Show A factional fight in the house which resulted from the contest over the election of a speaker at the beginning of the term was largely responsible for the small amount of beneficial legislation enacted by the recent legislature in the opinion of W D hammond representative from grand county who returned saturday friem salt lake city where he attended the session mr hammond sates that ciany legislators became sore as a result of the combination which elected the speaker and this feeling continued throughout the session the fight over the horse racing bill also delayed important issues before the house representative hammond thought that the fuss over horse racing was much ado about end believes that the legislature might well hava given the sama amount of consideration to a number of really bills which died because practically all of the time of the session was taken up with the race fight and political mr hammond devoted considerable I 1 time in helping kill the benmon bill which would have increased the states per capita distribution of school funds and incidentally would have cost the taxpayers cf grand county the sum of a year this bill passed the house by one vote but was killed in the senate A number of good laws were enacted by the legislature air hammond states and a lot of pernicious legislation was lulled the session kept the appropriations down within the limit of the states income |