Show SENATE iS DEMOCRATIC Barnes Elected in the Tilled District SUTHERLANDS VOTE LOWER Hsports of tho Official Canvass Throughout the State Reduce the Plurality of Sutherland to 199 Remaining Re-maining Counties Nay Change This Still Further Abel John Evans Up for the Presidency of the Senate Tho Senatorial Contest Iffany Candidates Can-didates the Field i Barnes the Democratic candidate for State Senator In the DavlsRlch MYngan district is i elected by a majority major-ity of 36 Tho official J returns from Rich county give Ellison ISO and Barnes 231 In Morgan county the official of-ficial count gives Ellison 3So and Barnes 371 In these two counties Ellison has a majority of 73 as against 108 for Barnes on the unofficial returns from i Davis county Nine districts Aye re canvassed 1 can-vassed In Davis county yesterday and I Barnes gained an additional vote i which in the absence of changes in the seven districts yet to be canvassed will make his majority In his own county 1C9 The election of Barnes simplifies the problem organizing the Stale Senate I I Sen-ate Had Ellison succeeded the party vote in the Senate would have been a l tie In which event Republican 1 having control on a joint ballot would I as a matter of courtesy have permitted permit-ted the Democrats to name the President Presi-dent of the Senate For this office Fred J Kiescl would doubtless have been the most acceptable to the Republicans Re-publicans However with a Democratic Demo-cratic majority of two in the upper house the choice of a President will I perforce not be a Republican affair 1 Both of the Utah county holdovers I Abel John Evans and Owen Smoot arc said t < lie candidate1 for the honor J Abel John appears tohc In the lead but he wots not of tho opposition he will receive in his own party A prerogative pre-rogative of the President of the Senate Sen-ate is the naming of the standing committees com-mittees Abel John might bend to the will of the party managers in a majority ma-jority of Instances but there is a fear that he would consult only his own desires l I de-sires In choosing the Committee on I Education lie has some pet hobbles i in educational matters which can only I I reach the ILsht l of day through a favorable favor-able committee One of these hobbles Is a provision that certificates from re ligious schools shall have the same force as a certificate from the State University The proposition has been I I squelched twice in legislative committees I commit-tees and Its advocacy by Abel John is said to have been a factor in the election of Qul Nebeker as President of the last Senate There are influential influen-tial Democrats however who will try to blast Abel Johns ambitions to be a presiding ofllcer I There are two candidates in sight for the House Speakershlp G Van Home of Salt Lake and William Glas mann of Ogden |