The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-09
In the Evening.

So dense was the crowd at the even
ing session that there seemed scarcely
| breathing room in the hall. People
corner. They perched on the press
| table in droves, and spread even over
, the floor of the house, SO that many
members could not see the speaker
stand without rising in their places and
craning their necks over the shoulder OF
some spectator. The crowds overlooked
into the Railways, and when the doors
were closed against them they surged
back and forth until the stout oak doors
creaked and the glass panels were
threatened with destruction.
THE sergeant-at-arms will open the
DOORS" commanded President Nebeker,
az he reached the stand, after fighting
his way through the crowd, so that the
people may see and hear from the hall
ways"
Sergeant Doc King had been sweat
ing and fighting with the crowds, and
had, after indefinite labor, succeeded in
shutting the door against them. Now
he opened the door the merest crack,
and, putting his head through, he an
nounced with the air of one comforting
priceless boon. Nov, if you folks
will keep quiet out there I shall open
lHe QOJT, dliu you Gail StE LIE WHOit
business"
There had been one of those sudden,
unexpected silences which sometimes
come over a great throng, and the
speech was audible all over the hall
1t was greeted with shouts of laughter
and the work of the joint assembly be-
gan. Representa- tive Bramwell was the
only absentee.
Senator Alder refused to join his col
leagues in voting for George @. Cannon,
and when he cast his ballot for George
Sutherland there was applause from the
crowd. Senator Harden Bennion
changed back to Mcclure, and the vote
was received with roar of approval.
1t was quite otherwise, however. when
Senator Shurtliff went to George Q.
Cannon. for Kisses were his portion,
and they were pronounced and bitter
sPEECHMAKING BEGINS.
Until Representative Murdoch was
reached, there was no speechmaking,
and all Mr. Murdoch had to say was
that he thought religion had been
wrOngfully drawed onto the floor" His
declaration that he was not afraid of
any Democrat, not bit" brought
shout of laughter, but he could not see
that the fun of the joke lay in his own
unconscious drollness of saying it, not
IN the WOrdSs ana ne was mucn OfreIld-
ed at the laughter. He roved around
the woods awhile talking of everything
but the senatorship, and incidentally
throwing a few bouquets at himself, az
"a man successful in business, success
full as a traveller and successful as
politician and then he cast his ballot
for George Q. Cannon,
ONEILS EARNESTNESS.
Representative O'Neil waxed some-
what fiery over what he called the de-
sertion of some of the Democratic
members, and he pitched into these
members as follows:
Il see coming to the Democratic party
one CT the most serious conditions ever
met in the state of Utah, and l must
say hate to see members here not full
filling the sacred duty that they should
be, not standing firmly to their views on
the silver question. From the very be
ginning we have found the gentlemen
on the left, our Republican friends,
standing as unit, even though they
were attempted to be persuaded to for
sake their stand, but they have stood