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Show SENATE ORGANIZES I QUIET. ORDERLY MANNER Salt Lake, Jan. 12. Without delay or quibble, the senate met and organized organ-ized at noon yesterday for the eleventh elev-enth session of the legislature of Utah Preliminaries such as the administration ad-ministration of the oath of office to olht new senators occupied perhaps three-quarters of an hour by which time the uppr house had elected Senator Sen-ator U Mont Ferry as president and had selected the senate employes nominated by the Republican caucus. By 1 o'clock the sonate was ready to Inform the house and the governor that the senate was organized and read for business. There was no hitch in the program of organization arranged previously by the Republican senators In cau cub, for the reason that there are twelve Republican members of the upper house and only six Democrats and Progressives combined. All twelve Republican senators voted together to-gether on the election of president and the senate sLaff. The one Progressive Pro-gressive voted with the Democrats. The minority also put forth a candidate can-didate for president of the senate, but more as a compliment fn Senator J. W. Funk of Cache county, senior minority mi-nority senator, than with any Idea of putting the candidate over. The senate being duly organized, with President Fern. installed in the chair. Secretary Alex Buchanan, Jr , on the job and the corps of watchmen, watch-men, messengers and clerks at attention, atten-tion, the upper house found itself at a standstill because of the inability of the lower house to get. itself organized or-ganized This was along in the afternoon. af-ternoon. Subsequently two separate organizations of the house were formed, form-ed, each claiming to be the genuine and authentic one. but, too late for the senate to take cognizance of either, ei-ther, the senate, tired of waiting had adjourned until 2 o'clock this afternoon. after-noon. Rut for the tardiness of the house two resolutions would have been considered con-sidered by the senate Both were presented, but were laid over until the house was reported as ready for business. Resolution No. 1. One by Senator Joseph Chez of Weber county labeled senate concurrent concur-rent resolution Xo 1. called for the appointment of three members of the senate and three members of the house to prepare and present to the legislature a revision of the state laws covering taxation, collection of taxes all matters relating to taxes, in fact Senator Chez presented it early he said, because it will be a big job to prepare a new tax code and the special committee should get busy right away Senate resolution No. 2. by Senator D. O. Rideout of Salt Lake." asks the attorney general for a ruling on the constitutionality of the drainage act of 1913, in view of the fact that the 1907 law on the subject was declared unconstitutional. Employes Choen. There followed the election of the Republican caucus list of senate em ployes, as follows: Secretary Alex Buchanan, Jr., of Salt Lake. Minute clerk Henry Hughes of Summit. Ileckpt rlorlr N P Wib-o TTtnV. Sergeant-at-arras Barlow Wilson of Weber. Assistant sergeant-at-arms B. T Harris of Davis. Engrossing clerk A. D. Wiscomb of Salt Lake Chaplain Eugene Morris of Beaver. Bea-ver. Mailing clerk Mrs. Alice Collins of Weber Stenographer Miss Jeanette Rollo of Iron Committee clerks T. L. Foot of Juab, W. H Smart of Duchesne, J. H. Wootton of Utah, William F. Lan-genbacker Lan-genbacker of Salt Lake. Messengers William Wltbeck of Uinta, Joseph Wilkinson of Wayne. Watchmen H. P. Myton of Salt Lake, Thomas Hunt of Sevier. Doorkeepers Henry Marshall of Tooele Thomas Smith of Salt Lake. Janitor M. C. Lancaster of Salt Lake. "Nonpartisan" Ticket The minority the five Democrats and one Progressive voted against this ticket. Their "nonpartisan" ticket tick-et put in nomination and defeated was as follows: Secretary Douglas Swan of Salt Lake. Minute clerk Miss Floronce Hart ley of Salt Lake. Docket clerk Miss Delia H. Barrell of Salt Lake Engrossing clerk Ross Reynolds uf Salt Lake. Chaplain The Rev. Elmer I. Goshen Go-shen of Salt Lake. Committee clerks J. E. Webb of Salt Lake. T. E. Houtz of Utah Charles Cunningham of Weber, C. M Raimev of Weber Mailing clerk Miss Florence E tless Sergeant-at-arms W H. Homer, Ir , of Cache. Messengers Edgar Blackburn of 3anpete. Stenographer Miss Ora Rovlance f Utah Doorkeepers A . R. Johnson, Cap- ain R E. Vogel of Weber. 1 been stopped, bodies were piled so high that the Russian riflemen were unable to shoot and men were sent out to heap the bodies In such a way as to form embrasures for the machine ma-chine guns. The three next attacks were repulsed from behind tho Bhcl-ter Bhcl-ter of the German bodies. Another striking Illustration of the fierceness of the combat on the Raw-ka Raw-ka is afforded by the statement of the commander of a Russian heavy battery. On the very day when the renewed German attacks began, the enemy moved a field battery out Into the open to shell the Russian trenches A Russian observer there was able to so direct the fire that the third salvo destroyed three of the enemy' pieces, killing every man serving them The remainder sought shelter and soon afterward brought three other guns into action. Another salvo from the Russian batteries smashed two of these guns and destroyed the crew The sur-vhors sur-vhors again after a short interval returned re-turned to serve the sole remaining gun. Still another salvo from the Rus-siau Rus-siau artillery laid them low. The authenticity of this exploit I am able personally to vouch for. rwi |
