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Show a fil! S t r Three Holdover Republicans Repub-licans Make Feeble Resistance Re-sistance in Senate to Caucus Programme, but in End Vote With Majority to Make Action Ac-tion Unanimous. MESSAGE WILL BE READY TODAY Lower House Gets Under Un-der Way While Handful Hand-ful of Spec t a t o r s Watch the Proceedings; Proceed-ings; Slate Is Put Through Without a Scratch. With opposition so slight as to .be negligible, both branches of the twelfth session of the Utah legislature were organized by the Democrats in less than an hour at the opening meeting yesterday. yester-day. In the lower house the organization was effected unanimously by acclamation, acclama-tion, every member having been elected on a straight Democratic or fusion ticket. Three holdover members of tbe upper house offered a feeble resistance to almost every proposition submitted by the majority, but iu the end voted that the action of the majority .bo sanctioned unanimously. Senator J. W. Punk was elected president of the upper house by a vote of 14 to 3, the Republican members having hav-ing caucused as solemnly as though in control, and selected Senator Don B. Colton of "Uinta county as their candidate candi-date for the presidency. Senator Funk obligingly voted for Senator Colton, and Seuator Colton returned the compliment. Senator Quince Kimball of the Tenth district was the ouly absentee during the organization proceedings, and he arrived ar-rived in time o participate in later deliberations. de-liberations. Inauspicious Opening. Representative J. Frank Tolton of Beaver county was elevated to the speakership of the lower house by acclamation. accla-mation. The caucus nominees for employees em-ployees in both houses were elected by the same vote and in practically the same manner as the heads of the respective respec-tive branches of the . legislature. The assertion should be qualified to this extent, ex-tent, however, that the names of Miss Lillian Anderson, originally a caucus nominee for committee clerk in the upper up-per house, was not presented. Furthermore, Further-more, no name was substituted, and one committee clerkship still is vacant in the state seuate. The twelfi-h session of I ho Utah legislature legis-lature was ushered in inuuspiciously. A mere handful of curious onlookers climbed to the galleries, watched the tame proceedings i'or half an hour or s--o and left in search of more diversified entertainment. The senate was culled to order at I-o'HnoU, I-o'HnoU, noon, by Secretary of State Harden liennioii. and a few moments later Chief Justice J. LO. Frick arrived and administered the oath of of (ice. Chief .lustire Frick was a little tardy, having been delayed in getting the presidential presi-dential electors under way. Happy Nominations. Senator ('. L. Olson nominated Senator Sena-tor Funk for president in a brief but happv tal k. and t ho nomination w as sei-oiided by Senator doselh Chez, Senator Sena-tor Frank "Kvans, Senator F. W. Reynolds Rey-nolds and Senator J. . Clyde. Senator ' (Continued on Pago Nlne MMM is ORGANIZED IN RECORD TIE Democrats Carry Out Programme Pro-gramme With Only Feeble Opposition From the Republicans. t (Continued from Page One.) L "William Seegmiller piaced in nomina- tion Senator Colt on, and the nomma- tion was seconded by J. H. Wootton. The battle lasted just one round, a short and Itame round at that. The Republican minority solemnly resented a slate of employees for the Ripper house, but the slate was smashed S by the same weight that kept Senator Colton out of the president's chair. The Democratic slate, as presented, went through without a scratch, and contained con-tained the following names and appointments: ap-pointments: W. S. Dalton of Salt Lake county, secretary. sec-retary. J. W. Geiger of Salt Lake county, minute min-ute clerk. .1 F. Hclbrook of Millard county, docket clerk. Jed Willey of Davis county, sergeant at arms. Mrs. Bess M. Mattinely of Salt Lake county, en?ro?sins: clerk. O. B. Huntington of Utah county, chaplain. chap-lain. Mrs. Orson Reiser of Weber count v. mailing clerk. Mi?s I-!na Monson of Weber countv. stenographer. Mies Amber Hansen of Box EHer county and James A. .McMurrin of Cache county, committee clerks. Clarence Wright of Summit county, messenger. Amos A. Bradley of Sanpete county and Charles J. V,. Gulbransen of bait Lake county, doorkeepers. Riaklo Merrill of Gat field county and Paul Walton of Salt Lake county, watchmen. watch-men. Ready for Business. With the organization effected, a committee com-mittee composed of Senators W. J. Parker, Don B. Colton and Culbert L. Olson was appointed to notify the lower house, and another committee comprising Senators Richard Stringham,- William Seegmiller and F. W. Reynolds was selected to notify Governor Simon Bamberger that the senate sen-ate was organized and ready for business. A rules committee composed or Senators Prank Evans, George H. Dern and Joseph Chez also was appointed, after which the upper house ad jo turned until 2 o'clock. All the business transacted required less tuan one four's time. When the upper house reconvened a little after 2 o'clock the rules committee was not Qtiite ready to report, but the report re-port of the committee from the lower house bearing notification that that branch was organized was heard. The reports of the committee to the lower house and the committee to the governor a-teo were read. The governor, in his reply, advised the senate that he would deliver his message to the legislature in joint session at noon today. Steam Roller Works., The report of the rules committee brought .ibout another limited display of fireworks. And this time the pyrotechnics were not all furnished by the minority Republican crowd. Senator C. L. Olson led the attack, not so nnrbh against the report of tiie committee, but he insisted on several amendments to certain parts of the report which he asserted were not sufficiently clear. The minority joined in with a few pin wheels, but about everything- proposed was flattened under the ttea m. roller. The chief bone of contention was 'the proposed legislative reference committee. Senator Olson insisted that the paragraph referring to the establishment of such a committee should state more specifically that the two experts to be employed b.v the committee and their salaries should be sanctioned by the senate body as a whole. The general idea was conveyed in the report, but to avoid any future question ques-tion the rules committee graciously accepted ac-cepted the amendment. Republicans Suspicious. The Republican minority appeared very suspicious of the power to be vested In the proposed committee and offered about every obstacle that could be thought of "n the spur of the moment, and Senator Olson also tossed a few pebbles in the general direction of the legislative reference refer-ence committee. The minority finally offered of-fered the suggestion that action ,on the report be deferred until after the hearing of the governor's me.ssaee today, but this was smashed in a genera! charge by the majority and the report was adopted by tiie usual margin, plus the vote of Senator Sena-tor Kimball. Senator Wootton particularly was oppose! op-pose! to the legislative reference committee com-mittee on the ground that it would be the most powerful committee of the upper up-per house and that it would usurp cer- ENATE IN SESSION. Rostrum, left to riglit--Cliief Justice J. E. Frlck, President James W. Funk, Secretary of State Harden Bennion. Secretary's O desk, left to right--J. F. Holtaook, docket clerk; Secretary W. S. Dalton and Minute Clerk J. W. Geiger. Front row senators, left to right Senator Frank Evans, Salt Lake; Senator Orson Bradley, Moroni; Senator Joseph Chez, Ogden; Senator Don B. Colton, Vernal; Senator William Seegmiller, Kanab; Senator John H. Wootton, American Fork. Seflpnd row, left to right Senator Daniel Stevens, Fillmore; Senator Alex Bevan, Tooele; Senator George-H. Dern, Salt Lake; Senator C. L. Olson, Salt Lake; Senator W. J. Parker, Ogdoi; Senator Richard Stringham, Bountiful. Third row, left to right Senator i Quince Kimball, Winder; Senator F. W. Reynolds, springville; Senator Wesley K. Walton, Salt Lake; Senator W. W. Armstrong, Salt Lake; Senator j James W. Clyde, Heber City. - t i r i ' k t - - ' r - k i ' 1 t I I , Photo by "Wiggins. tain prerogatives which rightfully belonged be-longed to the judiciary committee. Senator Sena-tor Olson also sought to clip the win?s of the proposed committee by offering an amendment providing that bills introduced intro-duced by standing committees mig!:t be acted upon b' the senare without the delay de-lay incident to an examination by the ret-erence ret-erence committee'. President Funk led In the countercharge counter-charge by reciting activities of the senate in the days when he was a minority member. He declares that after the final date had passed for the introduction of bills by members of the senate It had been the custom of standing committees com-mittees to stand sponsor for almost any old kind of a bill to please certain friends or constituents, thereby causing a great deal of useless printing and -generally unnecessary un-necessary work. He intimated that such conditions might be brought about during dur-ing the closing da.vs of the present session ses-sion and insisted that the bills all should go through the proper channels, except In extraordinary cases, and in such instances that the, senate could hurry the bill along and keep it from the regular channel by ' a two-thirds vote of the upper house. I Following the Indorsement of the com- I m it tee's report, President Funk advised ! the senate that he would not be in a , position to name the committee until to- 1 day and probably not until tomorrow, and ' suggested t hat a motion to adjourn was in order. Adjournment was taken until 11:45 o'clock this morning. At that time the senate will convenve and after roll call will adjourn to reconvene in join session ses-sion with the lower house to hear the message of Governor Bamberger. Lower House Sworn In. The house was called to order promotly at 12 o'clock by J. H. Diehl. chief clerk of the house at the preceding session. The members of the body, all but two of whom responded to the roll call, were sworn in by Justice William M. McCarty of the supreme court. John F. Tolton, representative of Beaver Beav-er county, was chosen speaker by acclamation. accla-mation. The list of emplnvees as agreed upon In conference was approved unanimously unani-mously and they were sworn in by Justice Jus-tice McCarty. Committees were appointed ap-pointed to notify the governor and the senate that the house was organized and the house recessed at 1 p. m. for one hour while the members secured their permanent seats and adjusted themselves tor the transaction of business. After the recess, reports were received from the notification committees, some other minor matters were at tended to, and the house adjourned until 11 a. m. today, when it will reconvene preparatory to its joint session at noon with the senate, sen-ate, when Governor Simon Bamberger will deliver his message to the legislature Harmony in House. The 'brief session of the house yesterday yester-day moved with a snap and smoothness, indicating that a harmonious spirit pervades per-vades the organization and that it proposes pro-poses to waste no time in bickering over minor details, or fighting over factional differences. The method in which business was transacted yesterday indicated, as has been previously made public, that the programme of procedure has been definitely defi-nitely laid out and agreed upon b.v members mem-bers of the house in pre-session conference, confer-ence, and that the programme thus prepared pre-pared will be carried through practically as agreed upon. Speaker Tolton emphasized as the keynote key-note of his opening address to the house, one thing harmony. He urged that personal per-sonal and factional Interests and feelings be laid aside, and that all join together in united effort to accomplish the most good for the state and its people. He warned the house that legislation of the greatest Import to the. people of Utah is to come before this session of the legislature legis-lature and he urged the members to give the people- legislation that will reflect credit upon the members of the legislature. legis-lature. I. H. 'Diehl. the veteran clerk of the former house of representatives of the eleventh legislative session, called the house of t lie twelfth session together, pursuant to custom that has been followed fol-lowed in the past. Jerrold tt. Letcher, chief deputy secretary secre-tary of state, acting for Hie secretary of state, then ro;id to the assembly the certificate cer-tificate of election of the various members mem-bers of the house as issued and signed by Harden Bennion, secretary of state. Two Legislators Absent. Mr. Diehl then called the roll of members mem-bers and all of the forty-six members, with exreption of Walter W. Jones of Wellsville and Lewis W. Curry of Vernal, were present, these two members being reported ill and unable to attend the opening session. Jusiice William M. McCarty then asked the members of the house to rise and niise their right hands and take the constitutional con-stitutional oaili of office. He administered adminis-tered the ,1'ormal oath, which the members mem-bers of the body repeated after him as ho spoke. Prayer was then offered by Representative Representa-tive Alma Greenwood of ftah county. The next order of business was' the election of a speaker of the house. Representative Rep-resentative p. R Hammond of Mnab took the lloor and in a few words placed in nomination John F. Tolton of Heaver. Representative Hiimrnond declared that his ca n d i j a l e wa s a v e t e ra u De m oc ra t and one upon whopi all could depend to I handle the office of speaker with satis-ifariini satis-ifariini to all i-oncertir'd. I Keprcsenetative Grace Stratton-Airey of Salt Lake seconded the nomination on behalf of the Progressive party and the Progressive representation In the lower house, declaring that the Progressives felt that Sir. Tolton was able and would carry out the work- of the office to the entire satisfaction of the progressive contingent, and That he stood for and would support in every way Progressive legislation, especially the prohibition bill, the utilities bill, the compensation bill, the appointment of women on public boards and other Progressive measures. Representative J. A. Bevan of Tooele, Socialist, seconded the nomination on behalf be-half of the Socialists, declaring that they were fully satisfied with Mri Tolton, and knew that he would handle the affairs of his position with satisfaction to the Socialist So-cialist contingent. v J. W. McKinney of Salt Lake moved that the election of Mr. Tolton be made by acclamation and the motion carried unanimously. Grateful for Honor. Mr. Diehl appointed Representative Elizabeth J. Hayward of Salt Lake and F. B. Hammond of Moab- as a special committee to escort Speaker Tolton to the chair. When he had taken his seat the oath of office was administered by Justice Jus-tice McCarty. Mr. Tolton then delivered a brief ad.dress to the assembled house. "I wish to express my deep appreciation apprecia-tion for the high honor which you have conferred upon me," the speaker said. "I realize the importance of the position in which you have placed me, and I shall strive to discharge the trust with which you have honored me in a manner to advance ad-vance the greatest good in all the things for which we are gathered here. We have an important duty to perform, and we have measures to consider that are of grave concern to the people of Utah; measures, some of which, have been partly part-ly acted upon by former legislatures, but for one reason or another were cast aside. Speaker Urges Harmony. "I trust that when they come before us we will consider them with respect and will do our best to give the people of the state legislation that will be for the, best good of all concerned. T was selected upon a fusion ticket and stand on two platforms, the Democratic Demo-cratic and the Progressive, and, as Mrs. Airey has indicated, I shall strive -to carry ofjt the principles of both to the best of my ability. "Let us strive to work In harmony and to recognize the rights of each individual indi-vidual member, yet to achieve the greatest great-est good for the greatest number concerned. con-cerned. Let us strive for that action that will bring, the best results for the memhers and for the people of Utah.' The next order of business was the appointment ap-pointment of the regular corps of officers offi-cers and employees. Speaker Tolton suggested sug-gested that as the list had been agreed upon in conference that he tnought the election might be in a body. Representative Represent-ative R. W. Young, Jr., of Salt Lake moved that the chairman for the conference confer-ence committees report the list of appointees, ap-pointees, and that the election be as a body. Appointees Recommended. This motion carried, and Winn L. Eddv, acting for the chairman. Representative Elizabeth J. Hayward. read the report of the committee, as follows: We recommend the following be selected select-ed to fill the various positions as indicated indi-cated : Speaker. F.' J. Tolton, Beaver- chief clerk, Adam L. Petersen, Weber; minute clerk, Annie Mirer, Salt Lake; docket clerk, Frank Rippon, Summit; engrossing clerk, Edward Hansen, Cache: mailing clerk, Annie C. Grager. Salt Lake; chaplain, chap-lain, George Billings, Utah; sergeant at arms, N. J. Neilson, Cache; messenger, K. B. Hawkins. Utah: messenger, George Beeson, Grand; Assistant sergeant at arms, Walter Anderson, Washington; doorkeeper, Harrison, Edwards. Sanpete; doorkeeper. Edward Parrv. iron; watchman, watch-man, Thomas P. Rees, Wavne- janitor Josoph h. Newton. Juab; committee clent. Mrs. Mahle Wyson. Weber- committee com-mittee clerk, Maud Forsgren. Boxender; committee clerk. June Q. Kimhall, Salt Lake; committee clerk, J. Pratt Duke Wasatch: committee clerk. Hattie Peters' Weber: committee clerk, Lavon Chandler, Chand-ler, Salt Lake. Employees Take Oath. The report was adontod unanimously and. upon request of the speaker, the employees all came forward and took the path of office, which was administered by Justice McCarty. The next order of business was the assignment as-signment of seats to members of the house. Representative J. L. Rovden of Summit county moved that the women members be given first choice of seats, that the hold-over members be civen second sec-ond choice, and that the new members draw their seats by lot. Representative Alma Greenwood of Utah county sought to amend this motion to provide that district delegations should be seated together. The amendment was lost by a vole of 2C to 21. The original motion then carried, and the next fifteen or twenty minutes were consumed in the selection of seats, which, apparently, resulted re-sulted satisfactorily to all concerned. ( During the assignment of seats Representative Repre-sentative Grace Stratton-Airey arose and wanted to know why her name had been omitted from the official roster of members mem-bers of the legislature. Representative Thomas Page of Salt Lake volunteered the reply that the names of good-looking members were not in cluded In the roster. This explanation seemed to satisfy the member from Salt Lake county. Speaker Tolton then appointed" a committee com-mittee to notify the senate that the house was organized and ready for business. On tills committee were named Representatives Repre-sentatives J. L. Boyden of Summit county, Grace Stratton-Airey and C. M. Hecker of Salt Lake county. The committee went out and reported that the senate had recessed re-cessed for an hour and It would perform its duties when the senate reconvened. In the meantime a committee from the senate, composed of Senators C. L. Olson of Salt Lake county. Don B. Colton of Vernal and W. J. Purker of Weber, came in and notified the house that the senate was organized and ready for business. As a committee to notify the governor that the house was organized. Speaker Tolton named Representatives George W. Decker of Parowan, .Daisy Allen of Salt Lake county, Frank T. Bennett of Carbon Car-bon county. To permit the members to get the keys to their desks and prepare themselves for the regular routine of business, the house then adjourned for one hour. Extends Hospitality- When the house reconvened the speaker announced that an invitation had been received from the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose for all of the members of I the house to make their headquarters nd j to make themselves at home at the club-rooms club-rooms of the order during their stay in the city. The Invitation was accepted with thanks. It was announced that the club will issue guests' cards to all the members of the house. Representative George W. Decker of Parowan. chairman of the committee to notify the governor. Exported that the governor would meet the house and senate sen-ate in joint session today at 12 o'clock noon. Speaker Tolton stiggested that In preparation prep-aration for the joint session, which will be held in the house chambers, that body should adjourn, when it did adjourn, until 11 or 11:15 o'clock this morning. Representative J. L. Boyden of Summit countv reported that his committee had formally notified the senate that the house was ready for business. V.Torking Committees. On motion of Representative George W. Decker of Parowan the house then ad-jovrned ad-jovrned until 11 o'clock this morning Following adjournment of the house, the committees went info session and took up the work of assigning members to the various working committees. After being in session until 5 o'clock, the committee adjourned until this morning, morn-ing, announcing that it had at least two hours' more work to do before the list would be ready for announcement. The committee Is composed of Sneaker John F' Tolton and 1 Representatives Thomas Page of Salt Lake, D. D. McKay of Weber, F. B- Hammond of Grand, R. W. Young, Jr., of Salt Lake, Joseph E. Cardon of Cache and J. A. Bevan of Tooele. |
