Show CONVENTION CHAT Now that the question of jurisdiction over the number of members of the legislature legis-lature has been settled the committee on apportionment and boundaries will go to work at once At yesterdays meeting a sub committee was appointed consisting of RIcks Crane Snow Maughan Haynes Adams and Murdock of Wasatch This subcommittee is organized in accordance with the determination to give each county a representative In one house of the legislature The exact method of doing do-ing this has not yet been determined upon However there seems no reason to believe the scheme will not go through The members from the smaller counties showed a surprising strength on Friday and this is taken as a test vote as it was thoroughly understood that a reference to the committee on apportionment meant a report in favor of representation from each county b 0 Now that Goodwn has backed down on his roast of the secretary all is peace He had good reason for his course in this matter Christensens friends had been calling him a sorehead on account of his opposition to Cnristensen in caucus Of course he could do nothing but retract a Howard of Emery entirely dissents from the proposition of the irrigation commission His proposition provides that the waters of every natural stream not heretofore appropriated within the state of Utah is declared to be the property of the public and the same is dedicated tc the people of the state An appropriation system is provided as well as a system of control and supervision by a county board a President Smith still continues to call on members to slat their own motions Varian has obtained indefinite leave of absence This leaves the Republican side without a leader S on rules When Jake M ritz was in the legislature legisla-ture he earned fame by being known as the man whose province it was to move that the title of the bill be the title of the act and also to move to adjourn He now has no chance to spring the former while Cannon Ricks and Eld redge are fighting for the honors of the latter S The committee on preamble and declaration declar-ation of rights found itself unable to make headway sufficient to report yesterday yes-terday but a report is promised on Monday Mon-day when the debate will begin 0 CKarley Crane is to have the glory of having bounded the state District school pupils after will speak his name in awe here afer a 0 0 A day has passed and Dennis Eichnor has not introduced a proposition But Dennis is not dead He has a whole box full yet to come o Colonel Isaac Trumbo whose return a few days ago it was thought would bring order out of chaos and reconcile the clashing Republican elements in the convention con-vention was suddenly called to San Francisco last evening The colonel i one of the prime movers in the San Jouqum valley road which he fondly hopes will form a connecting link In the line between this city and Los Angeles According to the California papers San Francisco is anxious to get the colonel hack again for keeps but he Insitg that Salt Lake will be his home for the rest of his life He will probably return i > about a week and it is said that his In fluenco in the convention will then be felt |