The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-05
HANDLE STOOKEY
BILL ROUGHLY
Country Members Refuse to
Take Seriously New AppOr-
tiOnment Measure.
MADE UNREC0GNIZABLE
BY NUMEROUS CHANGES
Saved From Defeat by Post
ponement of Consideration;
Russell Has a Plan.

had q field day Saturday afternoon
/ with the Stookey apportionment bill
( They refused to take the bill seriously
h and preparatory to slaughtering 1t sub
/ mitted all sorts of absurd amendments
/ without regard to population ratio
+ Some of these were adopted and the bill
4 was left in such shape that It's original
I supporters will vote against it.
4 The country members were practical
/ ly unit gainst any revision of the
! apportionment because they felt that
Z if this were done Salt Lake county
+ would have a much larger representa-
tion than it now has, while there would
+ be no material increase in the mem
/ bership from the counties outside of
( Salt Lake.
Under the proposed stookey bill there
4 members and a house of fftyive mem
bers. OF this number Salt Lake would
have eight senators and seventeen rep
resentatives After the country mem
bers had finished amending the bill
there was a general change in the
scheme of apportionment. The number
/ OF mem bers of the senate was increased
to twenty-four and the membership in
4 the senate from Salt Lake county was
+ decreased to seven.
Under the changes made by the SEN
i ate. Rich was attached to Cache county
and the new district given two mem
bers. Uintah was attached to Summit
and Wasatch and the new district given
two senators. Attempts were made to
/ add another senator from Weber coun-
+ ty and another from Utah county.
I Saved From Instant Death.
Finally the bill was saved from de-
-
plished a postponement OF considera-
/ ton to Monday afternoon at 2:3O
clock.
When the bill came up for passage
Saturday afternoon Senator Stookey eX-
/ planned the provisions Of the measure.
He was followed by Senator Wilson,
who spoke vigorously in opposition be-
cause the bill increased the representa-
tion from Salt Lake county. He pro-
posed an amendment reducing the rep
Fascination from Salt Lake county from
eight to seven and adding Uintah coun.
ty TO his own district, which is at
Il present composed of Summit and Wa
satch counties, and giving the new dis
/ trlct two senators.
Senator Stookey was in the chair
when the motion was put and at the
( request Of Senator Wilson ordered a
roll call. The vote on the motion was:
Ayes-Burton, Funk, Hyde, Kelly,
4 Kuchler, Wilson-6.
Noes-Badger, Booth, Horsley, liver.
son, Marks, Olson, Sevy, Smith, Stookcy
%,
Before the vote was announced Sen
ator Wilson insisted on the call of the
senate and requested that the sergeant
! alarms be instructed to call in the alb
sentees. The president pro tenn ruled
that call of the senate could not be
had had after the voting had begun and
4 wilson appealed from the decision OF
a the chair. In the meantime President
Gardner and Senator Lunt returned In
the meantime also some of the mem
& bers changed their position on the
+ amendment and on the second rollcall
\ this was the result:
Ayes-Booth, Burton, Funk. Hyde,
Belly; huchler, Lunt, Sevy, Wilson,
u President Gardner-10
N9es..Badger, Horsley, Iverson,
Y Marks, Olson. Smith. Stookcy-7.
Senator Badger changed his vote he
lore the result was announced and gave
notice that he would move for recon.
sideratlon of the vote at the next ses.
sion,
! Numerous Amendments Proposed
" Senator Kuchler of Weber then
4 moved that the number of senators
q from Weber county be increased from
4 two to three, This amendment was
lost: Senator Burton of Davis moved
that Rich be taken away from the dis
trict composed of Rich, Morgan and
DAVIS counties. Senator Smith asked
Burton If he were afraid OF the "bald
eagle Of Rich Burton denied the
suggestion. The proposed amendment
was lost.
Senator Funk, Democratic member
from Cache, moved that Rich county
be added to Cache and that the dis
TING In 1,l
senator's; This carried by a vote Of Z
10 T.. Senator Booth of Utah county
moved that Utah county. be given three
Senators instead Of two, as at present
This was lost
II =, Then Senator Marks moved that fur
lher action on the bill be deferred unit
monday afternoon ut 2:30 o 'cIock. Thi,
motion was carried and the bill vii
c9me up as special order Monday
XII aIiernoon- In the meantime efforts
III VIII be made to effect a compromis,
Il Win the country members on the mat
III ter OF representation.
Il !, The opposition to the Stookey appor
tioninent bill is not confined 10 Tin,
country members of the legislature
samuel Russell n Salt Lake attorney
VINO has submitted several nlans Of 40
portionmeut agrees that the Stouke e,
OIL gives salt Lake county too man,
members and he has suggested "A ncy
~ pan "hlch provides Tor seven senator
ana fourteen representatives from Sal
Lake county, In reviewing the Stoo
Key bill and submitting his own plan
Mr.. Russell says:
Attorney Euseell'a Views
lt The purpose OF q re-appor, lonmcnt
10 cqualize rcprese nta ton in the lcgls
l| lature and not primarily TO increase th
l. membership Of the two houses. II Is
III general rule. however in making recap
III portionment, that the existing representa-
tiofi OF particular counties or district
Snail not ne diminished. and where
new census shows that the increase
~ population has not been uniform In "A
counties and that particular count