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Show MEASURE liMWlSlEB it PRESMl : SESsioNiCffleusliMOfcGiii SSBBSSBBSSBSSSSSSSaBSSB"SJ Fifth General Assembly Begins Be-gins at Noon; Republican Caucus Nominees Elected in Each House. Ucan caucus, be elected.. This was adopt ,ed. Anderson moved that the rules of the last House be adopted. This wu carried. D. R. Roberta offered a motion that the House notify the Senate that the House Is ready for business. Jamea Wilson of Wasatch moved that a committee of three be named to act with a like committee from the Senate to no-tify no-tify the Governor that the Legislature is in session. The minority aide of the House moved that they be given the first choice of seats.' - t Representatives Tolton. Stringham and Cottam selected their seats on the west side of the house. In the motion for - selection of seats, James A. Anderson of - Morgan county moved that the members be allowed to select their seats, alphabetically. Representative Repre-sentative B. Wilson of Wasatch objected. The House then voted, to allow the old members first choice of seats. After this was done, the names of the new members were drawn. Speaker Hull called the House to order and Clerk Vlgus then read the announcements announce-ments of the Senate's organisation and officers. ,- i . In drawing for seats Clerk Vlgus neglected neg-lected to place all of the names in the hat and, as a consequence, half of the House was left unseated. It was necessary to commenec the drawing again. A second time the drawing was conducted, and it was discovered that the name of Wooten of Wasatch had been omitted, so a third drawing was necessary. An invitation from the National Livestock Live-stock association to attend its sessions at Denver was received and filed. The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company and the Home Telephone company compa-ny each offered to install telephones for the use of the legislators free of charge. The Bell company also offered free use of its toll lines -to members during the session. ses-sion. The offers were accepted. James Wilson, from the committee named to wait on the Governor, reported that the Governor's message would be ready by 3 o'clock p. m. Tuesday, . - The Speaker named as the Committee en Rules Kinney. Marks, Merrill, Golton i and amnios, J.r--w.- . The House then .adjourned -until; l'JD' Tuesday. TO LENGTHEN TERM 07 SHERIFF; MEASURE TO - BE TRIED ONCE MORE. - Should the law naming the term of office of Sheriff be changed to read from two years to -four years? A bill asking that this change be -made will be presented to the present session of the Legislature. Such a measure was presented to the Legislature four years ago, being fathered fath-ered In the Senate by Senator Smoot of Utah county and in the House by a member from Weber county. It was late in the session when it was presented pre-sented and its friends had but little chance to lobby for its success, yet it succeeded in passing the Senate, through the efforts of Senator Smoot and one or two others, but it met defeat in the House, "because It was not properly prop-erly explained to the members" was the idea of putting the spoils In such a position that the other fellow can never get a chance to retake them is all wrong and should be defeated., I in favor of such a law? Not much. I am opposed to.it In every way." How the Law Would Work. ; There are twenty-seven counties in Utah. Each county has a Board of County Commissioners consisting of three members, a Clerk. Recorder, Assessor, As-sessor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Attorney and Surveyor a total of. -295 county ofBoers elected every two years, with the exception ex-ception of one commissioner In each county. Of these offices at the present time the Democrats have five County Commissioners, Commis-sioners, seven Clerks, three Recorders, four Assessors, four Treasurers, five Sheriffs, seven Attorneys and two SurveyorsA Sur-veyorsA total of 37. Each office has from one to twenty assistants. Eight would be a fair average for each office, or a total of 2350 In all. Of this number the Democrats can lay claim to 294, leaving 2054 Republicans, enough to make a prMty good showing In the urgi .lug of the p&scj of -axrviLaerulc bUL Should ' the proposed measure come before the Legislature the .Democratic members may be expected to fight It from start to finish. ,- DEMOCRATS INDORSE CAUCUS NOMINEES FOR POSITIONS IN SENATE. It was five minutes after 12 when Secretary of State Tingey called the members, of the Senate to order. . All members answered to the rollcall with the exception of A. L. Barber of Cache county.' . The newly elected Senators were then sworn in by Chief Justice Bartch, - George N. Lawrence of salt Lake placed in nomination the name of S. II. 1 Love for president. The nomination was seconded bv Senator Bamberger, one of the holdover Democratic Senators. Sena-tors. The rules were suspended and Mr. Love was elected by acclcamatlon.. Upon taking the chair Mr. Love made neat speech thanking the members for the honor which had been conferred con-ferred upon him. On motion of W. K. Walton the officers offi-cers as named by the Republican caucus cau-cus were declared elected. This motion was Also seconded by a Democrat, , Senator Sen-ator Bennion. - The oath was administered adminis-tered to the newly elected- officers by Chief Justice Bartch. Lewis, Pork and Hollingsworth were appointed as a Committee on Rules and Order of Business. The invocation was offered by Chaplain Chap-lain H. S. Gowans, after which a motion mo-tion was adoDted permitting Senator McKay, the oldest member, to select his seat first, and that the three minority members have the next choice of seats. A resolution of respect in memory of the wife of Senator McKay, who died last Thursday, was adopted. Senator McKay responded briefly to the resolutions. reso-lutions. ' After appointing a committee of three to wait on the Governor and a like committee com-mittee to notify the House that the Senate was organized, the Senate adjourned ad-journed out of respect to the memory of Mrs. McKay. The Fifth General Assembly of Utah convened at noon Monday. The new -members' of the Senate and the forty-five forty-five members of the House took the oath and then the Republican caucus nominees for the various legislative i -offices were formally elected. Stephen 1 " H. Love was chosen President of the Senate and Thomas Hull, Speaker of the House. Message Beady Tuesday. It Is understood the message of Gov. . Cutler will not .be ready for delivery - until Tuesday. A Joint caucus of the Republican Senators Sen-ators and Representatives has been called for Wednesday night to choose a candidate for United States Senator . to succeed Senator Thomas Kearns. The balloting for Senator will begin Tuesday, Tues-day, January 17. The active candidates . for the Senatorshlp are George Sutherland Suth-erland and George W. Bartch. Anti-Polygamy BI1L Until the message of Gov. Cutler ts made public, little can be told as to Vi ospec U 1 e-regtstetJon. It 4 said in well ''Informed circles. However, that a bill similar to the one. introduced in the Idaho Legislature last week, making polygamy a crime, will be offered early in the session. Another measure that will no doubt excite much interest is one to place ell deputies and cle'-ks of county officers under :clvil service. CIVIL SERVICE LAW ' FOR COUNTY OFFICES WILL BE INTRODUCED A law to place every deputy and clerk employed In any county office lr the State under the control of a civil service ser-vice commission Is one of ti;e possibilities possibili-ties of the present session of the Legislature. Legis-lature. ' Such a measure is being considered and talked of by several of those most directly interested in the passage of such a measure. The idea is to. hve the Legislature pass a law making the employment of all help in county offices pass a civil service examination before they can enter upon the discharge of their duties. The proposed measure ' also contemplates contem-plates the appointment by the Governor, Govern-or, by and with the consent of the Senate, Sen-ate, of a civil service commission of three or five members, who would have charge of all examinations and pass upon the qualifications of all appli-' appli-' cants. Argument for the' Measure. In speakings of the matter one well-' well-' known county deputy said: "I think such a law would be a good thing and should be passed by the present pres-ent session of the Legislature. There Is - a need for such a measure and I know of no better time to pass It than now. , The positions of deputies and clerks should be placed on a civil service list the same as the employees of the post-office post-office and other Government offices. You see it Is like hls: After a person has spep't two years in an office he or she is far better able to perform the the claim made by its friends. This year another attempt will be made to secure the passage of such a measure and It is not likely the matter will be left until near the close of the session before its friends Introduce and ! urge its passage. It is argued by those In favor of the measure that it is a much needed law; that the office of Sheriff Is different from any other office; that If a man Is a good bookkeeper or accountant he can enter one of the other offices and find himself very much at home, or if the appointee is a good stenographer he or she will find but little difference, save in form, from the work which he or she has been used to. With the Sheriffs Sher-iffs office, however. It Is urged that the work differs from the ordinary routine of other offices, either public or private. The haunts and habits of. criminals must be learned. This, they say, cannot be done In a day, week or month. Criminals Crim-inals and their method of work must be studied. In speaking of the matter Monday a man who has had some experience in this line of work, but who does not now hold any public office, said: "The work of a peace officer differs In many respects from that required In other branches of the public service. His work is not routine. He may have a different kind of a Job to perform every day, or several In one day. On! experience makes him a good officer and the man who is not worth twice as much at the end of two years as when he entered the office has no business to have entered the office at all." When asked, if this was true, why not make the Job one for life, he replied: re-plied: , "Well, that would not be a bad Idea either. At least make it good as long as he proves himself to be a good officer, offi-cer, or else so arrange it that a part of the old force will remain in office until the new men become sufficiently experienced ex-perienced to properly perform the work. The public is entitled to protection and In no office do they need experienced men as much as they do in the Sheriff's office and on the police force." How the proposed measure will be viewed by the Sheriffs now in office Is a Question that remains to be answered as the measure does not contemplate any change until the expiration of the present terms of office. . HOUSE ORGANIZES AND IMS SOME FUN SEATING MEMBERS At 12:10 W. C. Cummings, chief clerk of the last House, called the legislators to order and read the certified list of Representatives. Rep-resentatives. Supreme Justice Straup administered the oath to the legislators, and Mr. Cum-ir.ings Cum-ir.ings then called for nominations for Speaker;- . Harry S. Joseph of Salt Lake was on his feet before Mr. Cummings . had finished fin-ished and placed the name of Thomas Hull before the house. Numerous seconds were shouted from the house and, as there were no other nominations, Mr. Hull waa elected unanimously. He waa escorted to the chair by Representatives Joseph and Austin. In his ddress to the. Legislators, Mr. Hull thanked them - for the honor hon-or conferred upon him and expressed his desire to do everything possible for the welfare of Utah. "Let us endeavor to push what legislation legisla-tion comes before us," said the speaker. "We must remember that we are re pre. sentatives of the people and that as such there must be no creeds or color. "While I am for economy, let ua not forget that our public affaire need money. The many splendid institutions of the State must have money. "I thank you for the honor conferred on me." F. W. Flshburn moved that the officers of the House, as nominated by the Repub. . duties of , the office than If he or she had just entered the office. He or she is able to give the taxpayers far more value for the salary paid than a new man or woman. "Of course if a person became negligent negli-gent in the performance of his duties, h could be removed, or for other causes the same action could be taken. The law would provide for such occasions. Such a law. would, be a mighty good thing and I. for one, hope to see it pass. -- - . ' ' ' Bill Not Yet Drafted.' When asked if the proposed bill aad been drafted yet he replied: - "Well, no, not yet. but I think that it will be .and that It will be presented to the Legislature for the consideration before the end of the session. We have only talked the matter over with a few of those whom we think are qualified to Judge of the needs of such a measure.' That the present Officeholders will take kindly to the idea there Is little or no doubt. But how about the other fellow, the one' who applied for a position and did not get it? It is hardly likely that - he will set up .nights' to work for the passage of such a law. He may rather be expected to do a llttV knocking:. Nor Is it likely that the Democrats will grow enthusiastic over the idea. As one of them puts It: ."The Other Fellows." . "This idea of to the victors belong the spoils' Is all right. It is a Demo- oratio doctrine and a good one. , But (y-';.- - :. . . -J |