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Show TODAY'S PROCEEDINGS IN THE TWO BRANCHES . . . . -, The opening session of the Fifth Utah Legislature was ' brief and businesslike business-like In the Senate. It lasted Just forty minutes. There was no attempt at speech-making and no argument of any 4 question presented. . j ' , " Everything moved with machine-like celerity and smoothness and after the purely formal procedure of taking the oaths of office, appointing a committee on rules and notifying the House and Gov. Wells that organization was csm-,plete, csm-,plete, the Senate adjourned until 2 p. m. . tomorrow, when a- Joint session, both Senate and House, will listen to Gov. Wells's message, the Governor's report y to the Legislators conveying the request ' that they assemble . in Joint session to receive the message at that hour. 7 Senate Called to Order. ' t ;- The Senate wiU' please come to or-.ier," or-.ier," said Noble Warrum, former chief - clerk of the Senate as his gavel fell at five minutes past 12 o'clock this afternoon. after-noon. Without another word of preliminary prelim-inary remarks Mr. Warrum proceeded with the rollcall of Senators, which showed all present. Chief Justice Baskln of the Supreme . court then administered the oath "to support, obey and uphold the Constitution Constitu-tion of the United States and the State ' of Utah," and discharge the duties of the position to which each had been elected. "Nominations for a President . of the ' Senate are now in order," said Mr., War-rum. War-rum. . ... . . i Senator Love of the Sixth district presented the name of Senator K. M Allison from the Fourth district. Senator Sen-ator Barnes of the Third district presented pre-sented the name of Senator J. R. . Murdoch Mur-doch of the Fifth. In both cases the presentation pre-sentation was, formal and without any waste of words. On the rollcall Senator Allison received 12 and Senator Mur-dock Mur-dock votes, the nominee In each case voting for his opponent. Announcement of the result was re- ' ceived with great applause and Senators Iove and Barnes were appointed to escort es-cort the President-elect to the chair. ., Senator Allison's Speech. ' -' Senator Allison's words of greeting were few and to the point. . He said: "I am deeply lusceptlble of the honor conferred upon me in my election to this offlce, and while I shall strive with all my power to discharge my duties fairly and Impartially. I feel that I shall need the help cf every Senator. Let us strive to serve the people of the State faithfully faith-fully and welL Then we can go back ' to our constituents conscious that ' we V have earned their gratitude. Gentlemen, what Is your .further pleasure?" The Plrst Eesolution, After Chief Justice Baskln had admin-iu:red admin-iu:red the oath to President, Allison, Senator Lawrence introduced resolution No. 1. providing that the officers of the Senate be the ones selected by the Republican Re-publican Senatorial caucus Friday night- - : - ' . - Senator Bennlon introduced a substitute substi-tute providing for the election of the list made up of Democratic candidates for official position,'. which being purely complimentary, received only the six Democratic votes, and the first resolution resolu-tion carried. ' . - . The oath of office was administered to the officers as chosen by the Republicans. Republi-cans. , ' , . On motion' of Senator Sherman, the secretary was Instructed to notify the House that the Senate' had. completed Its organization and was ready for business, bus-iness, and on motion of Senator, Larsen of : Box -Elder, a committee consisting of Senators McKay;. Bennlon and himself him-self were appointed to-convey the same message to Gov. Wells. - Senator Larsen' of Box EJder offered a motion that a committee of three on rules . be appointed and the President named Senators Larsen, Sherman and Murdock. x .. On motion of Senator Williams it was ordered that the rules of last session be adopted pending the report of the Committee Com-mittee on Rules. The chaplain. Bishop Sproul of Washington Wash-ington county, offered a prayer for Divine Di-vine guidance of the Senators during the session. ' . The question of selecting seats was settled by a motion that holdover Sen ators choose seats first, after which the Republicans were assigned to the north and the Democrats to the south side of the chamber, with Senators Sherman. Whltmore anO Johnson a committee for I their selection, . . . Communication Zs Tabled. . A communicat'on from the House notifying no-tifying the Senate of Its organisation was ordered laid upon the table. The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company sent to the Senate a tender of a free telephone' for the use of members of both Senate and House during the eeasion. and the free use of toll lines by members from all public telephone stations. sta-tions. A motion by Senator Bamberger to table superseded a motion ' for acceptance ac-ceptance and was carried, but afterward on motion of Senator Gardner the communication com-munication was taken from the table and- the offer accepted with thanks. Senator Lawrence of the committee which conveyed to Gov. Wells the message mes-sage that the Senate was ready for bus-Iness bus-Iness then reported that the Governor desired to meet both houses at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to submit his message. mes-sage. A motion to assemble in the Senate , . , , ' (Continued on Page ti charr.ber at 1:CD o'clock tomorrow sfter-noon sfter-noon ar. i proceel in a tody to te i; yiaa for the Joint session prevailed and an adjournment was tsken until that ho-jr. lurlr.g the brief nt sest:on thei e were not more than twenty spectators in the chamber, the proceeding's being apparently too, formal to excite great intereet. . - - .' . .. : . H0UZZ CALLTD TO" 'r- , OnDra AITD AT OXC3 " . errs dotto TO lusnrrrx .As the hour for the opening. of the Fifth session of the House drew near the membars began to .arrive and. at 12:10 the House was called to order by James T. Hammond, Secretary of State, who acted la the absence of the chief clerk. . ... t .'Mr. Hammond read lh list of Representatives Repre-sentatives that he had complied from .vouchers in his possession, and.it was moved 'and carried that the list be considered con-sidered as. evidence, of .the right. of the members to their seats. . . v Nominations for Speaker were m order, or-der, and Mr. Barrett of the Twentieth district nominated Thomas Hull of the Eighth, and Stoker of the Sixth placed in nomination Morris of the ; Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth district. - i -'- 4 On a vote, the acting speaker, declared Hull elected and appointed Barrett and Morris to escort Hull to the chair. The oath waa administered by Justice Baskin of the Supreme court, and the House proceeded to business. . 'The nominees of the Republican caucus; cau-cus; were- elected. A motion to adopt, temporarily; the rules of the Fourth session of the House was made and carried, car-ried, without discussion. ( . v j:. .Governor Is ' Notified. - . It was then moved and carried tha,t a committee of three be appointed to notify no-tify the Governor that the Fifth session of the House ' was In order, and the Speaker appointed Condon, Nash and Stoker oh this committee. - , The question of seats then came before be-fore the House and occupied considerable consider-able time and furnished a pretext for more or less pliant rivalry. The first motion that carried was that the five Democratic 'members be given first choice of seats, the first three seats to the west of .the center in the first row and the first two seats to the west of the center in the second row. 1 1 The final disposition of seats was made on a motion that carried and provided pro-vided that the choice of seats be decided de-cided by choice. . . i Seats Are Selected. - . ' ' Chief Clerk Cummings then proceeded to. pick the names from a hat, and the members selected their seats. Bulletins from . the Senate . chamber stating that that body was in session and that a committee had been appointed appoint-ed to act with a similar' committee from the House to wait on the Governor were read and filed. The report of the committee appointed to wait on the Governor was heard. It was tm the effect that the Governor sent greeting and would meet the House and Senate In-joint assembly at 2 o'clock tomorrow. to-morrow. . . , Committee on Boles. ' The Speaker appointed Done. Barrett, Spry, Merrill and Morris a .Committee on Rules. - ' ' i . ' : A motion was. carried .fixing the hours for meeting at. 1:30 tomorrow. and .3:30 after then, subject at any time to'the pleasure of the House. . : .V -" ' ? . A. motion was made and. carried that copies: of the Revised Statutes for 1899 and. 1901 .and of the. Seesion Laws be presented to each -member: : : The House adjourned at 1:15 o'clock. v ' The fact that -under-present conditions the Senatorial election, is. not: regarded as presenting a condition, that. mM require re-quire .'much; time, to settle, . will., it is urged by those.-who. believe there Is no question of - Apostle . Smoot's choice at the opening of the game, afford the Senators' Sen-ators' and Representatives an opportunity opportu-nity to accomplish- much In the way of needed legislation-for. the State. - ' Many members of both houses art elected for the first time, .the lower house In particular' having a very large proportion of members who are without experience in legislative work. Tet there is no lack of ideas among the- Representatives Represen-tatives as what lines, the Legislature should proceed - to work - along, . even though there may be some haziness as to the proper method of framing a bill, there being only, three attorneys among the Representatives,- . ' ., ; Iniggtlon the Big; 8ubject, , ' ' . Irrigation Is the subject, according to the views of ma-ny, which most imperatively imper-atively demands the . attention of the lawmakers. The members 'from every agricultural section - of the State - are anxious to see. a measure passed that will - afford . relief in some, degree from the conditions. existing when a shortage of water causes long, and expensive litigation. lit-igation. ; ; -' ( '.";;.. ;.-" Bich County Man's ,VIew, V . V .. : Robert - McKlnnon of c Rich . - county, who is one of the' five Democratic -members, says that the trouble with present pres-ent 'conditions lies In the fact that there is nothing-permanent about the title to water. - - f "Too much litigation follows - when water ls scarce," says Mr. McKlnnon. "and while titles are being settled In court the loss, falls upon those whose rights prove to be well established." ? Mr. McKlnnon Is a stockman of prominence prom-inence in Rich county and won out -over bis opponent, the president of the Rich stake, by the narrow 'margin of 6 votes, while.' the. majority of the Democratic ticket was defeated.' Dr. A. S. Condon of Weber believes that one of the most important questions ques-tions which the legislators should consider con-sider is that ot Improving public roads. - "The farm is the. supply depot of the Republic." he declared, "and every benefit ben-efit in getting Its. products to market I helps- all classes alike.". Law Should Be Broadened! Charles .W. Watts ot "Kanosh says that the. scope of the present Irrigation law. should be broadened so as to in some manner help sections of the State whose resources in this respect are crippled. crip-pled. . ' y f x y -- - -t - - Alma Molyneux'of Moab, .who Is well known as an educator, Js preparing to urge legislation that . will - tend to advance ad-vance the interests of the public school system, although he has. not at present completed his plans. After a few days jot preliminary, work Ibewheels' of the' legislative -machine will begin to-run smoothly -and the flow of bills will doubtless. continue uninterruptedly uninter-ruptedly until the end of the session. . |