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Show G. 0. P. RESCUE ! JENKINS BILL Absence of Democrat Saves , Measure From Death-Parties Death-Parties Divided SALT LAKE. Feb. 10. The Jenkins bill to reduce 'he state board of bind commissioners to :i single member j was saved from sudden death through j the absence of Senator W. T. Uunph, Democrat As it happened. It i the I claim of ihe Democrats of the senate I that President Thomas F.. McKay os- j tabllfbed a new precedent when he, placed the bill on the third readlnpj c.i lc tul.ir- but the president had he J support of the majority of the senate in so doing. ' At the beginning of roll call it ap-I ap-I peared as if the bill would pas by B 1 party vote, ihe rumor among tin seri-! seri-! ators being th:i' th' administration had intimated the desire that the bill he passed. Democrats voted no" and Republicans Repub-licans voted "aye" until the name of Senator David Jenson of cln r was railed. The Weber senator hud not spoken on the bill during a fairly vig-. vig-. nrous debate, but he sent S thrill through the aena'e when he voted "no." The bill was tlll sate until Senator H. l Tebbs Iflned his colleague col-league from Weber, and this made the announcement of the vote: Ayes 9. nayS, 8i absent and not otlng. 1 When President .Mk.i nnnoimced that the hill would take It place on the thud reading calendar, Senatoi SOuthWlCk ami Senator Dem wen both or Ihe opinion Ihnt the bill v.a'T dead. They said this wa according I to the rule. President McKay saH j he was not inclined to bo arbitrary, hut he did not 'know of such a rule. and asked that It be cited. lie announced an-nounced that there was no doubt that on the third reading the constitutional majority of the senate is required be- fore a bill may be paused. The senate being made ftp of eighteen members, this would require ten votes But on the second reading. the president held, there was nothing in the rules as he read them to prevent placing a bill on the third reading c.ti-ndar c.ti-ndar when the majority of the senators sen-ators present so decided. Dnder the hill one man would become be-come the custodian of millions of dol-lars" dol-lars" worth of securities, and would have sole charge of land grants involving in-volving 2.5GO,tiii re This, he de-clared, de-clared, is too great a responsibility to be placed on one man. Senator Southwick sketched the magnitude of the work of the land poard and of the resources over which It has direction, lie showed that. In-j eluding the 5,844,196 acres granted to i the schools of the state, a total of 7.114 276 acres had been contained In the land grants mentioned in the en- i abllng act. and RAld that of this 2.-660,000 2.-660,000 acres are yet to be surveyed for the state. I i'TI.:. In , V. mjm! rV.llnr, t,iA,-s r f I legislation 1 have heard of In twenty years," de lared Senator Southwick. and he added thai "the present power Is making the biggest mistake of Its life In upsetting this board. I realize re-alize I am powerless, hut 1 feel It my duty to raise my voice in protest SValnsi upsetting the fundamental principle of business followed since st.it ehood The new land commissioner, he said, appointed for Hrm of four years, with the approval of the senate, would i be a veritable uutocrat. with no fheck on his powers, such as had been placed plac-ed on the director of finance and purchase pur-chase in the bill, recently passed. He reminded the senators that an autocrat auto-crat had caused the European war The senate pent less than an hour yesterday afternoon In debating House bill NoS20. by Seegmiller, which puts Into effect ihe constitutional amendment amend-ment No. 2. passed by the people at tho lasi general election. This bill provides that the state board of equalization equal-ization may raise $1T per capita of school population for the support of Schools. The bill passed second and third reading, over the opposing Votes of Senator Rufus Adams of Davis county and Harrison E. Jenkins of Salt Lake county. |