The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-06
Valuable Time Is Wasted While
the House Goes on Pleas
ure Tour.
STATES INTERESTS ARE
ENTIRELY OVERLOOKED
Big Calendar Awaits the Session
Which COnvenes at Two
O'clock Today.

There was no session of the House
Tuesday. No quorum was present. A
majority of the members accepted the
hospitality of the University of Utah,
visited that institution, and forgot to
get back to the House, The lower
body of the Assembly adjourned On
Monday to meet Tuesday afternoon at
l o'clock. When that hour arrived
the Speakers S esvel fell, and call of
the roll showed no quorum present.
The telephone was brought into requi-
sition and the junketing members Of
the House were informed that a recess
had been taken until $3.50 'clock, and
1T WAS expected that q quorum would
be present then.
There are only ten more days for tie
present General Assembly to transact
business. The committees are loaded
with bills, the calendar is full to over
flowing, but nothing is done. When
2:30 'clock arrived the Speaker again
called the House to order, but no quo
rum being present another recess was
taken until $50 p. m.. At that hour
no quorum being present the Speaker
declared the House adjourned until 3
o 'clock this afternoon.
The Eighth A grade of the Hamilton
school was present to see how legisla-
tion was enacted and when they
marched from the hall the children
were free in their expressions of dis
gust at the lax administration Of the
lawmaking body.
The House will meet at clock
this afternoon, when a very heavy cal
endar will face the members.
In the Senate.
The hfty-6rst day S session Of the
Senate was devoted to work, from the
reading of the journal to the time of
adjournment at $50 p. m.
The interest of the session focused
on the bills offered by Senator Park
stitutional amendment relating TO the
public school system and to the con-
solidation of the Agricultural college
with the University of Utah.
When blk No. III was called up nm
der special order for third reading. it
was not observable on the surface that
a measure of far-reaehing Importance
to the people of this State was up for
consideration in Utah s highest law
making body. If the measure passed
1t meant the elimination, rs distinc~
tive institution OF learning, of the
Agricultural college. While not in
tended to curtail its power and inlu-
ence as an educational institution of
the highest order, its friends feel that
it would be shorn of it's distinctive
power, and that the effect Of the pas
sage of tEls proposed constitutional
amendment would be TO make of the
Agricultural college branch of the
University,
The friends of the bill were not over
confident Of the result, should the
measure come TO vote. The oppo-
nentS of the bill, the friends of the
Agricultural college. said but little, but
watch closely every move or word, The
tension was relieved in n timely way
by Senator Holingsworth offering an
amendment to be known as section /,
read. he moved that further consider
alton of the bill be postponed until
1880 a. m Thursday, the motion was
readily agreed to.
This Amendment BIZ Hollingsworth
will be found in the Senate S proceed
ings.
As r mark of appreciation of the
work Of Senator Miller during the
session, when he asked Cor unanimous
consent To consider his bill S. B. No.
1856. in advance of it's place on the cal
endar, appropriating $1,000 TO aid in
the construction of q couple of bridges
over the Rio Virgin river IN Washing
ton county.
His request was granted and the bill
passed without dissenting voice.
The Senate passed twelve bills, and
after adjournment did considerable
work,