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Show LEGISLATURE TO DPEH TOMDBRDW Democratic Caucus Expected Expect-ed to Reach Agreements on Knotty Points. At noon tomorrow the Thirteenth state legislature will go into special esion, in response to a summons issued is-sued bv Governor Bamberger August 30. It will be the first special session which mav be exactly so termed in the hinory of Utah's statehood. The only other extra session of tho legislature was one for a few hours, January 6, IHW, when Utah had just become a state. The constitution had made no provision for any special date for the meeting of legislatures, and consequently consequent-ly Governor Heber M. Wells called the legislators together on that date and a bill was pa.-sed authorizing the session to meet. Tho first regular session convened con-vened immediately afterward. With the convening of the first real special session, therefore, a number of unprecedented questions may arise. It is expected, however, that a caucus of tL members of the Democratic major-itv major-itv will be held tomorrow morning, prior to the calling of the session, and agreements reached on what might become be-come disputed points. While no specific provision is made, it is .r,.nerallv understood among the Wid.tors that the Thirteenth session loMhe legislature was organized in January Jan-uary and that the organization then I formed will automatically come into p,-istence with the reconvening ot the Ik-Mature, which will be composed of hhVsame members, serving in the same !,erm of office. Under such an arrange TctUmTa on Pars, 13, Editorial Se,.) LEGISLATURE TO OPEN TOMORROW i Democratic Caucus Expect-1 ed to Reach Agreements j on Knotty Points. (Continued From Page One.) sume their duties, and only such ! changes -would be made as miht be caused by vacancies. j Whether the question of the eligibil- I ity of one or two members may arise j is not known, though it may be brourht up in caucus. Some contention rias ; been marie that tiso members of the. 3a ;t legislature. Representatives Arthur , Welling of Murray aud William O'Neil -of Duchesne, automatically disqualified j themselves to sit further during the j terms for which they were elected by j accepting state offices of profit. Mr. ; Welling has been acting as state pro- : bction ofticer and Mr. U'Neil has been ; acting as deputy fish and game com- missioner in his district. The resigns- : tions of both men from the state posi- 1 tions v.ere filed, and at a special meet- ; ing of the state board of examiners yes ! terday afternoon the state auditor v-as! directed to remove them from the pav- j roll after September '2o Friday. A spe ; cial meeting of the juvenile court cum- j mission "was held yesterday and the ' resignation of Mr. Welling was ac- j cepted. j However, it is contended in some ; quarters that under the constitution j these two members became ineligible at the time tiicy accepted the other j state offices, regardless of whether the j legislature was in. session or not, and! therefore are not now qualified to sit ! in the special session. Jt is possible t th3t this question may be contested. ; and if it is, the lower house itself will i decide, since the constitution makes j each branch of the legislature the final ; judge of the qualifications of its mem- bers. j The acceptance by Charles C. Rich- i ards of the position of assistant attor- j ney general of thn United states leaves ' the speakership of the house acant. Consequen t ly t hat vr.l 1 be one of t he first matters to be taken up fry the Democratic caucus when it meets. It ' is likely that the caucus will agree upon ' a successor to Mr. Richards, in order J that there may ie no delay in organic 1 ing and listening to. the governor's' opening message tomorrow. , John E. Heppler of Richfield and D. D. McKay of Ogdeu are being most prominently mentioned as possible oc-; cupants of the speakers' chair. Kepre- j sentative J. K. Cardon of Logan cas j also been mentioned, but it is not be- lieved that he will be as favorably considered as either of the other two, j because of the fact that the president I of the senate, James W. Vuuii. comes), from the same section of the state, and : there is a feeling that such honors ; should he distributed over the state. ; It is believed that Representative Hep- j pier will have the enthusiastic support; of members from the southern part of L'tah. The possibilitv of electing another Salt Laker to the office has also been discussed, and in this connection the candidacy ot Dr. Grace stratton Airey has been frequently mentioned. It has been SuggetC'l that in view of the fact thr.t the t-peeial session is ealle-1 primarily for the rarirication of tb-? woman's .spftrage amen-iment to the federal . constitution, it won!d be aj proper and appropriate compliment to the women of the state to eiect a woman speaker. On the other hand, there is a feeling prevalent that the business of the special session should be expedited as much as possible, and that, perhaps, a man in the chair would I be able to force more speed in the j lower house than wouAl a woman. Governor Bamberger has made no I further announcement as to what he intends in-tends to present to the legislature other than the two matters mentioned in the call, the ratification of the suffrage amendment and the provision of an ap propriation for the attorney gi neral to enforce laws affecting the" cost of living. liv-ing. It is known. lnv.ve c.-, thnt the executive department hr.s several utber matters und-r omisid-ration, although it is not Hko!y thin the governor will mention tl.em in his opening message. He is more lively to give the legislators an opportunity to pass upon the matters mat-ters mentioned in the proclamation before be-fore presenting any further questions. x in.- hum'i utif nas .ei li oo Known, however, that he does not intend to bring anything before the special session ses-sion eseopt matter of immediat" importance, im-portance, 8j the legislators g-nerailv do not tie-lire a long s. s.-ion. Many ihter-have ihter-have called upon the state" executive, execu-tive, n:nkit.g various requests for legislation legis-lation to be considered, but most of them have received little favorable "consideration, "con-sideration, particularly in view of th feeling of the members that they do not desire to remain here any longer than is necessary. Crops, fail business, municipal elections elec-tions at home and i ti a 1 1 v other mutter , make it inconvenient lor the legislator" to stay at the capitol vi-rv long, and it is the hope of those who have arm ed up to this nine to i;et a-.vav bv the end at the week, if pn,Mhlo. However, there are several pressing matters in addition !o those specifically specifi-cally mentioned in the call which the governor may deci,!,. to bring to the attention 01 the solons. Among these is the reenactmc-nt of the blue skv law. Hecently a question c.inie up n to lhe validity of the l:-w, the contention rv-ing rv-ing n ad" in a he;ir.inc li'-for.j t'r.e securities se-curities commi-sion' i,v the 1 "u i - ,-,1 S'nt.s Woo! company" that the law pacd by the last legislature was not the ono signed bv the i.reshleni t.f the senate, the speaker ot tho house and the governor. Neglect on the part of the engrossing clerk to insert one minor amendment has enus-ed the hitch, and i ' i 'the securities connnis.-, mi lias a-;.c.t itiovcrnor llambergcr to have the lcgi-Mature lcgi-Mature remedy the defect. It i- not unlikely, un-likely, too, that if this is done, the law mav U' revised in some other respects re-spects to strengthen and improve it in the light of experiences of the commission commis-sion gained since it went into effect. The state hanking department is also s i-king " slight change in the laws gi.v-;.rr.in; gi.v-;.rr.in; the a.imiui-'rati.in of i's i.-p:irt incut, to provide for the coll, ion of ; certain revenues now being lo.-t. Alien o r;:. in form, r duties of the . .-cr. tare of slaW were transferred to the bant; commissioner is eager to have the cor-for cor-for tho collection of the fees on certain cer-tain papers, such as those which were collected by the secretary of state for the sume srrvicos. As a result the bank commissioner must issue the paper-without paper-without cost, nnd several thou-nnd dollars dol-lars of biennial revenue is thus lest, 1 A cpicstion has arisen in the state land department as to the authority of the board of land commission. ts to sell Mho 1'ilite project. The board desire-authority desire-authority to do this, so that there may 'he no uuestioii, and may a k the tov ernor to present this onc-.tion to the 1 -gislature in order that il-sposi t ion of tl... 1'iutc project to settlers may proceed. K. 11. Siildnwav, t:i'e fish and game I eon, missioner, is eager ' have a slight airon.linent or two made to the iish and game bill enacted at the la-t ses-sion. ses-sion. It is "'id 'd the" some doubt ari-c- as to v.l-.-ther 'he law now in effect m:;kes dynamiting, as a nictho.l o-.' chtchintf fish, an often-,-. In ouler to clel.rlv make this act an offense, the coinmis-ioner i- ceger tohavo the correction cor-rection made, and may pivvail upon the -executive to bring the matter to the legislature's attention. ! John Cook, cu-todian of the Capitol, and his assistants, have been busy the past few davs polishing up the fcrni-ture fcrni-ture in the legislative halls and making such other preparations as are u.-ces sarv. I ouse.ilentlv when l.-gi !,,- tr', .;.,., in ia t her "ii the hill totnoirovr . they vviil I'.nd their official Work-l ops in shape to begin work. Some iliscns.ion nro-e among k-gisla tori in the ri'v vcster.lav as to com- 'inittee work. There " tlisposi1 ion on the part of son"' to have till committee sessions in committee of the whole, .rather than to app.iilll Fpeoial coin !irittcs to1 con:ii.er th,. inea-nn-s itc scute,, 1'his i anoiher oucstioii Ihi.t prol.al.lv will be ilm-shcl out at the part-.- caucus tomoiroiv morning, vo that 'the wheels mav be well urease. i when line ot't'tciiil clock points to the hour of I ii....n tomorrow. |