Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-10
STORMY TIME
IN THE HOUSE.
educational Question Precipltates
Hot Debate Among the
Members
fIsHBURN'S BITING SARCASM.
u.rrea Ponrs OIL Upon the Troubled
Waters and Commission Is
Finally Agreed Upon.

=. stoted In last evenings News"
s,,cpsson IN the house yesterday az
s.,oor centered around the report OK
An iolr, committee on the division
y, oourses between the University OF
nah and Agricultural college The
,.nafe adopted the report signed by
senator Barber ct all recommending
,,ot a commission be appointed to adj
def the courses and submit its findings
u tbe next general assembly This re-
mort came In just as the clerk had fin
,sbod reading the recommendations of
,be committee and Immediately II raised
storm Merrill charged the senate
MN acting In bad faith In sending
q, ts decision at this time. He said the
Understanding had been that the upper
bonse would reserve its action until
spcb time as the matter had been
tbroshed ont on the door Of the house.
Wilson had moved that the report from
The senate be substituted for the re-
port before the house, and Hull, who
bod rellnauished the chair TO Rep. Kin
nov moved that the house go into COM
mittee Of the whole, thus suspending
tbe rules during consideration OF the
question. Fishburn classed these pro-
ceedlnes as "a trick Of the enemy
ooh what slick way" he said, "tO
mil the wood over the eyes of we coun-
Inv members. What innocent prcce-
durel We may look green, but the
scheme Is too transparent to work
we'll
NcCrea characterized Fishburns at
tack at vW9orative and wholly un-
called for. lie was surprised, he said,
that the gentleman with the standing
OF The member from Boxelder should
give utcrance TO such expressions.
MccREA PoURs OIL.
The motion to 80 into committee Of
the whole lost and after Roberts had
snoken TO the amendment, which ne
regarded 8s a rider and a trick 10 de-
eeIye the members Of the house, McCrea
moved compromise amendment and
suggested that the regular calendar be
taken up pending It's being laid be-
fore the members in printed form. This
carried. Litter in the session word
came from the senate that II would be
absolutely impossible to secure a
two-thirds majority for the sub
mission Of the proposed constitutional
amendment and as a last resort the
documents IN the case were submitted
70 the commltte on education and art.
TERRITORIAL SCRIP.
There were two reports on II. -. No.
g6, to validate jury scrp issued In
territorial days. A majority OF the
committee ON Judiciary was against the
bill, the minority for II. Minority re-
port WAS adopted by a rising vote,
The committee on counties was al
y!ded ON II, y. No 1856, extending the
terms of sherins and assessors to four
years. Fishburn declared that the bill
was without merit, and that he did not
believe ln extending the terms Of office.
The argument OF Mr. McCrea, Mr. Hone
and others was that a sheriff or an
assessor Just began to be useful at the
ond Of a tWo-yodr term. The majority
report, recommending the passage Of
the bill, was adopted by rising vote.
joseph moved TO request the senate
To send back S. r. No. l07, relating to
local option which had been passed
by the house. The motion lost.
kuchler moved that the house recon-
slider II. b, "a. but the motion failed and
'." '''' 'NiN'AhNh hiiNiothib Nus
COMMISSION ABOLISHED.
u. B, 1870, abollshing the arid land
reclamation fund commission. and s. h.
a. authorizing the stIte board of land
commissioners To locate reservoir sites.
went through after some discussion.
The vote on the former which brought
iortl words Of censure for the commits
sion, was as follows:
Ayes Anderson, A. ", Anderson, j..
A. Carroll, Christensen, Cottam, Cro-
mar curtin DALEY, Edward, Gundry,
haWley Hone Johnson Jones, Kinney,
lyman, Marks McCrea, Merrill, Miller,
Fancake PAINTER Peterson, Slmons,
spencer StookeW Strngham, Thomp-
son Tolton Wilson, Wootton, IIull-32.
.Nays-Allen, Austin, Dean, Flshburn,
hopes Luther, Pace, Roberts, Stewart
In the evening H. =, 1873, providing for
a central experiment station, came back
rom tho senate with four counties elig-
lhle for the station inserted. This
cnused considerable discussion as to