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Show too.) riu's SIX VOTES OY FIW1EI1 Unable, However, to Prevent Pre-vent "Out and Out Steal" From Sanpete. Though ho failed ta prevent tha passage pas-sage by tha aaaata of senate bill 141. by tha special committee on boundarlee, which gtvee Juab county about 4eos acres of land now held by Sanpete county. Democratic Senator U M. Olson of Sanpete San-pete warmed thinga bp' to good shape this morning and when tho bill waa put on Ita pees see there ware tea rotaa for Ha paeeage. seven against It and one absent. The Mil waa presented aa tha reautt of a fight between the two countleo In quee-tton. quee-tton. which haa been going on for aeveral aev-eral yeara. Two yeara are a committee waa appointed Co Investigate the point of controversy, a boundary Una. and the report of the committee In the form of a Mil waa preeented at the present session. The boundary, aa eetabllshed by the etste engineer, waa chanced by tha committee, and by the replacing of the line about 4iio acres of land In question were transferred trans-ferred to Juab county. Senator J. A. Hyde of Juab called the bill up for final paeeage" Baturday afternoon after-noon under suspension of rules. Senator Hyde said that tha meaanra could be disposed dis-posed of la five minutea. It prohaWv could hare been so railroaded through, too. had it net been foe- Benater Ore-m. Mr. Olson, however, was "on the Job" and started at once a single handed riit-bueter. riit-bueter. He telked and talked Katurdar. satisfied If only to delay tha game for a day or two. Finally, after the eenatora wera good and tired and hungry, President Presi-dent Gardner auageetsd that the senate saunter, and promised He net or tHeon that he would be given the floor again the morning without prejudice to his a'l-buater. a'l-buater. Coortory Break ruibnatar. Thle morning when on susaesttoi of Senator Wilson It waa decided to limit all discussions In the aenate to fifteen minutes for and fifteen minutea against, the ruling did not apply to Henator M-eon's M-eon's case, and It was expected Hint he would pley the delsylng game avail! and talk all morning. When It came his tum. however, he said that out of respect to the courtesy shown htm by tha senate h-i would Vmlt his remarks to a much shorter time than he had expected to dv Henator Olson then reviewed the -ajo from his point of view, which waa. briefly, brief-ly, that the propoeed taking of land from Sanpete for Juab is an out and out steal. Senntor Olson Interested others In his way of thinking, so that In going over ma pa. blackboard out line a. engineers reports re-ports and genera) dlacuealon. the greater part of the morning waa takea up with thle subject. Senators Wlfaon and Horsley, members of tha committee on boundaries, explain 1 their position and maintained that they wera acting In good faith In recommending recommend-ing tha change of Una aa they did. Malta Cummins tasBoiXvtibiae Senator Irerson took axoepttone to their stand and argued that tha change proposed pro-posed by tha committee did not in reality determine anything more definite regarding regard-ing the real boundary Una than had already al-ready been determined In tha peat, and he thought further that tha commltt had no rta-ht to go over the head of the state engineer m the matter. The question waa finally put to vote, a majority of the eenatora who voted In favor of the measure saying that they did so becauee It had been favorably reported re-ported on by the committee. The final vote was: Ayea Badger, Horsier. Hyde. Kellv. Kuchler. I.unt, Smith. Wllllama, Wilson, atr. President. Nays Booth, Burton, Funk. Ivereon. Marks. Olson. Stookey. Absent evyr |