Show Ii ILLS TO SAVE SMOOT i SAYS San Juan Solon Puts Legislators Legislators Legislators Leg Leg- on Edge With Charge That Measures Head Off Coalition Move By James G. G Woolley Republicans in the state Legislature legislature legisla- legisla ture violated their trust their oaths of office several provisions of ot the state constitution and state statutes statutes statutes stat stat- utes resorted to gag rule partisan an legislation and poor sportsmanship for the avowed purpose of attemptIng attempt- attempt Ing to save Senator Reed Smoot from defeat in the election of 1926 Oscar W. W McConkie McConkle senator from San Juan and lone Democrat in the state senate charged Saturday in challenging the McCarty bills on final passage passage Senator Thomas W. W ODonnell O'Donnell Uinta was the only member of the majority to speak at le length in ob objection ob- ob to the remarks of ot Senator Ob j McConkie McConkle The bills passed on special special special cial order having been advanced from lowly position on the second reading calendar with only one no being recorded on roll call In each instance Senator McConkie McConkie McCon McCon- kie kio before the result of ot the poll had been announced changed his vote and nd served notice of ot Intention to nove move for reconsideration of the ac action action ac- ac tion on the next I legislative day Monda Monday SITUATION BECOMES TENSE Senator McConkie's Indictment of the McCarty bills introduced In the house of representatives by Representative Representative Ray S. S McCarty Salt Lake required nearly forty minutes for delivery His His' assault on the motives and actions of ot his colleagUes colleagues colleagues col col- col- col leagues all aU of the opposite political political cal faith furnished one of at the tensest tensest tensest tens tens- tens tens- est situations situations In the present session ses ses' session sion slon N Not t long after acter overriding his ob objections objections objections ob- ob and voting solidly for the measures which would prevent the name came o of ot any candidate appearing more than once upon pon any ballot and p permit coalition of two parties only by joint convention the Republican members were given a severe surprise sur suf- prise In the form foam of a note from Governor George II H. Dern advising the senate that he had found certain certain elt el tain t hi errors errors in S. S JJ D B 7 the Callister Canister land board bill arid and suggesting that the tho he senate recall and amend the measure measure before re rethe the statutory period for executive deliberation should elapse The s senate nate attempted to immediately get in touch with Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Dern to confer on this matter matter mat mat- ter but were advised that his office office of ot- fice was closed for the day and that he had left lett GAS TAX INCREASED The Lewis gas tax Increase meas meas- ure tire was passed raising this tax to 3 31 2 2 1 cents per gallon and the Warnick Warnick Warnick War- War nick pert pertaining to social clubs and th their lr supervision by police police po po- police po- po lice authority were advanced Jo xo the third reading calendar at the tho Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- act afternoon se session sion of the sen sen- ate The McCarty bills which had been reported out of the senate Ju Judiciary judiciary judiciary ju- ju committee favorably and placed well down on the second reading calendar were advanced to the head of the calendar and passed 1 rapidly to the third reading and i thence under unde suspension of the rules placed on final passage I When the first of these was i called Senator McConkle McConkie contenti contented content- content I ed cd himself with a negative ve vote a change to the affirmative and the serving of ot notice of ot intention to I move reconsideration When the second of this pair of bills was next called the senator from San Juan got the tine floor No one had spoken to the previous bill and Senator McConkie McConkie Mc Mc- Conkie explained that he did not wish to usurp anyone's right to advance advance advance ad ad- vance the merits of this second measure but he did want to speak against it before roll call None seemed desirous of leading off so President Irvine recognized the lone Democrat and Senator McConkie l turned to to the attack SEES PROTECTION MOVE He challenged d anyone anone to gainsay that this measure was other than thana a partisan device to protect Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Reed Smoot from a possible Democrat Pr Democrat Progressive coalition in 1926 The author of the measure had Senator McConkie declared admitted that to bo be the purpose Because BecaUSe Because Be Be- cause of ot this he charged that the measure was Illegal in that it violated violat violat- ed constitutional provisions requirIng requiring requiring ing the true purpose of 0 a bill to be stated in its title No one had come forward to say saya a word In favor of the bill There had been no reas reason n advanced as to Its necessity This Senator McConkie McCon- McCon i kie tle construed as Indicative of ot a lack I I of true in the measure which h he designated as purely a a. partisan j I attempt to by gag i irule I Irule rule and to disfranchise a considerable considerable consider consider- able portion of the electorate He read the results of ot the last general ele election Governor George GeorgeH H H. Dern had he said been elected b by the people by a combination of Democrats Progressives and Re Re- publicans From the number of of votes cast under the respective parties lie held that there are three parties In this state each entitled entitled en entitled en- en I titled to a position on the ballot The right of any party to name any candidate It might choose Senator McConkie McConkle held to be an inalienable right conferred by the constitution and inherent in the spirit of ot American government The attempt of any group to thwart or trammel the desires in this line o ot of any portion of the electorate he branded as a violation of ot trust POLITICAL AJ- AJ GANGSTERS I INo No Republican In jn the senate who might vote for tor this measure would I be able to look 1001 Lincoln's portrait squarely In the face or to explain his action to the people whom elected him to sit in this chamber chamberas I as the representative of all the peo peo- The McCarty n. he charged were the conception of po political political po- po gangsters and he pleaded I with his colleagues cOlleague to not stultify themselves by voting for tor so obvious obvious' an Infringement of eve every moral pre pre- I He urged his fellow senators to tobe tobe tobe be good sports and asked if it the defeat de defeat defeat de- de I feat of ot one candidate In the November November Novem Novem- ber elections had so disconcerted them that they had forgotten their duty and their dignity as sena sena- I tors He lIe asked it if the Republican senators read in the result of that election the handwriting on the wall and predicted that the tho passage I of the McCarty measures would call calli down upon their heads the wrath of the pe people of Utah and most certainlY certainly certainly react to their discomfiture at I some future election Senator ODonnell O'Donnell took exception to the remarks o of the Senator from San Juan He denied that there I was any partisan flavor to the measure and charged that most I every ery other state has bas more drastic provisions than that included d in this this' bill lIe He asserted that the bill ha had I been drawn tp Q eliminate political I chicanery but that any honest citizen citizen citizen citi citi- zen could express his honest desires on the tho ballot under these proposed changes i iNOT NOT PARTY MEASURE rI There ere was no po man nor any party interest in view In the drawing of I 1 i these m measures s. s Senator ODonnell O'Donnell insisted I and Democrats were the tho r last last persons onearth on ort earth the senator tor j I of San Juan absolutely the tho last I Democrat entitled to make su such h a charge Senator ODonnell O'Donnell pointed to the record of the session and defied anyone to disclose any partisan flavor in the legislation passed This bill least le-ast of all merited such an at at- at- at tack It was merely Intended to clarify and harmonize the statutes statutes statutes stat stat- utes with the supreme court decision deci sion slon handed down in 1912 relative e to this matter Senator McConkie McConkle again got the floor Either Dither the senator from Uinta forgets forgets' or my own memory is at fault But If H I am not mistaken mistaken mis mis- taken he sat In committee and heard the author of this measure was waK the I assert ss rt th that t its sole purpose se from froma protection of Senator Smoot Progressive Democrat a coalition in a stated his be belief belie belief be- be 1926 He the author lie lief that without such a measure rave as this Senator Snoot Smoot waS was In g gra grave VO danger of defeat He lie oven mentioned mentioned men men- endanger en- en this con- con two Democrats In connection con con- William Wil Wll- V. W. W W. W Armstrong and said that there He liam lam R. R Wallace V was wag already talk tall of t the Democrats and Progressives combining on one or the other of these men to contest contest con con- test the seat held by the tho senior contest senator senator sen con now ator and that these me measures before us were Imperative as protection protection pro pro- ro- ro against such a contingency And I remarked to him that his frankness wits was was appreciated and and tt it Intent of ot his bill admirably no not partisan The vote w was a 19 to 1 on reading Senator Au Auerbach alone el t his vote I I have said tr tk Salt Lake solon BOlon investigated th the bill bUl and have found nothing to ul ut the charges made thatis th that t Is a partisan measure I believe bill to be a good Under suspension It it went to tint fim passage without further debate The senate will resume session sessio 10 o'clock Monday morning |