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Show WHAT POLITICIANS SAY; WHAT THEY ABE DOING MM The committee of college and high pchool section of the Utah Teachers' association has inaugurated a campaign to secure stnto aid for high schools, and to that end will ask tho legislaturo to submit an amendment to section 7, article 13, of tho state constitution, set-ting set-ting apart one-half mill on each dol- HH ar valuation for high school purposes: until a law in lino with the proposed amendments shall become operative, this committee will ask the state for MMM $100,000 to meet tho needs of the high schools for the next; two .years. This T"'oposed amendment was submitted by the last session of the legislature, but it failed to pass. H X. L. Sheffield, an old wheel-horse of the Republican party in Wayne county, is a Salt Lake visitor. H Uerf is the wav the Logan Journal BH refers, to the Sol Kimball episode. Says BH the Journal: B T'nlted States liatliff. am former Salt MMm Lake City jailor. .Sol Kimball.' lias received BH an official cnllhi down for hilling the K pipe ami bavins ghost dreams on Ibe ovc BH f an '.-lection, but will bo porniluctl to B hold hi job upon prumtsc to bo good BB hereafter. B Apostle TTcber J. Grant, national BH 'trustee of the Antisaloou league in BB Vtulf, 'lias called upon ministers of BH churches of all denominations, including BH -bibliops of wards, to pinko prohibition BH the. subject of their discourses on Sun- MMm dav, January 10. B That Apostle-Senator Reed Smoot is BH 1 he real political boss of Utah is shown BH bv the following, taken from the Logan BH Journal. Says tho Journal: B While It Js Into that 'toed Smoot was H nit Hector! :i member of t-ltliei- brunch MMm of tl' a late legislature, and thai lie will BH 11,11 li person persMc. yet aeli individual H bnvirtK pomo pcL piece of legislation to BH propOHo may put it down in Ills little red BB nook that if it in to pass he must flrat BB bco and obtain the august imJurKumunt H of Cznr Smoot. He possessed and n?i?d BB tills power during the lust session, and tho evidence thai the pcoplo liked and wished It perpetuated, ivns shown by their vote for. the eotitinuancc. In power of the Smoot machine. During the holidays holi-days he has been coaching" his subordinates sub-ordinates at home and has them pretty well posted in regard to tho. royal will as It relates to the principal measures that are likely to come up for consideration, consid-eration, and it may bo safely asserted that If a measure proposed Is of anv Importance the author or promoter will have lo seo Smoot, whose monarchy Is not limited. V Former Attorney-General Brceden expects ex-pects Governor Spry to appoint him .iudge of the juvenile court of Salt Lake. "Ex-Mayor Hobinson looks like a winner in his race for tho speakership speaker-ship of the House." says tho Logan Journal. "Tho Salt. Lakers, or rather some of them, aro making a fight on him because ho is such a lo3-al A. O. man, but it looks as if they 'will stub their toe on something hard right, away, for the JJepublican party, goodness knows, needs loj'al men, and Kobinson is one of that stripe. Ho '11 make a good speaker." Members of tho Jlbuso and Senate are arriving in squads, and are temporarily tem-porarily located, at the several hotels, preparatory lo seeking permanent quarters quar-ters for the session. I |