Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-01
Something Of The Men Who Conn.,
prise the Membership Of
The Upper House,"
THE CHANGES OF THIS YEAR.
Retrospective View Of the Hobbies VI
Each al Last Session and What
They Mere.

When the legal documents are drawn
up against yiolators Of the law, there
is a clause which speaks OF The peace
and dignity Of the state Of Utah.
Just where this dignity most CEN
tiers within the state, may be an un-
answerable question. but the upper
house OF the Utah legislature, when It
sits in due Formally at the Is desks OF
the senate chamber, makes a strong
bid for the honor Like the upper
house Of the national legislature the
senate stands for lis dignity IN very
self conscious manner and soon after
the next election day is past. there viii
be nine new senators applying to nine
wiser aud older ones for information
about how 10 draw up bills how 10
address the chairman. and how 70
manipulate the task OF being a digui-
fed senatorial member, with regu-
lation condescending manner towards
the lower house on the upper floor
Nineteen months ago the Sixth senate
adjourned In the midst OF a heated
debate on the consolidation question
and the appropriation bill OF the
Is senator's who sat In that session,
three were Democrats, and they all re-
tire with the coming election day or
the other IS who are Republicans. six
are lost. and that leaves a solid dele.
cation Of nine Republican members 10
occupy the senior seats. This. ~
course, provided new men mn the places
Of the retiring members, but IL is an old
senatorial tradition that some senator's
serve on regardless Of changes I'm other
Offices and retiring senators are al
ready In the field for reelection. Bar
Der Of Cache IL considering the matter
OF trying Il again on the Democratic
ticket. while Larsen Of Sanpete IL a
candidate for reelection on the Repub.
lican ticket.
THOSE WHO GO.
The nine men who leave are Barber
az Logan, Mckay Of Weber. Williams
and Bamberger 81 Salt Lake Gardner
OF Spanish Fork. Loose ~ Provo, Lar
sen Of Manti. Lewis Of Frisco. and Ben
Mon OF Nernal.
The taking away Of these men from
the Judiciary service will leave various
vacancies according TO the interests
which each represent in the senate.
and the specisltles upon which they
were at work. Every senator has
something that Is more or less Of a
hobby Walton for instance. confessed
on the floor OF the last senate that he
ran for Office and was elected, with
the one ambition Of getting the land
laws fixed up. When he was made
chairman OF the committee on public
lands he strangled a dozen prospective
land laws to death, and put forward
the document which went into effect
as the work Of his own brain and heart.
Walton remains. 50 the land laws will
have plenty Of attention.
OF those that go many memories
viii long remain. Bennion viii Ne
much missed by his colleagues. ne
had smile that won his way for him
and was so general in his interests
that he usually had an idea or two q
throw into q bill no matter what the
subject. and somehow his ideas seemed
10 find good lodgings when they were
tossed in More specifically his ser
vice was as watchdog OF the typog-
raphy. While Judge Botkin. now serv-
ing Uncle Sam I'm foreign isle was
reading in the thunderous tones Of the
reading clerk. bill or the minutes
everybody took notice when Bennion
lnterposed an objection. and then they
got busy with their fountain pens "a
mark the typographical correction he
suggested. IN their desk copies. He
was conceded 10 he a past grand mas
ter in the arts OF spelling. punctua
ton. and grammar, and what he said
on these subjects was allowed 10 go
without question.
GOSSIP OF THE SENATE.
In the problems before the senate
Bennlon led conspicuously in only
one. and curiously enough his bitterest
opponent in this was his Democratic
colleague, Barber from Cache. When
consolidation matters first came up
Bennion spoke for scrap 10 a finish,
said he knew II was coming ana want
cd everybody 10 take of his silk gloves
and wade in with bare hands.
Later in the game Steve Love, rom
the presidents chair. became an ag-
gressiye leader In this same hght and
proposed some OF the measures that
went down 10 defeat By two votes ln
the last heated hours. In those days
Lawrence usually relieved Love IN the
chair so that he might express him
self, but Love and Lawrence are both
s,ill there TO carry on the law making
I'm their particular lines OF interest.
Lawrence as an authority on judicial
matters and the constitution. and Love
as an enemy Of all machine measures
that appear 10 be stuffed. and corpora
ton bills that seem 10 favor The IN
terests."
THE LEADERS.
SIX men IN the last senate doomed up
as leaders in aggressiyeness. and gem
ersl legislative acumen. They were