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Show I (j Three bills were practically killed by tho house of representatives yesterday. yester-day. One was withdrawn after the committee reported that it be not passed and two others were killed by the house adopting I adverse, reports from the committees. In the senate one bill was passed and the resolution resolu-tion of Senator Kuchler calling on the j Washington delegation from Utah to investigate the mothods by which ad-vance ad-vance information wns received on the drawlag of lands in Tooele county was also tabled. Kill Bill for Four-Year Terms. In the hpuse house bill No. 22, which wished to extend the term of ' offico of the sheriff and the county , clerk to four years, was killed by the adoption of the report of the "committee "com-mittee that it did not pass. The patter pat-ter was laid over Monday at the request re-quest of Representative Holman. When the matter came up yesterday he moved to strike out the enacting clause. Representative Smith declared declar-ed that It could be better accomplished accomplish-ed by adopting tho committee report, which went through unanimously. House bill No. 52, by Harshbergor, by request, provided that county superintendents su-perintendents or any other member I of tho board of school trustees should I In no way be interested In the school property "in his district, and It also prevented any county superintendent or member of the board of trustees, of any high school district from being employed as a teacher. The bill was withdrawn. By the adoption of an adverse report, re-port, houso bill No. S3, by Tobias, preventing pre-venting tho architect to be appointed on the commission appointed to pass on school plans or specifications, from being directly or indirectly interested in-terested In them. Defeat Russell's Bill. House bill No. 61, by Russell, which asked for the repeal of the law for a board of public works, was defeated by the committee on municipal corporations corpo-rations of the house. The bill went to the committee on labor which re ported favorably on the bill. After It was brought before the house and It was promised a defeat, it was referred re-ferred back to the municipal corporations corpora-tions committee, where yesterday afternoon. aft-ernoon. It received the unanimous voto to be not passed. In the senate yesterday the reading for the third time and passage of senate bill No. 87. grautlng the United Unit-ed States jurisdiction over Fort Doug-laB Doug-laB and Fort Duchesne, was laid oer to come up today. The senators wero unprepared to take action on the matter mat-ter at the time Senate bill No. 71, bv Williams, appropriating ap-propriating for the deficiency of state Institutions up to the time that the appropriation for all institutions is ready, was passed unanimously. Table Kuchler's Resolution. When senate resolution No. fi, by Kuchler. calling upon tho president to ask the Utah delegation to Investigate Investi-gate the land office of the department of the intorior as to how "inside information" infor-mation" was secured for the sale of Tooele lands, Senator Rudolph Kuchler Kuch-ler asked for the passage of tho resolution. reso-lution. He declared he had ascertained that on January 13, on account of applications appli-cations made, tho land office At Washington had segregated tho land fr public entry. On January 2-1, he ! said a letter was sent to the local registrar of the land office and that three days later the letter was received receiv-ed Instructing the opening of the land for public entry next morning. Before Be-fore the papers heard anvthlng of the mattor It Is declared that corridors were crowded next morning with applicants ap-plicants for the land. Senator Kuchler Kuch-ler declared that the letter reaching here when it did and that no Information Informa-tion had been previously given out the matter looked vpoculiar and hard to explain. . Smith Off-i. a Substitute. Senator Smith offered as a substitute substi-tute resolution that the sennte ask the Utah delegation to get the commissioner commis-sioner of the land office at Washington Washing-ton to post a notfee of the land opening open-ing 20 days before entry. He said that "Inside Information" was not exactly ex-actly true. He explained that as soon as the land was segregated for public entry It became public property and that a8 a rule the government gives no notice This, ho ssjd, was true in taking up land under the Smoot enlarged en-larged homestead act. Ho declared It could not be- Inside information after tho ordor was entered. He 6ald it was known in Washington and that letter to the local land offico was simply an order to do. what had already been ordered and was of public record. The senate yesterday lecelvod notice no-tice from the houso that senate bill No. 4, appropriating a water adjudication, adjudica-tion, found for the state engineer and granting him certain rights, had been signed by the speaker of tho house, and it was then transmitted to tho governor for his signature. New Bills In Senate. The following were the bills introduced intro-duced in the senate yestoidny: S. B. No. 114, by Kuchler An act amending section 2050X1, complied laws, lf)07, fixing the salaries of tho judges of tho district court at $4,000 a year and placing the necessary living liv-ing and traveling expenses of judges in holding court In other than their own districts at 5 a day. Committee Commit-tee on Judiciary. S. B. No. 1 15, amending soctlon D05, compiled laws of Utah, 1907, fixing fix-ing fees to be charged by the secretary secre-tary of state, so that the Increased capitalization stock may be taxed. Committee on private corporations and Insurance. S. B. No. UO. by Badger, relating to foreign corporations. Cominilteo on private corporations and Insurance. S. B. No. 117, by Wllllama, to amend section 1910, compiled laws, 1907, relating to the- duties and compensation com-pensation of the clerk of the board of education in cities of the first and second class. Committee on education. educa-tion. S. B No. 118, by Burton, amending amend-ing section -1280X1, chapter 25, complied com-plied laws, 1907, forbidding tho storing stor-ing of powder in houses, magazines or buildings within 1,000 feet of any resldonce or state road. Committee on counties and municipal corporations. corpora-tions. New Bills in the House. The following bills wero Introduced in the house yesterday; H. B. No. 110, by Hayes An act repealing re-pealing chapter 57. session laws, 1909, providing for a library and gymnasium gymna-sium commission, and placing tho work under the jurisdiction of tho state superintendent o'f public Instruc- tion Committee on education. H. B. No. Ill, by Peterson An act relating to the driving and shipping of livestock out of tho state and providing provid-ing for Inspection by a livestock commissioner, com-missioner, who shall be appointed by the county commissioners. Committee Commit-tee on livestock. Liquor Bill Causes Debate. Efforts to enforce prohibition In the counties without giving the people a vote waxed warm before the Joint commltteo of tho senate and the house : yesterday morning in considering the I various liquor measures before the ' body Yesterday one step further was taken tak-en by tho committee, when it was oted that counties outside of cities and towns shall constitute a separate voting unit But no agreement could be reached as to an election. It was contended that If a "wet" county wished wish-ed to continue "wet" it should not bo forced to hold an election, while the absolute prohibition faction contended that all counties should be "dry" unless un-less an election were held to allow them to remain "wet " Vote Down Compromiser An effort to leach a compromise wns voted down. Aftor being defeated defeat-ed In a motion for prohibition in the counties, Senator Badger voted "aye" on the other motions and moved for a reconsideration. The fight before the committee again centered about the platform and what the speakers of the campaign said. Representative T. L. Holman offered offer-ed a resolution that cities of the first, second and third class and Incorporated Incorporat-ed towns constitute a voting unit, and that each county outside the municipalities munici-palities should constitute a separate voting unit, and that the question of license or no license should be submitted sub-mitted to the qualified voters within 90 dajs after adjournment, as prescribed by law. A segregation of the motion was asked and Senator Kuchler, chairman of the committee, ruled that the motion was out of order, as the moer refused to segregate It. Holman Motion Is Adopted. Senator S J. Stookey thon moved: "That conditions in each voting district dis-trict relating to the manufacture and disposal of intoxicating liquors, re- j main unchanged until such time as i they may bo changed by tho voto of the electors of such district as may J be provided by law." No second was received for the motion, and it died. Representative Holman introduced the following motion, which was later passed by a vote of 9 to 1:, "That that part of each county outside out-side of Incorporated cities and towns shall constitute a voting unit In which the question of license or no license may be submitted to the qualified electors within 90 days after the adjournment ad-journment of the legislature, as shall be prescribed by law." |