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Show .:js2pm;hdt.:'; : ims m -.2&30 vote The House killed the University-Agricultural college consolidation measure meas-ure late last night by a vote of 24 to 20. As soon aa the result was 'announced 'an-nounced men who had fought for the proposition began to advocate a special spe-cial session of the Legislature for about June 1, to consider the subject again. But meanwhile the consolidation matter mat-ter is dead. The orators on both sides quibbled over the measure almost constantly from 2 o'clock in the afternoon until 11:30 at night. When finally the bill was put to vote, the Representatives lined up as follows: ; Ayes Benson, Bower, Clegg, Cot-tam, Cot-tam, CritcKIow, Croft, Davis, DoTius, Dyreng, Eldredge, Giles, Henrie, ack-son, ack-son, Jenson of Sevier, Jensen of Salt Lake, McRae, Marks, Meeks,, Thompson, Thomp-son, Tolton, Westphal 24. Noes Barnett, Bowns, Dean, Fuller, Hansen, Hendricks, Hott, Hone, Kuch-ler, Kuch-ler, Larson, Long, McMillan, Maughan, Mills, Miller, Pedersen, Randall, Robinson. Rob-inson. Weston, Mr. Speaker 20. Mills and Barnett changed their votes from aye to no. To carry the proposition would have required thirty votes. ' Waa Special Order. ' The Park bill, the consolidation measure, came up under a special order. or-der. Immediately after the reading of the measure Mills started the fight with a speech in opposition. Time was called on him, but after a brief discussion dis-cussion he was permitted to resume. , Pederson, in seconding Mills' lead, praised Utah's Agricultural college as the greatest institution of its kind in the country. Hone in Opposition. Westphal advocated consolidation. Then Hone talked against the bill, say- to whether the question of consolidation was before the convention which nominated nomi-nated him. Mr. Parrv declined to answer an-swer the question. Mr. Speaker said that he had made a trip to Cedar City two years ago, when it was believed that the Cedar City branch was normal nor-mal school; now, he declared, it was simply a highschool; he therefore moved an amendment to strike out the words Cedar City from the bill. The amendment amend-ment was lost. Henrie, advocating the bill's passage, pleaded also for a popular vote on the proposition for consolidation. He considered con-sidered two institutions for higher learning one too many. Clegg read a mass of figures to support sup-port his position favoring consolidation. consolida-tion. When he had finished the House adjourned until 7:30 o'clock. Hansen declared against the bill, and Bower for it. Eldredge wanted the bill passed, but was willing to have a popular vote. "Let's don't move the Agricultural college to Salt Lake City,'.' he urged. v . Joseph's Strong address. Davis was tired of the agitation, but wanted the people to vote. Then Speaker Joseph, calling Kuchler to the chair, spoke in opposition to consolidation. consolida-tion. He said he did not propose to tear down in a night what it had taken years to. build up. .He made the poin.t that the Agricultural college asked for 50 cents on the thousand thou-sand dollars to maintain the- Agricultural Ag-ricultural college. This, he said, he did not propose to tear down in a night what it had taken years to build up. He made the point that the Agricultural Agri-cultural College asked for 50 cents on the thousand dollars to maintain the Agricultural College. This, he said, the rich men could pay easily and thn poor man was glad to do so, as it enabled his children to acquire an education. edu-cation. Mr. 8peaker excoriated the professors of the University who, he j declared, were and had been using the time of the State, the time which thy hniilil dflvnto in th TTVniiraraitv in InW. nip, in mo cuunc ui uib auuircs Mr. Speaker . and Fellow Representatives: Representa-tives: I am opposed to the measure thst Is now before us for our consideration. If this measure shall pass, what does it mean? It means, Mr. -Speaker, and fellow fel-low Representatives, that within two years the door of the Agricultural college would be closed and the Agricultural college col-lege consolidated upon one site with the University. In Salt Lake City. I believe, Mr. Speaker and fellow Representatives, that this would be a death blow to the agricultural Interests of the State of Utah. It Is a well-known fact that the smelter smoke Is killing all your vegetation, vegeta-tion, and then you ask us to send our bovs and gVrls to Salt Lake City to Inhale In-hale the deadly fumes of your smelter smoke, and come In contact with the deadly Influence which exists In this city and In every other large city in the United States. Mr. Speaker and fellow Represer.iatlvea. I bellere it is the duty of this Legislature to build up and not to tear down, to foster fos-ter and not to curtail, to strengthen and not to weaken, to build more happy homes on the farma and create more revenue. rev-enue. Stop this jealousy and build up an institution, the Agricultural college, which la the backbone and sinew of the great State of Utah; an institution that is making mak-ing our boys and girls better men and women; an Institution that Is making the deserts of our State blossom like a rose; and I believe If we cast our ballots against this measure that the people of the great State of Utah will rise up and sav, "Blessed he the lawmakers of the Seventh session of the Legislature of the State of Utah." Jackson talked for the bill, and Hendricks Hen-dricks against it. Following them Jensen Jen-sen called up the question of constitutionality, constitu-tionality, declaring the question at is sue to be one which the people at large should be permitted to decide. Speaker Joseph reminded Jensen that the position posi-tion he took yesterday was at variance vari-ance with what he assumed toward another bill last Saturday.' Parry Gives Figures. Dean and Parry united in advocacy of consolidation. Parry insisted that the people of Iron county want to vote on the question. He cited these figures to show the attendance in the two institutions insti-tutions from counties south of Weber county bying and working for the consolidation consolida-tion measure. . I Dorius gave his reasons for sup- ' porting the bill. He believed thst the people should be given an opportunity to pass upon the matter. For this if for no other reason, he would favor the , bill. He made a I strong plea in behalf of highschools in every county. He said that a few years ago his county had sent several students to an outside institution in-stitution of higher learning; now there was a high school in his county with 150 pupils. Fuller's Speech Effective. Fuller's address against consolida-v tion was one of the most effective of the day. He declared the passage of the bill would mean a great high school In Logan and a university in Salt Lake City, with no saviug to the taxpayers. He cited the expenditure expendi-ture in tbe erection of the buildings and plant at the Agricultural Agri-cultural College, and showed thst if the Agricultural College ceased to be a college that the land upon which the buildings had been erected, together with the improvements, would revert back to the city of Logan, which had endowed the State with the land. He showed what the Agricultural t'ollege had accomplished in arid farming in beets, in grain, in all agricultural products. He said it had been said that the lamb and the lion would lie down together, but in this case it would be -with the lamb inside of the lion. He was very pronounced in his opposition oppo-sition to the bill. Suggest a Compromise. Dyreng opposed consolidation, but was willing to compromise the question if a division of the funds appropriated for the two institutions would result in high schools for all the counties. Benson emphatically favored the bill. He predicted that if the measure was defeated it would become a great political question. Passage of the bill would mean the extinction of the Agricultural college, said Weston. If he voted for consolidation consoli-dation he would never be able to, explain ex-plain to his constituents. Then, in turn, Larsen spoke against the bill. McRae for it. and Maughan against it.- Robinson was a vigorous opponent of the measure. Croft, Richards Rich-ards and Marks snoke for passage, and Kuchler appealed for the bill's defeat. Thompson closed the debate in an earnest ear-nest plea for consolidation. r. of u. a. c. it. Beaver ; 10 4 Carbon 4 Davis S2 12 Emery 10 2 Garfield 1 1 Grand 4 1 Iron 24 1 Juab 9 11 Kane 6 2 Millard 33 Morgan 8 4 Piute .i. . 1 Sanpete ....... i 21 S3 Sevier ..14 12 Summit 17 13 Tooele 12 Vlntah 2 t'tah 73 22 Wasatch 8 Washington 19 7 Wayne 4 Totals 323 156 He was questioned by Mr. Speaker as |