| Show KNOW UTAH I I By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS I When Utah was vas as admitted t to tl tIe the e unon union on one one thing overlooked constitution for the was o pro ision in jn n th the tho date of or meeting of or tha tho- legislature A A. special session was was called caned the proclamation being issued by Governor Governor Gov Gov- ov- ov Heber M. M Wells S rue he first session Q of the tho l legislature r met at the Salt Lake city and county building the regular place of or assembling assembling- t for r the local law workers until tho completion of ot the state state- capitol George M. M Cannon was president of or the tho senate and Pressley Denney speaker of or the hou house boue e. e This legislature elected two United States senators tors one for four years and theother the other for one year according to the provisions of ot the federal constitution Prank Frank J J. Cannon was given the long term and Arthur Brown the he short term The question oC of who should serve sene the Jong and who the short term was as decided between bet the the- two senators senators- elect by the flipping of or 3 a coin The Tho maj majority rity in hf the le legislature re was decidedly Republican hence the two senators were Republicans Frank Jenno Jenne Cannon the tho first United States senator front from Utah is the son o of George Quayle Ca Cannon Cannon Can Can- 1 non non who was a member of ot the tho first presidency of the L. L D. D S S. S church and who had been elected sen senator tor by y a a. constitutional convention but who was sas was was' denied this scat seat Frank Trank J. J Cannon was born In Salt Lake January 25 25 1859 H He Ie attended tho the public schools and was graduated from the tho University of Utah in 1878 He became a a printer and anil newspaper writer a d for Lor several years was the editor of t 1 the Ogden St Standard and later the editor editor- of ot tho the Salt Lake Tribune He lIe was was- delegate to to the th Republican convention convention eon con con- at Minneapolis in n 1892 He was an al unsuccessful unsuccessful candidate for election to congress congress- in 1892 but was was elected elected as a Republican to th the fifty fifty- fourth fifty fourth congress con congress con con- gress gres and served d from froni March 4 1895 to January 4 1896 1895 when the territory was admitted d to th the union He lie was was then elected to the United States Stales senate and served from Janu January ry 22 22 1896 to March 3 3 1899 H He moved to o D Denver nver Colo Cole in 1899 and andis Is now now engaged engaged in newspaper r work and mining I At the tho St St. Louis c convention where William McKinley Mc- Mc Kinley Kinley was was nominated for for president in June 1896 a l plank lank was inserted in the platform repudiating bimetallism and favoring the favoring tho gold standard This caused the del delegates gates Frank J. J Can Cannon l n. n Ciarence Clarence Clarence Clar Clar- ence E E. Allen AUen who h had bad d been el elected ejected a member of the lower house and Thomas F. F Kearns afterwards United States States' senator to walk out of the the conven tion At the s same me time two other western Y stern delegates es Senator Henry M. M Teller of C l rado and lir Fred d T. T 1 Dubois o of Idaho also severed relations with the R Republican Republican Re Re- publican party Arthur Ur Brown w 1 who was as second s senator from Utah was born bom near neal Kalamazoo I Kalamazoo county Michigan Maich 8 S 1843 He attended l the t common s hodl and was graduated from Antioch college Yellow Springs 0 O in 1862 lIe He took tooka a post postgraduate graduate gt course at the University oC Michigan of at Ann J where he was grad graduated from the law d department de department de- de in 1864 He Ho was admitted to the bar bat in Michigan and practiced his profession there thele He liE came to Salt Lake City In In 1879 UP Upon the e admission of ot Utah to the union he ho was elected as a Republican Republican lican Hcan to the United States senate lIe He served from J January nuary 22 1896 until March 3 3 1897 He was not not- nota a candidate for After his retirement from on congress he Resumed the tho pr practice of law in Salt Sit Lake Lalm City He lIe was as as a. a delegate delegat to the Republican national convention convention in St St. Louis in 1896 and at Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia in 1900 He was assassinated in Washington D D. C C. while on a business trip in December Dece 1906 I and was burled in Mt Ol Olivet vet cemetery Salt alt Lake |
