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Show THE TENTH LEGISLATURE OF UTAH III SESSION Gardner of Utah County P-eiides Over Senate. While Seely of Emery is 8peakr of the House. Salt Lake City. The tenth legislo-live legislo-live assembly of the state of Utah convened at noon Monday. January 13. The house met at Its usual place on the fourth floor of the city and county building, while the senate oc copies the commissioners' room on the fourth floor. The senate consists of sixteen Republicans Re-publicans and two Democrats, both ot the Democratic senators being bold-overs. bold-overs. The house has thirty-one Republican Republi-can members and fourteen Democrats, f our of the house members are women. wo-men. They, with six men, represent Salt Lake county In the lower branch. The caucuses of the majority members mem-bers on Saturday nk:bt selected the officers for the session's work. The house caucus chairman. Kites lien-nlon, lien-nlon, of Uintah, presented those selections se-lections to the house, and Senator Rentier X. Smith of Salt Lake per-formed per-formed a like service In the senate. Senator Henry Gardner of Utah county coun-ty will again preside in the senate and W. J. Seely of K:nery county wi:i be speaker of the house. J. A. Edward Ed-ward has again been chosen secretary secre-tary of the senate and Y'llliam M Thorn pson chief clerk of die house, loth are Salt Lake men. The fourteen Democrats In the hone "put one over" on the majority t the opening se.mtlon, when they secured se-cured the passage of a motion whore by a commute Is to name the committees In the house, Instead of the speaker. In other words, the ipoaker Is shorn of his powers. There Is no precedent, so far as the oldest Inhabitant of Utah's legislative halls :an recall, for depriving the speaker 3f the privilege of naming the coin-nlttees. coin-nlttees. The appointing of committee commit-tee Is the speaker'a chief source ol ?ower. The committee e-lected by the house , o name all committees was: Charles , X. Mabey, chairman. Republican, ' Davis oounty; Sumule I I'age. Iemo- 1 rat. Piute county; Milton II Well- ' ng. Democrat, Ikix Klar county; Wil-'ord Wil-'ord Day, Republican. Iron county; 1 IVIUiam L. Van Wagoner, Republican, IVasatch county. The addition of the speaker of the , louse and a Salt Lake county member o the committee on committees of the louse quieted affairs Tuesday, and 1 rought organization out of what for a 1 Ime looked like a strenuous division I n the lower branch of the legislature. Immediately after the house recon-rened, recon-rened, on Tuesday, following the Joint , icsslon for the reading of the gover-tor's gover-tor's message, senate bill No. 2 by D, V Hideout, providing for an appropria-Ion appropria-Ion of $35,000 for the expenses of the , eglslature, was presented. On suspen- j Ion of the rules this bill passed. At a short session of the senate ruesday, held Just prior to the open- 1 nil of the Joint session, one bill was ' assed under a suspension of the rules, nother bill Introduced and held for c committee which has not been ap- J mln'ed, and the report of the com- ( nit tee on rules waa considered. j Salt Lake City. The Republican ' lembers of both branches of the tate legislature. In caucus Saturday ilghf. selected the officers of the two louses, as follows; f Senate Officials. President Henry Gardner, Utah ounty. Secretary J. A. Edwards, Salt I) ,ake county. c allnute Clerk Charles O. T. Hlg- j Ins, Washington county. . I locket Clerk (1. F. Summers, Sait Ake county. Sergeant at Arms Fred Dryan, 'ooele county. f Assistant Sergesnt-at-Arms George I earle, Uintah county. c h'nurosslng Clerk Andrew Funk. C ox Kider county. k Chaplain Thomas C. Callister, Mil-ird Mil-ird county. Mailing Clerk Mrs. Alice CoIUns. b'elx-r county. ( Commlt'ee Clerkt Ann Gwendolyn ,'illlams. Salt Mke; William Usnren- ker. Salt Lake; Itertha Jones We- P cr; Mrs. U'sle liarrett, Utah county Messengers F. K. ISrown. Wayne V iiinty; J. H. Porter, Morgan. j Dootkerpers Capt. Thomas Smith, a!t Lske; Leo McAllister. Kane, . WstchmcnPeter Loihrln. fa!t ake; Wiilard Arnold Salt Lake. h House Officials. " Speaker W. J. Keey. Emery. n Chief Clerk William M Thompson, s't Like. Minute (irrk I K Dlehl, Juab. Knsrossing CUrk T. II. tilarkuurn. o ,'elmr. o Chaplain David Coo'beir. Morg.-n. , Sergeant at Arms T. K Prownini, C( cttir. b Assistant Herseant at Arms James p Jenen. Sevier. ' Ihxket Clerk Eugene Woo! ley, f ooele. Watcbmaq S. p. Snow. Krr.erv. Meugrs Melvln Swapp, Kane; J Ross. Uintah. DoorkeeTWTS Nep"ll Ro'jertMin, iip-te; S. L SheffleM. Wayne. y Matilng Cie't Siias J. Ward. !ri . ( "mnilttee CU rks !! Larxln Mrs. Pir.h G SVe'ton Si't lie; Mrs Dil lllncs !!.ine:l. Sa'.; : ake; F. K. ScheNki. fait Lak. |
