The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-13

called upon by the speaker. he wonders
how the function OF eiectinS that official
Is to be conducted. Here is where
solemn looking parsonage known the
clerk OF the table gets in his big work.
Already he has impressed the new mem
bers by the dignity with which he has
ceremony of handing TO him the writs
received from the returning officer GER
tifying to their election.
Method OF Procedure.
The clerk of the table suddenly gets on
his legs and his glance falls upon some
unoffending member. ut whom also he
points with his extended foreAnger. All
eyes turn I'm that direction and the un-
sophisticated bcholder almost expects to
hear the man indicated eXClaim, Not
guilty. or oner some excuse FOR being
present. or something of that sort. But
the member simply claps his bat on his
head. If il isn't there already boDs To
his feet. and IN few set words moves
that The speaker of the preceding paarla-
ment be reelected 10 the chair. When
he las subsidized the clerk Of The table
transhNes another member with lis
glance and stabs at him with his finger
The second member dons his hat. gets
to the perpendicular and seconds the mo-
tion of the honorable gentleman who has
preceded him. That settles II. for the
party leaders have agreed Lnot there shall
be no opposition and the clerk OF the
table settles himself back in his chair
with an air that says. The game is
started and YOU can play 1t OUT for your
selves"
To Umpire Game,
But the speaker. who has been sitting
somewhere on the benches among the
plain everyday NJ. P.'S. betrays astoDisn-
ment. He looks as il the honor so sud.
denly conferred upon him was the last
thing in the world that he could expect
And with that look of establishment on
his face he bolts for the door and dis
appears. The stranger scarcely has re-
covered from his surprise at this ac-
tion and from his pity for tie man so
overcome by unexpected honor. when the
door reopcns. thc mace bearer appears
with the gorgeous emblem OF his office.
Behind him: I'm the splendid dignity of
wig and gown. the speaker enters and,
taking tie chair. delivers a carefully
edited impromptu speech Of thanks to the
house FOR Its confidence and Tho honor
conferred upon him. Later in the pro-
ceed;ngs he goes To the house of lords
and In fine phrases informs thei. lord
pirc the game I'm the other .lclG and hopes
Ii will be played fair but IL not he will
be The one to take all the blame. He
doesn't mean that part Of II BIT. but
It's included in the book OF the play ana
Ee is too polite 10 cut II out
Women ght Have Turned Scale,
Dark rumors were current as to some
new device of the suiiragettcs. Threats
were heard OF some conspiracy that VIII
render IL impossible Tor men 10 record
| their votes during the election. But the
| terrible coup did not come on. One re-
port was that I'm default OF wearing the
| trousers. women might steal them. You
may imagine a million men waking up on
the morning Of polling day and finding
! that q million wives had l&dden their
trousers and gone out 10 spend the day
| with their mothers. You may imagine
Il million men securing the house. and
| in n turmoil OF conscience between de-
cency and patriotism If the women Of
| England. the wives. mothers. sisters, mad
agreed 10 concentrate on trousers, they
could keep about 100000 men without