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Show DffiECT ELECT! AG1 DISCUSSED Resolution on United States Senators Comes Up In- j directly in Senate. Twenty-Fifth Day m Senate. Senate declines to take up antl- . pool selling bill until houso takos action on senate bill of the samo ! nature. Committee recommends passage of hll ajrainst so-called parlor matches. Oommittoo decidos to report favorably fa-vorably on Midland trail bill, with provision that route co by way of Ogden. Senator D. 0. Rideout 011 question ques-tion of personal privilogo shows that plank in Republican platform favoring direct election of United States senators was reported by platform, committee of convention and unanimously adopted by the convention. Although the resolution favoring tho direct election of the United "btatci senators by the people was defeated in the senate Wednesday, tbo measure came up in tho senate indirectly 3'es-terday. 3'es-terday. The minutes of the senate showed that J. Y. Thornlov of Davis and W. S. Hansen of Box fcldcr wore absent when the vote on the measure was taken. These two senators wcro absent whon the roll was called, but returned before it was completed and were excused from voting. Senator 7. W. Punk of Cacho held that tho roll 'should show that thoy were excused from votingt and not absont when tho vote was taken. After considerable consider-able debate tho president held that tho two members were absent, and would be recorded in that, manner. .Just Tjoforo the close of the session Senator D. 0. Hideout rose to a question ques-tion of personal privilege and declared that ho had been misrepresented in tho senate on tho day provious. Ho said that ho had been represented as supporting sup-porting a measure to which the Republican Repub-lican platform pledged tho members of tho legislature, but which was introduced intro-duced in the pal form by a member of tho couvention who afterwartl deserted tho party. Senator Rideout read nowspapor ac-counts ac-counts which purported (0 show that i the plank in question was introduced by tli e platform committee and adopted unanimoush by the convention, and was not introduced from the floor of the houso, as Senator G. A. Tvcrson of Carbon suggested. Senator Rideout further said that the platform had do-clnrcd do-clnrcd that. Iho Ropublican party In Utah bad not offered any programme that was hot bulwarked 'by performance. |