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Show eAIBLAND AHS TUAIH Defeated Land Board Appointees Ap-pointees Ask the Senate to Back Up. CLOSING HOURS OF SENATE SEE A POLITICAL FIASCO President Gardner's Last Act Dashes the Hopes of Office-Seekers. I The closing hours of the senate ses- I sion camo. near to witnessing a last livo-ly livo-ly tilt, which, however, was averted by 1 the strong and decided action of Presi- j dent Gardner. Tho session was called at 10 o 'clock, I and before ten minute's had passed it . became apparent that thc noble game j of politics was to be played to tho Jbit-: ter cud. This was manifested b' thc appcaranco of W. D. Candland and W. ! H. Thain, armed with petitions asking tho governor to return to thc senate thu 1 report of tho executive sessiou which i refrained from concurring in his ap- 1 pointmont of themselves to placo on the land board commission. Of course, any , senator who would 6ign thc petition, asking for the rccaU of tho roport, i would have been willing to reconsider the action turning their appointmont down, and there were some who signed i the petition. About tho time the petitions were ready to bo taken downstairs to the governor, gov-ernor, President Gardner heard of tho matter, and declared at once that it would do no good to introduce such a j motion, as he would positively refuso ( to entertain it, and would walk out of the sonata chamber, declaring adjourn- ment, boforo ho would allow that mat- , ter to be again takon up, uuder tho I conditions. "This is too plain an attempt to play horse with the senate," ho said, in speakinc of tho matter, while the lobby was still in progross, "and I will not sit in the president's chair and see thc dignity of this bod3' made light of in that way. Lobbying Not in Ordor. "The senate has already passed on this matter, aud it is in uo way becoming be-coming to tne gentlemen, who seem determined de-termined to get thc offices which thc senate denied them, to como hore and lobby in this way at the last minute. Thc senators who are aiding this movo aro wasting thoir timo, because I will not entertain any motion to reopen the matter." News travels fast in tho senate chamber, cham-ber, where a political issue is in question, ques-tion, and tho gentlemen who had been busy with their potitione, together with tho senate members who were lending thoir support, hoard the fiat of tho senato sen-ato 's president and faded. Of course, iusfc whore they went is not of record, out soon there was a ginglcing of bells in t.ho telephone booth, aud bocretary Cummings was informed that the communication com-munication to the governor, covering tho action of tho senate with regard to thc non-concurrence of tho senate in the appointments, ap-pointments, had not boon received. Secrotary Cummings told the spoakor at the other end of tho line that thev he knew they had, becauso he had do-j do-j livered tho duplicato copies to thc "office "of-fice of tho socretrj- of state himself, and while thero he had soeu tho messenger mes-senger go into the office of thc governor with thc message. The Incident Closed. Presently, after thc dobate by tele-phono tele-phono closed, Secrotary Hardy of the governor's office camo up, and after ascertaining as-certaining from Presidout Gardner a verification of his refusal to entertain a motion to reopen the subject of the appointments, he explained to Secrotary Cummings that ho had not called him by phono, and didn't know who had, but that the communications referred to had been found among his papers. That closed the incidont, as there was no further intimation that either the gentlemen who almost got a job, wanted to go further in the attempt to got the mattor again before tho senate. After hearing the report of the committee com-mittee on enrolled and engrossed billn, and receiving thc governor's closiug i message, thanking and cougratulating the .body for its work, a motion by Sou-ator Sou-ator Ktfcklor, adjourning thc senate, was put and carried, and President Gardner declared tho eighth session of the son-ato son-ato adjourned, sine die. Ever- ono shook hands with4 every one else aud hurled congratulations at each other, and left the janitor to turn out tho lights. Tho eighth sessiou of tho legislature of Utah is ovor. |