The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-15
The Proceedings.

The Proceedings.
It was fully Eve minutes after the
hour before the gaveI fell.
Rev. DR. Mabry, of the First Metho.
disAEpiscopal church, was invited to
off9SS the opening prayer.
The minutes were again a fruitful
source Of contention. over hale an
hour of valuable time being taken up
in correS6ing them. Hart had the clerk
strike out all mention Of the recess
for the photograph, and the recess will
simply appear. with the purpose for
which It was taken
Making Things Warm,
The president came in for some more
severe crogg-fring on account OF his
roundabout way Of doing business.
Evans suggested there was no heces-
sity for putting every trivial correc-
ton of the minutes to a vote. He
thought unanimous consent would
another lecture OF the same kind to
the chair, but neither seemed to have
any great effect. as the president con-
t;nued in the old way.
There vas q great deal of objection
to the "phat'' in the minutes, and
Evans moved to make it much less but
was voted down by the Republican
side.
AT length the minutes were adopted.
John Watson and Nathan Tanner,
of ogden, we're granted the privilege
Of the floor.
Woman Suffrage Comes Up.
The opening gun in tie campaign
being made for suffrage by the women
of Utah was fired by Evans, who pre-
scented petition for equal rights from
THE women of Weber, and asked
that ii be read in full and referred
Kimban Ungallantly objected to the
reading in fun and wanted the matter
TO be referred at once.
N9eSel-YoU can't get a second to
tSW motion. we want to have the pc
tition read
The petition was then read It was
signed by Mesdames Jennie E, Nelson.
Kate S. Hilliard. William Driver, L. R.
Rhodes and z, Y. STAFFORD. Committee
on elections and suffrage.
First Prohibition Gun,
Murdoch, of Wasateh, pr scented a
petition from 500 citizens OF Wasatch
sn favor Of the proposed prohibition
clause.
President Smith established basis
for fame by ruling this was not a
petition, but was prOpoSit on for in
sertion in the constitution 7 therefore,.
it was returned to Murdoch with per-
mission to bring it up under another
head.
The committee on accounts and en-
penditures made a blanket report on
about a dozen propositions. They said
that T. G.. Weber had kindly loaned
a clock for the convention. They algo
brought IN bids which had been IA
ceived for the making OF two drawers
or boxes for the safe keeping Of Da-
pers-
Another TanEie.
Variant move to lay that part OF
the report on the table.
The motion carried.
Varian-That carries the whole re-
port to the table.
There was a gasp of surprise f on
those interested and objec ions came
from all sides to such point.
The Chair-0fr- Varian, will you
please turn to the rule
Variant have not The rules wifi
Pier.e drew Roberts rules, but was
sItSat off by Varian demanding rul-
ssSfs4Sen his point
Yarian Sat Down On.
Pierce demanded the floor on Z
question Of privilege. The chair did moi
recognize him. but finally he d cided
Narian was wrong. Yarian did moi
take such q ruling with ve~y gooc
wards in disgust
The propositions for boxes were re.
3eeted.
The committee also brought up tht
question as 10 the pay Of officers no
fixed by law. Members had objected tC
the salaries fixed by ths committee.
Gouires endeavored TO carry out tht
REPUBLICAN caucus rule by asking, thai
tp9 former report Of the committee b.
adopted
Low objected. He moved that Page,
Camp and Thorne be paid $3.50 pei
dav instead Of 81 Lund amended to SO
and I.ynd's motion carried.
On the question BY Evans as TO wha.
authority there was for hiring ofceH
not provided for by statute, 1t was
brought ont that the secretary of thu
treasury had agreed 70 pay for al
necessary officers. nat settles on.
tsnotty point
The pay OF the assistant secretary
was hSzd at s..
There was question on the pay
nent Of the committee clerks. LunC
asked for $3.50. He said a stenosraphel
was certainly worth more than q JAM
btor- Boyer wanted "a fixed. Cannon
mage a ten strike for the vote of ths
,voYaen by moving for a per diem O
50, saying he believed female CLERKS
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