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Show The bill provides 'hat the commission commis-sion shall ci nsist of the directors, en-tomolog'st en-tomolog'st r.nd agriculturist of the-Utah the-Utah Agricultural college experimental experi-mental station and for the establish-mi establish-mi nl of a:i office in the capitol building build-ing and the payment of a salary of $800 a year to a clerk to look after it. It also provides a salary of $1,500 a year for the state inspector and for an appropriation of $200 a year for office expenses. I The bill is designed with the idea of procuring a more rigid inspection . of all trees, plants and shrubs, the aim being to thus raise the standard of Utah fruit and horticultural products ; generally. The bill also makes prc-' prc-' vision for the appointment of county inspectors to work under the general di'ectlon and supervision of the ch'el i inspector. Under its terms nursery J men in the state must pay a state license and the duties of nurserymen, orchardists. common carriers and the I inspectors of the commission are outlined out-lined in full. The state armory bill was passed by ' the senate. The bill provides for the j creation of a state armory board, and authorizes the board to erect a state ' arsenal in Salt Lake City, provision j being made for the funds. The armory I bill provides that the board to be created shall consist of the governor, the secretary of state and the adju I tant general. Two bills by Senator Badger, relnt-i relnt-i lag to special tax funds in cities, were i passed. Ten new measures were introduced I in the senate, and eight in the house. The sum of $35,000 for the entertain' j ment of the Grand Army veterans during dur-ing the national encampment to be I held in Salt Lake City next August, I was appropriated by the house on Wednesday, February 24, after a warm debate. Some of the members wanted to increase the appropriation to $50,-000. $50,-000. A number of bills of minor Importance Im-portance were introduced, among the i lucky measures being an act authoriz-j authoriz-j ing the diversion of the sheep inspection inspec-tion fund to the fund for the extermination extermi-nation of wild animals, and an act defining de-fining transient live stock and proviri ing for the assessment and collection of taxes on the same. Mr. Henrie's bill relating to the employment em-ployment of convict labor on the county coun-ty highways and providing penalties 'for violations, was passed. The session of the senate was a busy one, during which two bills were introduced, four were killed, among which was- the famous Gardner bill, No. 59, and two bills were passed: One being H. B. No. 22, relating to establishing es-tablishing free public libraries, and the other H. J. R. No. 2, providing that the legislature approve application applica-tion of regents of University of Utah for benefits under Carnegie foundation founda-tion fund. To create the office of a commissioner commis-sioner of boats and pilots for the examination ex-amination of all boats and to examine applicants for the position of pilot ii the gist of a measure introduced into the senate by Benner X. Smith, by request. re-quest. To create a. commission for the conservation con-servation of the natural resources of Utah, whose duty it shall be to collect col-lect and publish statistics and data showing the value of arid lands in Utah when subjected to irrigation, and to collect' facts for the guidance 1 of the legislators and executives, of the United States in establishing systems sys-tems of irrigation is the principal contents con-tents of Senate bill No. 158, intnv duced by John H. Seely. Four measures were passed by the house of representatives on Tuesday, February 23. Two of them were the subject of a most interesting discussion, discus-sion, they being intended to protect workmen or persons seeking work through employment offices. One of the bills passed was Senate Bill No. 25, by Carl A. Badger, providing for the "licensing and regulating of employment em-ployment offices; requiring employment employ-ment agents to give bond; prohibiting, the sending of female help to any place of bad repute, etc." The other was by Representative Gardner, an act relating to the protection of employes em-ployes and for preventing superintend- ents,-foremen, assistant bosses or any other pesrons from receiving or so liciting money. Under this measure, superintendents or other persons in charge of workers are prohibited from receiving money or other consideration from persons on account of employ-I employ-I ment. The two other measures passed by the house were House Bill ; No. 98, permitting the state to care j for feeble-minded and non-insane epi-j epi-j leptic children, at the State Mental ! hospital, and House Joint Memorial No. 3, asking congress to grant to the ! state, of Utah, for the benefit of Indian I war veterans, one million acres of land. The orily ripple of excitement in the senate occurred when Senator Burton, j at the request of Senator Wilson, moved the reconsideration of the adop-; adop-; tion of the report of the manufacturers and commerce committee, recommend-ling recommend-ling that the Cannon prohibition bill. otherwise known to fame as senate 1 bill No. 37. be not passed. The minority mi-nority was able to muster but fouf votes, however. NEW PROHIBITION -BILL INTRODUCED Bill Presented in the House Provides for Submission of Question to the People at Special Election. Another prohibition measure was introduced in the lower house of the Utah legislature on Saturday. February Febru-ary 27. It provides for strict prohibition, prohi-bition, as the former bill did. and adds the provision for a dispensary system, sys-tem, one in each county, where, on prescription by physician, liquor may !be had. The question of prohibition, or so much of it as is provided in the bill, is to be put up to the people at a special spe-cial election on June, the date decided decid-ed upon for calling the special election elec-tion in connection with the capitol matter. A petition has been presented in the legislature for the creation of a inew county out of portions of Uintah and Wasatch counties. Three towns are candidates for the honor of becoming the county seat Theodore, Theo-dore, Myton and Roosevelt. A bill by Russell makes it obligatory obliga-tory upon the state and municipalities to give the preference of employment to citizens of the United States, or those who have declared their inten-Uon inten-Uon of becoming citizens. Ten bills were passed by the senate, sen-ate, three were killed and one went over till a later date. Of the bills passed, seven were senate bills. The three house bills passed by the senate now lack only the approval of the (governor before becoming laws. One of the important bills passed v.-as house bill No. 142, by Ashton authorizing cities and counties of the state to appropriate money for the entertainment of the G. A. R. visitors to the encampment next summer to be held in Salt Lake. A measure aimed at the carrying jot concealed weapons by the forelgn- j prs in Salt Lake county mining camps I lias passed both houses. . As compensation for the loss of the state engineering experiment station, the senate voted an appropriation of j $2,000 to the University of Utah for 1 parrying on archaeological and his-forical his-forical investigation and exploration j jn the regions in southern Utah formerly for-merly occupied by cliff dwellers. When the house convened on Friday,. Fri-day,. February 26, there were twenty 'bills upon the calendar and two more were favorably reported from committee. commit-tee. After four hours of the session four bills had been disposed of. There was a lengthy debate over House Bill No. 101, relating to annual corporation corpora-tion license, in which nearly every member took a hand. The bill was finally passed by a vote of 23 ayes, 11 nays. A senate bill was passed, authorizing the district attorney in judicial districts having a population of 75,000 or more inhabitants to appoint ap-point an assistant ,and providing the qualifications, salary and duties of said assistant. The bill prohibiting the unauthorized unauthor-ized use of the name or picture of any public institution in this state, or any public officer or private person for the purpose of advertising, was also passed. Ftiday was the first? day smce very early in the present session of the senate that no new bill mad- its initial ini-tial bow, and the entire day was devoted de-voted to the consideration of measures meas-ures already before the house, of which there are a great' demand. The greater part of the session was taken up by the reading of the bulky production of Senator Williams and the military authorities providing for the enactment of a set of laws for the governing of the state militia, its maintenance, and conforming to the provisions of the "Dick bill," which is necessary in order that the department depart-ment may benefit by the appropriations appropria-tions made to the states hv the federal government. The bill finally passed. Other measures approved ap-proved were: S. B. 122. providing for the erection of bridges in Emery, San Juan and Uintah counties, and making mak-ing an appropriation therefor. S. B. 70. prohibiting the circulation of derogatory de-rogatory statements concerning banks and trusts. H. B. 2. providing for the exercise of the right of eminent domain do-main by foreign corporations. At a joint session of the senate and the house of representatives Iield Thursday afternoon, February 25, at 1:30 o'clock, Governor Will:am Spry-read Spry-read a special message to the legislature, legisla-ture, urging the advisability of passing pass-ing legislation which would have for its object the immediate commencement commence-ment of work on' the new state capitol building. The governor went into detail de-tail on the bills to be introduced on this subject, and immediately after the dissolving of the joint session four bills were introduced in each house, in which the points taken up in the message of the governor were Included. In-cluded. Almost the entire regular session of the house was taken up in the consideration con-sideration of the state horticultural commission bill, which was finally passed by a vote of 34 to 1. |