Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-02-22 | Page 10 | Smoot Memorial Dies in Senate

i SMOOT SHOT amIN MEMORIAL am nus IN SENATE Resolution So Enthusiastically Passed by House Was Not Revived Today DID NOT PASS LEGALLY NOT NOT LIKELY THAT IT WILL WILt BE CALLED UP AGAIN The Joint resolution r thanking the United States State senate for Cor seating Senator Smoot which passed the house ho e with a hurrah Wednesday and was badly batter battered bat er ered ed In the senate failed tailed to be called up from its resting place plu on the table of oC the upper house yesterday and will probably probably probably ably never be heard of there again The resolution Is not only out of order but It was wal never n er passed legally by the house no record appearing on the Jour Journal Journal journal nal that it was read more than once in that body bod before passage Besides a Joint resolution has the same effect as a bill blU billand billand and It is 11 not considered d proper for any an legislature to pass a bill thanking either branch of congress or any anyone one else for that matter for any particular act The resolution would have come up in itt its regular order today had it not been for Senator Lawrence who when he asked that its consideration be postponed Wed Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday moved that it lie on the table The Smoot admirers did not notice this and the motion was carried If the reg regular ular order had been observed the con consideration consideration of or the petition would have been put over until yesterday coming up then as a regular order of business but when a measure is laid on the table It can cannot cannot not be revived unless unIes someone asks that this be done v Nobody did this yesterday and before fore it was realized what had happened the sen sea senate senate ate had adjourned adjo until Monday after acter afternoon afternoon noon In the house It was decided to send the resolution to the without ut awaiting the senates action