Show SPEAKER L he explains why senators get angry over trivial things there is much jealousy in the upper house which is developed by junketing brits mr glasmann Glas mana did not go to logan with the legislators today he came up on the liggan train as far ogden and with mrs grasmann and the baby bid the excursionists goodbye and then started to spend the day at A standard reporter caught mr gusmann and informed him that the people generally desired further information concerning che charges made by state senators that the speaker was the it of the legislature on all occasions well said glasmann 1 I will admit that I 1 have been highly honored luy the house of representatives la being made speaker I 1 am still more honored by receiving the loyal support of every member of the house both of the democrats and republicans not even one intentional discourtesy has been offered me by any member of the house I 1 feel specially pleased and gratified over athis because 1 had never had the honor or pleasure of presiding over a legislative assembly before the present session and expected to make many errors go far the charge goes that I 1 usurped the entyre functions of the utah legislature in that Is absurd I 1 was selected as permanent president of the joint assemble cf utah and idaho without my solicitation knowledge or consent and I 1 did not know that I 1 was selected tor the place until I 1 was introduced as such at the balse opera house excepting that captain of ogden said to me on the way to the opera house ball I 1 mink there Is a job on to make you president of the joint assembly I 1 avd not think it possible and gave no more thought to the matter but since some senai tors have shown signs of extreme jealousy of the honor accorded the house of representatives and Us speaker I 1 have tried to discover how this unexpected honor was thrust upon me I 1 am advised that when the idaho committee headed by the lieutenant governor of that state tobit the several senators aside and asked who among you would make a tiptop tip top presiding officer one senator replied senator writney Wb itney an coher said smoot another A tUson but not one mentioned the name of president able john evans but when the same committee approached the various of the bouse every one proclaimed that their speaker was the only man tor iche place the dem demi i socratic members especially paid the speaker the compliment that he was a rattler tor the place etc etc that settled it with the idaho committee ana I 1 was honored with the presidency over all the utah senators but that was not all addition In to a satisfactory president thelda ho people wanted bright and brainy speakers for the great utah idaho joint legislative debate and they tried the ablest in the senate and atred mm oft first and then selected the others from the house of representatives saying they had enough ot speeches by state senators there is no doubt about it that the idaho people generally recognized the great intellectual superiority of the house members ane speaker od over the senators any every of the house who spoke in idaho was personally complimented bythe idaho governor and people generally to such aal extent that the only senator who attempted to speak grew so envious and sick with leal ausy that he was unable to return home with the excursion senator bvans felt so hurt that at the provo reception in the insane asylum he had ito give vent to his feelings toy referring to the baights blights heaped upon him in idaho yes it ly true I 1 have been quite p in all iche affairs of this legislature but no credit Is due myself the members of the lower house are entitled to all the credit there Is not louied man in the house of representatives of the fourth legislature every one of them has a keen sense of the courtesy due the presiding officer while I 1 think they honor the present speaker too much yet I 1 am sensible enough to under fiand that it Is the office aad not the man who receives all the kindness and lionor and courtesies cnown to me I 1 believe it any other man had been selected lie would have been treated with the same courtesy and honor by the house members mem bens in the senate it Is of a great majority of the senators each one believes he Is the biggest man in the states and they are so anxious tor their own greatness to be thrust on the that they sacrifice the courtesy and respect due their president an illustration ot the comparative intelligence of the two houses Is found in a recital of the act that a few days ago the senate passed a bill and sent it to the bouse providing that dead soldiers buried aby the state should abot jray poll tabea after the funeral the house promptly changed the ibell and made it provide that living soldiers should not pay poll tax |