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

| the house on amendments to the bill. Sen
stor Badger moved as a substitute mo-
/ ton that the senate proceed as a commit
/ tee of the whole to consider the amend
ments to the bill The president ruled the
substitute motion out of order and Badg-
I er's ire was aroused.
"Mr President" he said. Il regret to
| say that there seems to be disposition
[ on the part Of some to cram this bill
down our threats without the opportunity
1 to consider it
viii the senator yield to a question:"
| asked Senator Miller
SURELY
Didn't you try to cram senate bill No
/ las down our threats?
| q resent the charge I worked hard
| on that bill; | spent sleepiess nights in
constant worry over ii: and. If | say il
myself and ! believe my colleagues viii
I bear me out in saying It. 1 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
and 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:
" 'The house has this day passed. as
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
]
| ton to the so-called amendments are =
printed COPY Of senate bill No. rs, and
the original typewriter senate bill No;
tI4S Neither the original nor the printed
| copv of senate bill No. liS contains any
| amendments
| sembly that requires that all amendments
| TO bills adopted By the house be inserted
/ in the original bill by interlineatlOn III
| Durple ink and that senate amendments
1 be made i'm red ink | submit that there
4 is not a single house amendment on sen
4 ate bill 14S the communication to the con
/ trarv Notwithstanding ENDORSED on the
back of the bill is the statement that on
March II, 1909. senate bill las passed the
| senate. and on the same day passed the
| house That record is conclusive that the
l Badger bill has passed the house in eX-
/ actly the same shape that II passed the
| senate. That is the record, Mr. President.
There is no getting away from il. The
/ Badger bill has passed che house
Returned With Thanks.
THAT the records may be set right. I
/ would suggest that the communication
and the matter including 5. 3. las. and
! its so-calied amendments. be returned to
| the house. with a communication from
1 the senate calling attention to the rule
! that ali 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
! bill to show this fact ! think unless
some action Of this kind is taken the
| Badger bill viii become a law as il
| stands from the fact that there is a 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 appointment
/ for a conference committee m favor of
| the motion of Senator Smith to send the
| bill back 70 the house"
! What do YOU think the final action on
/ this matter should be-? asked Marks,
/ turning to Senator Smith.
/ "Oh. 7 don't care what you DO with IL
| or what action YOU take on the bill said
/ Senator Smith with gesture of supreme
/ disgust but whatever you do. ] want IT
! to be something that has a chance of be
| 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
l 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
BILE. 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. it will probably Kill IT, or
/