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Show i Demo Caucus Elects Brewster ( As Speaker of Utah House I . If ' "--4 v lA 4 SHERMAN P. LLOYD Republicans named Orval Ha-fen Ha-fen of Washington County, retiring retir-ing Senate president, as floor leader and Senator Reed Bullen of Cache County as majority whip. Rep. Brewster reported after i !the caucus that he had been authorized to designate opening of the Legislative session. It was noted that the major advantage gained by the majority major-ity party in either house is control con-trol of committees and committee commit-tee decisions and actions carry f I REP. SHELDON R. BREWSTER Rep. Sheldon R. Brewster of tf Salt Lake City has been named speaker of the Utah House of k Representatives at a recent cau-U cau-U cus of House Democrats in the jfv 4 Newhouse Hotel, j The action won't be official until the Legislature opens in January but no opposition to the selection of Rep. Brewster is : expected to develop. Democrats hold a clear majority in the House. Republicans, who hold a one-member one-member majority in the Senate, named Sen. Sherman P. Lloyd as Senate president. more weight in the relatively large House 65 members than in the small 25 members Senate. Normally, however, party divisions di-visions in the Utah Legislature become the exception rather than the rule after organization has been completed. Party divisions, divi-sions, it was explained, are more likely to occur in the session before be-fore a state election than in the session immediately following a state election. Rep. Brewster repordtedly won the position in a close contest con-test with Rep. John W. Row-berry Row-berry of Tooele. Democrats also named Rep. Ernest H. Dean of Utah County as majority floor leader and Rep. Wallace A. Peterson of Salt Lake County as majority whip. The entire Democratic membership mem-bership was designated as patronage pa-tronage committee. |