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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE I N0WJNSESSI0I( I FOURTEENTH LEGISLATURE FOR L MALLY ORGANIZED AND MM READY FOR WORK. M Thomas E. McKay Chosen as President H of the Senate and E. R. Calllstec Speaker of the House of W Representatives.- MM Salt Lako City. Tho senators nnd WM representatives of tho Fourteenth leg- Islnturo convened nt noon Monday, m Jnnunry 10. II. E. Crockett, socrctnry MM or state, read tho ccrtlflcato ot the MM election of senators or stato and Mm Charles Helncr, deputy secretary of m state, read the ccrtlflcato of tho clec- MM tlon of representatives. Chief Justlco 'H E. E. Corfmau and Justice J. E. Prick MM. administered tho oath of offlco re- MM spectlvely to tho senators and to the H representatives. i Tho senate appointed n commutes f to Inform the house or representatives 11 It was In session nnd ready to rocolvn tIMm communications. Tho hquso ndvlsod fl the scnuto llkcwlso, nnd' In addition 11 tho governor was notified that th H body hud convened. With these formalities concluded jH nnd tho assignment of seats to tho MM legislators announced, both houses ad- H Journal until 2 o'clock Tuesday. MM Thomns E. McKay of Weber county MM wns elected president of tho senate, H with tho vote standing eleven for nnd lMM soren against, representing tho first H vote taken by tho -uppor houso In the JMM present session of tho legislature, nnd jH showing a solid political division, thora MM being seven holdover Democratic sen- H ators and eleven now Itepubllcan sen- 11 fM 13. 11. Calllstcr of Salt Lako was Ml elected speaker of tho houto, all tho lsl votes but ono being enst for him, the Ijjfl ono In opposition being cast by C. A. wM Hammond of San Juan, tho only Demo- 11 crat tn the houso. Mm Provision was mado for tho cm 11 ployecs of both houses. Ono vacancy, H on tho list, however, that of chaplain MM of tho senate, wilt not bo filled, and It H Is probable that tho houso also will do H without a chaplain this year. Tho sen- H ators In caucus decided that they H woutd tako turns In opening the sen- H nte proceedings with prayer, confident ' that their Democratic colleagues H would fall In lino. It wns decided to H allow any senator, when his turn H came, to .Invito some friend to offer H tho prayer In lits stead. H Tho first legislature held In what U .Mm now the stato of Utah convened on H July 2, 1810. It wns the first general Mm assembly of tho provisional stato of JMg Deseret. It convened In Great Salt fH Lako City, tho session being held In JJI tho council house, tho first legtsintlvo H hall, which stood on tho corner of LM South Temple nnd Mntn streets, on jH the slto now occupied by tho Deseret H News building, llrlglinin Young pro- IH sided. H The first legislature wns brief, and M adjournment wns taken until Decent- M her of 1810, nnd then adjourned bos- ImM slons wero held nt intervals through- MM out tho winter, during which tlmo tho MM counties of Great Salt Lake, Weber, jH Utah, Sanpete, Juab nnd Tooele wero MM created, as also n supremo court, nnd H n charter was granted tho stato unl- H The general assembly was convened M in special session on July 4, 1850, for M tho purpose of passing nn net which H would tux tho sale of Intoxicating Mt liquors ut 00 per cent ad valorem, and Mt this was done. Again tho assembly Mt was called In special session nnd on jM October 0, 1800, passed a bill creating H Dnvls county. MM The third session convened Decern- M her 2, 1800, nnd was held but four JMM days, when a recess was taken until Mg tho first Monday In January, 1801. Mt At this session hills were passed H granting charters to Muntl, I 'a rowan. Mt Provo nnd Ogden, and on January 0, Ml 1801, tho measure Incorporating Great fM Salt Lake City was enacted. Spoclul )H or adjourned sessions wero held on H Februnry 4, 0, 10 and 24; on March 1 28 nnd 20, nnd April 5, 1801, tho last IV dato ending tho legislature of the 18 state of Deseret, dissolution being sue- fl ceeded by the territorial legislature of IS Tho first legislature of the territory H of Utah wus convened In Salt Lako jH September 22, 1801. Wlllnrd lllchards - bfl was elected president vt tho council f'fl nnd William W. Phelps speaker or the '" 9 house. The first (,ct or tho legtsla- jfl lure wus to adopt a Joint resolution Eg declaring all tho laws of tho state of , II Deseret, such as did not conflict with hm tho organic act, to bo of full force M and effect In tho territory of Utah, in tho passage of tho Joint resolution pro- - )H serving tho charters granted to the M University or Dcorot and the several H cities In tho state. M |