| Show r z BOTH H REPORTS KILLED I I Tie Vote on Recommendations I of Elections Committee I INVESTIGATION TO PROGEED 1 Senator JJennion Stood by His Attitude Atti-tude in Committee and Voted Against Democrats Hurdock I Changed His Base and Did Not Explain S plain Barnes Not Permitted t i Participate in Proceedings State I Will Hot Boar Expense of Contest Beported That Barnos Will Hot Pay ii i i j f Senator Harden Bennlon ha gone on record in the Senate aM being the only I rccorc nifflcICfltJY air of ten Democrat Ulccnt one rt and o fearless to stand for the right I against part npp IJs l or the temptation of partisan advantage The attitude of I Senator Bennlon won no compliment Snator fellowDemocrat In fact it I from his fclowDcmocrat8 I caused at lest one of them to swear This allegation can above a whisper nlcGaton not be Glasmannlzed CONTEST GOES ON Senator Bcnnlon mae it possible l lorE lor-E P KHIson to have I hearing before the Elections committee In the contest i for the stat now decupled by J G M Bsrnes I the question of propriety I t had not been raised Mr Bar would S have had h advantage of a pair with I Senator Bennion and would have in effect decided his own title to the 8e tIn t-In controversy Senator Murdock who I had Joined Senator Bennion In a recommendation S recom-mendation that the Investigation be 5 proceeded with at the expense of the State bowed to tho dictates of the Democratic caucus and voted against Democratc his conviction cUCUI and this situation I I brought abut a tic which defeated the of the minority and majority reports Election committee and l vi the I I committee at liberty to proceed with the case without authority to charge the expense to the State air E1U Bon has agreed to pay his Kharo of tha cOtlJ l but Senator Sena-tor Barnes ho not In fa9t t on tho S authority of a member of commmlt tee Barnes will resign rather than payS pay-S Ao disprove the Ellison allegations The committee eels that It can at least hear the Ellison aide and If tile result IB changed make future arrangements I for bering the other aide The hearing will commence on Monday DEBATE SHUT OFF Consideration of the two reports from the oommltteo was n special order to S follow the disposition of the McMillan bill yesterday Tanner Htartcil to open the debate on the motion to adopt hisS his-S minority report recommending the dismissal dis-missal of the caatr lie had not finished tho preliminaries when Senator Kicsel Interrupted to move that speeches bo S limited to threp rulnutca each Tanner I c Hocomlcd it and the motion carried whereupon Howe moved suspension of the rules In order to move the previous question and thla nl carried 5 BARNES EXCLUDED I I The question was put on the adoption I i of the minority report and eight In cludlnpBennlon UTOBO for tho negative Then Senator Bcnnlon announced that he had agreed to pair with Borne and wished to withdraw his vpt < t Senator Lawrence Immediately asked ic It wan S the noose of the Senate that the man whose case was Involved could vote and wild that the pair was In effect a vote In his own Interest Lawrence questioned tho propriety of Barnes participating In the action President Evans was of the opinion that Barnes chould not participate and looked over a paragraph from Corey on Elections 5 nubmltled by Lawrence which he ruled did not apply The President went through Roberts Rules of OrdoY and finally ruled that Barnes should not participate While tho search for a S rule applying was In progress Senator BennIon wild that he was In favor of the majority report but would rather others should decide the propriety of c Barnes participating Evans reserved the right to reverse his ruling It he I found more light i The roll was then called on the minor F ity report which was rejected by a tie as follows Ayes Klesel Murdock Rmoot Tanner Thomas Whltmore Whitney and Evans Noes Alder Bon nloii Howell Johnson Larsen Law runce Love Rnd Sherman The mnjorlty S I raport was rejected by the same vote tho pOHltlons being reversed Later during a dUcUMslon of the time to which the Senate should adjourn KlcKet 1 tried to got another vote by moving that the content be dismissed but ho was ruled out of order WANTED TO MEET SATURDAY Senators Larson Whltmorc nnd Khuwi nnd iraiiKlmn D H Morris und van Homo of the House arrungod for both bodies to adjourn until Monday it 1 itelnjr considered necessary to adjourn LS by consont for three days as required by the Constitution The agreement wax not wholly approved Tanner ent In an objection and axprcssed a desire to meet on Saturday lIe declared It impossible to hold committee meetings on days when there was no session of tbt Senate Smoot took the same view and said he wanted to have a session Saturday and furthermore ho proposed to KO home on the sixtieth day whether the business was ilnlshed 1 or not Evans L too advised sjcnlnst these early ad S journments and fooling away of time Howell contended that no great amount of work is 1 pqndlnK In the Snltte1tl all In the Hous He considered that the bt work was not done in the aN slons l but ln the CAre and thouht which the member five to pending moasuros when alone The ouauloii Wa divided finally and fttn tnt for the house to adjourn until Monday vras duly JraUte Then iL WLs moved that the Senate meet on taiuruay but the proposition was wlth dnun ni the vote recurred on the pus P nslnn of tbt ruls to adjourn until Monday The question failed by lrNJ S deEvana voting with the minority SShi motion lo mNt Saturday was rvbilewtdj Y 5fl4 dCtlNl At this tMge In the tangle tho matter was dropped irmporarlly I S af1r tire 1 44mt ot the dr was dlll j po5i oC the JrobJe was takn up again upon AIderf JtoUQIt to WHini to t 210 Ifuda The O OIWnll of the idea 1hrw tip Ur band and quit Mner the motion had b n amended to 2 G |
