The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-06

BILL Is PASSED
Measure Is Amended and Goes
by Good Majority.
FINAL VOTE is Is TO u
MUCH ORAToRY is POURED OUT
ON BOTH SIDES.

Twenty-six members of the house
wore long-stemmed American Beauty
roses yesterday afternoon. tt was the
red badge of honor signifying vote
for the kindergarten bill Seventeen
men had to go about without the hand
some tokens Of gratitude sent in by the
ardent women friends of the measure.
Here is the vote by which senate bin
No. 10. by Bamberger. Familiarity called
the kindergarten bin, was passed:
Ayes-Adams, Barrett, Chapman. Col
ton, Condor, Coulter, Done, Hamlin.
Haslam, Lee, Mcfarland, McKinnon.
Metcalf, MOlyneux, Morris, Nash. Pet
erson, Richards, Roberts, Robson,
Stewart, Stoker, Tietjen, White, VIII
son. Hull-26.
Noes-Anderson, Austin, Brink, Child,
evans, Fishburn, Hall. HaWley, j. II.
Johnson, Luther. McRae, Merrill, Redd,
Smith, Spry, Stone, Watts-17.
Absent and not vOting-CahOOn, j. j.
Johnson
When the bill came up it was a fore
gone conclusion that it would be car
ried, but q number of the representa-
tives wanted a chance 10 exploit their
OratOry. The result was that much of
the forenoon session and of the after
noon session was taken up i'm talk.
Fishburn. who is called "Cissy." short
for Cicero by his colleagues. inveighed
against the bill. while "Webby' (shOrt
for Daniel Webster) White poured forth
torrent Of words I'm its favor. One
other oratOrical star, Demosthenes b.
Cotton, confined his eloquence to one
Word-"aye" and that on final passage
of the bill.
Two Amendments Adopted.
The bill as reported by the commit
tee on education. had amendments,
which were adopted. The bill. I'm sub
stance, provided that kindergartens
must be established in all school dis
tricts having a population Of 1000 or
over. The first committee amendment
changed the limit 10 1000. The other
amendment provided that the money
for maintenance should come out of the
district school fund The original bill
made it come out Of any school fund.
Mrs. Coulter made the opening speech
Tor the bill She read a petition from
the WOmens clubs which. she declared.
represented $4,000 women i'm Utah, and
urged the passage Of the measure as
one of great benefit TO the children.
Wilson said he had recently visited
the kindergarten in the Thirteenth
ward aneX and this visit had removed
his prejudice. He favored the bill.
II have children" said Haslam. cone
OF them is i'm the kindergarten and
am perfectly satisfied it is good
thing"
'T am not asking favors of lovely
women" Fishburn averred. Il am not
looking for beauty roses. The bill is
an absurd proposition
He attacked it because it '1egislated
four years in the future" and declared
there is a trick in that"
Legislation in Two Years.
''They thought TO get this bill
through said he. "and then i'm two
years to come before the legislature
and get legislation . to make 1t eff
fective. We are destroying that home
feeling-that love Of home"
Mrs. Coulter tried to talk again, buJ
was cut of because she had spoken
once on the subject A recess was
taken.
Done secured the floor at the open
ing of the afternoon session. He COM
pared Fishburn to Don QuiXOte, charg-
ing the windmiIls. and then went on
10 explain the beauties of -kindergar-
tens.
THE children OF the slums are lifted
10 a better life and to higher ideals"
he said
Then White secured the floor faced
the kindergarten delegation I'm the
gallery" and GRATED for the bill.
MOlyneuX offered this amendment:
THE school boards of the aforesaid
school districts are hereby authorized
to levy a tax, not to exceed one and
one-half mills on the dollar on all tax
able property Of the respective dis
tricts for the support of the kindergar-
tens as herein provided"
This is moved to KIN the BILL" de-
clared Roberts. He took the ground
that the Hndergartens would not add
to the total cost Of maintenance be-
cause the children would move along
faster in the higher grades.
Anderson and Smith talked against
the measure on the ground that it
meant an increase Of taxation.
The amendment was lost by a vote of
II TO %.
The previous question was ordered
and the vote taken, resulting as above.
The bill no wgoes back to the senate
for action on the house amendments