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Show lEWAPPOflTlBT BILL PASSES HOUSE Measure Vigorously Fought by the Salt Lake County Members IT CARRIES, 24 TO 18 Affirmative Vote of War-nick War-nick Is Protested by Representative Rep-resentative Goodwin The Pope apportionment bl 1 s'vins one senator to each county in the state except Salt Lake and gi Ing this county t o senators was pa sed "by the house yesterday by a bare const tutlonal ma Uority The vote of Representative Charles L. Warn! k of Utah county was included among those cast for the bill Representati a George F Goodwin of ''alt Lake then filed a formal prote t against Mr Warnick s right to cast A is ote in fa or of t s meas re cn the ground that he was not constitutional y entitled to a seat as a member of the houe of representatives. Since Mr 'Warnick was seated as a member of the 1 ouse this is the first time that his vote was a part of a bare majority which pa sed a bill The pro test of ITr Goodw n to the ote would probably form the bas s for testing the vsHditv of the law in the event tl at the bi 1 finallj did become a law Opposed by Salt Lake The Pope b 1 was vigors ul opposed by the members of tl e bait Lake county delegation because bj the passage of the bill Salt Lake counts s representation in the state senate wou d be reduced from five to two though the membership in the 1 ouse would be increased from ten to twentj In connect on w 1th the Pope bill tne house also cons dered the Ennis appor tionment b 11 The Pope b 11 provides for a senate of twenty n ne members and a louse membership of sixty five The Ennis b it provides for nineteen senators and flft one representatives The vote on the Pope bl 1 was 24 to IS, with four members absent, fter the vote was an nounced Representative Mabey gave no tice that he would move for a reoon sideration of the measure today The detail of the roll call was Ayes Aagard Al en Blackett, Browning Brown-ing Croft Day Fitch. Hammond Haw e Hinckle Horsier Kell McShane Slabey Meeks, Morris Oldham Peter son Pope Redd se Van Wagoner Warnick Speake Ande-son 4. Votes Against Measure Nays Bevan, Brown Burton Chris ten en Ennis Folkman, Fowles Good win Griffin Hayward, Lund Nebeker O relL Page, Shields Stewart, Tajlor Wing 18 Absent Barker Brinkerhoff Child Wolstenholrne 4 Foes of the Pope bill say that there is a likelihood that the bill will be re considered and killed today In any event it is predicted that if the bill does go to the senate it wi I meet with a speedy death The bill decreases the representation in the senate of Salt Lake. Ltah and Weber counties. These three counties at present are represented by nine members exactly one half of the senate. These nine voting against the bill would prevent its passage |