Show UTAH legislative CONTEST SETTLED compromise REACHED AND L R ANDERSON republican IS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE officials official of lower houte equally divided the republicans republican electing ten and tile the allied parties selecting nine under EL compromise arrangement the house of representatives of the eleventh utah state legislature was organized on january 16 L R an derbon republican 6 of Sau pete was L elected speaker of 0 tho the house over david IL 11 orris democrat of washington by a vote ot of 25 to 20 the republicans elected ten of 0 the em aloyes of the house and tile tho allied parties nine the committee assignments as ign will bo be divided equally betseen between w the republicans and the allies the organization ot of the tha house as now completed has the following of ficere speaker L R anderson ot of san pete republican chief clerk 1 I E diehl of jual juab republican minute clerk john G weaver of salt bait lake progressive engrossing clerk alonzo huntsman of millard republican chaplain charles heyburn of iron republican sergeant at arnis arms E A hodges of deaver republican assistant sergeant at arms joseph timothy of oc duchesne democrat docket clerk A L glasmann of weber republican 31 mailing alling clerk J P F mallett ot of too ele socialist Watch watchman inan W D peterson of 0 wayne democrat messengers Hes J J wilcox at garfield Oar field and ald john 0 Li edwards dwards ot of wasatch both republicans doorkeepers Doork Mers joseph jones 0 of utah county republican and J T thorn thom of cache progressive committee clerks mrs grace taylor of weber and jens K nelson of davis both republicans J S fowler and martin S lindsay both of salt isalt lake both s ive and T W evans evana ot of salt lake democrat janitor herbert moffet of 0 emery democrat this compromise came after a week of squabbling between the members ot of the lower house which had been equally divided in choice for speaker twenty three republican members standing firm tor for the selection ot of L R anderson as speaker while twenty three democrats progressives Progress ives and socialists had bad insisted upon the selection ot of parley P christensen Chrls progressive gres gress sive lve of 0 wt salt lake at a lauctis caucus or of all ali the members after futile attempts to reach a settlement tl david 11 morris democrat of washington county was proposed by the allies tor for speaker but the republicans public ans stood firm and finally two democrats switched to the support ot of the choice of the republicans mr andersons Ander sens selection as speaker on saturday was the outcome of the ca caucus licus P P christensen Chrls the defeated progressive gres sive and fusion candidate tor speaker was absent from the sessions on saturday the first week of the eleventh session was without result so BO tar far as aa the introduction ot of bills was concerned but a flood of measures Is expected expected this week the conviction prevails in the upper house that there will be far more bills killed than passed senator john W thornley ot of davis county wants the state ot of utah and the counties ot of salt lake and weber to finish the permanent highway between salt lake city and ogden lie he will ask for an appropriation of from the state for or this road senator D 0 rideout will introduce his land bank bill in the upper house it Is much the same measure that the salt lake senator introduced at t tb the session two yeara ago and which met defeat the proposed law is modeled after the german law and is designed to assist farmers and land owners generally to make improvements prove ments and enlarge their busl busi ness the intersection paving bill passed by the last legislature but vetoed by the governor will be introduced in the senate early in the session by senator L R Edge hlll bill of juab county senator trank frank evans of salt lake will introduce in the senate his bill providing for the creation to fo a public utilities commission in utah this is one ot of the bills urged by the service board boa rd of the progressive party senator evans having baying been assigned this bill two months ago proposal will be made to this legislature that a constitutional constitution ol convention be authorized for the i purpose of revising the state constitution and sive a new basis for a code of laws many of which are regarded by proponents of 0 the move as in conflict As soon as the legislature gets under way senator willard S hansen ot at box elder county will introduce in the he upper house a resolution providing that legislators introduce only rifle kula with which they are thoroughly familiar and la in agypt sympathy at ky |