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Show : HEAD OF SENATE j REBUKES CRITICAL MEIERS Land Board Reorganization Bill Passed State Senate There was a display of fireworks In the senate yesterday afternoon when .'resident McKay rebuked members for j insinuating that the methods adopted and rulings of the chair on msures I that were before the senate wi-re not j in accord 'with the regular methods Hum Hi ed in I'tah. The r huKe was j brought by remarks that the. Jenkins , bill proposing a reorganiration of the state land board, which had been placed on the second reading calendar I on Wednesday, was not in accord wilh I the constitutional methods. 1'resident ! McKay said : "I deire to state, and to state em-fphatically, em-fphatically, that this bill was not killed yesterday and was not resurrected. I I have tried to be fair tsnd impartial in j my rulings in this position. The rul ing of yesterday was upheld n appeal ! from the chair and was the correct r. I ruling. I! , j ' l'ersona!!y. I am getting tired t j these little, nasty insinuations. Ke-; Ke-; marks about things being 'greased' are ! imcallfMl rr in a body of this kind. 1 i wish the senators would refrain j from insinuations. It itrn they hurt I no one but the p rson who makes thm. j but th cnute rhould rise above this I sort of thing. I "l take gre;it pleasure In voting 'aye' 'on ihis bill. If for no other reason than I oecause gf the remarks that have been ! made in the debate." q ' j The hill, which provides for a one-'m;tn one-'m;tn commission fnstead of five, as at J present, was passed finally hy a vor of 10 to 8. The rmsrsure was sent to the house and will now run the gauntlet gaunt-let of the I iwer body. The mea-Oire of Senator Turn, known as the headlf'sa ballot, which Is pro- I posed for ho and judicial elections, j was passed by a vote of IK ay, 1 nays, j 1 abwnt and not voting. The measure meas-ure providing for the submission to the people of a constitutional amend-I amend-I ment w hlch w ill lncreas the pay of I members of the legiMlature from $4 to i $H per d:iy. which is also a bill of Sen-l Sen-l ator Iern's. was passed by the unani-i unani-i mou vote of the senators present. |