The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-19

the house on amendments to the bill. Sen
ator Badger moved as a substitute mo-
ton that the senate proceed as commit
tee of the whole to consider the amend
ments to the bill. The president ruled the
substitute motion out of order and Badg-
er ire was aroused.
Mr. President" ne said. 81 regret to
say that there seems to be a disposition
on the part of some to cram this bill
down our threats without the opportunity
to consider It.
will the senator yield to a question:
asked Senator Miller.
surely"
Didn't you try to cram senate bill No.
las down our thToats?
q resent the charge. I worked hard
on that bill: l spent sleepless nights in
constant worry over it: and. If I say it
myself and ] believe my colleagues Will
bear me out in saying II, L have borne
the brunt of the responsibility for 1t.
Smith Calls the Turn.
IN the meantime Senator Benner y.
Smith had been examining the records
ana the bill returned from the house
Mr. President ne said. Il don't know
that there is anything for us to con-
slider. The communication from the house
says:
amended senate bill No. 14S.' etc.
with that communication are eighteen
pages of printed paper. having the ap-
pearsnCe of a bill and labeled Amend
TnGnfE TO Senate bilA No l3N- III duNi-
ton to the so-cailed amendments are
printed COPY of senate bill No. liS, and
the original typewriter senate Dill no;
1HS Neither the original nor the printed
copy OF senate bill No. JAS contains any
amendments
There is a rule of this legislative as
semblv that requires that all amendments
to bills adopted by the house be inserted
i'm the original bill by interlineatiou in
purple ink and that senate amendments
be made in red ink | submit that there
is not q single house amendment on sen
ATE bill I9S the communication to the con-
trarv Notwithstanding. ENDORSED on the
back of the bill is the statement that on
March H. 1903. senate bill l4S passed the
senate. and on the same day passed the
house. That record is conclusive that the
Badger bill has passed the house in ex-
actly the same shape that It passed the
senate. That is the record, Mr. President.
There is no getting away from it. The
Badger bill has passed the house
Returned With Thanks.
s'rhat the records may be set right. /
would suggest that the communication
and the matter including 5. b. las. and
its sO-called amendments, be returned to
the house, with a communication from
the senate calling attention to the rule
that all amendments must be made in
purple ink on the original bill. and to the
fact that. though the communication
would indicate that the bill had been
amended. there is nothing on the original
OH 10 SHOW AllS iaCA ti1iAik uiiSSS
some action of this kind is taken the
Badger bill viii become q law as ii
stands from the fact that there is q clear
records of it having passed both houses.
Il think" said Badger. that to avert
the threatened catastrophe Of the Badger
bill becoming a law. Senator Marks will
withdraw his motion for the appoint mcnt
for a conference committee m favor of
the motion of Senator Smith to send the
bill back to the house"
What do YOU think the final action on
this matter should be- asked Marks.
turning to Senator Smith.
"Oh. J don't care what you do with II
or what action YOU take on the bill said
Senator Smith. with gesture of supreme
disgust but whatever you do. l want IL
ing declared valid. If YOU took any final
action on this bill in the shape in which
it now is. il would be absolutely invalid"
Senator Marks withdrew his motion
and Senator Smiths motion carried and
the entire matter was sent back to the
house, where Hansen. elected from Box
Elder county on a temperance platform.
was made to father the illegitimate child
of the federal bunch and the brewing
interests.
Rocky Road for Bill.
After the mass of paper went back 60
the house. the senate on motion OF Sen
ator Miller reconsidered its action in
adopting the report of the conference
committee and laid tho report on the ia
bic. expunging all reference to it from the
minutes.
When the bill comes back from the
house today If the senate considers the
hill at all. II will probably kill It. or