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Show SATURDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Little or Nothing of Importance Was Done by the Legislators in Either House. There was little else done at Saturday's Satur-day's session of the upper house of the legislature than the presentation, with an oceau of words, to President Ereeden, of a gavel by a Salt Lake republican re-publican club. The spokesman with very bad taste, poured encomiums on the head of the president for his farcical attitude in relation to the runaways run-aways i January 24th. This aroused a partisan feeiii.'g and there were many starp words spoken afterwards. After this war was over there waf an awful muddle and waste of time in trying try-ing to find out a certain rule is, when, how and where it should be applied and what constituted a '"point of order." Some claims were presented, some bills read the first and some the second time and some referred, the memorial asking for a survey of coal lands was passed, and Booth, of Provo, presented a petition from Robert Till and ISO others, settled upon university, lends, praving for an investigation of the act of the commissioners in selling such lands. IN THE UOlSE. Powers presented his bill io put the police and fire departments on anon-partisan anon-partisan basis and Johnson's mortgage b ill was Jaid over until Thursday afternoon. |