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Show DEMOCRATS PLAN TO SUGGESTEW LI'S Committees of Party Hold Meetings in Effort to Make Good on Promises. ACTIVITY IS DISPLAYED Foremost in Work Is Movement Move-ment Toward Public Utilities Utili-ties Commission. In keeping with the spirit of action which prevailed at the Democratic conference con-ference Friday, various subcommittees appointed to look after drafting bills to fulfill the pledges of the party platform plat-form "got busy" yesterday. Sessions were held by the committees on reservoirs and irrigation, taxation( public utilities and prohibition. All ot the meetings, with the possible exception excep-tion of the public utilities committee, were more or less of a preliminary nature, na-ture, the principal object being to outline out-line the plan of procedure in gathering the data necessary to the drafting of effective measures. The greatest activity was displayed by the public utilities committee. After a short session yesterday morning at the Newhouse hotel, a meeting was held during the afternoon at the office of seDator-elect O. L. Olson, a member of the committee. Another meeting will be held , by the committee today and another tomorrow, and it is probable that meetings will be held daily until a satisfactory bill has been drafted. The meetings of this committee are no half-hour half-hour affairs, the one yesterday lasting all day, and members predict that all-day all-day sessions will be the rule until the 1 work is accomplished. Are to Seek Advice. The committee on taxation and revenue reve-nue met yesterday morning and discussed dis-cussed matters pertaining to the state's taxes in a general way and adjourned . until Monday. The prohibition committee commit-tee discussed the fate of the liquor traffic traf-fic in the state in general terms and will hold meetings next week for the purpose of gathering further data and preparing a bill for presentation to the legislature. Tho committee on reservoirs and irrigation irri-gation outlined its plan of procedure and adjourned until next Saturday. All the committees will call in all persons who have made a study of the particular questions which are to be framed into laws, as well as consult the statutes on the books of other states. While not given a place on the steering steer-ing committee. Senator Frank Evans of Salt Lake, who was elected on tho fu-sion fu-sion ticket two years ago, caucused with I the Democrats Friday night and cast his vote for Senator J. W. Funk of Cache county for president of the upper house. Senator Evans announced that he was a Progressive, but said that he was very much in favor of many of the progressive measures in the Democratic Demo-cratic platform and expected to assist in every way possible in their enactment enact-ment into laws. He and Joseph Chez and George H. Dern compose the rules committee appointed at the senatorial caucus. Senator Evans has spent a great deal of time since the adjournment of the last legislature studying various phases of some of the proposed laws. He has i gathered considerable data relating to j laws on like subjects in effect in other ; states and has placed all the material thus collected at the disposal of the Democratic state committee. j Going to Washington. With the big conference out of the way and everything working smoothly toward the fulfillment of the party platform, Governor-elect Simon Bamberger Bamber-ger and United States Senator-elect William Wil-liam H. King will leave today for Washington. Governor-elect Bamberger Bamber-ger will accompany Governor William Spry to attend the annual conference of governors. He is scheduled to take dinner with President Wilson December 14 and on December IS will be the guest of New York friends at a dinner given in his honor in New York Citv. Governor Spry probably will go to New York before the conference of governors gov-ernors opens December 14 and will start home as soon as the conference closes. Governor-elect Bamberger will be accompanied ac-companied by Mrs. Bamberger and they probably will not return to Salt Lake until December 23 or 24. Senator-elect King has several things to look after at Washington. Not the least among them is urging the. appoint-ment appoint-ment of Frank K. Nebeker of Salt Lake to the appellate bench of the Eighth district. dis-trict. He also will take up other matters mat-ters pertaining to Utah patronage at the national capital. He expects to be gone not more than ten days. I Harden Bennion, secretary of state- j elect, plans to take advantage of the time between now and inauguration to straighten up personal affairs. He expects ex-pects to leave today for eastern Utah to attend to some business of a personal nature, but probably will retorn to Salt Lake before Christmas. Prepare for Inauguration. The inauguration is the next big! thing on the Democratic programme, j Of course, this statement should be qualified to the extent that it is the j most important except possibly to the! 1 ' pie ' ' hungry, who are rather anx-1 iously awaiting the announcement of ! Governor-elect Bamberger as to the al-j lotment of the political pastry. The governor maintains an attitude' of dignified dig-nified silence on this question and wul offer no comfort to the office-seekers ' brigade until after his return from the ! east. 1 But the inaugural programme is the "big thing' to the people in general and to the officers-elect particularly.; The committee appointed at the confer- : ence Friday to take charge of plans for the inauguration is getting down to business and a string of subcommittees will be appointed within the next few days to look after various details.' On the heels of the inauguration will come the big Democrat ic-Progressive ratification banquet at the Auditorium on the night of January 5. Chairman T. F. Thomas of the banquet committee announced yesterday that special rates had been authorized by all the railroads on account of the ratification and that fullv 4000 persons were expected to be in attendance. Judge Andrew Jackson Weber of Salt Lake City had the honor of purchasing the first four tickets to the banquet, which he looks upon as a ort of demonstration in his behalf because be-cause of his namesake. Besides celebrating celebrat-ing the Democratic victory, the ratification ratifi-cation also is intended to honor especially espe-cially President Wood row Wilson and former President Andrew .lacksou, one of the early supporters of Democratic principles. I |