The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-06
EXPECTED TO DO
THINGS TODAY
Colorado Legislature Will Can
VasS the Vote.
REPUBLICANS ARE DIVIDED
MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR PEA
BODY READ.
REPUBLICANS ARE DIVIDED

~ ENVER, Jan.5.-Tomorrow the Colo
RADIO Legislature Will commence to do
things. When the joint session of
the house and senate was dissolved at
500 this afternoon all the political pre-
liminaries to the canvassing of the vote
for state officers had been swept away.
When the legislature convenes tomor-
row morning the decks viii be cleared
and the battle flags VIII be put up and
in both house and senate, ninety-nine
guuners viii be standing by an equal
number of oratorical siege guns pre-
pared for action.
The first struggle is likely to come
over the choice of a presiding officer
for the joint session. The rules provide
that the lieutenant governor, as pre-
siding officer of the senate, shall take
precedence over the speaker of the
house when the two bodies sit together
1t is known that Lieutenant Governor
HaggOtt is of the opinion that the
courts are the proper place for the ad-
justment Of political contests, and an
effort may be made to induce, or force
him to give way to Speaker Dickson,
who is favored by those members of
the legislature who believe that the
contest between the rival candidates
for the governorship should be settled
by the legislature itself.
Caucus Was Held.
A long caucus was held this after
noon by the Republicans prior to the
afternoon session of the legislature.
one element was in favor of proceeding
at once with the canvass, and OF post
poning the receipt of the governor 5
message until later. 1t was finally de-
! termined, however, to put the canvass
over until 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing
The senate put the matter sqUaTely
up 10 the house by sending in to that
body a resolution providing for joint
/ session to canvass the vote at 2:3O this
afternoon. The notification of the pas
sage of the resolution was not given to
the house until after ) o'clock. and it
was accepted by the house with the
amendment that 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning be substituted for the canvass
instead of this afternoon
Clerk Harper of the house was then
sent to inform the senate that the house
was prepared to enter into joint session
for the purpose of hearing the message
Of Governor Peabody
Peabody's Message.
The message read by the governor
dealt for the most part with Fecommen-
dations concerning the reports from the
various state institutions on the sub
ject of tho militia he touched briefly,
! referring the leRlSiu LuIG 10 the eAeCu-
I tive report OF Adjutant General Sher-
man Bell. which was so large, the gov
/ ernor declared. that he could not at
| tempt to epitomize it. On the question
of elections, the message was as fol-
lows;
The fraudulent conduct of elections
under our present system demands
/ your immediate and concerted action.
( In a general way 1t seems sufficient to
say that a modern primary and regis
tration law should be enacted and the
! ACCESSIBILITY OF Introducing voting ma
chimes should be considered In sorrow
we must admit that the elective fran
chise, especially in Denver, has been
sadly misused and prostituted. A pa
tient people protest and these outrages
/ should be ended"
The governor recommended cOnsid-
Grafton Of a constitutional amendment
providing for compulsory arbitration.
and urged the adjustment Of the pres
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