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Show REPUBLICANS CAUGUSTONIGRT Thomas E. McKay of Hunts- villc Conceded Presidency I of Senate I SALT 'LAKE. Jan. 1 Caucus of 'the Republican numbers of the Utah 'legislature, senate and bouse, will be held tonight at 7:J0 o'clock In the llo-tel llo-tel f'tah. Theif. will be only one caucus of 1 each body rind they will meet under Is Bpeclal call Issued yesterday by Wll-jllam Wll-jllam Spry, chairman Of the Republican Republi-can state central committee The oom-jmlttce oom-jmlttce of legislators which Issued .1 caucus cull Thursday night bowed to the will of the state chairman and he, j In turn, bowed to the wishes of the legislators and agreed that the caucuses cau-cuses be held asathe hotel Instead of at the capltol. Members of the legislature lasuerl their call Thursday nlghi when there Were indications that no official caucus call was forthcoming. About the same hour, however, the call by Mr. Spry wa - issiii il Precedent provides that where the legislature has not had an opportunity to organize the caucus calls should come from the chairman of the stale commit! I the political I parties, and for this reason the mem-I mem-I bcrs of the legislature withdrew their call yesterday and Informed Mr. Spry' that his call should prevail. They asked, however, that the caucuses be I held at the Hotel ftah instead of the capitol ..mi the ehulrman acceded lo this request m i sj 10 PRESIDE Mr. .Sprv personally will not be able to call either lhe house or senate cau-jcus cau-jcus to order, and he has requested La-jMar La-jMar Nelson, secretary of the state cen-(tial cen-(tial committee, to call the house cau-icus cau-icus to order and another member of tho committee will be asked to offi-Iciate offi-Iciate In a like manner ai the senato I caucus. Several preeaucus meetings are Scheduled for today, but those who arc understood to have arranged them I have declined to inuke public the place of meeting or the business to be transacted! trans-acted! It is assumed, however, lhat 'these preeaucus meetings are for the I purpose of arranging "slates" to be presented to the caucuses when they imeet and organize. There is very ,keen competition for the honor of presiding pre-siding river the limine of reiirt-41-nNi- 1 1 ' SSi and those actively in the race for the speakership arc pulling every political poli-tical wire they find dangling about the ! hotel lobbies. j There are four leading candidates j for the speakership The arc E. R. allisler of Salt Hike; William W 8eegmlller of Kanab; wiiford Hay of ParOWan, and O. F. McShajie of Beaver Beav-er City Calllater. Secgmiller and1 Day are avowed candidates, and-they, are making an earnest campaign! I among the members of the house who have already arrived in Salt Lake Mr. McShane arrived yesterduy and he said that he was a receptive candidate only, but t tit. t he might become more than a receptive canidate If information informa-tion he expected to gather today ln-dlcated ln-dlcated thai his chances for securing the speakership were more than ordinary or-dinary He said his name had been I put up by friends and he had accepted only provisionally; that Is, had allowed his name to go before the house members mem-bers He has been offered considerable considera-ble Support, he said, but he could not estimate how strong his candidacy' might be until he had had an oppor-1 tuuliy to confer with his friends In the house s The presidency of the state Senate seems to have been handed to Thonau)' MOTCa) ol EluntsVille, for William H.j BraarJ of Roosevelt, who had been announced an-nounced by (his. lriends as a candidate, j said yesterday that he was not now I and never had been a candidate for the' honor. He said he had refused to be a i.indnl.uc when le first was approached ap-proached on the subject, but that apparently ap-parently his refusal wua not taken seriously. It was said authoritatively last night that tie house caucus will probably! ueoiae tonight to do away with On-position On-position of house chaplain and will arrange to have lhe daily opening prayer said by a member of the body, it is not known whether the senate onlemplates. similar action. Approximntnly one-half the mi-in- bers of ioth houses bad arrived in Salt Lake last night, the hotel lobbies being packed with legislators That there will be a contest of considerable proportions for the house speakership is Indicated by the activity of the candidates can-didates who come from the cduntles of Salt Luke. Wllford Dav and William Seegmlller are making an active ac-tive campaign among their friends from the southern part of the state, and vv bile they refuse to make any claims of the amount of support prom-' ised, they do say that a deadlock fori the speakership is likely to occur at I least on the first ballot. Among tho legislators srrivlng yesterday yes-terday wore: Senators W. T. Larnph of Cl v eland. I ". T Jones of Cedar City. H. C. Tebbs, Pangulieh. Perry B. Fuller. Ful-ler. Silver City; Joseph Quinnev ' gan. New arrivals among the members of tho house of representatives include U. A Meek. Blcknell J L s-v v J Maryavale; v. ifcShnhe, Beaver' City; J T. Finlinson. Oak "ity ; S M Jorgenaen; Saline; J Frank XUlion 'raiigcv llle. L. E. Wlutmore. Price ' 1 David ifllla, Eureka; lsabrand Sander Vernal; R. H Boswell Goshen; James j l. Thorne. Pleasant Grove; David T Lew-Is. Spanish Fork. II. H Crouch ' Morgan; Charles G. Wbod. Trenton ' and Harry C Parker, Welisvllte. |