Show COUNTRY MEMBEBS MEET Considered Apportionment of House Positions A dQzen of the alfalfa Republican legislators met informally at the Cullen Cul-len hotel last night for the purpose of becoming acquainted with each other and discussing matters pertaining to thcgood of the Slate The meeting was held in McCornicks headquarters which had been tendered for the purpose pur-pose as many of the legislators arc guests of the Cullcn hotel Among those present were Senator Willis John lion of the Tenth district Representatives Representa-tives E W Kelly of Millard Albert I Stevens of Wayne Joseph Sharp oC Carbon G W Johnson of Garfield H S Cutler of Kane JB R South of Rich N O Chrlstensen and John L Bench of Sanpete J W Phillips of Soviet W H Barrett of Beaver and William Glas mann of Weber The meeting was not In any sense a caucus and the matter of the selection of a United Stales Senator Sen-ator was not mentioned The question of appointments was dlscussed > and several of the legislators present announced an-nounced they had candidates for appointment ap-pointment Representative Sharp of Carbon announced that he had no appointments ap-pointments to ask and was accordingly according-ly asked to act as chairman of the meeting which he did In considering the question of appointments the country coun-try members conceded three and perhaps per-haps four appointments and committee commit-tee clerks of the House to Salt Lake county Garfield county had a candidate candi-date for chief clerk of the House San l 111 f lsC lsl doorkeeper and for messenger Wqber a candidate for doorkeeper and for engrossIng en-grossing cleric Rich one for sergeant atarms and Morgan although the qounty went Democratic would like tho pleasure of naming the chaplain of the House Nothing looking to organization organiza-tion was attempted the country members mem-bers feeling they had nothing to fear from an open caucus and it was decided de-cided to postpone all definite action until un-til the caucus tonight Arrival of Legislators Several members ofthc Legislature reached the city yesterday and the remainder are expected today in time to attend this evenings caucuses Joseph Jo-seph Pond of Cache and J D Page of Plute members of the Democratii minority In the House ore among the arrivals Senator Bowel I Republican hpldovcr from Cache came in during the day and the following Republican Representatives were counted among the late arrivals W H Barrett of Beaver Joe Sharp of Carbon John W Phillips of Sevler and N C Christensen Christen-sen and John L Bench of Sanpete Allison Will be Absent Ogden Jan 1L Senator R SI Allison Alli-son Jr wont be in the Republican caucus at SalfLakc this evening Yes terday he wrote a letter lo Chairman Cajllstcr to the effect that he could not get there until Monday The balance of the Weber delegation will likely be on hand Glasmann and McFarland are already there and Davis Da-vis and Anderson will go down tomorrow to-morrow Political Notes Swcn O Nielsen of Sanpctc county has come in to see the settlement of the Senatorial contest and it S a guest at the Cullcn Mr Nielsen wan a hero in the Cullen lobby when the discussion of the late campaign was broached because Sanpcle Is the banner Repub lican county In the State In fact its majority on November 7th surpassed the expectations of even Mr Nielsen He says that It is easy to make Republican Re-publican voles where you have lots of them u d IT S Cutler the Kane county Representative Repre-sentative In tho House has been advertised ad-vertised as the heavyweight member and no doubt he deserves It Yesterday he was a visitor at the Salisbury headquarters head-quarters and met among others Arthur Pratt A discussion of the advolrdu pois of the two gentlemen was started and it was decided to adjourn to a nearby grocery lo see which could tip the beam at the highest notch Mr Pratt stepped upon the scales and they registered 286 pounds Then Mr Cut lei tested Ihe weight register and astounding coincidence he too raised the balance at exactly 286 pounds Neither was satisfied with the test and a footrace between them Is said to be amqjg the side issues of the Senatorial campaign S v Joseph A Smith of Providence Cache county who was an Elector ou the Republican ticket four years ago and exRcprpficnlalive Thome of Pleasant Grove Utah county arc among the visitors who have come In to watch the actions of the Legislature S n Mr Andrew Morris of Beaver City arrived In the city yesterday and Is domiciled ai the Walker Mr Morris Is a candidate for scrgcantatarms of the lower house having the indorse ment or nearly all members from the southern country and exSheriff of his county and hit friends say a sure winner Beaver county Republicans feel that their county Is entitled to recognition to the extent of a lucrative onico at the present session |