The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-13
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.
New Places Created for Payment of
Political Debts.

New Places Created for Payment of
r Political Debts.
The expected has happened and Viii
liam Glasmann Of ogden viii preside
. over the incoming house of representa-
I tives. Mr.. Glasmaun was nominated
in caucus last night by Benner \.
Smith. There We're seconds from all
over the equity court room, where the
meeting was held. and the Weber coun-
f ty man was elected by acclaTnatlOn-
There was considerable friction over
the arUOrtiOnment of the minor omces,
but in the end an amended report OF
the committee on apportiOnment was
adopted unanimously
/ p ne officers eles ted Were as tOllpWS-
I Chief clerk. NJ NJ. Steele of Garfield;
minute clerk Selden Irwin Clawson of
salt Lake: engrgssIHs clerk. r J. Hen
dershot of Weber, docket clerk Leroy
WOOlIey of Kane committee clerks,
Miss Flora Smith of Utah, Misses Ellen
Jones and Stella Smith of salt Lake:
SeTEeant-at-aTmS. ID. =. MdTSnau o.
Rich assistant Scrgeant-dt-a rms, J. -
Gordon of TOOeIe, Waterman. Andrew
Morris of Beaver inside messenger, J.
A Kelly of Willard. outside messenger,
James +. Meeks of Wayne, chaplain,
William Stewart of Sewer, doorkeeper,
AbCer Lowry, jr., of Sanpete; assistant
doorkeeUer. &. e.. Wilson of Box Elder.
I were created for the purpose of paying
political debts. This was a point won
by John T. Axton and one or two others
after q hard fight The original report
of the committee did not provide for
any assistant sergeant at-aIms or door
keeper. Ii did provide that the gov
/ ernOr be- allowed TO appoint a private
/ messenger. that messenger to be a
loyal colored Republican. At the tail
Z end Of the meeting, however, the color
IL ~
/ was left free 90 appoint a white man if
he so desires.
Caucus Organized.
The caucus was organized by the
I election of Scott Cutler of Kane for
chairman and Archibald Stewart of
F Salt Lake secretary. The first bust
ness was the appointment of the aD-
pOrtionment committee. A proposition
To have this body made up of one repre-
. sentative from each county was voted
. down and the organization was limited
to five. Those selected were: South of
Rich. Hewlett of Salt Lake. G. W
Johnson of Garfield, Barrett of Beaver,
NOSiah Evans of Utah.
just before the appointment of this
committee Beuner Y. Smith took the
floor and in a brief but happy little
speech nominated GIaSmann for speak
err Van Horne and others seconded
the nomination. and while William
bUshed violently over in a corner Of
the room he was unanimously elected.
He made "a short speech of thanks and
acceptance and then the legislators
got down to other business While the
, apDOrJiOument committee was out at
tending to its work the other members
/ took ~ the question of the number of
standing committees TO be named.
1t was decided to have practically all
r the committees that were in vogue
during the last session of q Republican
legislature. In addition. at Holm
. green's suggestion. a temporary COM
g mittee on rules was appointed 1t con-
Sisrs of Van Horne and Holmgren-
- This committee viii formulate rules to
guide the house until a regulation set
~ can be adopted
+. There was d long debate over a mo-
{ ION To- consolidate the standing com
p nittees on iSr and game and forestry.
Is II was finally thought best To leave
them segregated.
r Country Took Everything.
% Just as this feature of the work was
finished the apprTtiOumeur committee
returned to submit it's report and the
only really warm work Of the evening
Was ON The report left Weber out Of
- The distribution entirely and gave salt
z Lake only minute clerk and an en-
2 crossing clerk
This suited neither Salt Lake nor
r. Weber GIaSmauu objected vigorously
to turning down his county. 4 know
jr seems pretty ncrvy." he said, after
have gotten the best thing in the
house. 10 claim something more, but
Weber county is entitled to at least
one of the minor positions We had
% terrible light down in our county.
We had To beat Frank Cannon and it
look lot of work to do it. Now we
should be- rewarded
Archibald Mcfarland took a similar
position He declared that the cleo
tiou of tilasmaun to the speakership
should not be charged 10 Weber cOun-
IT, That was a position that the whole
state was interested in. and if The 9th
orS chose t0 give the Eonor to Weber
If wasn't Wehers fault.
Beuucr Y Smith talked hard for
more positions for salt Lake county
Hr said that One-thiTd of the Repub-
Iicau votes were cast here. The salt
Lake delegation comprises 'ue-third
of the Republican strength. and IN all
fairness this county should have one
rhird of the Offices. Mr.. Smith made a
talk of considerable length.
Wanted the Earth.
Chairman CutI,r. who had been fd-
getting considerably lille the salt
I.akcr Was a-Euiu-. called GiaSmanu
20 PRESIDE at the conclusion of Smiths
speech. salt Lake is claiming the
earth. ass usual said Mr. Cutler
f"Other counties DO this state are en-
titled to- representation. salt Lake
has most of the state offices now and
Do viii have che next senator. ] am
willing 10 concedr the brains to Salt
Lake. but it must be understood that
we ON the outside have "a few votes
Mr.. cutters talk aroused the first real
applause of the meeting.
Van Horne of Salt Lake spoke next
He described the amount of work done
i'm this county citing his own district
as an instance There. he said, all the
Republican votes were gotten out eX-
cept two. and hose voters were too
i'm To- go to the polls
John Aston now proposed TO create
some offices Bishop Gardner Of Utah
opposed the idea. He thought is
would not be right to- pay political
debts at the expense of the state treas
ury- Bench of Sanpete was with the
bishop. NIr. Bench went so far as to
say Sanpete would give mp the door
Keeper assigned to- IL rather than vote
for an increase in the number of EN-
plOyeeS.
Axiom - pr0Uosition. though, suited
a majority of the members Clasmann
submitted an amendment providing
for the extra help already mentioned
ana Tor taking the engrOSsiug clerk
from Salt Lake to Weber. The
. amendment was adopted and SO was
the report as amended. This carried
with il the direction to Governor Wells
10 appoint a colOred private messen-
ger.