The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-10
COLLEGE MERGER
MEETS DEFEAT
Strategy of "Antis" Wins for the
Agricultural College.
COMMISSION IS FAVORED
REPORT ON SUBJECT is TO BE
FILED JULY I, 1906.

" ICTORY attended the efforts OF the
Observation-Disclosures in the L. OF
IA. c fight in the legislature
yesterday The chief conflict was in
the senate where the .antis." brilliant
" led by Senator \. G. Barber of L.O-
gan, We're able to kill the proposition
10 submit a constitutional amendment
merging the Agricultural college into
the university.
The bill providing for the appoint
ment of a commission to invesIfga te
the subject and file a report with the
secretary OF state not later than July
1 1906, was then passed by unanimous
vote.
In the house the subject was vigor-
cusly debated through the afternoon
length referred TO the committee on
education and art An agreement was
reached before the call to order for the
evening session.
4 The senate bill providing for the com
mission was taken UP and passed
Today the two other bills defining
! courses of study for each institution
VIII be reported, with amendments. 10
the senate. The COnsOhdatiOniSts are
strong enough in the senate TO amend
these measures as they choose and
pass them When these two bills have
| been acted upon by both houses the
matter VIII be ended so far as the pres
ent legislature Is concerned.
State Engineer Fight Figures.
While the fight for the Agricultural
college was a bly, and clearly conducted
/ by the leaders in both houses IL is not
/ denied that the defeat Of the proposed
constitutional amendment in the sen
ate is due chiefly TO the split i'm the
/ Republican ranks over the appointment
B Of a state engineer.
! Senator HOllinsswOrth Of Weber led
/ the fight for the amendment. On the
IL fpa
position to the appointment of caleb
/ Tanner to succeed state Engineer Do
! remus, thereby mourning the wrath or
Senators Loose and Gardner Until the
row over the Tanner appointment both
/ Utah county senators had been counted
/ as supporters Of the amendment Yes
/ terday both voted against Holdings
worth's side of the contest and II IS
admitted by senators on both sides that
! the trouble Of Wednesday had a direct
/ bearing on their attitude
/ The vote on the amendment in the
] senate was as follows
Ayes-Bamberger, Bennion. Clegg,
/ HOllingswOrth. Lawrence, Lewis. Park'
/ Rasband. Williams, LOve-1O.
Nays-Barber, Callister, gardner
/ Johnson, Larsen, Loose. Mckay. Wal
tons.
Twelve votes are required TO carry
proposed amendment i'm the senate anu
the measure thus failed by two votes
Another senator said TO have under
gone a change Of heart over night Is
Senator Callister of Willard WedheS-
day night he was counted In 1aVOf- -
consolidation. Before the noon recess
he asked for time to inform himself
on the matter When the senate as
sembled for the afternoon he at once
took the floor and spoke at length. for
flying his remarks with wealth or
statistics and citations remarkable as
10 quantity considering that he had
only two hours in which to gather
them.
Moves of Consolidation Men,
HolIingsworth and BenniOn were
( floor managers for the consolidation
party and led one side Of the most eN-
I citing and spirited contest of the SeS-
sion The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES began their
/ fight by a shift that promised Wei 1or
I a time. Instead % moving the acop-
/ tion of the report in favor Of cOnsoH-
dation. HOllinSSwOrth ignored that ana
. moved an amendment OF the other re-
+ mort by making the proposed constitu-
+ tionaI amendment part Of it. Thus the
. report signed by HOlingsworth ana
I others was never considered by the
senate This amendment TO the report
I was defeated BY the vote above given,
but further amendment TO the report,
also suggested by HollingswOrth, was
/ carried This second amendment pro-
I vided that the commission referred 10
shall file IFS report with the secretary
/ Of state on or before July !, 1906, in
! stead of submitting a report to the next
legislature The bill thus ameL-ded
with respect TO the commission, went
through as senate bill No $50
Educators Are on Hand.
President w. J. Kerr Of the Agri-
cultural college. President J t Kings
bury of the University of Utah. and q
throng of professors and students from
the University filed the chamber
throughout the debate morning and aft
ernoon. All displayed d lively interest
in the discussion. but the final dispo-
/ sitiOn of the matter awakened no dem
/ onstration, probably because a major
ity of the visitors We're not sufficiently
versed in the practice Of the senate tC
: / understand the status OF the question
when the matter was dropped for the
day.
r | Leaders Of the losing side conceded tC
D Senator Barber full credit for his man
- agement of the affair and heartily con
f graduated him on the outcome. Inter
est centered around the proceedings In
D | the senate from a realization that the
/. I determination of the issue rested IN tbs
! | upper house
Admitting that the two other bills
, with probable amendments, viii b'
passed by both houses, 1t is freely pre-
/ dicted that the question of merging TIT
; ! institutions will be a leading pOlitica
| issue in the campaign OF 1906 There
Will be no senatorial election during tn,
p ! next session of the Legislature unles:
/ Senator SmOOt loses his Seat-anC
| questions of internal policy promise u
: | furnish most of the political issues.
. STRUGGl Elm THE HOUSE