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Show HAD ITS PHOTO TAKEN. And Bat Uittle Else Was Done by the Constitutional Conyention Yesterday 'he Salt Lake Herald this morning says; "Another $000 of that limited appropriation appro-priation of $30,000 iB gone. In return tor it the convention has adopted its rules and had its photograph taken. Tnat tells the whole tale of the proceedings pro-ceedings of yesterday, barring the preliminaries pre-liminaries and extensive corrections of the minutes. President Smith did not get into any parliaments y tanglet; but then he was given no chance. He did show an intense anxiety to have his photograph taken, but such little breaches of dignity as that are now becoming familiar. He was also in receipt re-ceipt of a little lecture on parliamentary parliamen-tary law as relating to the dispatching dispatch-ing of business, thuugn the lecture was otteneiLly a colloquy between Thurman and -Varian. The reasons for this slight warming up came from the seeming desire of the president to chooBe the longest way about in put-t put-t ng through the business. The democrats demo-crats have been wondering for some days why the republicans had not taken President Smith aside and given him Borne friendly counsel on this subject. sub-ject. But there was no evidence that they Lad done so and the case became so bad that Thurman finally took the matter into his own hands yesterday and gave the most delicate intimation of how business could be much more quickly dispatched by unanimous content con-tent tnin by insisting each time on a vote. Varian fell right in with the spirit of the subject and backed up Thurman 'a remarks. That these pearls of wisdom were not cast before -wine was fully evident when President Smith used the unanimous consent rule all the afternoon." A further report of yesterdav'a proceedings pro-ceedings would be but a useless and wearisome repetition, the day was practically wasted. |