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Show THE THIRD DAY 1 Memorial Asking Return of Escheated Real Estate. TURMOIL IN THE HOUSE. Republican Make, Their Stand on the Statehood and t Silver Questions No Better Very Fast The Industrial Home for the Benefit of the School. The third day in the legislature opened again with peace in the council and a great deal of sparring in the house. Allen was constantly on his feet w ith gratuitous attacks upon the minority, but Powers, Nebeker, lying and Tol'ton gave him back some hot shot that somewhat dampened his en-j en-j thusiasm. Early in the session Varian 1 gave constructive notice that he had been appointed republican leader of the house and meant to live up to all the prerogatives of his exalted station Once or twice Allen rebelied, but after being sat down on rather hard relapsed into a thoughtful state that Swas quit3 suggestive as to the amount of nursing la is according to his wounded var"ty. The only passage at arms in the council occurred when Seaman called J the chair to account for arbitrarily J changing the number of members on I ( different committees and the chair ad-! ad-! - ' mitted that a thorough search for in-1' in-1' formation had not been made. When j it was called to fiis attention that he y- had been remiss, President Hreeden promised to complete the committees in a few days. The president an- inounced in the morning the important import-ant live stock committee which is made up of two sheep and one cattle man. Taylor introduced the first bill on insurance, designed to prevent dis- crimination. (Seaman has tackled the railroad problem. Taylor introduced a measure meas-ure allowing liens to attorneys. The most important measure introduced J was a memorial asking that certain I lands in the Uintah reservatian be set aside for the agricultural college, fathered by Hart. In the house, Tolton, who is looking after the interests of his constituents, asked for the appropriation of $300 to pay off claims in the second district, and also put in a memorial looking toward the disposition of the industrial home for the benefit of the schools of the territory. ter-ritory. Johnson sent in his estray law that is designed by nim to remedy all the ills of the farmer. The most important im-portant measure was the memorial asking ask-ing congress to restore the eecheated real estate of the church. This came from Varian and the democratic side moved for immediate consideration. Allen was jUBt about to move that it be committed, but he was shut off by Varian, who said he would argue to the motion made on the democratic side. Therefore the minority man- aged to have this important measure v. nnt, thronch at once. f Allen proposed the Immediate pass- I age of the contingent expense bill. Powers explained that the gentleman wanted postage stamps and consideied provision for them more important than memorials favoring statehood and silver. In view of tha fact that Home of the republican members had held up their hands in horror at the idea of a democratic demo-cratic legislature spending $1,2-50 for contingent expenees, it was expected that tiiere would be some startling economy in this direction. But the re publican majority has already voted for $2,000 for eame purpose. TnE COUNCIL. All the members of the council responded re-sponded to roll call yesterday afternoon, after-noon, and as soon as the preliminaries were disposed of, the business was pro-; reeded with. COMMITTEE OS LIVE STOCK. President Breeden appointed as a committee on live stock, Seely, Lund and Eldredge. FBOM TELEHOCSE. A communication was received from the house stating that C. C. R. No. 1, relating to publication of pamphlets containing names and addresses was concurred in. C. C. R. No, 2, relating to the hoisting hoist-ing cf the stars and Btripes over the Wasatch building waB also concurred con-curred in. C. C. R. No. 3, was returned by the house with the amendment fixing Jannary 19th a3 the date for yisiting agricultural college. Passed as amended, . TO KEEP THE RECORDS. C. C. R. No. 4, proposed by Booth of Provo, provided that a suitable book be furnished for each committee in which committee records may be kept, the book to be left in the hands of the committees. . It also, provides for envelopes for use of- members. Adopted. TO PRINT THE BILLS. Eldredge offered a concurrent resolution reso-lution providing that 200 copies of bills be printed at once. Booth opposed the measure on the ground that many bills will not be formally reported by the committee to which they are referred, and he was in favor of printing only after the bill had been recommended, Booth moved to amend according to the suggestion. Resolution passed as amended. PUBLIC PRINTER. Booth of Provo, offered a concurrent resolution C. C. It. S. authorizing the committee on printing to make recommendations recom-mendations with regard to electing a public printer. Adopted. A bill introduced by Booth, of Salt Lake, relating to the election of justices jus-tices of the peace in cities was referred to the committee on judiciary. LIFE INSURANCE. Taylor introduced a bill to prevent discrimination in life insurance companies. com-panies. The bill was referred to the committee on private corporations. T1 PROVIDE A PERMANENT FUND. Williams introduced a bill to provide a permanent fund for the Agricultural college, which waB referred to the committee com-mittee on the uniyersity and agricultural agricul-tural college. FROM: THE GOVERNOR. A message was received from the governor, calling attention ot the council coun-cil to the reports from the trustees of the university and agricultural college. The reports were referred to the com mittee on university and agricultural college. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE MEMORIAL. The following communication from the trustees of the agricultural college was read: "We, the trustees of the agricultural college of Utah, ask your attention to the relation of the delay in conferring statehood upon Utah, and value of the land that will fall to it from the public domain, for a permanent fund for the agricultural college of Utah. Land could have been secured sufficient in value to have perpetually maintained the agricultural college, as now organized, organ-ized, without further aid from Utah, had it been located while it had a population as sparse as that of other territorks at the date of their admission as states. "In view of these facts, we must respectfully re-spectfully reauest vour honorable bodv to memorialize the congress of the United States, to reserve in the Uintah reservation , before it is thrown open for settlement, the land err an ted that falls to Utah for its agricultural college. col-lege. W. S. McCornick, President. J. E. Htde, Secretary." The (communication was filed, and Hart at once offered the following memorial, which was referred to the committee on memorials: Memorial (o Congress to Reserve in the Uintah Reservation the Land Grant to Utah for its Agricultural College. "Your memorialists, the governor and legislative assembly of the territory terri-tory of Utah, respectfully represent that Whereas, The delay in conferring statehood upon Utah has rendered the undisposed public lands less valuable than at a time when its population was as sparse as that of other territories at the date of their admittance to the union as states, and vV HERE as, The remaining public lands in the territory of Utah, excepting except-ing the Indian reservations are comparatively compar-atively of little value. "Your memorialists therefore re spectfully urge that the land grant falling fal-ling to the Agricultural college of the territory of Utah, be received by congress, con-gress, out of the Uintah reservation, before it is thrown open to settlement, and your memorialists will ever pray," Adjourned. IN THE HOUSE. Considerable preliminary routine work was done. Hatch presented two petitions from the citizens of Grand county, protesting protest-ing against the present school law on the grounds that it does not meet the requirements of ppar?o!y settled regions, reg-ions, in that schools cannot be organized orga-nized on account of lack of pupils. They also protest against the school election law, which makes it necessary to vote in the county seat on the same day the vote is taken in their own precincts. pre-cincts. Allen presented a bill on the same subject as one introduced Tuesday. authorizing cities of the nrst and second sec-ond class to establish and maintain free libraries and reading rooms. PASSAGE AT ARMS . Powers presented a resolution call ing upon the committee on memorials to present its report at once on statehood state-hood and silver. Allen got indignant over this and Bald it was an insult to the committee, because that committee commit-tee had no chance to consider it. Powers Pow-ers said he may have overstepped the strict line of propriety in presenting 'ie resalution, but he did so because he wished to have such an important matter attended to. He said that in the past men had differed in Utah on the statehood question but he wanted to say that this difference had been smoothed over. His intention, he said, was to impress on the people of the east the fact that the people of Utah are in favor of the statehood proposition. proposi-tion. The resolution was finally withdrawn with-drawn on account of Allen's heat. |