Show SENATOR SMOOT IS AGAIN CHOSEN Senator Received the Support of Every Republican Member Two Votes Delng Cast for Judge William K King Senator Reed Smool has been reelected re-elected ns United States senator to bitccced himself and will hold ofllco until March 4 I 1015 Ills rcoleetlon to tho United States senate took place on Tuesday Jnnn Dry 19 In tho senate and house of representatives of Utah by tho unanl mOlls vote of every Republican mom her of legislature In thq senate there were eighteen votes all for Smoot In the houso there wero I lortyflvo votes fortythree for Smoot and two for Judge William II King Vha two votes received by Judge King wero those of tho two Democratic Demo-cratic members of tho legislature In tho senate the immune of Senator Smoot was presented by Senator Carl Badger of Salt Lake In an eloquent nddress seconding speeches being made by nearly half the senators In the house J II Wootton presented the name of tho senator from Utah county find at least n dozen repro Eotitatlvcs seconded tho nomination Representative D II Morris the lender of the minority nominated Judgo William II King F B Hammond Ham-mond tho only other Democratic member of tho legislature seconded Judge Kings nomination Aftldo from selecting a United States senator tho house on January 19 listened to tho reading of five petitions pe-titions from various points In the state praying for tho passage of a prohibitory law > Three bills were Introduced providing provid-ing for a fine ot 100 to 1000 against any person who sells a position to an employe f providing for an approprla ton for highways and bridges in Wayne county and to amend the laws relating to garnishment provld Ing for Issuance and service of writs of garnishment in certain cases nnd repealing sections of law In conflict therewith I On motion of Mr Mprrls it was decided de-cided that In tho future all bills would be read by title nnd then referred I then when reported a second time by title and when put upon passage to bo read In full I A communication from tho senate announced that tho governor had signed senate bill No1 The most important part of tho business session of tho senate was the I passage ot house Joint memorial No I 1 relating to the annexation of a portion por-tion of northern Arizona to Utah communication from Governor Spry notifying tho sonata that ho had signed senate bill No 1 appropriating appropriat-ing 35000 for the regular and contingent I con-tingent expenses of tho legislature was filed Senato bill No 11 by Senator Bui len making the entrance fee of all students at tho state agricultural school 10 was introduced and referred re-ferred to the commlltcr pn education Senate bill No 10 by Senator John Y Smith revising tho Irrigation laws went to the committee on agriculture agri-culture and irrigation Both houses of the legislature held brief sea inns Wednesday January 13f In tho sonato two bills were Introduced i Intro-duced while In the houso ono bill ono resolution and a joint memorial were Introduced The president of tho senate announced tho committees In that body A joint memorial was Introduced memorializing congress and asking that a portion of Arizona lying north of the Colorado river be annexed to Utah There were brief sessions of both houses of the legislature on Thursday January 14 There was little business transacted In the senate Iii the house the committee on rules presented present-ed Its report which was accepted A bill introduced In the house authorizes author-izes foreign corporations complying with the laws of Utah to exorcise the power of eminent domain the tame as domestic corporations The first measure pertaining to prohibition pro-hibition of tho liquor traffic came up in the house on Friday January IS when Representative Porter of Morgan Mor-gan county Introduced a bill which provided for the prohibition or manufacture manu-facture or tho sale or otherwise disposing dis-posing of intoxicating liquors The house committees were announced an-nounced a committee was appointed to make arrangements for a visit of the lawmakers to the university and several matters of minor importance attended to In the senate a number of bills mostly minor amendments to existing laws were introduced The oath of office was administered to Willard Done as minute clerk in the senate A communication from the house an |