Show CAPITAL CITY JS SALT LAKE The Constitutional Convention Finally Decided the Question I Ques-tion Yesterday NO MONEY FOR FIVE YEARS Appropriations for Capitol Building Build-ing Cannot Be Made at Once Insurance Men Won All Along tin Line and the Subject Was Left to the Legislature Van Horn it Chairman Raised the Wind Articles Arti-cles on Public Lands and Salnrlci I Were Passed Fruitless Attempt S to Hold n Quorum The constitutional convention is now Setting in a position where i is ex ceedinffly difficult to hold a Quorum together for good working hours The house was turned into a e undignified undig-nified assemblage yesterday afternoor on this account Much work however was done The committee of the whole went through the articles on private I les corporations public lands and salar Tie Proceedings The fact that members are becoming tired of con + nual waits for a quorum at the beginning of every session and morning sessions in particular was duly attested yesterday morning when the members who had come early plainly showed their impattience awaiting a-waiting until 925 before the necessary 54 appeared Delegate Howard of Emery offered prayer Judge Zane for Suffrage Ohidester presented another batch Of suffrage petitions asking that the clause be inserted in the body of the constitution The one in which he seemed to take most pride was the smallest of all but included in the 15 Zane John M names were C S Joh 11 Zane Sara R Zane Margaret D Zane tind Margaret Z Witcher The other petitions contained 250 names from Wayne 19 from Washington and 133 from Garfield Filed On motion of Roberts the convention decided to save time by keeping up on revision and compilation Therefore it will spend an hour and a hal each morning on the articles already prepared and those disposed dis-posed of will be put in the hands of the engrossing clerk As the Committee on compilation said they have several articles ready for submission sub-mission this will enable the body to earlier finish its labors three or four days earlerCo Corny at I Again Coray of Juab sprung the following resolution which was promptly tabled Resolved That the sergeaiuatarms be directed to spread the names of the tardy members on the bulletin board and that the aforesaid b required to produce a reasonable excuse for said trines and that in the absence of such excuse said members b reprimanded repri-manded by the president for slothfulness slothful-ness neSOn motion of Hart the secretary was Instructed to record in the minutes the names of all absentees and those excused ex-cused from attendance The vote on this was very close At 10 oclock the convention went Into committee of the whole and took up the private corporations aiVticle with James substitute leaving the question of deposits of fire insurance companies to the legislature After some debate James substitute was killed by an overwhelming vote Maloney moved t include life and accident insurance companies in the deposit section and Jolley moved that the deposit be 50000 instead of 5100000 Emasculating an Article The house killed both these amendments amend-ments by an overwhelming vote and the section was then stricken out as was section 27 directly referring to I that subject I A motion was made to strike out section 2S making it necessary for in eurance companies to make semiannual I semian-nual reports of condition James spoke I against this motion I Maloney of Weber drylyI am glad to hear the gentleman James I ay one word in favor of his own report re-port I thmght that like Judge Good wins bees in the South Sea islands I he had taken to the woods Laughter I Laugh-ter Thoresen after James had made a I speech against one of the provisions Is it now in order to strike out the words lW F James chairman at the end of this article Laughter James Gets Angry I James Mr Chairman the gentle man must withdraw those remarks Thoresen laughingly withdraw WlhdraWj them The motion to strike out the entire section prevailed Therefore the vjjole question of insarance is left to the legislature leg-islature and not a word about such companies is left in the constitution With three attempts the committee struck out piecemeal section 29 relating I re-lating to charters of banks The same I latng fate was meted out to section 30 to prevent the legislature from sanction I nig suspension of specie payments and section 31 requiring the registration registra-tion of money in bills and notes and ample security for their redemption Van Horns Big Blunder Just at this point a curious incident tiappened Richards was asking lames a question Button was lean ing over a table in the southeast corner cor-ner of the room talking to Bowdle I Suddenly Van Horn in the chair beE bej 1 I gan hammering his desk loudly with his gavel and called out excitedly Mr Button will come to order Button turning around and speaking mUdlyI will not disturb anyone Van Horn hammering his desk again The sergeantatarms will bring Mr Button before the a of the house The sergeantatarms started to perform per-form his duty and Button began to come forward Vurian Calls Him Down Varian thoroughly disgusted with Van Horns freshnessAre we not in committee of the whole Van Horny Varian Then how can you call a man before the bar Button am willing to come forward for-ward and apologize if I disturbed any apologze one Mr Jamea did I disturb you James No Laughter Button Oklr Richards did I disturb you Richards No Renewed laughter and Van Horn began to look sheepish Van HornThere is a rule against conversation during business hours ButtonBut I hadnt said a word when I was called to order Laughter Laugh-ter terHere i I Here Varian suggested there was 1 nothing before the house and the incident in-cident closed For the rest of the I morning the house was unusally quiet After this incident those who ha been attacking the committee all I ben attaking te cmmIte along tine nne let up for a few minute min-ute and secUion 32 to make stockholders stock-holders in banks doubly liable on their stock and section 33 making Ull holders of banks preferred creditors incase in-case of insolvency were allowed to rein in the article without change More Sections Stricken Out After this respite however the convention seemed to repent Its leniency leni-ency and it struck out in quick succession suc-cession section 34 providing for publication pub-lication of bank statements section 35 making i felonious for bank mng after knowl officers to accept deposits afta edge of insolvency as well a making them liable for the amount received and section 30 prohibiting perpetuities perpetui-ties and monopolies giving the state full power over corporations and prohibiting pro-hibiting special privileges or immunities tiesThen ths convention had another attack of good nature and left in section tion 37 prohibiting persons from hindering hin-dering the employment of others 0 penalties for the crime and section 38 prohibiting trusts and monopolies to control the price of any commodity commod-ity The Last Sad Rites Cannon now move to strike out the title word Insurance Weve struck out everything else James hurriedly Dont do that The convention may get more agreeable agree-able before third reading It may come r its senses Laughter The article was tthen passed and 0 recess was taken from 12 tmcsi 2 oclock ocock When 2 oclock in the afternoon evident that came i w palpably 3t there was no ouorum present It wa fully fifteen minutes after the hour before the se sergeantatarms rounded up sufficient members to proceed with business Then the article on public lands was taken up and discussed A number of slight immaterial amendments I amend-ments were made but the principal debate came up on two sections which debe were proposed by Evans of Utah and adopted The sections read as follows Public Lands Sec 3 The lands selected to satisfy isfy the grants which have heretofore or may foereafter b made to the state shall be allotted to each of the several uses for which the same were granted so that each may receive its fair proportion thereof both as to ouality and value Sec 4 The selling price of the public sol lands shall not be Increased creed by reason of any improve set ments made thereon by actual se tiers but such actual settlers or their ter in the grantees shall be given priority purchase of such lands Value at Time of Settlement Maloney of Weber offered n amendment designed t make the value on such lands a of the day of sebtlemenit This provoked s much discussion however that Maloney discusion withdrew it with notice that he would witdrew bring It up on rtihird reading brng mcJtion of Kiesel the following additional section was adopted additonl In the investment of the proceeds derived from the sale of public lands preference shall be given publc of the state of Utah to the securities rhe stae Uth lands then The article on public ten passed and the article on salaries was pased After some slight amendments taken up o slght tken the idea the article ments perfecting idea atcl was passed Stato Capital Fight The article on public buildings and state institutions was then taken up ibte the first fight came up on the 10 calon of the seat of government Anderson An-derson of Beaver moved to strike out designed to submit the the section te question seton the people and to locoite i quet0n offered on Varian dt Salt Lake aran a amendment to this end and Anderson accepted it accepted spoke in favor of the section ske to the people He for submission te peole has enough said that Salt Lake the people should have a and shoul now voice Besides it was desirable to let matte remain in abeyance for a the mate might time in order that appropriations not be made for a capital Heyborne and Anderson of Beaver spoke for Salt Lake Thurman wanted the matter to go over until Monday With a String to It Evans of Weber moved to locate the capital at Salt Lake provided there shall be no appropriation for a capital building for ten years and provided that the city and county of Salt Lake shall furnish accommodations for state officers during that time James Ivins and Varian argued for the definite location of the capital to be made without any provisos which will affect that Thurman was in favor of definite location He wanted the proviso in Evans substitute making Salt Lake provide accommodations stricken out but the one preventing appropriations for ten years retained Maloney It would suit me better if we had no appropriation made until wR have free silver Then you may tax us all you want I favor Salt Lake Richards said the legislature could be trusted in the matter and no provisions should be thrown around the location of the capital Even if the Salt Lake wild the other members should go wId I threefourths of the legislature could I be relied on reled Evans of Weber said If some such i concession as he asked was not made the convention should not locate Let the people know they are not going to be taxed for ten years for the capital buIdlngSnn San Juan Will Fix It Hammond We can trust the legislature legisla-ture Why it will be Democratic When San Juan gets her mines developed de-veloped we wont have to think of taxes Laughter The people of Utah look on Salt Lake as their home It is the great beehive A few of us I get have swarmed out but this Is our home Roberts favored Salt Lake for the location and the period of no appropriation appro-priation to be limited to five years Evans withdrew his proviso making Salt Lake furnish accommodations for ten years and Roberts moved that there be no appropriation for flve years Morris spoke against limiting the legislature from making appropriations tons Varian The people of Salt Lake do not want to pay taxes any more than the people from the outside and weve got all we can stagger under right now I am contending against the thought between different sections of the state Tvhich always cropping o tin t-in some way Thurman Resents Imputations Thurman Prove Is a proper place for a capital I is a good iT place a any in Utah But I came to represent the whole people and not the place which is my home The provision to limit the legislature is a just one The matter should be put at rest It is unjust for Salt Lake members t impugn my motives I mo-tives VarianDo you mean that I have impugned your motives Thurman Tes Varian Well I lave not You are defending yourself Before you are attacked at-tacked Thurman hotly Then why did the gentleman say that there was some underlying thought beneath this provision provi-sion as though we who are advocating advocat-ing it are not acting In good faith Varian did not reply After some further discussion Roberts amendment for a five year limitation was carried by an overwhelming over-whelming vote and then Evans substitute sub-stitute was passed by a vote of 30 to 31 Keeping n Quorum The rest of the session was devoted principally to attempts to hold a quorum By 515 the number was ranging dangerously near the fifty four point and the proceedings became EO undignified that Thurman raised a protest The proceedings were ludicrous ludi-crous in the extreme and the convention conven-tion instead of being dignified was like a schoolboys debating club After striking out sections three four and I five relating to the plan to submit the capital question to the people and vainly endeavoring to do something with the deaf dumb and blind institute tute rise the committee was compelled to riseAn An invitation to see an exhibition by our fire department beginning at 1 oclock Wednesday afternoon and continuing con-tinuing for an hour and a half was received re-ceived from Chief Devine Nothing could be done < with this on account of lack of quorum and after another circus the convention adjourned crcus burned at 540 |