The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-19
THE SALT LAKE HERALD, THURSDAY MARCH g 1895

meaning when he said the house mac
not a proper appreciation of the sane
tity of prayer. Mr.. Robinson replied
Just what / said Following up the
remark Dr. Condor said. Then you
believe prayer before this house is like
casting pearls before swine" Mr.. Rob
inson again replying, You may con-
strue it as you please.
Mr.. Gibson, as he always does when
proposition for economy is up, took
a hand. He said he was not opposed
to prayer; in fact he believed in it, and
sometimes did little of it himself, but
he never had to ask anyone to pray
for him. He was accordingly opposed
to the house having a chaplain at ALL
but as it had one, his compensation
should be in keeping with the times
Mr.. Morrison said the senate had got
ten alcng with what prayers it could
pick up as it went, and he thought The
house should have done likewise. Be
cause the house had decided to do
otherwise was no reason why an I'M
reasonable price should be paid.
Mr.. Cushing favored raising the
chaplain's pay.
The motion to reconsider prevailed
upon division, % to II.
Mr.. Clark then moved to raise the
pay of the chaplain from $3.50 to 81
the other employees.
Mr.. Morrison moved to amend by re-
ducing the pay of the other employees
80 cents.
Mr.. Gibson followed with motion to
reduce the per diem of all members
and employees 80 cents:
The speaker held the latter mc;ton
out of order and that the vote on Mr.
Clarks motion must be taken before
that of MIR. Morrison could be put.
Speaking to the question, Mr.. Critcl1-
low said the position was not ore
which required any especial ability to
perform the duties. There were $4,000
people in the state who could fill the
doubt would be glad to officiate for tina
amount provided in the resolution. The
sanctfty of prayer was not thing
which could be measured by the
amount of compensation to be allowed.
Effioac.0us prayer could not be bought,
ard money did not enter into the con-
sideration. But there was another con-
sid:ra ton which should be taken into
account instead. The duties were not
cnerous, but a little of the chaplain
time was devoted to his duties, and he
could not see why thls house could not
exercise little business sense and not
DG SMdycu ny StiFtlllltihI dS OIlti ID eiiS
members appeared to be.
Mr. Clark said the chaplain had to
come here long distance and had TO
pay his expenses while here. He
thought the compensation should be
fair.
Mr.. Smoot calf1d for the ayes and
nays o.n the mot.en, the vote resulting
in favor of the raise as follows:
Ayes-Beard, Bolitho, Curtis, Cush-
ing, Cazier. Eg'an, Heiner, Lowrey,
Morrill,, Mansfield. Nebeker of Salt
Lake, Raddatz, Robinson, Stevens,
Snedaker, Shafer, Sevy, Sorensen
Thorn. Thompson of Sanpete, Wilson,
Mr.. Speaker-totail, %.
Nays-Andrus, Bernhisel. Condor,
Critchlow, Ferguson of Carbon, Gibbs,
Gibson, Howard, Lewis. Larsen, Lem
mon, Morrison, Maughn. Murdoch, Nye,
Smoot, Thompson of Millard-total, II;
absent, 5.
Mr.. Morrison then renewed his mo-
ton to cut the per diem of the ser
geant-at-arms, janitor, messengers,
night watch and chaplain.
DR.. Condor moved to indefinitely
postpone consideration of the motion.
Mr.. Clark had moved to reconsider
for the express purpose of changing the
pay of the chaplain, and thought that
portion of the resolution only was to
be open to amendment, and Mr. Bo-
lftho raised the point. the speaker rul-
ing the reconsideration a. opened the
whole resolution to amendment
DR.. Condor, seeing his motion to in
definitely postpone would carry the
whole resolution, changed his motion
to lay on the table. Il
The motion was lost and Mr.. Morri-
sons motion carried.
Mr.. Boltho wanted ths further con-
sideration to lay over a. day that he
might move to reconsider. He thought
the resolution as ii now stood did not
provide adequate compensation for The
employees and Thought the members
could be made to see it.
Mr.. Ferguson of Carbon wanted a
recount of the vote by which Mr.. Nor
rison' s motion had carried, but was de-
MED. the speaker holdings that the de-
cision had been announced
The roll call was then ordered on the
final passage of the resolution, which
was begun, whsn Mr.. Curtis raised
the point that no motion-to place the
resolution ON passage had carried.
The speaker thought otherwise, burt
was informed to the contrary by the
clerk wlrsn that motion was put and
carried. The roM call was then or
dered and the resolution killed The
vote was as follows:
Ayes-Bernhisel Critchlow. Gibbs,
Gibson. Howard, Lewis. Larsen, Lem
Murdoch, Nye, Robinson. Shafer,
Smoot, Sorenson, Thompson of Willard.
Totals
Nays-Andrus, Beard, Bolitho, Con-
don. Curtis, Gushing, Cazier Clark,
Egan, Ferguson of Carbon, Heiner,
Lowrey, Morrill,, Nebeker of Salt Lake,
Raddatz, Snedaker. Sevy, Thorn.
Thompson of Sanpete, Wilson, Mr.
Speaker. Total-21.
Absent-6.
Mr.. Cazier Immediately moved to
postpone further consideration for one
day, which made the house laugh and
caused DR.. Condor to rise to inquire
of the speaker the exact status of the
resolution at this time. He was po-
litely informed by Speaker Denny
that so far as he could see it's useful
ness was ended: that the resolution
was now dead.
The house INDUCED in hearty
laugh, while Mr.. Morrison moved a
special committee to hold post NOR
tenn examination to determine the
cause of death.
Mr.. Thompson of Sanpete gave notice
of a motion to reconsider, but Mr.
Lewis came forward at once with a
point of order that nothing could be
considered the second time, and the
resolution was out of the way for
ever.
WANTED MORRISON CENSURED.
At this time Mr.. Cazier presented a
resolution which gave the members
some little surprise when they heard
it read. 1t provided for the appoint
ment of special committee of five to
investigate the statements made by
Mr. Morrison the day before, that he
had heard it openly stated about the