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Show oo 1. 1 PIERCE MAY IT BE ABLE TO HOLD 113 SEAT SALT LAKE, Oct. 3 Questions involving in-volving the right of certain members of the house of rprrentUvs to their seats In the legislature were further complicated after extended discussion yesterday when Representatlv C. O. Adney. presiding: at the request of SptAk-ei SptAk-ei Happier, declined to direct the chief irk of the house to strike the nams of Arthur Wsllllia ard William O Neil from the rolls. The acting speaker's action followed a ote of 19 to IS fav-onnc fav-onnc a motion proposed by Representative Represen-tative William W. Seeg-mlller directing Um speaker to hare the chief cler discontinue calling the names of the two uirn In question when roll calls wen? ! being taken It was Mr. Adne 'a con- I t. ntir.n that depriving the two men of j a right to vote constituted expulslor. and that such action t required a two-thirds two-thirds vote of the membera. Representative J. N - JPierre nf Ogden' Involved himself in the ' eligibility question ques-tion yesterday morning, announcing that, after consultation with the attc-r-rr general, he feared he was In th same position aa Mr Welling and Mr O Nell He asked to be exruaed from i voting until ih' houe rredentiaja corn- I mittcc passed upon his case. Mr. Pierce suld that, following the regular telort. he was appointed a member of the inheritance in-heritance tax commission by the district court of Weber count', to examine into certain Inheritance taxation matters, and in that position was on the etate pay roll According to the opinion rendered ren-dered bj the attorney general In liie other two cases, this resulted In the nu'.c-matic nu'.c-matic resignation of Mr Tierce as a member of the leglsjstllrfi Representative O'NeSI on the floor of the house yesterday nftcmoon. bitterly rebuked the members of the special in- J vestlpatlng committee for the action It I had taken, and the house for accept-.n? I tho report of I he committee. He de- j clared that he did not believe he had H violated his constitutional o?.th. and that II he was entitled to his scat, and that ne I Intended "to occupy his seat In the houM j until thrown out bodily " Mr Welling I did not participate in the deliberations I of the house at all yesterday, though h H was on the floor for a time at the morn- 1 fng session. fl |
