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Show SEVEN NEW BILLS APPEAR IN HOUSE. I I Many Measures Advanced to Calendar for Final Consideration. REFERS SENATE ACTS I I Committee Unfavorable on Proposed Appropriation for Kindergarten. The legislative reference committer reported re-ported yesterday on house bill No. 39. by Representative Grace Stratton-Airey, which provides an appropriation of $2000 j lor the free kindergarten and neighbor-hood neighbor-hood house association, recommending that it be not printed. The committee reported that it violates the constitution in relation rela-tion to appropriations for private institutions insti-tutions and is not In harmony -with the educational policy of the state. ! Representative Stratton-Airey said the bit had been handed her by th attorney general, and she did not know anything about its constitutionality. L'pon request, it was referred to the appropriations committee, com-mittee, notwithstanding the adverse report re-port by the reference committee. l'pon report from the house committee on health, the following bills were placed upon the calendar for consideration and final passage. H. B- No. 10, by Currle. prohibiting the courts from enjoining strikes save where property is In imminent danger; H. B. No. 8, by Eddy, relating to registration of pharmacists; H. B. No. 7, by Eddy, relating relat-ing to registration of drug stores, and H. B. No. 28, by Southwick. relating to discrimination in the buying and selling of dairj' products. The judiciary committee reported the following bills for placing on the calendar; calen-dar; S. B. No. 27, by Olson, relating to corporation cor-poration reports on inheritance taxes; S. B. No. 18. by Chez, relating to the marking mark-ing of ballots, and S. B. No. 17, by Chez, abolishing the use of voting machines. Bills From Senate. The following senate bills were introduced intro-duced and referred to committees indicated indi-cated : S. B. No. 23, by Chez, relating to costs on appeal, judiciary; S. B. No. 3S, by Olson, relat!ng to exemption from jury service, judiciary; S. B. No. 13, by Wootton, Woot-ton, relating, to a recompllation of the laws of the state. Seven new bills were introduced in the house. The first was house bill No. 60, by Bevan, relating to exemptions from attachment under judgment. The act is an amendment which allows a married man an additional exemption of $5 a month for each minor child and dependent person of his family. House bill No. 61. by Sylvester Williams, relates to applications for, unappropriated water. It amends the present law by providing pro-viding that each "application shall be accompli ac-compli nted by a bond of $200 when the application is for two second -feet or less, and when the application is for more than two second-feet the bond shall be $100 additional for each second-foot, with a limit of $5000. For Public Roads. House bill No. 62, by McKinney, Is an amendment to existing laws, providing for the appointment by the county commissioners commis-sioners of each county of a county engineer. en-gineer. The act creates the office of county engineer in lieu of the present office of-fice of county surveyor, and instead of the official being elective lie is to be appointive. ap-pointive. The salary is to be fixed by the county commissioners and the act is to become effective January 1, 1 01 Si, the' date when present elected surveyors will complete their terms. His duties are to be the same as those of the county surveyor, sur-veyor, with the addition that he shall supervise su-pervise the construction of all county buildings and engineering projects. House bill No. 63, by McKinney, is an amendment to the present law designed to give the county commissioners authority to designate public roads through incor-! incor-! porated cities and to wis and to spend money upon these for their improvement and maintenance. House bill No. 64, by Fisher, is an amendment to the present law for the protection of cattle owners in the matter mat-ter of permitting bulls to run at large upon public ranges. The amendment is designed to permit owners of bulls purchased pur-chased under a b7'eeder's certificate to run at large upon a public domain. Would Merge Courts. , House bill No. 65, by Young, provides for tti e amalgamation in cities of the first class of the municipal and Justice courts, making the municipal courts ex-officio ex-officio justice courts and placing them all on the basis of the municipal court. The object of the bill is to eliminate present variances between the fees of justice courts and municipal courts, which at present cause a congestion of civil business in the municipal courts and leave the justice courts with practically nothing noth-ing but preliminary criminal work to handle. han-dle. The bill applies only to Salt Lake, whereC through the difference In fees charged by the justice courts under the state law of 1P1F, all of the civil huslness has been driven into the civil blanch of the city court, with the result that it is unable to handle the work. House hill No. 66. by Young-, provides an appropriation of JSOOO for the purpose of reimbursing the members of the Utah f.oMiers relief committee of Salt Lake j and the special relief committee of the Commercial club of L-ogan for monev paid out for relief of dependent families of members of the Utah national guard on Mexican border duty. |