The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

tive, executive, judicial, apportion-
| ments. education and school lands,
counties, cities and towns corporations.
revenue and taxation, public debt,
militia, labor and arbitration, water
rights. forestry, public buildings not
educational, public lands, salaries OF
public officers, miscellaneous, amend
ments. schedule.
A Grammar School Again.
The convention then-without formal
vote-resolved itself into a grammar
school on revision of the constitution,
and during the rest of the morning
session wrestled with punctuation
points, words, sentences, phrases,
! grammar, rhetoric, lenses, gender.
| references to the antecedent and
tumble of other things on that general
| line.
During the interval Squires arose and
| in his most impressive tones sprung
what evidently he believed would Gre
ate a furore-
"Mr President" he said. 81 ask the
| privilege of the floor for Hon. Frank
J. Cannon, our delegate to Congress-"
Richardson's rules give that.
frankie Struck Frost.
President Smith jumped as though
petard had suddenly exploded. He has
tily asked Delegate Cannon to take a
seat on the platform. The Little Ma
! poleon," with a CLEAN Of satisfaction
in his eye marched forward like
conquering Beau Brummell coming to
partake of another triumph. But he
was doomed to disappointment. The
convention took his entrance very much
as a matter of course. Harry Haynes.
over in the far southwest corner, re-
Numbering the enthusiastic ovation
that had been given Mr.. Rawlins, when
he had entered the convention during
the early days of the session, started
to clap his hands. But the seeds Of
applause fell On unfruitful ground.
No enthusiasm could be evoked. The
convention hardly waited for him to
take his seat before it was again alb
sorbed in its prosaic work. This was
SO thoroughly in contrast with the
warmth of Mr. Rawlins' reception that
members noticed and commented upon
it quite freely.
President Smiths Perspicuity.
Another of those little incidents so
illustrative of the obstruse processes
of President Smiths parliamentary
mind, came up during the afternoon.
How many times can We reconsider
here anyway"
President Smith looked wise, picked
up his manuel of rules, laid it down,
gazed in the direction of Assistant
President McGurrin, and finally peered
over his spectacles at James.
LAS many time as it is proper he
answered.
James was absolutely stunned at the
depth of this ruling. 1t took the con-
Vention about half a minute to catch
Its breath. Then suppressed giggles
began to break out all around. PreSi-
dent Smith looked surprised and dis
r,1a TT1cf hn oh r. n
TO order James recovered and began
cropping blindly for light.
james Seeking For Light.
MAY I ask" he said, with intense
sarcasm, how many times is proper?'
President Smith was again puzzled,
but again he was equal to the emer-
gency. With the air of man who had
determined to settle a mooted question
once for all he said:
why. as many times as it takes to
satisfy the members"
James-To satisfy all the members?
The President-Yes.
And then the convention literally
broke down. But then that was simply
an example of John Henry's parlia-
mentary profundity and erudition.
A recess was taken from 12:15 until
o'clock, but a quorum did not put in
its appearance until half an hour after
funniest seances of the latter days Of
the session.
KimbaIrs Little Joke.
President, we've been spending two Vr
three days over commas and such
things. Now at common law and ire
legal contracts punctuation is not al
lowed. Therefore I move we quit this
punctuating. daughter and half
dozen .seconds).
This motion was actually put 20
vote by President Smith, and was lost
on a very close vote as the members
took it as a good joke.
Kimball. of Salt Lake, move that
when member moves to put in q
comma We
James Chastily)-Hang him. Oaugh-
teri.
Lund-I move that when member
makes a motion he cite rule in sup
port of it. Gaughter).
Squires-And I move that only those !
who know something about grammar
take part. Oaughter)
Kimball. of Weber-Tn view of that
move that Mr.. Squires be excused /
for the rest Of the session Oaughter). /
They Are Simply Samples.
These Incidents illustrate into what
sort of grammar school picnic the I
AcAiN S1NICIl IDS OStn turned. members [
care as little for decorum as a ward |
debating club and take their RESPONSE /
bilities very lightly. On many of the
motions less than a dozen members I
vote, and in fact James was moved to I
remark:
Mr.. President, one voted ave and
one no. How do you decide that?
(Laughter).
After working for a couple of hours
on revision, Snow created a sensation
by offering the following resolution:
To Finish on Tuesday.
Resolved that the committee on en-
rollment and engrossment be in
structed to employ the necessary helm
to report the engrossed constitution
to this convention for final reading by
Tuesday, May 18th, at D. m"
Snow and Chichester argued against
staying in town for five days wait
ing for the clerk, who cannot get
through until Thursday. The idea of
having ne constitution in one hand
writing IS merely one of pride. There
was some more discussion on this
point and the resolution was then
adopted with a shout When the
president announced this was carried
there was a great deal of applause
from all points. The convention was
relieved. The sergeant-at-arms was
instructed to notify absentees to be
present on Tuesday. when the final
vote is expected to come.
Copies of the Constitution.