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Show ram GIVES HOVEL VIEW OF L I I1C 0 LI! : Former Solon Paints Picture Different From Popular Conception ADDRESSES LEGISLATORS Lawmaker Meet to Honor Memory of Emancipator An Abraham Lincoln, far different from tha Groat Emancipator, far dlf- i mn I. uun uiai popular cvncvpuun of th patron aalnt of Republicanism,1 was pictured before Utah's legislature Monday by Burton W. Musser, attorney attor-ney and former state senator from Salt Lake. Th legislature, domlnsntly Democratic, Demo-cratic, gathered in Joint session to pay tribute to the foremost Republican of the nation's history, beard of an era in th lit of th gaunt, lanky Civil war president which is seldom discussed dis-cussed when he served in th Illinois Illi-nois stst leglslsture, - Paralleling the present condition In Utah's leglslsture, when the lawmaker! lawmak-er! ara battling for and against prohibition pro-hibition repeal, Mr. Museer told now Lincoln was caught in the throes oi prohibition agitation as tar back as Lincoln, Mr. Musser said, although i resenting a petition to th Illinois swmskera advocating repeal of laws I luthorizing sale of intoxicating I iquors, voted sgalnst a temperance ' nil which finally was presented. ITRIKINO PICTTjai Th speaker painted a striking pie- , ure of the men who was to become , erhaps the best known of all presi- ' lents, a Lincoln sometimes unscrupu- ( ous in methods, msny times under he scrutiny of critics, but always rigorous in fighting for the causa he tspoused. Mr. Musser told of contacts Lincoln lad with kinsmen of now prominent J tahna -Coleman Smoot, from whom !i borrowed 1200 to outfit himself in presentable clothing in which to ap- ' pear in the Illinois house of representatives; represen-tatives; General W. Lee D. Swing, with whom he almost fought a duel Following a controversy over changing chang-ing th Illinois stst cspltol from Van-dalta Van-dalta to Springfield; and Colonel James Shields, a great-uncle of Senator Sen-ator Dan B. Shields, who, although a Democrat, was a colleague of Lincoln's Lin-coln's during his legislative career. Lincoln, best known for his fight to emancipate the slsves, encountered th slavery quesUon when ha served (Continued' On Pace Tea) UTAIIll GIVES HOVEL VIEW OF LINCOLN (Oonllnetd Preai rasa Oast In the legislature, the speaker asserted. as-serted. "When Lincoln was scarcely 28 years old the entire subject of slavery slav-ery came directly before him and was debated thoroughly by men of high standing,' he aaid. "He, studied the southern view as presented by memorials memo-rials and resolutions drawn with utmost care by the ablest men In various vari-ous slave holding states the crisp demand de-mand of Virginia, the appealing request re-quest of Alabama, the spirited statement state-ment of Kentucky, the peremptory call of Mississippi. HOLDS TO POSITION Tie pored over the well written reply of Connecticut the evasive answer an-swer of New York, the curious response re-sponse of Illinois. The only real point of difference between his views and those of the msjority of the house was moral the injustice of slsvery. As to the abolitionists, no member disapproved dis-approved of them more strongly than ha. He adhered to this position lor a quarter of a century." Lincoln's rise from the legislature through the tumultuous pre-ClvIl war days, and his association with Webster, Web-ster, from whom he obtained the spark that Ignited his desires to battle bat-tle for preservation of the Union, all were graphically pictured by Mr. Musser. Paying final tribute to the Great Emancipator, ha said: "Without a pencil, without paper, without a book, even without conversation, conver-sation, without social Intercourse, and with an overwhelming and constant melancholy, and almost without a single sin-gle person during his entire life who was a splritusl or-intellectual intimate, inti-mate, and by dint of the most persevering perse-vering attentiveness to his own spiritual, spirit-ual, moral and intellectual advancement advance-ment he rose unquesUonsbly to the highest heights of statesmanship until at Gettysburg it seemed almost like a combination of a great artist I reat poet and great philosopher, and almost al-most Deity Himself, spoke through the lips of this ssd-eyed, overburdened an dalmost overwhelmed president of the United States, whose own cabinet was frequently traitorous toward him, these words thst persons in America and Europe teach their youngest children chil-dren to memorize: 'Four-score and seven years ago ...." The Joint memorial session was also provided with a musical program arranged ar-ranged by Mrs. E. E. Erlcksen, member mem-ber of the lower house. Immediately following the session both houses convened to begin work on many bills lying in legislative hoppers. road, and George H. Smith, general counsel for the railroad. The fish and game committee reported re-ported favorably the bill -regulating opening and closing dates of fish and game preserves after amending the measure to make the season at Finn lake open on June 1 and close on October Oc-tober 1. A bill prepared for Introduction tn the senate also waa discussed by the committee providing that the fish and game department shall have charge of all boats operating on fresh water lakes In the interest of safeguarding safe-guarding the lives of sportsmen. The senate banking committee reported re-ported favorably the Wallace bill providing pro-viding for separation of trust departments de-partments of banks. The committee also reported favorably a measure to give authority for liquidating closed banks to 73 per cent of the depositors. depos-itors. The house banking committee reported re-ported favorably the Royale bill on personal loans after amending it to reduce the Interest rate on loans of S300 or under, from S per cent to 2 per cent per month. Provisions of the Monson blH regulating regu-lating manufacture and distribution . of frozen desserts were opposed at a public hearing before the house public pub-lic health committee by E. M. Peterson. Peter-son. Salt Lake; S. P. Jones, Ogden, and Tom G. PollU. Salt Lake. Although favoring the regulatory provisions of the bill, the group opposed op-posed the restrictions on bacterial content and the M annual license fee, arguing the fee should be based on the gallonage produced by a manufacturer. Medical Contract ' Act Appears Doomed i Prospects that the Musser bill reg- , , ulatlng medical contracts would be I speedily killed appeared Monday af- , t ter vigorous opposition to the meat- j . ure had been presented to the senate banking committee. i The bill was --"vwed by represen- , . tatives and employes of various cor- : porations who objected to provisions ' of the bill which would require pay-' pay-' ment of a license fee to negotiate con-i con-i tracts for medical treatment and , i which would provide penalties for , I violations. ... I Among those who appeared before i the committee were Dr. W. R. Calder- i wood, physician for employes of the 1 Z. C. M. U L. M. Griffiths, represent- 1 lng the Associstion of Mechanical t Crafts; H. H. Reiser and Nephl Whit- , I alter, representing the clerical em- , ployes of the Oregon Short Line rail- , |