Show BILLS AFFECTING G STATE I LAND BOARD INTRODUCED Sal Salaries of bl Commissioners and Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary to Be Increased If New Measures Measures Measures Meas Meas- ures are Approved by Legislature Three bills governing actions and salaries the state land board were Introduced in the senate on February 17 by bi G. G A. A Iverson The lills bills were To give the board the tho right to designate designate nate sate assistants to the state engineer to Ito supervise construction of reservoirs reservoirs reservoirs reser reser- taking that power from the engineer engineer en en- to Increase the salary of the tile commissioners from front 1200 to 1800 a year and that of the tile secretary fr from m 1800 to 3 3 a year to prohibit the board from investing money from state state lands in irrigation or drainage district bonds Attempts on the part of the mInorIty minority minority minor mInor- ity of the house to Inject politics Into Into into In in- to the consideration of a resolution forthe forthe for forthe the direct election of senators on Monday Monday Mon Ion day through I Improper r wording df r the committees committee report on the resolution resulted in sending it back to the committee com corn again Salaries of municipal court judges In cities of or the second class having a population population pop pop- of more than are Increased increased In In- creased from 1800 to 2500 and the te term m of office lengthened from two to four years by a bill introduced Monday by Senator William Craig he Ogden municipal court would be the only one affected Lawyers ar appointed point d by the court to defend penniless defendants defendants' may recover recover re re- re- re cover fees from the county up to 10 a day for time spent in conduct of cases according to Benner X Smiths Smith's senate bill No 52 as amended by the committee on judiciary which was ivan passed in the senate on en Monday The lower house of the Utah legIslature legislature legislature legis legIs- lature on Monday went on record as being opposed to an hour eight-hour day when wilen it passed a substitute measure which provides that in Utah factories seven fifty hours shall constitute a weeks week's work excepting when property or life is in imminent danger Those favoring the measure say the sugar factories are the only institutions directly directly directly di di- affected at present The house bill advocated toy Iby the state engineer providing for a general general general gen gen- eral change in the water rights system of ownership and contests was defeated de do- on Monday Regulation of the branding of closed packages of apples pears and peaches is propose proposed In a bill introduced by Joseph Eckersley in the senate on February J 37 7 and indorsed by the horticulturists horticulturists horticulturists hor hor- of the state stateD D Tie The e education committee bill providing pro providing viding for combinations of common country school districts outside of the first and second class and p permitting the smaller combination districts to secure more revenue in taxes was I passed in the senate on Monday This provides for but one school board for I entire counties outside cities of ot the he first and second class Taking property bought on the installment installment in in- plan out of the state before the entire purchase price has been paid is prohibited In senate bill No 34 passed by the senate Such conduct conduct conduct con con- duct is regarded as a misdemeanor when the property is of less value than when of greater value a felony Fifteen thousand dollars Is appropriated for the Orphans Home and Day Nursery in a bill passed by the senate on February 17 The one dissenting vote was cast by President Gardner Senate bill No introduced February February Feb Fb- 17 by the committee on municipal muni municipal cipal corporations provides that it shall be unlawful to maintain any pest- pest house except such as are authorized I by city and county or town corporations corporations corporations corpora corpora- and located by the state board of health I Although his joint resolution for direct direct direct di di- election of United States senators senators senators sena sena- tors was defeated in the upper house Senator Hideout Rideout has Introduced a bill for direct election on the preferential plan by request House bill bm No 95 by M H H. Kriebel proposed to make any and all betting a misdemeanor went down to defeat by a vote of ot 12 to 29 on February 11 U. those voting for the measure being Bamberger Barker Cardon Henrie King Kriebel l Mabe Maber Morris Page Ro Robinson Southwick and Smith Those absent and not voting were Van Wagoner and Nielson House bill No 10 Introduced by the judiciary committee as a substitute for tor or house bill No 59 passed the house on February 14 by a vote of 25 to 12 clearing the docket of the thelast thelast thelast last of the liquor bills introduced at atthe atthe atthe the request of or the Municipal League of Utah This bill bm amends the present pres ent out laws making it a misdemeanor for fora fori a i minor to have liquor In ills his pos POS- session Those voting against the bill were Darn Barnes Barnet Benson Co Cook k Elwood Elwood El eEl wood Marchant McRae Page Robinson Swenson Wilcox and Seeley Two more of the liquor bill amendments amend amend- ments proposed by the Municipal League of Utah were passed by the tho house on the tho eliminating features features fea tea tures passed two years ago and makes its enforcement possible and ts provisions much more drastic In Inthe inthe the tho matter of Increased ed powers 1 of search and seizure and prosecutions of those charged d with selling illegally ill ille gaIly gally in dry territory Bills creating two new state officers sanitary inspector and fire marshal were were Introduced in the senate on February 14 The house on February 15 passed I the new sheep bill The measure was introduced by the committee on lIv livestock stock It was drawn In conformity with the suggestions of the bureau bUrea of animal Industry of the United States and is uniform with the law now in operation in adjoining states The Dhe new bill gives the board o ol sheep commissioners power to juar antine sheep In case of disease if tM owner refuses to dip at once It also gives tho the federal sheep Inspectors power power temporarily to quarantine when they find Infected sheep pending the action of the state sheep commissioner commission er ers er Governor Go William Spry on February 15 approved several senate bills and andone andone andone one house bill The house bill signed by the governor increases the pay of jurors from 2 to 11 53 3 3 per day Representative A. A M. M Durham is the author of the measure It becomes effective sixty days lays after the adjournment of the state legislature The date the Increase will b become come effective is May 12 The senate bills bUls signed by the governor are senate bill No 9 by Hansen Han Hang sen sea relating to the procedure in case one of the parties to a joint bank account account account ac ac- ac- ac count dies senate bill No 13 by Booth relative to 10 the filing of chattel mortgages sen senate te bill No 16 by Lunt reducing the Interest on deferred payments payments payments pay pay- ments on st state te lands from 8 to 5 per cent senate bill No 19 by Smith amending the law relative to forcible entry and detainer and senate bill No 36 36 by Booth validating certain conveyances made in good faith but not In strict compliance with the law V So far as the house committee on m municipal corporations is js concerned the Texas Tommy the Grizzly Bear and the Bu Bunny ny Hug may be danced unless the authorities of the cities and towns themselves forbid The committee considered Hoopers Hooper's house bill No 7 7 which sou sought t to regulate regulate reg reg- dance halls balls and to prohibit bit certaIn certain tam tain rag dances and decided to return the bill to the house with an adverse report Members of the senate committee on banks and banking are cons considering dering the Hansen blue sky bill which would force investment c companies to tofile tofile tofile file statements of ot their business with the secretary of state The bill Is a radical departure from present state law on un the subject but is declared by bythe bythe bythe the author of the bill to be necessary to conserve the rights of investors The house bouse on February 15 passed house joint memorial No 2 urging congress to pass Jass the Crago bill providing providing providing pro pro- viding for the pensioning of widows and orphans of Spanish American war soldiers r Hoopers Hooper's bill providing for the fencing of all farm pasture and grazIng grazIng grazing graz graz- ing lands in the state was killed by bythe bythe the house on en February 15 on an adverse ad verse report of the judiciary commit tee Seven bills passed four killed and thirteen Introduced was the record of the senate on oa the one of th the busiest days of the session In the house but two measures were presented presented pre pro three passed and two killed Reconsideration of the bill introduced introduced introduced intro intro- by Iby Annie Wells Cannon of Salt Lake county providing for an appropriation appropriation appropriation of for a women's dormitory dormitory dor dor- for the University of Utah was brought up by Claude T. T Barnes Barnas Barneson Barnason on 14 and the bill which was killed the previous day went to the committee on appropriations for Cor consideration in connection with the general appropriation bill Bills DiUs were passed b by the house on February 14 amending laws giving right to towns to construct and maintain maintain main main- tam tain pipe lines for power plants and to maintain municipal power plants providing for the appointment of committee corn com to outline courses of study for public schools of Utah and an act amending laws to make male it a misdemeanor misdemeanor mis mise demeanor for a minor to have tobacco tobacco tobacco to to- bacco narcotics or liquor in his pos pos- session Four Four- bills were approved by tho the senate on the The They were an act regulating fees to be paid for the registration of cattle brands an act regulating the branding of stock un sn act relating elating to notaries public who are officers or stockholders in banks or corporations and an act making year six terms for school superintendents superintendents superintendents in cities of the second class and increasing the school tax right for such cities having a total as assessed as- as valuation of taxable property of or orless less than At the instigation at gf f the state board of corrections Attorney General A. A H R. R Barnes is drafting for tor presentation to the legislature an indeterminate sentence sentence sen sea tence bill bBl Under the indeterminate sentence law the judge would request the convicted person to serve not more than ten years yearn The rue prisoners prisoner's own conduct would then assist largely largey in In- In determining just how long his sentence sen sea tence would be I The chairman of the house committee commit commit- tee on n appropriations who will bear the brunt of the attacks on the state treasury has compiled a few fe figures which show that appropriations recommended rec rec- by the state auditor for forthe forthe or orthe the present session amount to just while the estimated revenUe revenue revenue rev rev- of or the tho state for the next two years is Thornleys Thornley's senate hI bill No 57 tho the selling pool and bookmaking antl meas measure ro a a. duplicate of the Mabey labey bill bUl which was passed by the senate and referred tp the judiciary committee commit commIt- tee of the house was Vas returned to the house on February 15 with adverse report and was tabled So far as the senate Is co concerned the law enacted at the last session I providing for tor written agreements as ns asto asto to commissions between veal real estate agents and clients is sustained Sen Sea Senator Senator ator Benner X Smiths Smith's bill bm revoking this law was killed on the |