The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-22
TAKES FALL OUT
OF SPEAKER HULL
The House Makes Successful Kick
Against Killing Bill.
EMERGENCY CLAUSE ROW
RUSH OF MEASURES IN LOVES
BRANCH OF LEGISLATURE.

BRANCH OF LEGISLATURE.
House bill No. 1SS, by Hawley, pro-
viding for central Utah experiment
station, was resurrected from the dead
last night after Speaker Hull had rele-
gated it to the legislative cemetery by
his decision during the afternoon ses-
sion that because the bill had contained
an emergency clause and had not re-
ceived twO-thirds vote in its favor it
had beer. defeated
Undertaken Hull thought that he hal
embalmed the bill and that there WASH
a ghost of a show that the house would
appeal from his decision, but the night
session brought the miracle. and the
legislature, which has already shown its
feeling tS%ard the measure by its vote
of q to Is, viii have chance TO act
on 10 Thursday.
The fact of the matter is that the
bill is already passed, but the technical
objection of the speaker that no appeal
was made yesterday afternoon from his
decision that the bill had been killed
was allowed to stand. The house will
simply take the bill up again and again
pass il.
Speaker Hulls ruling, members of
both houses say, was clearly -incon-
sistent, without precedent. The sup
porters of the bill heard with open
mouthed establishment that the bill bad
been killed, although there was a ma
jority vote in it's favor.
The roll call followed a debate
which occupied the greater part of the
afternoon and which developed deter
mined opposition to the bill. This OPP
position came from three classes.
The final vote stood q ayes to 10
nays.
Farmers Show Surprise.
The farmers smilingly heard the re-
suit and then heard the speaker count
the bill down and out because of the
emergency clause and the fact that a
twO-thirds vote had not been scored.
According to the Interpretation of the
law in the past, the bill should have
been declared carried with the cmer-
Eency clause lost
When it dawned upon the supporters
q the bill that 1t had been pronounced
n dead one" they were sore and their
feelings were not Gained by the man
ner in which Referee Hull handed out
his decisions.
I'VE can reconsider" shouted one
Yes. let's call the bill up" came
from another quarter.
You can do nothing of the kind"
the man in the center of the ring an
nOunced.
Cause of Opposition.
The opposition that developed to the
bill came from three sources. First
sons Of the members were hon
GSLAN OpHDStd 10 the Dill because
it carried with it a larger appro-
priatiOn In their opinion than the
state could afford; second. the bill was
amended to the point of nervous pros
tration; and last. and seemingly quite
important, some of those who voted
against the bill on final passage could
see nothing but their own county as
the home OF the experiment farm. while
the bill made the choice optional with
the agricultural department directors
nj ifUTl raj ara11n he
state board of land commissioners.
Hawley'S bill provided for the estab-
IIshment in central Utah of an expert
ment farm to be under the control OF
the Logan experimental farm direct
ors.
Debate on the Measure.
That the bill had a fight on was evil
dent from the start. It has been
shelved several times and yesterday
when IL came UP as a special order at
5 .. m, Joseph moved that considera-
Jion of the bill be passed up until a. re-
port and financial statement could be
obtained from the state board of hor-
ticulture. After a lengthy row over
Joseph's motion, it was put to a vote
and defeated.
1t was on the clause providing that
the counties embraced in the chain of
valleys extending from Box Elder to
Juab should be eligible to bid for the
experiment farm that the debate CEN
tered.
Johnson told what great stunts were
being done every year down Sanpete
way IN the line of farming He desired
to cut out the word "Juab'' and to sub
stitute the word ''Sanpete' He made
a motion to that effect.
It was Millard's turn next to shine.
Thompson thought that Willard was
being left out in the cold. He moved
to amend the bill to include his county.
Tolton then arose and made an
amendment, which carried, making any
county in the state eligible
Austin made an amendment associat-
ing the state board of land commits
sioneTS with the directors of the Agri-
cultural college in choosing a site for
the experiment farm. The amendment
carried.
Edward offered an amendment look
ing toward experiment work in apicul-
ture as well as all pursuits pertaining
10 the soil.
The amendment lost. possibly be-
cause of the fact that for one man who
knew what agriculture meant there
appeared TO be about forty who didn't
Johnson wanted to know and ap-
pealed to the speaker. The latter ad-
mitted that his dictionary somehow
skipped the word, so Edward explained
that the term meant literally "be Gull
ture."
Try to Doctor Bill to Death.
From this point on the gentle art of
attempting to kill the bill by doctoring
it was practiced. McCrea wanted
amend the bill so as to provide that the
experiment. farm should be located i'm
Salt Lake county. He explained his
reasons, stating that this county was
visited annually by thousands who
would be interested to see the work OF
the experiment station. On the other
hand, he said, there was no use in iso-
lating the farm in some out-of- the-way
cow county"
Kuchler sat through the praise for
Salt Lake county and then arose to
champion Weber county.
The supporters of the bill began to |
see the writing on the wall and at |