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Show MM L. PETERSON Of WEBER NAMED CHIEF CLERK AND J. FRANK TOLTON SPEAKER i I (Special to The Standard ) Salt Lake City, Jan. 6 At the cau cus of the lower house of the legislature, legisla-ture, at the New-house hotel toda, J Frank Tolton of Beaver countv was chosen for speaker Other nominations w ere as follows Chief clerk, Adam L. Peterson of Weber, minute clerk to be named: docket clerk, Frank Rippon. engrossing engross-ing clerk, Ed Hansen of Cache; mail ing clerk to be named from Salt Lake county. chaplain, c.eorge Billings. Utah count ; sergeant-at-arms, N. J. Nelson of Cache; assistant, George Webb of Washington; messengers. E. B. Hawkins of Utah and George Bes-son Bes-son of Grand, docket clerks, Harrison Edwards of Sanpele and Edward Parry Par-ry of Iron; watchman. Thomas P. Reese of Wayne; janitor, Mr. Newton of Juab; committee clerk. Mrs. Mabel j Wysong of Weber and Mr. Forsgren of Boxelder. The caucus announced the intention of nominating a committee on com-mittee com-mittee on committees to reduce the ! number and size of committees, to fa-I fa-I cilitate legislative work and assure a i prompt report of all matters referred I to a committee. Full Representation Every county in the state was r pre I sented at the caucus, which was as harmonious as any conference of the kind called for the purpose of dlstrih uting political honors. Weber county received only two ap- ! pointments.. but this was not sincular. j since there weren't enough positions i to supply all the counties. In selecting the nominating committee commit-tee of seven fiom as many counties the aim was to balance the power as nearly an possible Following are the members of the nominating committee: commit-tee: Donald D. McKay of Weber, Mrs. H. J. Hayward of Salt Uake. Wynn L. j Eddy of Boxelder. Joseph E. Cardon of Logan, Alma Greenwood of Utah, ' 7 H. Mace of Sanpete, and George ! W. Decker of Iron. Caucus Harmonious. The rules of both senate and house will be practically uniform, cmbodving the new ideas in the rules proposed by Senator Joseph Chez of Ogden. which : will assure efficiency and prompt re ' port There was no "clash," as rumored, in the appointment ol committee and no "trouble" in the committee room. The dOve of peace was serene. I There was a Joint caucus of both houses this afternoon, which will be followed by a meeting of the general legislative committee to consider reports re-ports from sub-committees which have been drafting various bills for intro-du intro-du tion in the U gisi;ilure. n all sides there was evident a de- j termination to fulfill the platform and campaign pledges, and this was particularly partic-ularly true .if the prohibition, public utilities, and revenue bills i |