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Show 'PROCEEDINGS OF LAW MAKERS House. S B. 54, Kelly Providing for fee for expert witnesses, killed by striking strik-ing out enacting clause. H B. 212, Committee on Labor Providing minimum wage for female : workers. Passed, 27 to 15. Governor returned house bill 196 bv Welling, relating to towns, declaring it unconstitutional and suggesting that changes be made New Bills. H. B. 215, Sifting Committee Appropriating Ap-propriating $7500 for building bridge lover Price river In Emer county j Passed, 25 to 13 under suspension of teles Bllfil Withdrawn. 1-1 B 1, Barnes Relating to government gov-ernment of cities of the first and second class. H B 188, Kimball Appropriating $10,000 to Investigate water resources o! state of I'tah. Committee Reports S. B. 121, Cottrell Providing that I officers in cities and towns shall not be interested In city or town contracts. con-tracts. To pass S B 122, Ohlsen Exempting members mem-bers of the Volunteer Firemen from poll tax. To pass. S. B 101, Ferry Appropriating $16,000 for mineral research, to pass. Senate New Bills. S B, 260, Sitting Committee Pro-iding Pro-iding for taxation of transient livestock. live-stock. S B. 2C7, Sifting Committee Re-latinc Re-latinc to disposition of funds, tools, machinery, etc , of adult blind made special order at 1 180 p m S B 264 Appropriation measure. Bills Passed. H B. 216. Sifting Committee Appropriating Ap-propriating $5700 for bridge across Price river, Emery county. P B Joint Resolution No. 3 Limiting Lim-iting Indebtedness of cities and coun. ties Counties to 2 per cent of assessed as-sessed valuation and cities to 4 per cent of assessed valuation S B. 117. Eckersle Relating to mnnagement of district schools and liorarv funds for same. S. B 222, Eckersley Raising the I state horticultural commission salary I from $1500 to $1800 per year H B 123, Bennlon Authorizing placing of home remonstrators .throughout the state and appropriat-1 appropriat-1 i n u $5000 for same H B. 101 Making the theft of water In pipe lines a larcenv II B No. 15 Relating to inspec- tor of hydro-carbon mines. Salary increased from $1200 to $K.nn Bill Killed. Barnes' liquor bill, closing saloons j :- in p m Bills Signed by Governor S. B 70 by Fckerslcv Relating to texi book commission for public schools. ! S B SR. b lverson Giving the governor power to transfer back I'tah I icoi.nty lands which were to have been I lined as an experimental station S. B. 212, bv lverson Appropriating Appropriat-ing S750n for the entertainment of the , ' Hi tlonal Educational association In Jul v School teachers will be retired at I tne age of sixty rears on half salarv under the terms of B bill passed bv (the senate of the I'tah legislature yes-! yes-! terday A pension fund would be created snd maintained by deducting one per cent of the salaries of all the teacher-Senate teacher-Senate News The senate sifting committee yesterday yes-terday recommended for passage the Smith public utility hill It was made I a special order for final passage to come up this afternoon Railroad of-''cials of-''cials were heard by the sifting com .jittee In opposition to the measure esterdav afternoon Bankers and others Interested appeared ap-peared yesterday afternoon before the Joint committee appointed to consider bills looking to securing Interest on public funds Jesse Jewkes, state treasurer, appeared in opposition to the bills and Secretary of State Da vid Matt6on, formerly state treasurer in favor of them. Several prominent bankers discussed the situation with the committee The joint committee appointed lo fix the boundary line between Sanpete and Juab counties made Its report yesterday The report Is largely a victory for Juab county At present all of the disputed territory is claimed claim-ed bv Sanpete- county and Is bcitiK held by that county. Under the bill proposed by the joint committee Juab county Is given the southern part of the disputed torrltorv and Sanpete the northern part. A Joint committee is now conferring with reference to the amendment made In the bill by Judd providing for recording the shipments of Intox Icants from "wet'" to "dry" territory In the state. Senators Smith, Wight and Booth of the senate are on the committee with Representatives Judd, Henrie and Page from the house The senate yesterday voted to call back and reviv a house bill providing for a geological survey of the state. The bill was Inadvertently killed by the sifting committee and could not have been revived except by unonl mous consent Under a new number the senate again passed the l erson bill relating to the extension of time for preferred claimants on school lands to establish their right to such land. Originally the bill was passed by the senate and killed by the house, and, wishing to revive It, the author of the bill introduced intro-duced a new one covering the same matter Preparatory to making a final ef fort to adjourn the session on time the senate yesterday suspended the rule which provides that the previous question shall not be moved. The senate also adopted a rule limiting de bate on any bill to five minutes for each senator These rules It Is be lleved, will greatly expedite the busi ness of the senate The senate yesterday passed the Chrlstensen drainage bill. The Chris-lensen Chris-lensen bill is to take the place of the drainage district bill passed two years ago and recently declared unconstitutional unconsti-tutional by the supreme court The bill Is drawn in the light of the su preme court decision and Is believed to clear up the objections made by the court to the old law The bill has already passed the house and will go to the governor for signature as soon as it is engroB6ed. With considerable rapidity yester day the senate rejected a joint reso lutlon, introduced by Senator Booth, proposing a constitutional amend ment providing for a tax exemption on a homestead up to $1,000 Only Senators Booth and Eckersley voted for the resolution, all the rest voting against It. Senator Booth was the author of a similar resolution covering cover-ing other points In the constitution HoweVCrj In view of the decisive action ac-tion on one of the resolutions Senator Booth made no objection to the slaugh ter of the other. Senator H. W Lunt of Iron county vesterduv introduced by unanimous consent a memorial to congress asking ask-ing that 1.000,000 acres of arid land he set aside by the government to be sold to provide funds for the compensation compen-sation of Indian war veterans and for the construction of good roads The memorial was laid on the table for one day and will probably be takeu up and passed today or tomorrow House News The house yesterday authorized a couterence committee to meet a like committee from the senate on house bills Nos 52 and 35, liquor measures The speaker appointed Judd, Henrie and Page to servo on the committee The house yesterday took from the table and passed house bill No 166, b Mrs. King providing that husband and wife shall he joint guardians ofl their minor children and that each shall have equal power over them The bill was laid on the table on February 24 It was passed yeslerda I by a vote of -y to 13 The house esterda served notice on the senate that It would be ready to quit, business Thursday when it I adopted a concurrent resolution to thai effect The resolution was in- troduced b Page of Piute and was adopted almost onanJjnousH The house yesterday passed a bill providing for a bond iphiie of $27n.ui10 for statr roads The bill was intro- dticed by Crouch of Morgan In the original measure an issue of 3G0,uu0 was called for and several road projects pro-jects were specified as benef iciar'es These Included special appropriations for the 0erland trail, the Midland trail and the road between Midvale and Bingham The committee on highways snd bridges struck down the 'amount of the Issue from $360,000 an, alse struck out all reference to the method of apportioning the proceeds of the bond sale, except that each county is to receive $10 000. South-wick, South-wick, one of the two members who voted against the bill, gave notice of reconsideration |