Show TIIE A I 1 arst AY 1 7 or the eighth t I 1 i slature R 1 T y organization f both houses SMITH AIND RITER get 1110 presidency and WESER HARES HER CLAI 31 it is izod joseph A for house chief clerk ajoku V bluth for council editorial correspond duct SALT LAKE jan 9 ISM 1 utah legislature I 1 3 now in session ses sidn and to morrow will be 1 I irly at work the members of both houses are men of experience and ability they favorably with the legislators of larger older and wealthier communities there is a hap y commingling com mingling of professional men of one th ing their constituents may rest assured alia the bills carried through aith e r house will be honest indeed jobbery has never had enuch if any part in the work of the law making bodies of utah the bation of both houses yesterday mas commendably prompt and also satis factory in results there may have in some little heartburning heart burning among di applicants for offices within the glit of the legislature but it is fair to say that the best nien got thel laces it vt W be observed fr the list that salt lake county rt less of the patronage than in au preceding session there was tin the part of outside to get a measure of representation among tile officers and strange it it may R em salt lake county cheerfully acquiesced in tile though ar lance of the day our ow n weber got there with both feet silo received tile chiat clerkship of tile hloupe and a niccie nici ie avi bap of lie council tile officio kiven to our county was that of clork of the house which place m as held by joseph A west four years ago r list legislature weber had bothi aig buethe a very honorable and necessary nev essary posidio po sitio 1 I ili its way but receiving tile least pay of office within of tile alouse ani here was no appos to ilia election 0 I 1 lion jos A west to tile position of chief clerk all the old members were N ith him they lad seen work as minute clerk four years ao and his tig able eri deavor and parliamentary skill while he was upon the floor of the alouse last bess ion it is the remark that the chief clerk should be as quick arid bright as the speaker of a del i barati vo body in this case the is fulfilled john V bluth wha received the position tion of mok in tile council is a bright ogden boy there were no other applicants from ve ber the only two positions abich were asked by this county were accorded and to abo only men names were suggested for them by the delegator west was not an applicant for the on of and its friends made an effort in his behalf only last friday it was well known that he was ened g in baay U surveying and that vb had lother meinta in order to continue that work but the severe storms recently and the brigd weather impelled him to disband his party and come down out of the As abon as it was discovered that his business would bermit him to accept the ili 9 fiends secured the position for lit in without his knowledge mr P luthe salso is a case of the offee seeking the man and not the ruin seeking the office lion faias S kimball the member of the louse from idich county is around on crutches cut ilia foot very severely while logging in the canyon some weeks since abid has not Yet recovered 4 councillors councilors Counci lors karlisle dar lisle and olsen of cache are not present they are snaking laws somewhere in the snow banks on collingston collinston Col linston nill councilor smoot of utah is detained at home j ki illative 0 iron 4 W t of kane are dot yet 1 re d they too are in a snow blockade ft has been ilia tivo for the member of the house with the nerve to seat fira come first served and hindmost butto day system was inaugurated lots vero drawn for the and by this means the snowbound snow bound legislator is ta 1 irly treated as tile one who ilan e a m ping at the assembly doorsteps s in ce last auxt governor west will deliver his was tomorrow to morrow afternoon at 3 saie saw speaker tonight to night at tile int lie says that ho h no idea of the length of tile governors message nor the subjects upon alich it will treat but lie evidently of tile opinion ft will be a con tive and sensible document councilor tom 31 arshall liberal Is credited with having said when led to busil w certain class of belld 1 I ahna with national proscriptive laws that lie pr bused to legislate for ut I 1 I 1 I 1 and not I 1 oe congress and that had but two bills so far to present i one for the regulation of election it and the other to provide forthe clec aldermen and city councillors councilors counci lors within their respective ward of in corporations and not by the entire vote of the city As at pres tut I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 tito clerks of tile had to send out and borrow a few sheets of caper and a pencil aith which to record the pr ct dings it is to be hoped that th economy of public st at imery will not continue the entire ses sion A little connected with 1 lite org animation of tile alotis e alcich 1 briefly referred to in our min utes of the proceedings indicates with tia hance like acts of the majority mill watched and how quickly the iiii take advantage of every opportunity to gain A point either Were ferto tile attempted organization of the house before secretary lisull had ad ministered the oath it has licen nix established custom with the to first eireen a having the when both tile members and could take it at one time thus obal abing the neceta sity of calling upon tile ft cretaro to administer it two separate tito member from weber air richards announced to tbell ouse that ili his ath administered abely after the bertl ged list of members bad been mad by tho clerk but being overruled by the opinion of alio have been member former legislatures lie was forced to yield what afterwards proved to be a well taken point and the organization proceeded cloge and ilia col leaguer of the ion took a n active part therein making at least one nomination arid it is thought voting for all the others after was fully effected g con i demable de rable vali zable time occupy t 0 o oath bad been mr cloge who as before stated had been an active participant ili the proceedings arose anti said that all that had been done was illegal lie now moved that the house proceed to effect a permanent legal organization the was discussed at some bengt ir arid it was finally decided I 1 0 again while ave are of the opinion that thoulow expressed by It ichards in tile commencement OL the session was a correct one and should have prevailed it seems a little ont of lihn with tile usual amenities that exist nonte tween even the opposing factions of del liberati vo bodies for logo arid ilia colleagues to have wit libell their strong a roumen is tell richards first suggested lie fuestion ju estion nearly all hour of valuable time had been wasted when cloge insisted upon a enactment reenactment re of the aholo proceed taing Is the formal report of the proceeds edi D ga of both louses COUNCIL tile council A as called to order pre at 2 by lifeber M wells cisela chie clerk dyni I 1 e lost council stated list be lad a list of the mcm bers defect to tile council duly cert tied to by tile secretary of tit terri lie read as follows towry adi triet E calicle CAli clO 4 logan cache county second 0 r P C iche cou ty third L n IV shurtliff 1 1 I ja ogden t I 1 ourt I 1 I 1 di brict john 24 L salt bako city salt lake count fifth distrait Di thomas mariliall Marb liall L salt lake city salt lake county sixth district elias A rp salt lake city salt counte seventh district richard a P I 1 south cottonwood Cotton woo 1 aalf lake count y eighth district A 0 smoot jr P provo utah boan tv ninth district J 11 wimm P emery county tenth district arif A C yan P nepal juab Cout ity eleventh district luthar T P sanpete county I 1 twelfth district 1 G woolley NO olley I 1 I 1 st george county 1 were present except carlisle olson and smoot marshall r noved that a coin matteo of two be appointed pop tile secretary of the territory him to administer the oath of officio to the members elect carried marshall and woolley yero ap po anted 13 said committee tito secretary administered the oath on the nomination of wo ol 01 ley I 1 on ella smith was elected president of the council the president elect briefly e d ilia thanks for the honor con express c erred upon him on the nomination of shurtliff iro ber M wells was elected cl 1 I 1 ale k on the nomination of br 7 r and mas m as elected enrolls chigro inz clerk 0 tile of 11 G kimball was eloc led sergeant at arms on the nomina t ion of shurtliff john V bluth was elected messenger on the nomination of young C C shaw was elected chaplain the roll of officers was called all present except V L 11 allida lacreta the 0 th was ad ministered by the ry offices present prayer was offe rod by me chaplain marshall moved that the so be notified that tile council was organized carried woolley moved that a committee of two be appointed to act with a like committee of the alouse to wait upon tile governor and inform him that the council and the mere ready to receive any communication lie in lit have to make carried wool ey young were appointed such committee bayan moved the adoption of a concurrent resolution providing for tile appointment of a minute clerk by 0 ach hou seata compensation ofa carried at the co e cesa subject to the call of tile chair albeas was resumed at 4 then a inest yago from tile arouse was reaf announcing its bation another the adoption of a resolution providing for a co committee to wait upon tile governor another the concurrence of tile house in tile reso I 1 lution providing for a minute clerk I 1 on of i E elected minute cleck 1 moved that the sergeant I 1 ataria instructed to haibt the national blaz during each day of tile session ca aried marshall moved that the rules offart 1 I pleasure of tha council carried woolley from tile committee ap pointed to wait on the governor to ported that ilia excellency vi bild mee t with the assembly tomorrow to morrow at 3 i in adjourned till to morrow at 2 p in by the chaplain ileum 11 0 clerk offlie last house called the alouse to orde F and announced that lie beld in ills hand a lint of members elect duly certified by the secretary of the terri korv flatch moved that the list be tead carried the list was read as follows birst district elias S kimball P idich count second districts jos 1 P wellsville cache county third district aticy 11 jones P city I 1 box fider counte I 1 I 1 I 1 fourth ams 0 it ichards P ogden weber county fifth district nathaniel alent om ory 11 north agdell weber coaty sixth district thos 11 11 1 davis county belill dietrict 1 C 16 Laughlin L park city summit county E eighth district CE C E allin L juab county ninth district IV W po snit city aalt lake county bentli district Di T an cf P salt lake silt L anty eleventh dim as aloyce t lake buit atko Cou comity ity districted District DD cloge L salt laag salt like county thirteenth district geo ba spencer P salt lake county at fourteenth district lev r helm P mill creek salt lake county fifteenth district win creer it spanish fork utah county sixteenth district man P prove of seventeenth district laan S wood P springville Spring ville of utah eighteenth 4 brain hatch P cleber city of na asarch nineteenth win 11 fjug 11 fillmore of millard twentieth district A it lund P bount pleasanton Pleas antof sanpete San pete first district arn 11 1 eca in lier 11 richfield of sevier district philo T farnsworth P beaver of denver third district stobert IV P cedar city of iron twenty fourth district william F stewart 11 kauai of kano clark that the house now proceed to permanent orga ni at richard 0 weber calbog attention to the fact that tho elect hild not been and were therefore not entitled to act and lie ted that tile bath be taken before any attempt should be made to proceed borther for ther lie pnovel ph ovel the election of off ivers before the members themselves vea were entitled to vote be all asumption without warrant the view espro ased by It ichards wm disputed by riter blaik an lothers and it was carried clark nominated lion W W riter speaker as file was car clark and king conducted the to the e madd a brief expresses his ai hobor conferred upon him ani tile hope that sectional feeling would not inter feli niall the harmonious lahuis the allilu o montgomery jo west as chief clerk carried anani mou 51 J IT moyle nominated 0 F whit ney as minute clerk it appeared th a t nomination this was mature it 1 the office should fil at premature ure by legislative action S I 1 thurman nominated W C A smoot as sergeant at arms allen nominated F by a rising vote the former was el acted prior to the vote I 1 D cloge su that the voting be done ili eDther way viat voce som ai yote on bermant at arnis was taken by rising C C richards nominate 1 boyden as enrolling and pling r J 09 91 rg clerk king nominated james Mel villo as watchman carried by acclamation jones nominated B 11 jonusas carried by nominated W G chaplain carried by acclamation richards offered a concurrent resolution providing for tile election of 1 clerk for each house ehni man suggested that the oath should bo taken byrn embers before transacting any business calling for an expenditure of public funds richards reminded tile gell a 11 from otili that tit was in line with the proposition which lie richards had made earlier in the day and which had then been opposed if there was now a dipoli tion to proceed ili tile proper way lie ara a glad and would with the consent of his second withdraw ills concurrent resolution 1 withdrawn asked if tale had not been transacting trang acting public for bat an liona abe speaker replied in the affirmative but stated thattie alouse had followed precedent E D 1 ave been sworn before transact ing any business at all A ilabell moved that the honorable secretary of the territory be requested to administer the oath to members of tile arouse secretary hall then appeared and administered the oath first explaining I 1 hat the name of the person taking it ills age status etc would e in seated when the bath should be signed it was substantially tha same oath as that known as the commission oa th 11 which registration officers administer lionnell lIoN sell that had not been dworn secretary leall wall rc called ile stated that lie pre burned tho members would qualify arst and then appoint the officers of the made the point that as the had organized before be ing sworn tile organization illegal andee moved that tile house now proceed to organize again A debato ensued in which cloge urged that the lion had be cn made before the louse became a body anti hence grave questions of the validity of its doings inight arise ile wag willing I 1 hat the same ol ficialA should be elect cd blatch retta from the ifju o journals showing that abo bourse taken in 1884 and iam ila d been followed various members spoke the acta F oine ubon I 1 lat tile e taken was legal and proper others that it would be better to re organize allen suggested suggest nd that the safe courso to tako m be to ro elect the officers king moved to expunge from the minutes of the alouse that portion relating to the election of officers cerp aad then to er et them again S it thurman 15 that if what had been done was illegal all of tile laws now ili force in this territory lie be as to the validity of ahat had been done Ile favored having members clorn before doing any business but did not think it aloo essary to rescind what had been done I 1 the motion by king wai put and on a division carried it then be came Dec emary to ro elect the officers 0 f file aliouse clark mocca that be elected speaker carried unanimously the formality of electing clec ting each of the officers as before wits gone through with this business finished prayer was offered by tile chaplain oil motion members of the house who had served three terms were at lowed to choose their seats abia all others were required to draw for heirs thurman |