The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-11
.S0L0NS READY
TO BEGIN WORK
Waiting For the Opening Session
tomorrow.
IRRIGATION BILLS GALORE
ORGANIZATION FIRST THING ON
THE PROGRAMME.

obs and capital, are spending today at
their homes, preparing in various ways
for the opening session Of the fifth gen.
eral assembly tomorrow. Some are
resting, others are busy polishing up
bills they have been evolving for weeks
and months, and all are wondering
what VIII happen next in the senatorial
situation.
More bills will be introduced this
session and printed al the public ex-
pense than have been presented for
years past. say the wise ones. There
viii be irrigation bills galore Enac-
ton of the national irrigation law has
stimulated the production of typewrit-
ten ditch and reservoir schemes which
are identical in only one particular
they all are introduced behind the
clause BE it enacted" That impor-
tant irrigation legislation will be the
result of the general agitation and the
desire Of taking advantage Of the fed
eral enactment is confidently predicted
by the legislators who ought to know
Various amendments of numerous
statutes are also ready TO be sprung
by eager lawmakers. Several changes
in the school laws are to be proposed
in different ways. Public roads appro-
priations are being clamored for by
legislators from nearly every district,
and there is much talk of amendments
of the taxation laws.
Proceedings Tomorrow
Tomorrow's session will be a formal
rather than a busy or exciting one, un-
less the unexpected happens. and there
is little room for the unexpected in the
proceedings which are on the pro-
gramm Both houses will organize. a
process which will consume consider
able time, as both Republicans and
democrats viii propose their eandi-
dates for the chair and the various
subordinate positions. and there will be
many nominating speeches and second
ing orations. Then each house will
nave to advise the other of its exist
ence and inform it that it is ready for
business. About the time the two
houses find each other ready for the
transaction of affairs of state, they will
suddenly discover ii is growing late
and win adjourn.
Governor Wells message is due to be
submitted Tuesday A few bills may
be presented tomorrow, but most of
them will be reserved for later in the
session.
Exhibits at Big Fairs.
Utah representation in the St Louis
worlds fair of 1904 and the Portland ex-
position of 1905 is the subject of a re-
port TO which the finishing touches will
be put tomorrow in time for its pres
entation to the legislature. Appropria-
tons for state buildings and exhibits
at the two great fairs will be recon-
mended. The report is being prepared
by the commission appointed for that
purpose by Governor Heber NJ Wells
and will be transmitted to the legisla-
ture with the governors message and
in all proba bility with his approval
The commission consists of State SEN
ator Hoyt Sherman. its chairman:
Judge r. ". Shurtliff of Ogden and
Hiram 3. ClaWSon of Salt Lake City.
II viii meet in Senator Sherm2n's Of
flee tomorrow.
Chairman Sherman went to St Louis
to learn what other states were doing
and what was expected of Utah. and
returned filed with the conviction that
Utah should make an appropriation of
considerable magnitude so as to be rep
resented creditably as compared with
sister and neighbOr commonwealths
There is no question but that the
louisiana Purchase exposition will
eclipse all other worlds fairs in grand
eur. and Utah should not be behind
hand in availing herself of the oppor-
tunlty OF exhibiting her resources and
providing a state building of which she
need not be ashamed" said Senator
sherman last night in discussing the
report The legislature appropriated
$4,000 for state exhibit in the Chicago
fair of 1898, and provided funds for a
state building at Omaha and one at
Nashville We were not represented
in Buffalo. The st. Louis fair officials
think Utah should do at least as well
for 1904 as the state did for the worlds
fair of ten years ago and am inclined
to agree with them.
Allotment of Space.
Our state has been given fine al
lotment of space in that portion of the
fair grounds set aside for state build
ings- Our immediate neighbors. if we
erect a building. will be New York,
California, Wyoming and Georgia. so
we will be in the best of company.
This session Of the legislature also
will have to consider the advisa bility of
apprOpriating for state representation
at the Lewis and Clark expedition cen
tennial, which is to be celebrated at
Portland two years hence. The Port
land fair promises to be a bigger affair
than is generally supposed 1t will
not be merely an exhibit of state re-
sources or of the products of even the
great northwest. but will array the
curios and products of the Orient as
in this country. The Pacific coast in
general and Portland in particular re-
ceive the wares of India, China, Japan
and the east and distribute them
throughout the country. The naer-
chants of Portland are. therefore. Pc
culiarly qualified to draw upon the ORR
ent for its best and they will do SO.
Aside from the fact that the Port
land exposition is to be a big one. Utah
should join in with a spirit of neigh
borliness to help make it a success. OF
course, it could hardly be expected OF
US to do so much for Portland as We
ought to do for the St Louis fair.
purely as a matter of self interest. but
a little something is expected. The
fact that appropriations for both fairs
would have to be made at the same ses-
sion is somewhat of a difficulty and on
that account the legislature may have
to trim down more than il would like
to-"