Show SMOOT t IS ACTIVE IN REINTRODUCING i T MEASURES WASHINGTON De Dec Senator S.-Senator 8 Senator Smoot yesterday reintroduced a a. large number of bills introduced by him in the last congrESsI congress I I A Some of these directly applicable to Utah are as follows For public buildings each costing at Nephi Nephi Ne- Ne phi Cedar City and Price to grant Utah sixty-eight sixty acres of ot land In the thes s Fish lake national forest for a a. state fish hatchery site granting lands to Duchesne for cemetery purpose granting lands to My Myton ton for reservoir cemetery and public school uses granting Utah one million acres of land to reimburse the state for expenditures expenditures expenditures ex- ex in suppressing Indian disturbances disturbances disturbances dis dis- from 1865 to 1868 and one million acres to aid in maintaining public roads the issuance issuance ance once of patents for lands in the former form form- er Uncompahgre Indian reservation I containing authorizing the secretary of war to grant a permit across across the Fort Douglas military re reservation reservation re- re to any transcontinental railroad constructing a line to Salt L Lake ke City Although Representative Ma Mays s 's went into the Democratic caucus which provided for the organization of the house and was assigned committee I places as a Democrat it is his Intention tion he said last evening to act ct in independently independently independently in- in dependently in the matter of voting on n questions not entirely partisan in character As an evidence of this in intention in- in tendon Mr Mays voted for Clark as speaker of the house and a few minutes minutes min- min r utes later voted with the Republicans In iri supporting Mr Manns Mann's motion to commit to a select committee the resolution offered by Representative Henry making the rules of the sixty sixty- third congress applicable to the sixty sixty- fourth fourth i iThe The Mann motion was defeated the lote vote against it being the entire voting s Strength of of the Democrats present only a few exceptions 5 Mays days Ma s 's commented favorably upon President Wilsons Wilson's message and said that he was prepared to support his legislative program |