The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-12

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The point was overruled and Mr.
! Shepard then offered another amend
ment to the resolutions, providing that
/ the investigation commission be COM
| posed of the governor, encouragement
and the three justices of the supreme
court
Thoreson moved that the amendment
| be laid on the table.
Does the gentleman desire to kill
/ the whole resolution inquired Will
son, and Thoreson withdrew his mo-
/ ton.
SHEPARD'S AMENDMENT.
In reply to O'Brien, Shepard ex-
planned that the purpose of his amend
ment was to place the investigation in
the hands of persons who were not
biased, instead of appointing a COM
mittee of members to investigate each
other.
Sloan was not surprised by the
amendment. He had, he said, known
to their first loves. The amendment
proposed the appointment of a COM
mission. composed of five Republicans,
to investigate the conduct of the Dem
ocratic legislature. 1t was a matter
that concerned the Democratic party,
and the Democratic party should have
some voice in it.
a SHARP RETORT.
Shepard retorted that Sloan wanted
to be chairman of this investigation
committee, and he did not propose to
be investigated by Sloan. Neither did
he want to investigate Sloan. He
wanted the subject removed from all
church influences, and the commission
would be made up of four Gentiles and
one Mormon. He wanted to remove
a xVrhO tpf. he hn of
the factions in the legislature, and
place il in the hands of clean, unbiased
men-not Thatcher men, nor Rawlins
men, nor Henderson men. Sloan had
insisted that he wanted full and fair
investigation, and so did the speaker
He thought a commission, as proposed
by him, would be above all bias or
prejudice.
O'BRIEN'S OBJECTION.
O'Brien opposed the second amend
ment. The Legislature was Democratic,
almost to a unit, and he was surprised
that any member who pretended TO
be a Democrat should propose that the
Democratic party was not brave
enough or fair enough to settle its own
troubles. Il ask you to remember that
there viii be a hereafter he declared
and two years from now there will be
another election. It seems that the
gentleman has returned to his old love
and has devised a scheme to disrupt
the Democratic party
Shepard declared the resolution at
tackled the honesty and integrity of
every member DO you think the
members ought to investigate each
other?' he asked.
REPRESENTED THE PEOPLE.
Kenner respectfully submitted that
I, I'LL
party. 1t represented the interests of
all parties and all the people Now that
the question had been raised. the peo-
pie of the state demanded that the in
vestigation go on. 1t would be absurd
to raise the question whether the DEM
ocratic party would be injured or bene- 7
flied. If the Democratic party could 4
not stand the strain of such inVesti- /
cation, then it should go down.
Thoreson was willing to leave the |
investigation to members of the legis-
lature. All legislative bodies ought to
settle their own affairs. 1t had been /
charged that the Republican party had
been aided by church influence. If /
that were true, these Republican of
ficials could not properly investigate
the case.
Romney desired to challenge any
statement rejecting on the ir tegrity /
or the fairness of the officials desig- |
mated as members of the commission. /
Reflections had been cast upon every /
member of the house. and the matter
should be referred to an unbiased tri-
bunal. /
WAXING WARM.
Sloan inquired whether Shepard's
was not a reflection upon
the members of the house.
i answer you with the statement
do hK- ion
Romney. Your resolution declares
that we are all rogues together.
have seen these blocks of five and
blocks of six on this floor, and propo-
sitions for larger blocks, too, and
signed by the gentleman who offered
this resolution, but that will come
later
Cook thought all the members were
more or less biased and they should
not investigate each other.
1T took us nearly half of the session
to elect a senator" declared Dotson,
and now it is proposed to spend the
other half in finding out how we did
il. Oaughter)
THOUGHT IT A FARCE.
Roylance regarded the whole pro-
ceeding as farce. No one would be
benefited by such an Investigation
and he characterized it as boys play
Il object to such reflections on the
author of the BILL" interjected Shep-
ard.
A SERIOUS MATTER.
Kimball of Cache thought the mem
Ders were inclined to make light of the
most sacred matter. These resolutions
we're of a very serious character and
night lead to the impeachment of {
iome members of the legislature. IF ;
[ is shown that bribes have been Of
ered,'' he continued, sit may place {
ome of the members behind the bars. {
rhe investigation should proceed and
here should be no nonsense"
SOMEWHAT PERSONAL.
Sloan had been interrupting members )
N the floor with questions and points ]
# order, and Duffin angrily suggested
hat the gentleman from Salt Lake .
,ermit someone else to occupy the .
loor occasionally. He would rather
ntrust this investigation to the mem I
'ers of the supreme court than to I
ONE of the hot-headed. rash and i'm l
ulsive members. Il don't want this
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