Show DIRECT PRIMARY BILL PRESENTED I I I Measure Introduced In Utah Legislature Legisla ture Would Do Away With Party Conventions Candidates Being Named by Petition I Fifteen house bills and one memorial memo memo- rial were were presented at the session of the house of representatives on Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- February 10 and one bill was withdrawn One of the new measures refers to the tilO manner of holding primary primary primary mary elections The bill was presented present present- ed by br Representative Elias Ellas Conway A Ashton and proposes to do away with the old manner of holding primary primary primary mary elections and to establish direct dl di primaries Candidates s will be named on petitions according to the bill and there will be n no such thing as party conventions The measure approved was H H. B. B I 75 by Hodges relating to the investment invest invest- ment meat of funds derIved from the sale of public lands By Dy vote voto the members of the house agreed to extend the Ole time allowed the presentation of bills from 30 to 40 days dars with the consent of two two- thirds of the members of the house As tl tIle the e result of an hours hour's deliberation deliberation deliberation delibera delibera- tion of the senate two bills were passed and seven seven new now measures in In- One of the bills approved Increases the salary of the supreme court stenographer from 1200 to 1800 a year the other relates to privileged communications at trials A measure was introduced which if it is approved will vill enable Salt Lake City to try the Des Moines pl plan n of city government ut Senator Seeley Seeley- Is after the experimental stations and has introduced a bill to abolish every experimental station in the tate state The record for new bills bUls was broken in the house on Monday February February Feb Feb- 8 when nineteen new measures were introduced They provide laws affecting educational j boards and in- in mining and smelting one touches on the penal code of the state and another proposes to establish establish establish lish a public service commission for forthe forthe forthe the regulation of oC public service cor cor- cor One is a combination bill restricting the sale of r liquor prohibiting lUng it it and providing local option one provides for the repeal of or an existing exIsting existing ex ex- ex- ex law others affect the work of county commissioners and fees and salaries of public officials are affected affected affect affect- ed ed while numerous other subjects areo are touched o ched upon by the proposed legis legis- I lation laUon Bills were passed providing for the e creation of a good roads commission relating to construction of state roads relating to salaries salaries' of state officers relating to time of filing applications ap ape for titles to properties In Six bills five from the senate and andone andone one from the house were passed inthe inthe In Inthe the upper house Monday and four new bills were introduced Bills Dills were passed providing punishment for convicts convicts convicts con con- who assault prison guards appropriating appropriating ap av- ap- ap 1500 1600 to refurnish the offices of or tices of the governor and secretary of state appropriating to the widow of Deputy Deput Sheriff Clark of Weber Weber We We- ber bel county who was murdered making mak mak- ing lug testimony of a husband or wife competent in abandonment cases making assault by convicts serving life imprisonment sentence punishable punishable punish punish- able by death defining vagrancy vagrancy and and provid ng ng a punishment The members of the state legislature legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture the governor and state officials were guests of of the Agricultural college college college col col- col- col lege at Logan on Saturday February 6 G and as a result there was no session I of at the senate or house Three hundred bundred and twenty-five twenty persons persons persons per per- sons were In the party that left Salt Lake on the special train The party Included the state officials the members members mem mern- bers of both houses of at the legislature the and faculty of f the University sity of Utah the directors of the tile Agricultural Agri- Agri Agricultural cultural college of Utah and their invited Invited In in- guests Speech Speechmaking making a banquet and an inspection in in- of the college was the order of or the da day the visitors being royally entertained b by the people of or Logan The legislators met with President Widtsoe to consider the appropriations appropriations asked for The agricultural school asks for fox maintenance appropriations appropriations appropriations of and the experiment experiment ment station for a publication fund of The president pointed out the need of each department and the manner manner man man- ner ncr for the apportionment of the tho ap ap- appropriations ap appropriations to the various depart depart- m meats ments Three bills bUls were b by the house on Tuesday I February 9 while six measures of minor Importance were introduced This was was' the last day that new llew bills ma may be introduced without consent The fhe new measures passed were H. H B D 57 of or powers county commissioners com corn missioners as to roads appointing count county road commissioners and aud providing providing providing pro pro- viding for an annual road poll tax tax- by J. J N. N Henrie by request H. H B. B 58 58 an act defining the powers of road commissioners relative to special road district tax by J. J N. N Henrie by r request H. H B. B 59 69 providing for an annual vehicle tax and the manner mannor ol 01 0 1 levying collecting and disposing of at s same ame by J. J N. N Henrie by request In the senate eleven bills were in inv tl t and two approved the measure measure meas meas- l tl tf ure re creating a state library gymnasium ium lum l um commission and providing f for or Its maintenance for two ye years rs and a bill relating to fox for s school chool funds and providing for county superintendents' superintendents work Bounty Dounty laws are materially altered i In n a n new measure offered by Brinkerhoff Drinker Brinker- hoff and the erection of a new half halt a million dollar high school building In Salt Lake City and the erection of or other buildings in the city Is provided for in a n. bill presented by Williams In the house on Thursday February 4 Senate Joint Memorial No 1 was passed pasHed The memorial Is the one asking ask ask- i ing ng for a grant of at acres or of orthe orthe the public domain in Utah for the purpose pur pur- pose lOse of building a state stat capitol and establishing a system of highways Other bills passed were H. H B. B No 8 an act defining robbery H. H B. B No Jtb I 48 recommended by the committee on the State Mental hospital enlarging tho the object and scope of ot the State Mental hospital H. H B. B No 66 relating relate i ing ng to the issuing of worthless checks H Ii H. B. B No 28 relating to state aid for tor public schools Mr 11 Bower of Utah Introduced a bill No Nb 99 providing for an act for a state horticultural commission providing for the publication and distribution ot of its reports for the appointment tm nt of a tate s-tate horticultural inspector and as assistant as as- Inspectors and Is wide in scope with v reference to the inspection ot of trees and the eradication of fruit pests An amendment was introduced cd malting making malt male ing section read that no teacher shall be employed or dismissed In any district without the concurrence of the county superintendent of sch schools Senator Herschel Bullen Jr Introduced Introduced Intro Intro- a bill amending the present law relating relating- to the composition n of the state board oard of land commissioners Under the terms of his bill the governor governor gov goy It s made a member of ot the theland land loard board and its president The bill bm also provides that the secretary shall appoint appoint ap ap- ap- ap point all clerical help hell making malting the approval approval ap ape ap- ap of ot the land board unnecessary Senate bill 39 providing for an assistant assistant as as- district attorney for the Third judicial district passed the senate by bya a unanimous vote yote A new inheritance tax law introduced intro Intro- du ed by Mr Nielson Nielsen provides That It if there be living a wife or issue of the deceased then the tax herein provided pro pro- vided for shall be paid vaid only upon the market value of the property in excess excess ex ex- I cess of or for such surviving wife and 2500 for Cor each surviving child The bill introduced in Sn the senate by Benner Beuner X Smith providing for what appears to be a continuous course for for- legal actions from the lowest to the highest tribunals by means of appeal Is an amendatory measure which Ia makes es it possible e to appeal from the final decision or of the city courts di direct die ci- to the district courts A great portion of the session of or the house on Friday February 5 was Jaken Jak- Jak taken tak en up with discussion of the prohibition prohibition tion bill the Cannon annon bill being up for discussion n and finally being referred back to committee In addition to seven presented to the to-the the house housein housen i in n favor of prohibition at this session the first protest against the passage of at a prohibition law was filed The protest was signed by a large number of ot representative taxpayers business businessmen men and heavy property properly owners of Salt Lake Lake- City Nine new bills bUls were introduced one bill was withdrawn and another measure measure meas meas- ure tire was killed during the session Representative Brigham Clegg asked that H. H B. B No 60 which relates to the prosecution of persons who overdraw their at banks be he reconsidered This w was s permitted and anda a motion was made to strike out the enactment clause This was done by bya a practically unanimous vote after it had been explained that such a measure measure meas meas- ure would be unconstitutional One bill was passed H. H B. B No 27 by Thompson which provides for the establishment of oC an engineering ex experiment station in connection with the state school of mines providing for its organization and control defining defining de do- fining its duties and powers and making an appropriation When the house adjourned It was decided to take a hOlida holiday on Saturday and meet on Monday afternoon at Four bills which have in lii the hands of committees since their their- introduction intro intro- were passed by the senate I Friday The first three of ot these are bills bUls 22 23 and 24 all by Senator Badger Bad Dad Badger ger and providing for the amendment I of the election laws in such a way a ato as to make malte it compulsory for tor all parties to carry but one ticket during elec tion campaigns campaigns' to provide for the nam ing lug of candidates by petition and providing providing pro pro- viding the manner of their declining nominations at the hands of at conven or petitioners S. S B. B No 53 b by Senator Senator- Kuchler provides for the return of election fig fig- ures tires immediately after the tho close of at the polls to county clerks The rhe ob oh- of the bill Is to make completo complete election returns available before such time as an official count takes place and should it become a law will vill fill filla I a a- a long felt want especially for or news news news- papers j |