| Show AS AS TIlE THE KNEES One day recently a man who served In tho the first senate of or the state of ot Utah told of ot a curious pM passage age in that Unwritten unwritten unwritten un un- written history which sometimes be becomes be- be copies comes better than that which finds Its way into tho the books Ho He said that both houses of tile the legIslature legIslature legislature leg leg- had n n. world of ot work before them President E. E M. M Allison of or the I senate was pushing through 1 the tho Australian Aus Aus- I Aus-I traHan ballot law Tho The time Was waa so 80 short hort that ho lie had been able ablo only ata at ata I Ia a late day to get a n copy COp of that law I from another state and ripped out I the law bodily and introduced it Tho The measure poss passed d tho the initial stages es without very exten extended ed scrutiny tiny It had worked well in the old state and antI it wa was sure cure to work well in Utah Of or course the name of or the state wa was changed wherever it oc occurred oc- oc But beyond that no one ono ha had had hud time to read the tho act So 80 that it finally came camo to tho the third 1 reading reading and and there thero was read at length It happens that in tho older states stated there is 18 no female suffrage and tho the makers of tho law were mindful of I former trifling with the sanctity C f tho tue ballot They tried to prevent an any fraud In using tim the Australian system The They didn't want any worl worker er to bo be boIn bein boIn In the booth with tho the voter while the latter was preparing his ballot So they provided pro that tho the curtains of or th the booth should be ao 80 that tho the legs of ot tho the voter could bo be soon as high as tho thue knees lenceR I That 1 is all right in other states but there were reasons why It would not be bo usable in Utah But when tho the reading reached that point the senators sen aen- atom atoro discovered their error and yelled with appreciation of or tho the Joke Then Than they amon amended cd tho the bill by striking out the equivocal provision provision- and gave tho the Australian ballot to tho the state of Utah The They have probably never yet et I properly thanked for tor their consider consider- I atlon |
