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Show . t K t' . ing at all times for what he thought was best for Utah. His close attention It took more pressure on the Re- to the work of the senate is also compublican senators to defeat the initia- mendable, and his opinion is respected his fellow senators. Cache tive and referendum bill than appeared by all. is well represented in the senon the surface. It was openly advo- county ate in A. G. Barber. cated by all the Democrats and by & most of the Republicans at first, unSenator Bennion was elevated to the der the lead of Lawrence and Love. It presidency of the senate for one brief was with difficulty that it was got hour one day during the past week. He back into the committee on judiciary, would have scored a success had it net and it was with difficulty that it was been for one little slip that upset his held there till the forces in opposition dignity and excited the risibles of could be marshaled. Governor Wells, every one in the chamber. A vote had it is said, took a hand. He did not just been taken on a measure and it want the bill to come to him, as he had been defeated unmercifully when would be forced to sign it, in view of the Uintah solon arose and sedately inthe vote of the people on the proposias he had heard Senator Alli- tion. He desired to have it slaughter- quired, ed somewhere along the line, and the senate was picked out as the proper place. Under the adroit management of Sherman this was done, although there was no margin to spare the final vote was nine to nine. To their credit be it said that the Democrats lined up in solid phalanx on this measure, which came nearer being a party measure than anything else that has appeared. LEGISLATIVE l'i' t; ft M SIDELIGHTS. son inquire on many occasions, Shall the title of the bill be made the title of the act? As the bill was dead beyond all hopes of resurrection this struck the funny-bone- s of the senators, and when Mr. Bennion caught on he blushed as though he had been caught sucking eggs. Is oratory a lost art? A visitor to the senate would reach that conclusion so far as that body is concerned, at least. It is doubtful if Billy Bryan or Chauncey Depew would be listened to with any degree of patience by the senators. The only speech that will be statetolerated is a plain, business-lik- e ment of the object of a bill. All Senator Bamberger is proving himself to be quick at repartee, much to the discomfiture of some o I the senators who have crossed swords with him. In favoring the taking of the school census in October the other day, he said in July so many people were gone and their houses were found locked. Theyve locked up their houses and gone to Ogden, suggested President Allison. No, they come down from Ogden and lock themselves up so that they cant get back, was the quick response. A day or two before Senator Murdock made the remark that we could always trust the people. That remark should have come from the other side, retorted Mr. Bamberger, in view of the election returns Well, you have no right to distrust the people, put in Senator Lawrence. Jl J wide-awak- e; The picture which accompanies this brief sketch is a fairly good one of that cultured gentleman, Mr. John A. Reeves, assistant general freight agent of the Oregon Short Line. Nearly everyone knows Mr. Reeves, or Jack, as his intimate acquaintances are permitted to address him, and what he doesnt know about the work of the with freight department of the road worth which he is connected isnt much to anyone. Mr. Reeves has been in railroad work for many years. He was rate clerk for the Union Pacific at Omaha, February lj 1885, a position he held before coming here with S. W. Eccles, who was general agent of the . have been moved to Room 5, (second floor), Western Newspaper Union Building, 241 South West Temple St. Phone 1938. speeches are brief and in a conversational tone; no flowers or rhetoric; no word painting; no In this is found one of the marked of the senate over tne house. The senate is a business body, and its chief business is wor. There have been but two days since the opening of the session in which the calendar was not cleaned up before adjournment, and the work of the committees has been pushed along in the same business-lik- e manner. Ed Loose is the .deal speaker. He has not spoken over twenty words at any one time during :he session, but what he does say is pat and to the point; back of each little speech seems to be a large fund of hard common sense. Simon Bamberger was guilty on Wednesday of springing a speech on the senate and thus lowered himself in the eyes of every other member. The offense was all the greater because the speech consumed five or six minutes. The application of the gag rule to shut off debate is common. The application of the same rule to shut off prayer is not common; and yet it is sometimes done in the interest of the public welfare. It was done in the senate within the past week. Good old Bishop Andrew Sproul of Washington is a kindly soul, and has won the respect and veneration of eveiy one about the senate. At the same time it must be conceded that his prayers are prosy, and as the time of the session wore on they became longer ns the good bishop gained confidence in himself. Or did he conclude that longer prayers were necessary as the session grew? Be that as it may it was noted early in the week that President Allison took the chaplain to one side and gave him a heart to heart talk. That morning the prayer was so brief that it wakened several senators with a start; it has been growing shorter and shorter as the end of the session draws nigh, until it is concluded that for the closing days Bishop Sproul will have a good long prayer printed, and each morning point to it saying, Lord, those are my sentiments. barn-stormin- road prior to the segregation. Mr. Reeves was Mr. Eccles chief clerk while the gentleman was assistant general freight agent of the Union Pacific and went with him when he became general traffic manager of the Short Line in the same capacity. On September 1, 1900, he was advanced to the position he now holds. He is popular with his associates and with the public. The shippers like him and his methods. He is a money getter for the road and as time progresses will no doubt be advanced to higher, better paid and more responsible places. The best wishes of all the newspaper crowd of this city will go with him jn whatever undertaking he engages in. g. su-perior- type-writt- l&st f&ll1 No man in the senate is held in higher respect than Senator Barber of Cache, and the prediction is made that he will be the Democratic leader in the senate of the next legislature. Sen ator Barber seems to be governed encourtetirely by common sense; he is ous at all times; he is active and he is a forcible speaker in and he is one of the befit scrappersinto fallen either house. He has hot the error of other senators, especially number Democrats, of introducing a of freak bills simply to gain popularity , with some wing of his constituency workahead but he has gone straight offices & ; ; Truth en Salt Lake has reason to be proud of Senator George N. Lawrence. The city will be fortunate if it can keep in the legislature such young men as Lawrence and Benner X. Smith. Think of the idiocy of turning down a man like Benner X. 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