Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-03-25

pervising care of Speaker Hull the
house was a garden party for the CO.
terie and their spies and agents, while
should any one of the opposition be
found lobbying in the house, Repre-
sentative Kinney Immediately objected
to lobbying and the opposer of the CO.
terie was forced to retire. Words can
not express how openly this work was
carried on Men representing the CO.
terie would come in and get up beside
the speaker, were seen sitting beside
the chief clerk, counting the votes on
pet measures, and in more than one
instance were observed signalling by a
movement of the hand to members
of the house. 1t was noted when any
scheme was in danger of miscarriage
some man would rush frantically off to
the leaders of the coterie and in a
minute or two some trusted assistant
would come rushing pell nell into tho
house, proceed to the desk of the
Cache county representative or a
Utah county representative, whisper a
few words. These representatives
would quietly move from desk to desk
and whisper to the men whose votes
they knew they could depend upon.
Whispered consultations would be
held, until their forces were all noti-
fed. and the coterie would once more
breathe easily.
1t is not necessary to go into the
whole story of all the legislation;
enough has been said. and the record
of this republican legislature is before
the people and their own party asso-
GATES
The senate was an able, dignified
body. The house was not. There was
no pretense of legislative dignity, no
independence, little of that sterling cit
izenship which makes men feel that
the representative men of the state
were making laws.
| was not able to see much of the
work the last three days, owing to pres
sure of office business, but from the
talk there must have been some eXcit-
ing scenes. 1t was rumored that the
senate was after the scalp of the dep
uty statistician because of some abu-
sive remarks he had made concerning
it's members. l am informed that when
the question of the appropria-
ton for that Office was con
sidered by the senate, it
was so made as to affect the deputy.
When it got back to the house, it is
claimed, Speaker Hull left his chair
and proceeded to make bitter attack
upon certain senators, charging that
they were delaying the legislature in
order to cut down the deputy's salary.
OF the members of the house, some
thing may be said in conclusion. 1t
was as a whole a narrow minded par
simOnious house So far as their own
expenses were concerned, they were
prodigal in their appropriations, but
when considering contingent expenses
for state officers and boards, they were
small to meanness. The smallest
minded upon all propositions were the
representatives from Morgan, Willard,
San Pete, Utah, Cache, Juab and
Emery counties, with two from Weber.
and three or four from Salt Lake.
There was not over ten big souls in
the whole house.
The representatives from Beaver,
Summit, SEWER Washington, and San
Juan counties, one or two from Weber
and about three from Salt Lake are
entitled to credit for being men who
could rise above petty considerations,
but they were unable to assert them
selves to any great extent in a body
that was cOmnletelV dominated nv tha