The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-14

<NAAONAASA fONF "a b+S1k silllhEh DI1DIO-
priation Of $4,000 is gone. In return
for It the convention has adopted its
ruIe4 and had its photograph taken.
THAN tells the whole tale of the pro
ceedings Of yesterday, barring the pre-
hnninaries and extensive corrections Of
the minutes. President Smith did not
get into any parliamentary tan5les;
but then he was given no chance. He
did show an intense anxiety to have
his photograph taken, but such little
breaches of dignity as that are now
becoming familiar. He was also IN re-
ceipt of a little lecture on parliament
tary law, as relating to the dispatch
ing of business, though the lecture was
ostensibly a colloquy between Thurman
and Varian. The reasons for this
slight warming up came from the
seeming desire Of the president to
choose the longest way about in put
ting through the business. The Dem
ocratSl have been wondering for some
daySsQ-hy the Republicans had not
taken President Smith aside and given
him some friendly counsel on this sub
jeCt. But there was no evidence that
they had done 50 and the case became
so bad that Thurman finally took the
matter into his own hands yesterday
and gave the most delicate intinaation
Of how business could be much more
quickly dispatched by unanimous con-
sent than by insisting each time on
vote. Yarian fell right in with the
spirit Of the subject and backed up
Humans remarks. That these pearls
of wisdom were not cast before swine
was fully evident when President
Smith used the unanimous consent rule
all the afternoon.
The Proceedings.
Again President Smith showed com
rnen4ahle promptness IN bringing the
convention to order. The gaVel de-
seconded on the desk at exactly 2
o'clock Ninety members we're present
Bishop Abel B. Leonard. Of the
EPISCOPAL church, was called upon to
offer prayer.
There was a terrible cross fire on the
minutes again, but most of the worst
errors were remnants Of the parlia-
rnentary tangle of the day before,
when President Smith was SO ratified
that he referred propositions to com
mittees which have no existence, and
otherwise mixed things up. Minute
Clerk Rapp was found comparatively
free from blame. In all, about half an
hour was spent in fixing matters up.
The Rules.
At 2.30 the rules were taken I'D under
speeSsl order and read by sections,
piE9ng the course of consideration
there was some mild cross-firing at the
punctilious roundabout methods of
President Smith. Thurman moved
that the rules would require the presi-
dent to wait every morning for mo-
ton for the approval of the minutes.
He thought il would certainly be suf-
hcient for the chair to say, If there is
no objection, the minutes shall be APP
proved
Yarian then took occasion to read a
little lecture to the chair over Thur
mans shoulder He said it was GER
tai9lv permissible and preferable to
put such propositions through by unan-
imouS consent, instead of calling for
a vote on everything. The effect of
this was seen when the president used
unanimous consent the rest of the
day.
at 8 O'Clock President Smith an
founeed the time had come when the
photograph OF all the members was
TO be taken by Sainsbury & Johnson.
.Varian (hagcllyl--Let us go on; let
the photographer wait.
10 Keep Things Straight
Later in the debate the president
created a grin by saying:
"The secretary viii please keep
things straight so we may know where
We are"
President Smith, during the consid-
Grafton Of the rules, would occasionally
glance at the clock as though impatient
over something. At length his impa-
thence became uncontroilable and he
broke in upon the deliberations alb
ruptly.
gentleman, the photographer IS
..Fkating. We promised to meet him at
lock and IL is now !"
III teak the members a few moments
Understand that the president was
- an7ious to get his pretty" taken, and
there was rot q hearty vote on q mo-
ton for ten minutes recess. How
ever, on a rising vote, the motion
pagSed by a very close vote and most
OF the members fled downstairs.
There was afterWard q reference to
this. when Wells asked what the con-
Hention would do during the five days
when the committee on revision is at
Thurman (dryly)-Get our photo
graphs taken. IaughteT)
Privilege of the Floor.
,Hrhe privilege of the floor was ey-
tended TO the governor, secretary, au-
ejtor, treasurer, ex-governors, justices
Of the supreme court and ex-juSttces
thereof the delegate to congress and
e-,-deIegates, members of the Utah
Commission. members Of the county
court, the mayor and city council Of
Salt Lake city, reporters for the press,
as provided by these rules, and ladies.
There was another reference to the
photograph business over the rule re-
garding suspension of the regular or
der. The rule provided for a two
Thirds vote on suspension.
Evans of Weber-We should have
had that rule before the vote Was
taken on the recess for photographs
Two Thirds Rule.
Varian wanted the sense of the con
Fehtion as to whether suspension could
be had by a majority vote, and Evans
llposed that He said the tWo-thirds