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Show Legislature Personalities The title of 'official comma putter" put-ter" has been bestowed upon Senator Sena-tor D. W. Parratt of Salt Lake City. Formerly an educator, the senator U ever watchful as to syntax syn-tax and punctuation of bills and likewise Is ever ready with amend-menta amend-menta to polish up their style. The-designatlon The-designatlon comes from Senator Ward C Holbrook of Clearfield. Even Democrat are sorry In the senate over failure of a Be-publican Be-publican to reappear at the old stand. Source of the lament la former Senator Albert E. Holmgren Holm-gren el Bear Biver, aa srehardist wbo was wont to cheer his colleagues col-leagues with generous gifts of succulent peaches from his own trees. Senator Ira A. Hugglns of Ogden has a healthy respect for the power. If not the purpose, of lobbyists. "It is said that if the head of an ordinary ordi-nary nail were heated to the temperature tem-perature of the sun and kept in that state, it would warm things for a thousand miles around such is the power of the lobbyists," he set forth during recent debate, "The senate chamber mystery" developed Thursday. For the first time sines opening of the session, ses-sion, flowers failed to appear on desks of the two women members, Thursday was homecoming day for alumni of the senate. W, Mont Ferry, first to preside over the Tipper tiouse after the legislature moved into the capitol, recalled that in those days the chamber used to reverberate with echoes of speakers' voices, a fault now corrected. cor-rected. Mrs. Elisabeth Haywood, first woman senator, made a few brief comments. Hamilton Gardner, who formerly presided over the senate, sitting in the gallery, moved the present president pres-ident to comment: "He prefers to look down on us Democrats. He's a Republican." |