The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

The constitutional convention has
now come to waiting game 1t has
only to stop until the printer and the
enrolling clerk get their work in shape.
After that is done. which may be about
Tuesday or Wednesday, the conven-
J ton will read the whole instrument as
it is enrolled and will then take the
final vote on its adoption. This WHY
be the last move in the game and the
spectacular body which has interested
and amused the people of Utah for the
last sixty days will be over. Adjourn
ment will probably come on Wednes-
day.
In order 10 make the time pass as
quickly as possible the delegates are
now considering some half a dozen
schemes that nave presented them
selves Tor throwing time to the wind.
In line with this they will take a trip
TO Saltair this afternoon. Tt is under
stood that the occasion will be infOr-
NAL and everybody Will have a good
time as possible.
The Convention Ball.
In addition to the trip to Saltair an
attempt is being made to arrange fol
a convention ball at Christensen's on
Monday evening. This idea has been
federal and county officials and it now
looks as though It will be carried
through. Page Camp has been sent
around with the duty Of raising sufti-
cient funds from the business men of
the city and has met with the most
hatteTing success. 1t is expected that
today all arrangements will be made.
There has also been a proposition for
the delegates to have a banquet a. the
hnsatsford some night before they
hayk been quietly agitating the idea
nd it has met with much favor. How.
ever ii is very doubtful If this scheme
wfll go through.
The committee OH compilation and
arrangements nave decided on the fol
lowing arrangement of the articles and
it will he presented to the convention
today:
Pream BILE and declaration of rights, |
boundaries, ordinance, elections and
rights Of suffrage. distribution of
power, legislative. executive, judicial, !
apportionmen- y. education and school
lands, counties. citiea and towns, cor
porations revenue and taxa ton. public /
debt. militia, labor and arbitration !
water rights, forestry, public buildings
not educational. public lands. salaries |
of public officers. miscellaneous,
amendments, schedule.
After the Ball.
1<tsThe effect OF the reception of the /
:. night before was seen is the attend |
ance when the hour OF meeting arrived .
yesterday 1t had been the part of
wisdom to adjourn until 10 o'clock in /
stead of 9. for sufficient members to /
make 4 quorum did not appear until
1920. when President Smith raped to |
order. and called on Delegate Preston /
10 offer the opening prayer.
President Smith announced the ap-
pointment of the special committee to |
n f. ? t,O
ing c. c. Goodwin. o. F Whitney,
Charles Crane. s. R. Thurman. H. NJ.
Wells. W. ]. Kerr and Theodore
Brandiay.
Larsen Was Fearful
Lauri:z Larsen created a Slight
dnreeze by offering the following mo-
ton:
In view Of the fact that the return
tickets OF q number of the delegates
expires on the 4th and 9th of Nav. q
move that the sergeant-at-arms be in
tStrUcted to communicate with the rail
80 officials for the purpose of gstt.r3
d extension of time"
However President Smith for once
arose to the occasion. and this particu-
lar motion will not go on the minutes
for the delectation of future genera
tons The president said he would per-
sonally see TO the matter
The convention next took up the re-
mainder Of the article on legislation on
final revision. again there was a seance
over commas, periods. capitals, lower
case letters, words ard such things.
Raise the Governors Salary.
While on the executive article Jolley.
of Sanpete, moved to suspend the rules
and make the salary of the governor
s., 500 instead of 81, coo. The motion had
a majority of 46 to 80, but as il REQUIRED
two-thirds, failure awaited this last
attempt
COray at it Again.
On the judicial article, which was af-
forwards taken UP, Coray made another
break.
4 move that these foreign words be
changed to good, plain English, he
said. Gle referred to mandamus, GER
tiorasis quo warranto and habeas
corpus)
Hart edryly)-Can the gentleman sug-
gest some good, plain English that will
serve the purpose? Oaughter)
Coray was sqUelched.
Waiting Again For a Quorum.
When in the middle Of the article on {
judiciary recess was taken from y ]
u4til O'Clock But two hours did not
fysm to be long enough to suit the z
luxurious ideas of the member If the
wait for The beginning of the morning s
session had been monotonous and pro- i
voking. the wait in the after s
noon was lrraSclble. The hour | /
for meeting found only few
of the stand-bys present Among '
them were such boys" as Farr. G
Maeser, Hughes and Hammond. who ,
showed a good example to men score I
of years younger. Minute after minute I
passed and member after member came a
struggling in slowly, but at 2:30 the ne :
cessary 81 had not put in their appear i
ance. Hart, grown tired of this dila-
toriness, asked for a roll call He said c
he wanted to see just who were attend I
ing to bi-s4ness and just who were not I
The ap. rance of the hall, with its S
dozens OF empty chairs, however, gave
ample evidence of lack of legislative i
energy typiied by a quorum, and, on t