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Show """" T RU THS". , . o Hut little progress is being maiW by the legislature in regard to the t University and Agricultural College hill. Neither those for or against consolidation sqcm eager to tackle it. Something, however, will have to be A M done with it in a very few days. The i most favored plan at present is that , advocated by Representative Tolton l and others to leave the two institu- i tions separate and distinct, but to de- I fine clearly the branches of learning, to be taught in each institution so that there will be no duplication of studies. It is proposed to confine the college to a high schuol course anC those subjects strictly pertaining to agriculture and to eliminate from the University curriculum the normal course which really corresponds to a high school course. This looks a very feasible way of settling the difficulty. dif-ficulty. The great trouble in the past has been the duplication of studies stud-ies by the two institutions. The dispatches toil us that on February Feb-ruary 28th, the churches of Newcastle New-castle will unite in a prayer for tlie unseating of Senator Smoot. The Almjghty to whom the prayer presumably pre-sumably will be addressed, the liible says, is the searcher of all hearts. He knows the motives which inspired those organizations mid furthering the desire for the unseating of Mr Smoot. He knows that they are ot the vilest. He also knows that the methods employed to accomplish the desire are also of the vilest kind We think the prayer will not be an- swercd. On the other hand, 'the vengance of the Almighty might he visited upon those who in their. wickedness wick-edness and foolishness arc, attempting to' deceive and hoodwink nini? in anopiuion handed, tothe legislature, legis-lature, Attorney General lircedcn holds that the state has no standing in the bounty fraud cases that would enable it to sue either the county clerks or their sureties, and further holds that the holders of the fraudulent fraudu-lent warrants should look to their own interests and may sue county clerks and sureties if they so desire. The sureties, however, it is held by some of the best lawyers, were released re-leased from the bonds they gave when the legislature changed the law regarding bounties. This appears to be common sense as well as law. 11 H The outlook at present is not very U H favorable for the passage of the bill 'T for the government of Salt Lake City, tliH on the Galveston plan, the lower house 1 H won't agree to the bill as passed by lH the Senate, providing for a cominis- tlH sion of three membeis to be elected H at large, and it is doubtful if the ; H Senate will concur in the plan which H seems to be favored by the house H to make the number of commissioners H live, one to be elected by the voters ii H fif each of the five wards or precincts. H , Not many people know it, but it Is H neverless a fact that Salt Lake City ' H furnishes water to its citizens at a ' H lower rate than any other city in the ' H United States. The idea sprung by H Councilman Wells last Monday even- ' H iug in the city council to advance the H water rates and create a fund for ex- H penccs in that way, is favorably re- H ceived. and seems a very practic- H able suggestion. ' H H II. C, Edwards, II. A. Smith and H C. Stanley Price have formed a law H partnership under the firm name oi H Edwards, Smith and Price, with of- H fices in the McCornick Block. The H members of the new firm are all well H known members of the Utah bar, and H make a strong aggregation. H H The Tribune doesn't like Senator . H Knox's speech on behalf of Senator ' H Smoot. Well, it wasn't to be ex- H pected that it would, but it was ex- H pected that the Tribune would make H itself ridiculous by idiotic criticism 'H of Mr. Knox, and it- did. r It is a notable fact that the' big brainy men of the Senate were favor- able to Mr. Smoot. Edward Everett B Hale, the chaplain, among the H number. B |