Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-19
sF0ATE SENATE
BATS HARRIS
!, Hour Of Leisure it Laughs in
It's Sleeve and Listens to
His Protest,
,ovr OVER cIeARET BILL
,,,,x Words Badly Frightened
"' md Author of Measure was
Made "A Monkey Or

,,,gsr Fisher Harris, the IN
j % ' tive man who conquered
'lnei ,py with his See America l '',,
'oa" VINO conquered dry farming Po .no
'no "% al,b his beautiful Ideas on 'ne
sress VIZ" hos at last been brought to
book, nae The senators
lNG zero IN the plot entered ~itn ie,l,
WV trembling for fear they "ouiu
No 49,. a, the little end OF the par
come vI At the end they were smiling
ssl The chief conspirator salo ,, W., Eve,
anG OF triumphant Joy ~ rake
" nsver thought Fisher W.. ortsn
~. baH. He's landed ny H 70 catch
, ,,o it Would be impoSs'D'S
i'', now HARRIS WAS BAlTEp'
,,os hung out for Mr.. Fisher was !,
The NOOK .areIte bill. There was
The aiH s,na in the senate yesterday III
painful ,v,iton had nothing 10 90, as
Wnlen ~ his committees We're puSy
memptIs committees and there was
On otne' ,ciaTed in which certain conf
recess " We're TO be given time 10 pre-
mlttecs w
pare t sro am an idea" said Walton. u II
~ Harris I'm going TO report
lslsPHl oarotte bill fayorably for passage
and see what he says
INTO SECRET SESSION
49,. SENATOR disappeared In telee-
~ nooth and came back elatea;
tuarrls said not To do It, ne tol'n oI'1s,
- PRESIDENT Love, who was the o.ly
othsr idle hand in the chamber iaSt
IS D,"sse said For heaven sake. don 40
II I'm coming down in hacK-~hol"
the bin I'LL can get there. s
The duo went to the "lhuoM ai'u
watched Tor q foaming team any
snss5ine hack. II came. Fisher rusheo
out lighting a cigarette ana haNlms va
only one glove, so great was MS rush.
VIZ, .;,bis senate is convened in commits
400 an The whole" raped President
lave with his gavel, when Fisher
staltea hreathlessly into the room.
~Tbo sergeant at arms viii go TO the
house and bring back Representative
croft the father OF the anti-cisarette
bill"
AUTHOR BROUGHT IN.
croft was brought in, chesty with the
great honor OF having a chance to ad-
dress the upper house by Invitation.
with many pamphlets distributed by
anti-cigarette leagues and societies for
The prevention OF the driving Of coffin
nails he took q seat before commit
tee table while Fisher Harris left his
position between Holingsworh and
Rulanish after The opening gun of his
oratdry
Il move" said the rotund Senator
eauister, that as Representative Croft
aid not hear what Mr. Harris said
that Mr. Harris be invited to say 1t
over again"
FURNISHED THE PROOF.
Lawrence objected. with a careful
speech he fixed Il SO that Mr.. Harris
could not possibly be deceived into
thinking this was anything but the
most dignhed assembly of men SEEK
ing after knowledge of the deadly
cigarette, despite the fact that half
Of them bore the brand OF nicotine
on their right thumb nail. Then Croft
was given his turn. He read from
his pamphlets, quoted from maya
zines and told incidents of men he
Ing fired from jobs because civiliza-
ton was lowered through the filthy
use Of tobacco.
SMOKE WREATH SPEECH.
Fisher by this time was stirred up.
he told how the very man mention
ca as having ordered his employees
no' 10 smoke cigarettes had ut one
line actually borrowed every cigarette
W ms Cfisher'sl case of cigarettes
~ order that he might not stop snok-
aS for more than minute at time.
men he launched into far flung ora
.oIlcal flights in defense of the god
atsS nicotine. only he said he was
Mly advocating sane legislation. He
geclared that il all the laws of all the
LEGISLATURES In the world We're piled
Up upon him, he would still smoke tho
ms'Fe weed, and that his hope was
unsl as ne went into his declining
ss@Is, al the age OF Ito or 100. TO
@'H leaceiully into the shadows with
SsaIeue IN his teeth and another
~ ms fingers ready TO be lighted. He
opposed the bill 1t was anarchistIc.
syelSlstlc' populistic. revolutionary,
nuoly bad ana undemocratic. He
rs pyWn with the expression OF one
rl W. mas fought himself all in. in a
sur cause Croft got up and an
at Harris did the same thing
.h move that the committee on the
H,nV'e rise said Rasband. The sem
S S~ rose Harris went back TO the
~ V,I.nercial club and Croft went back
AZ, sup mouse There was dead silence
ope an the conspirators. and not
rsr,a mem dared laugh for fear the
fb eno.EW,aS loaded by someone else than
,hst ~ Now they are rejoicing
folnd ~ non Fisher Harris has been
~ DC human after all.