Show NSENAfE AND HOUSE t + Much Business DispDsed of at the Morning Session 4 I FRUIT TREE INSPECTION + EnIoiis BILL TA N UP AMEND D AID PASSEJ 4 eda tesure to Pravent Explorations EXplora-tions LLSuthejsthrn utah Without With-out a PermitThoSenate Jlclers Seven Horise Bills to Committees For Consideration t Yesterdays sssion of the house of represenJatIves lasted about two h urn and a half and within that time six bllJs ere passed and several other measures were either referred to com mUtee or recomme1ded for passage One bill was rejected At 1150 the house adjourned till Monday morning b at ociock After the taking of the senatorial ballot in joint assembly the representatives and senators hurriedly 1eft the building for the Oregon Short Line depot to board the special train which bore them to Logan to visit the Agricultural co1lee Shepaxds house bill No 83 to tnab deeds of trust forec1osable the same as ale mortgages was taken tll and passed by a vote of 26 ayes to 1 no eighteen members being absent on roll callSenate Senate bill Ko 33 to make abstracts of title admissible as prima facie evidence evi-dence in all the courts of the state was passed by3 unanimous vote and house bill No 87 relating to the sam subject was rejected Housll bill No 102 by Bennlo was called up ameJded and passed by a vote of 23 ayes The bill amends Ue fruit tree inspection law by making it obligatory for boards of county com missloneTS In counties having 5OO or more growing fruIt tress to appoint an Inspector from a list of nominations made by the state board of hortlcul tuna In counties having a population of OOO or over inspectors are to be allowed a sufficIent number of deputies to see to the proper enforcement of the horticultural law The bill also pro yides for more rigid inspection of nursery nur-sery stock at railway stations House bill No 1M by Shepard to require re-quire the holdng of nine terms of the supreme court annually was called up fOI consideration The author of the bill amended it by providing for four terms commencing on the second Mondays Mon-days of January April June anti October Octo-ber The bill was pasSed by a unanimous unani-mous vote of 1 eighteen of the members mem-bers being absent The substitute for house bill No 122 by Stewart by request was also pased The purpose of the bill 15 to empower city councils to require railroad rail-road companIes to erect and maintain gates at am or aU crossIngs and to compcl the removal of unused or abandoned aban-doned tracks The original clause requiring re-quiring the erection of viaducts was stricken out of the bill nouC bill Ko 130 by Redd was also passed without opposition The bIll makes It a misdemeanor for any person to make explorations in southeastern Utah for Aztec or other prehistoric ruins for any purpose whatever unless provided with a permit from the governor gov-ernor in which case the rcsut of the exploration must ba deposited with the state museum or the University of Utah and not used for speculation or pecuniary profit MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS The r o1lcig senatbills were referred re-ferred to the proper committees No 78 by howell relating to state lnstitttf9os drawIng their bIennial ap propnauons Xo SO by Smoot relatinS to the expense ex-pense of assessing anti collecting taxes in cities and towns House blll XD 26 by FuJImer relatIng relat-Ing to the transmission of election returns re-turns was recommitted to the committee commit-tee on elections Engrassed copies of the following measures were signed by the speaker and the chief cerk and transmitted to the senate for signature House bill Ko 134 to authorize any raIlroad company to purchase the non competing line of another within the state whether or not either are Incorporated incor-porated under the laws of Utah House joint memorial No5 praying congress to reimburse citizens of Utah for services renthred and losses sustained sus-tained in the Indian wars of a third of a century no The state board of examiners reported re-ported the allowance of the claim of Salt Lake City in thc sum of 370657 for balance due from the territory of Utah for half the cost of constructing the reservoIr and water system for the capitol grounds The matter was referred re-ferred to the committee on claims and public accounts The judIciary committee recOJmnelld ed pasage of house bill No 166 to extend ex-tend to thirty days the time of a defendant de-fendant Jersona1ly served with a summons sum-mons outside the state for answering and house blll No IGi relatIng to dis i missal of appeals in tw dIstrict court On recommendation of the judiciary committee house bill 10 169 by Jackson Jack-son to provide for decent interment of the remains of any indigent but honorably orabl discharged Union soldier sailor or marine at expense of counties W rejected for the reason that the United State statutes make ample provision for such burials and suitable marking of graves TIle house then adjourned |