coun-ty). First district, Tooele and Box elder counties: elected on Socialist, Democratic and Progressive tickets. J. W. Funk, Richmond, Second district, Cache county. Democrat and holdover. Richard String-ham, "Woods Cross, Davis county, Third district. Rich, Morgan and Davis counties; Democrat. Joseph Chez, Ogden, Fourth district, "Weber county: Democrat, holdover. XV. J. barker. 0-2den. Fourth district, Weber countv: Democrat. James W. Clyde. He'oer City, TVa.sa.tch county, Fifth district. Summit, Wasatch and Duchesne counties; Democrat. George H. Hern. Salt Lake county, Sixth district; Democrat, holdover. Franklin Evans. Suit Lake City and T.tylorsville, Sixth district, Sa.lt Lake countv; Progressive, holdover. Culbert L. Olson, Salt Lake. City, Sixth district. Salt Lake county; Democrat. W. W. Armstrong, Salt Iake City, Sixth district, Salt Iako county; Democrat, Demo-crat, Weslev K. Walton, JTm-ray and Salt l,ake City, Sixth district, Salt Lake county; coun-ty; Progressive. H. T. Reynolds. Sprlngville. Seventh district, Utah count;-; Democrar. ,T. H. Woo t ton, American Fork. Seventh district, UtaJi county; Republican, holdover. hold-over. Daniel Stevens, Fillmore, Millard county. coun-ty. Eighth district, Juab and Millard counties; coun-ties; Pemorrat. Orlando Rndley. Moroni. Ninth district, Sanpete county; Democrat, holdover. Quince Kimball, Winder, Garfield county. coun-ty. Tenth district. Sevier, Garfield, Wayne and Piute counties; Democrat. William Seegmlller. Kanab, Kane county. coun-ty. Eleventh district, Beaver, Washington, Washing-ton, Iron and Kane counties; Republican, holdover. Don B. Colton, Vernal, Uinta county, Twelfth district, Emery, Carbon, Uinta, Grand and San Juan counties; Republican, holdover. Roster of House. Following Is a complete roster of the house of representatives; Wynn L. Eddy, Democrat, Brlgham City, Boseldcr county, First district. George Y. Smith. Democrat, Smithfield; Joseph K. Cnrdon, Democrat, Logan; W. W. Jones, Democrat, Wells ville; all of Cache county, Second district. Arch McKlnnon. Democrat, Randolph, Rich county. Third district. D. L. Boyle. Democrat, Ogden; J. S. Campbell. Democrat, Ogden; P. D. McKay, Mc-Kay, Democrat. Huntsville: J. G. Widdi-son, Widdi-son, Jr.. Hooper; all of Weber county. Fourth district. .lames S. Hopkins, Democrat, Croydon, Morgan county. Fifth district. Francis H. Nalder, Democrat, Syracuse, Davis county, Sixth district. J. Alex Bevan, Socialist, Tooele, Tooele county. Seventh district. Joseph G. Fy water. Democrat; Elizabeth Eliza-beth J. Hay ward, Democrat; H. W. Young, Jr., Democrat; C. M. Hecker, Democrat; Robert. E. Currie, Democrat; J. W. Mc- Klnnev, Democrat; J. T. Raleigh, Progressive; Progres-sive; Dr, Grace Stratton-Airey, Progressive; Progres-sive; all of Salt Lake; Daisy C. Allen, Progressive, Pro-gressive, Garfield; Thomas' P. Paze. Progressive, Pro-gressive, Hiverton; all of Salt Dake county. coun-ty. Eighth district .1. I,. Boyden. Democrat, Coalville, Summit Sum-mit county. Ninth district. George A. Fisher, Democrat, Ileber, Wasatch county, Tenth district. O. If. Berg, Democrat. Provo; Fdward South wick. Democrat, Dehi ; Alma Greenwood, Green-wood, Democrat, American Fork; D. Argyle, Democrat, Spanish Fork; all uf Utah county, Eleventh district. L. W. Curry, Democrat, Vernal, Uinta county. Twelfth district. Orson Cazier, Democrat, Nephi, Juab count;-'. Thirteenth district. H. R. Thomas, Democrat, Wales; J. IT. Mace, Democrat. Gunnison ;- both of Sanpete San-pete county, Fourteenth district. Frank T. Bennett, Democrat, S ton's. Carbon county, Fifteenth district. Nepal j. Williams, Democrat, Castle Dale, Emery county, Sixteenth district. F. B. Hammond, Democrat, Moab, Grand county. Seventeenth district, J. E. Iteppler, Democrat, Richfield, Sevier county, Kichteenth district. W. F. Pratt, Democrat, Hinckley, Millard Mil-lard county. Nineteenth district. J. F. To'ton, Democrat, Beaver, Beaver county, Twentieth district. Ruben DeWitt, Democrat, Marysvale, Piute county, Twenty-first district. Sylvester Williams. Democrat, Thurber, Wayne county, Twenty-second district. .Tohn King, Democrat. Escalante, Garfield Gar-field county, Twenty-third district. George W. Decker, Democrat. Parowan, Iron county, Twenty-fourth district. Arthur Pas man, Democrat, St. George, Washington county. Twenty-fifth district. David D. Rust, Democrat, Kanab, Kane county. Twenty-sixth district. George A. Adams. Democrat, Monticello. San Juan county. Twenty-seventh district. Gj V. J?Hi i 11-:?, I lemocra;. Due:;, sue, Duchesne county, Twenty-eighth district. |