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Show TREATY OF PEACE 1 HOUSE IS mm Warring Factions Operate Ope-rate for Day Under Tacit Truce; Allies and Republicans Exchange Proposals to Settle Dispute Dis-pute on Organization of Lower Branch. SENATE IGNORES BOTH TEMPORARILY Division of Patronage May Be Basis of mal Settlement of Legislative Legisla-tive Tangle, Although Neither Side Concedes Legal Life of the Other; Committees Confer. Another effort w 11 be made th s morninft by the Kepubl cans and the affil ated parties oppos ng the Bepubll t cans to agree on a bas s for the organl ' zat on of tho house of representatives of the state leg slature. j There was a tacit understanding yes i terday of the opposing factions that a j sort of a truce exist during the day j which may be continued today fioth ag definite occurred vesterday looking to a bridging of the breach between the factions but there appeared to be I sometD ng or a meuow u;i o- mo uva til ty heretofore ex bt nj, La ders of both s des said la t night that lie mein bers of the house were neartr to an understanding than they had been at any time since the con en g of the legislature The affil ated parties last n ght sub mltted to the Republicans a proposi tion whereby the Kepubl cans w ould partic pato on an equal bas s n the distribnt on of committee ha rman ships and ass gnmeuts Tho proposi tion was rejected but the leaders of the Eepubl cans said that a co ntor proposition would probably bo made bv the Eepubl cans to the afhhated part os today Caucus Is Held The Democrats and Progress es and the single Socialist member of the house held a caucus yeaterdav afternoon In b Hotel Utah and deeded the wou d con tlnuo to act as a unit in a 1 matters pertaining per-taining to the organisation of tl e oubO but they also voted to deal fair j with, the republicans In all matters coming be foro tho house Including the committee ass gnn ents The statua of the lower houe s a subject of much arguroe t. Manv oa" that neither the Pepubl ana nor he al 1 es have perfected a legal organ zat on of the house. The allies take the posl t on that their organ zatlon of he lower house Is regular and legal aid t at they have a quo um ot the members or t e legisature entitled to sit as members of tho house The Republicans take the position that the cle tion of L R. An derson of banpete as speaker was gal and regular but thev do no appea to be seriously maintaining a t eir twent three members of he I ouse on stltute a n ajorlty of the ouse. Both fact ons held so -ailed s el ons of the lower house at differs t nts In the o se chamber yes erday ut e mon. Tl e al les acting on tho ussump on that they w ere the 1 ouse of rep esenta es, transa ted some bus ness and pro e dod with the work in hand nam ng onn tees and sending con m ni a ons o t senate and the go ernor a n unncr such as would be he case we e It con ceded that ev d d cons t e a quo run of t e house Republicans Meet T e Repub ca s e e n he house chan ber cal ed e o a d ad jou-ncd Tho Rcpub an e er stout y maintained la I R who acted as speaker of e so had been regi larl a d ega e d h tho ote of the house r e w kne or the Tepul lean poalt on o ee lies In the fact hat t is on c man of the leading Repub u of t em me nhers of the io se t Charles L Warnclf of I. tan cou e of he Republican members so a fled o serve as a n ember of e e. s lature. At the sa e t n e asbe t, Mr Wamlck Is ent ed o o o s pern anent orgon aat on of he The s t atlon las ght ou m to warrant tl e st e ent t a f o two factions coroo toge er oda e house on a w orklng bas s I wl he tbrougl some compromise an-a gen I ' (Continued on Page Two ) WARRING FACTIONS OF HOUSE NEAR SETTLEMENT Expected That Division of Pationage Will Be Final Basis of Peace Between the Allies and the Republican Legislators (Continued from Page One) vhereby one s de secures the spea er and the other side ge 3 concess o s in the select on. of cn p oyees and t e 4st bu t on of comni ttee ass nments ana cha rmans Ips It Is on some such plan that the leaders of the rival factions are ow working Senate in Session J.0 cognizance was taken by the senate esterday of ether the ales house of representatives or the republ can house of representat ves with the result that about the only bus ness transacted in the upper house vas the reading of the rotnutes of the first days meetin Tl e allies house sent an invitat on to the senate to recognize it as the only original lower house w th the name b own In the bottle trade mark reg s tered and al that sort of thin- but the senate never let on that It Oot the In v tat on The all es drew up a com nun cation to the senate at their n orn ng sess on and it was duly transmitted to the sen ate which met at 2 o clock In the after noon Had not the all es themse ves announced it no one wou d have k own that the senate had been appri ed of the all ed sess on Neil ler House Mentioned The al ied house was not even s6 much as mentioned For that matter neither was the Republican branch of the house . After the open ng prayer in the senate the minutes of t e prev o 3 day were read and corrected. T e pr nter ad not be come fan ar as jet with the names of the senators w th the result that Sen ator Wi liam Craig of Ogde appeared as Wl lard Cra g Names and n t a a be ng stra ghtened out, the senate approved the minutes Then there was oth n to do but wait for something to turn up in the house The senate tool a rece s 111 5 o clock in t e hope that peace and ham ony m 0 t come out of the mee ng of the Repub 1 can branc of he house w h ch began at 2 o clock The se ators stro ed up sta rs to that ha 1 of turbu ence known as the house chamber But there was noth ing do ng The Repub leans had con vened the r house and then adjourned 1 11 10 o c ock th s morn ng Eager to Begin Business The senators 1 ngered hopeful that all es and Repub cans m ght get to gether in the orr do s and s gn a peace pact as the head wr t,ers love to say The senators are eager to see the house come to its senses in order that they can go ahead with some business that they have in m nd By 3 o clock the cruel war in the house had showed no s gns of abatement The senate convened aga n yawned and ad journed un 1 2 o c ock th s afternoon T e senate organ zat on s comp ete and it lacks on v the recovery of the bouse to s art leg s ation go ng Tl e senators have a 1 p eked out the r sea s and desks have been duly capt oned with the names of the occupants The senate emp oyees ha e been instructed n the r dut es and are waiting for orders MUCH SPECULATION ON CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE COMMITTEES There is cons derab e specu at on n the Benate as to whom Pres dent W Mont Ferry w 1 appo nt to the chairmansh ps of the mtor ant stand ner com n ttees The comm ttees on appropr at ons and claims jud c ary ral roads ways and means ag iculture and irngut on manu factures and commerce estock and edu cation have been tl e mportant ones at previous sess ons There is ke y to be a spec a joint comm ttee on taxat on El s sess on Senator Joseph Chez of Ogden has a con current resolution prov d ng for such a comm ttee to revise the tax code of the state a 1 ready for presentat on as soon as the legls ature real y begins work Cha rmans p of the committee on ap propriations and cla ms w 11 go to one of the sen or senators probab y Senator Cottre 1 Jr of Sa t Lake or Senator Cra g of Ogden For chairman of the jud c ary comm t tee there are seve al lawyers In the sen ate to qual fy Senator Joseph Eckersley a ho dover may get It The Progress ve senator Frank Evans s a lawyer Sen ator Chez of Ogden s a awyer I asmuch as there are ke y to be sev e al measures before t e egis ature pro vlding for a pub c ut lities comm ss on the railroads comn Ittee wi 1 be qu te as proraine t as In the past J R Ed0hel I Is mentioned as a possib e cha rman of this committee. He was cha rman of this comm ttee at the last sess on Either Senator Thorn ey or Senator Hansen wi 1 n al probab ty be cha r nan of t e ves ock comm ttee Pres dent Ferry is go ng- over the com mittee preferences of the membe s He finds the mak ng up of the comm ttees quite an undertaking and t may be sev eral das before hs appo ntments are ready WOULD SIFT BILLS BEFORE INTRODUCING INTO THE SENATE As soon as the leg s ature gets under way Senator W lard S Hansen of Boi elder county will int oduce n the upper house a resolution pro id ng that legis lators introduce on v b Is w th wh ch they are thoroughly fam ar and n sympathy Th s is des gned to do away with what Senator Hansen regards as one of the principal abuses of he eg s a u e one that clogs the docket vi h freak b s to the de ay of rea y mporta t eg s ation Heretofore some membe so he le lslature have been w n on oduce bi Is on any subject whatsoe er and pro i v d ng for a kinds of regulations fads adwoata . , . , S nee I have been n tl e egislature I ha e bee amazed at the number of s 1 y b s introduced by men be s at the re quest of friends or acquaintances sa a Senator Hansen Bilk Unread rreq enth the e nber who Intro duces the b 11 has not e en read It and does not know what rad cal pro -Is ons it would carry into effect if ena ted nto law Host of such b s are not worthy the ser ous consideration of house or sen ate et they are on the dockets con es ng the ork of the sess on. In comm ttees of which I sen ed as c a rma I ave had these bil s up for consideration I 1 ave tried to get the I troducer of t ese bil a to appear before tl e com nittee and explah t e merits of U e proposed laws a d nake some recom mendat ons or elve some advice and in fo mat on concerning them and tl e de mand for leg s ation of the kind Usually the introducer of the bill is too busy with the real mportant work he has to do th s Comn ttees must mal e some re port on the b s before it More often than not the ntroducer of the request b 11 fights it on the floor of his house when he learns what it is a 1 about Should Know Content I be e e tl at no n en ber of tl e leg s at re should introduce a b 11 he or s e has not read I do not bel eve a legis ator s) ou d introduce a b 11 n which he or she is not in sympat y I am well aware that leg slato s in troduce these bil 8 as an accomn odat on to fr ends and const tuents If we had a aw or str ngent rules regulating the int oductlon of b 1 s thej would be com pe ed to decline to introduce neasures vh cl they feel are unworthj which wou d merely waste the time of the legis ature and would 1 a e not the si ghtest chance in the wo d of passing Thev vould not then be offend ng rr ends if they refused Moreo er t would be somethi g of a saying to the state since the pr nt ng of bi Is runs into n uch mon ey during a sess on Senator Hansen as talked over the proposed ru e with many of h s colleagues a d with members of t e ouse and has found uch sentiment favorable to it FUSIONISTS HAVE MERRY LITTLE TIME IN LOWER HOUSE The fuslonists were the first In the fie d yesterday In presenting their c alms to the d sputed house member Par ey P Chr stensen t e se ectlon of the a ies for speake of the house shortly before 10 o c ock 3 esterday forenoon re eved the guards wl o had watched over the speak ers chair al n ght and soon after 10 0 c ock the house was ca ed to order When a rol ca I showed twenty three members present the cha r decla ed that a quorum was o hand and the chief c e k was instructed to read the journal of the preced ng day The journal was prepared by T T Burton ten porary sec etary and T W Evans ch ef c erk It 1 ad been printed and distr buted to the men be s and cop es furn shed t e sen ate This ;journa recorded the e ect on of Par ey P Cl rlstensen as speaker of t e house and recorded the fact that he had been sworn in as spea er of the house .o ment on was made of any pre tended e ectlon of L R, Anderson Re pub lean as speaker Corrections Are Made After the minutes were read a number of correct ons were proposed by the mem bers and ordered made Speaker Chr sten sen conratu ated the members of the house on the d gnity of the r p ocedure on tie day before under trjlng clrcum stances He said that the n ost learned egal authorities of the state had been consulted re ative to the proceed ngs of the day before and t at H was the unani mous op nion of those consu ted that ev eryth ng had been done regular y In due form and that the organ zat on as it no v existed was in every respect t e dujy const tuted legal oranlzatlo of the 1 ouse The h6use then elected J Ma lett Soc a st of Tooe e count sergeantiat arms John G Weaver Progress e of Sa t Lake count minute c erk John L We ch Democrat of Sa t Lake mal ing c erk Joseph S Fow er Progress e of Salt Lake comm ttee c erk Speaker Charitable Mr Chrlstensen suggested that th? house elect only the officers w ch were found to be abso ute y neces ary to the pre ent work of the house say ng tha w e It had not been the custom in the past he thought that an equal distribu t on of the employees with the Repub 1 cans whom he termed our truant bre hren ought to be made desp te the apparent d nc nat on of the Repub cans to part pate n the proceed ngs of the 1 ouse of representatives The officers elected took the oaths of : office wh c were admin stered by , T omas Homer ounty c erk of Sa t j Lake county On mot on of JDav d H. , Morris of Washington t e rules of the last sess on of the leg s ature were de clared to be the rules of the house pend ng a report of the committee on ru es wh ch has not et been named Protest Is Filed The fo lowing protest against the seat ng of C L. Warnick of Utah county as a member of t e egislature was filed w t e chief clerk of the house Comes now George F Goodw n a n ember of the louse of representa t ves from the E ghth distr ct to the e eventh session and protests and ob je s to the r ght of C L Warnic t of CJ ah ounty to he sworn or take part n anv of the proceed ngs of this house upon the grounds that sa d C h Vt arn ck at t e date of tl e November electon. n the state of Utah was a me nber of the eg s a ture of the state of Idaho fo the term ended Dece nber 31 A D 1914 and that he has not been a legal resident of t e state of U a for tl ree ears ttnmed ately p eced ng h s pretended e ection but for four years pror to said November 1914 elect on was and had been a legal res dent of t e state of Idaho Th s protest and objection is made and based upo the statements and adm s on. of said C I Warn ck n ade in the presence and hearing of line members of the house of epre sentati es of the state of Utah In the city and county bu Id ng n Salt Lake C ty on the 11th day of Jan uary 1915 I make this protest and objec on solely to ma nta n and protect the elective franch se and the purity of e ections in the state of Utah on behalf of all the electo s of the state and especial y for the legal oters of Utah county GEORGE F GOODWIN Member of t e House Dated January II 1915 Notification Is Given Representat ve Goodwi n oved the appo ntment of the usual co nmlttees to not fy the governor and t e senate that t e house was du y organized and ready for bus ness The c a na ned Repre sentati es Goodwin Wolstenho me and Burton a 1 of Salt Lake as a con mlt tee to notify the go ernor of the organ zat on of the house Representat ves Nebeker of Uinta, Ha j ward of Salt Lake and Gr ffin of Cache -were named to con vev asm lar message to the senate Secur ng the f oor on questions of per sonal pr vi ege W B Ennis Democrat of .a t Lake L y C Wo stenholme Pro gress ve of Salt Lake George C Brink erhoff Democrat of Wavne dec ared wi emphas s and cons de ab e fee ing t at they had not voted for Representa t e L. R Anderson Republ can for speaker and had part c pated n no meet ing where hs name v. as presented Sec retary of State David Mattson had pre v ous y announced in the press that hese three represen atlves had oted for Mr Anderson Mattson Makes Change After the den a of these th ee that they had voted for Anderson for speaker Mtf Mattson changed h s record o 9ho v that ordy the twenty three Repub can mem bers of t e house voted for M Ande son The content on is made by the Repub cans tha a sho-ft ng that a quorum wad present w en the Repub leans attemp ed the e ectlon of Mr Ande son and that a major ty of all the vo es cast were for Mr Ande son Is a that s necessary to pro e h s legal e ectlon o tl e speaker sh p The Den ocrats and the r assoc ates took a f an hour s recess shortly be fo e 12 o c ock noon dur n wh ch a caucus was held The members on e conven ng adjourned to meet at 10 30 0 clock h s morn ng Republicans Also Meet The fus on sts were al out of the house chamber w hen the Republ can members of the house met in the cham ber at 2 o c ock n the afternoon The Repub leans had previously 1 eld a meet ng n he office of the state aud or here hev ece ved advice as to t e r cour e f om A torney General A R Barnes The Republicans on reach ng t e house were ca ed to order by L R Anderson he Republ can choice for peaker Tl e p esid ng officer ca led the o 1 and he twenty three members re sponded Immed ate y W ord Day of 1 on floor eader of the Repub cans moved an adjournment of the meet ng unt 1 10 o clock h s fo enoon The mo t on was seconded by J J Barker of Weber and was carried unanimous y |