The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-13
AWAY To LOGAN
TO SEE COLLEGE
Special Train Takes Legislators
to Agricultural Institute Today.
SOME SENATORS WON'T co
AFTER WRANGLING UPPER
HOUSE FAILS TO ADJOURN.
SOME SENATORS WONT co

When the cats away the mice will
play" said Senator Mckay solemnly
yesterday in an effort to induce the
state senate to adjourn over today SC
its members and officers could accom-
pany the lower house on its trip to
Logan
Also. united we stand, divided we
fall" he continued. quoting proverbs.
= think 1 discern a division of senti-
merit, and therefore 1 move We go into
executive session
Now, then. you'll have to get out
Senator Barnes crOwed gleefuily, eye
ing the newspaper reporters.
An executive session there would
have been, simply to consider the pro-
priety of The proposed adjournment,
had not Senator McKay's intention
miscarried on account of a.. parlia-
mentary tangle. There was a motion
before the house the mover of which
failed to withdraw il quick enough in
his endeavor TO clear the road for
Senator McKay's motion. The Weber
county sOlon succeeded in withdrawing
his own motion. so as not to be dis
courteous 10 the other senator, who
was frantically trying to get his own
motion out of the way. BY the time
the smoke had cleared everyone had
forgotten about the executive session,
so none was held.
Wrangled Till Adjournment.
Senator Mckay was right when he
said he thought he noticed a division
OF sentiment For three days the SEN
ate had spent nearly half its time
Wrangling over the proposed trip to
the Agricultural college in Logan, ana
more ili-feeling had been developed in
the quarrel than in any debate over
an important issue. The row was be-
gun again yesterday afternoon and
spite of Senator McKay'S proverbs.
1t began when Senator Murdoch
tried TO have a few of the senate Of
ticers excused to take the trip.
What possible good can it do the
state to have the senate officers go on
an excursion of this kind?" said Sen
ator Love, who was on his feet in a
shadow of an excuse for the senate in
specting the college, but there is not
the slightest reason for Gripping the
session merely to give the senate en-
ployes trip. The senators are not
honest in the stand they take
Six Senators to Go.
81 object to the aspersions this self
appointed censor of senatorial motives
Is casting upon the conduct of the ma
Jority." said Senator Murdoch. rs it
any offense to ask for a vote on this
question:"
1t was finally agreed that six of the
senators should be excused to go on the
trip, while the remainder would stay
and hold a session. The six excused
were Gardner. Williams, Johnson, Bar
Der. Bennion and Barnes
The members of the house and the
six senators viii leave Salt Lake for
Logan on a special train over the Ore
gOn Short Line at 7:45 a. m. today. The
train viii be in charge of Assistant
General Passenger Agent D. S. Spen-
Ger.
It is expected that the party will
reach Logan at II o'clock, and it will
be met at the station by citizens in
sleighs. Thence the members of the
legislature and those who accompany
them will be taken to the Agric IItural
college. About 1 o'clock dinner will be
served by the domestic science depart
ment of the college. After the institu-
ton has been inspected the party will
be taken back to the station, starting
on the return journey at 5 o'clock and
reaching Salt Lake at O'Clock.