Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-24
STATE SENATE
PERSONALITIES
Gossip About the Eighteen wen
Who Comprise the Up
per House.
ARE VIGOROUS IN HEALTH.
None Very Young or Very oid ana
They Come From Many Profess
sions to Legislative Duties.

With the passing of the second week
of the Seventh legislature, the senate
Is beginning to take pace at the stride
II will maintain SO calmly, sereneiy.
and smoothly for the entire session.
The body is not one of wars but oil
peace, and mutual understanding.
During the last session two speeches
only were longer thon five minutes III
length, and neither OF these was direct
ed against other senators IN hostility
of spirit.
The usual routine is for roll cali TO
follow the reading of a bill and lie"
brief remarks explaining II. what arsu-
ing has TO be done Is done in commit
tee rooms. and one committee learns
TO trust another and to accept It's rec
concentrations on proposed Legislation.
From whence came the various sena-
tors to their duty at mending the law!
A poll of them shows that Walton Is a
man of large family, who has raised
his children on the farm, and Is a law
yer. Bullen came from the ranks OF
the pedagogues, and when the senate ~
not sitting serves In the y. Y. college
at Logan. John Y. Smith is Utah bred,
and a banker, with more OF his years
before him than behind. Callister has
served in office many years. He gradu-
ated into the senate from county
clerkship, down In Willard. where he
declares there Is need for 10000 young
Salt Lakers. just TO fill up fertile waste
places.
Brinkerhoff tended his plow and his
OK, and is one of the men who look to
the soil for its riches. Johnson Is a
Pluto merchant, with a tendency to-
wards drug stores. Rasband also Is a
merchant. who served his day driving
stage years ago In the Wasatch noun
tains, and finally settled In Park City.
Lawrence. b. Y, Smith, Hulaniski and
Holllngsworth are lawyers. Lawrence
and b. Y. Smith are also club men.
handsome, and polished in the social
graces beyond their fellows, while Hol-
lingsworth is good deal of reformer
along sane lines. and heavy thinker
on problems of administration. He
graduated into the senate from the
Weber county clerks office.
Hulaniski has been to war. and has
lived long, being ripe in experience
among men, Perhaps he is the oldest
man IN the body. They all look young.
Only two have boards. Nine wear
moustaches, and seven still go smooth
faced. There are none bald, although
Walton. Johnson. Williams. Callister
and Hollingsworth would qualify as
near bald"
Strange and peculiar personalities
are missing. The men are all Clipped
off the same block. and this is the
block OF hard headed, we'll grown, and
mountain seasoned huskies. In foot
race there would be no stra gglers, and
everyone could make pace, for every
senator seems to be on the sunny side
of his career, both physically and
mentally. The mentality of the senate
is its predominating characteristic.
None are over dressed, none sloppy"
enough to show traces of genius none
take TO freak fashions in hair or vests
or mannerisms, and. in fact. the body
Is equipped as have been few of its
predecessors for that kind of thought-
full, conservative legislation that bars
cut all kind OF radical extremes
President Love has merchandised for
many years. and has dealt much with
freight rates. He operates a happy
home out in Forest Dale, and spends
much of his spare time with his family.
Like Lawrence. his strong point is a
wide eye for loaded measures and when
one such passes these two men all the
skeletons In its closet are pretty sure
to be sitting upright In plain view.
They team together a great deal
through the senate sessions and make
no truce with any man that would in
terfere with their delivering the square
deal OF each measure considered in
dependently Of all other measures. Be
sides being a philosopher on govern
mental theories, Miller Is a contractor
and builder in his home town. Park is
a jeweler IN Salt Lake.
or the eighteen senators. five are
lawyers, one is a teacher. one banker,
FIVE are farmers and cattle men. and
six are merchants. Three at least are
hunters and fishers. and one has been
TO war.