Show SENATE march 17 the compensation of messengers sent by the state can bassing board after missing returns was fixed at 16 4 per day and 10 cents a mile booth offered the following provisions relative to city electa elections AS on the tuesday next after the rt first monday in may 1897 and biennially thereafter there shall be held in each city of the first and second class an election to fill all elective offices in said cities and the officers then elected shall qualify and enter upon their duties on the first day dav of june next nest succeeding their el election and continue in office two years and until their sue are elected and qualified the term cfall of all the tha present legisla tive five officers shall expire on may maj 31 all appointive officers in baid aid i cities shall hold bold their re spec tive offices until their sors ors shall be appointed aud and qualified sutherland proposed an amendment providing that the next city election be lie bield ad on the tuesday after the first monday in May 1898 and that the present city officers hold bold until may 31 1808 1898 booth accepted the amendment before the vote was reached on the question the noon recess was taken when the senate recon reconvened venea an amendment making the pending t provisions offered by booth relative to city elections applicable to all incorporated cities and towns was adopted on motion of warner the booth amendment was then adopted unanimously the clause providing that in case of a tie between candidates for a city office the city council should choose one the candidates for the office was changed so as to provide for the deciding the tie by bv lot in tile the presence of the mayor a and nd city Ite recorder corder on motion of warrum jones then offered a similar amendment to the section providing that in case of a tie between candidates for the office of governor a secretary of state attorney general state auditor state treasurer or superintendent of P public instruction the legislature should in joint session determine the tie by electing one of the candidates jones declared that this provision might be used to thwart the will of the people his hia amendment which provided for a decision of tile the tie by lot in the presence of the supreme court was adopted one more amendment relative to ties was made on motion of warrum it provides that in case of a tie for the office of county commissioner a decision shall be made by lot in the presence of the county clerk the bill was then passed A message from the governor announced his approval of senate bill no 80 defining the duties of the state treasurer protection of 0 REPORTERS jones secured a reconsideration of the vote by which senate bill no prohibiting courts from compelling reporters and other newspaper men to divulge sources of information was passed jones said gaid he had become convinced that the bill was riot not a good one glen miller took issue with him sutherland and allison opposed the measure booth defended it warner offered an arben amendment dment limiting the provisions of the bill to reporters he thought that so amended it would enable reporters to get news that would benefit the public the amendment was adopted and the bill was passed by the following vote ayes booth candland chidester driscoll evans mckay glen miller warner warrum zundel 10 noes jones R G miller snow sutherland mr president Preside tit 5 absent allison barnes chambers 3 SALARIES the senate then resumed the consideration of the bill fixing salaries of state and county officers the vote by which the athe sutherland amendment dividing the counties of the state into fifteen classes was lost ou on monday was reconsidered on motion of chidester this shadowed foreshadowed fore a compromise on the barisof basis of a schedule 0 of f maximum salaries for all counties the classification proposed b by y sutherland was then adopted after putting salt lake in the first class and weber in the third class and providing C a second class to which weber is expected to be eligible later idler on through growth of its assessed valuation it provides for the following clas classes fourth class having an assessed valuation of more than and less than filth fifth class having an assessed valuation of more tha than and less than sixth class havin having an asses assessed seI valuation of more than and less leas than seventh class having an assessed valuation of more than 5 and less than eighth class having an assessed valuation of more than 4 and less than there are no counties in the frith ati ali sixth and seventh classes the counties other than salt lake and weber are in the following classes fourth utah count county eighth cache ninth sanpete San pete box elder davis and summit tenth 1 juab eleventh tofele tooele and sevier twelfth carbon millard beaver beav er and emery thirteenth grand iron morgan rich uintah wasatch and washington fourteenth garfield kane and piute diute fifteenth san juan and wayne sutherland next offered a schedule of maximum salaries for all counties it provides that within thirty days after the approval of tire the act tle the boards of county commissioners ners of the various counties shall fix the salaries of county officers at not to exceed the following maximum amounts in the eighth class county bounty commissioners sheriff 1200 assessor clerk 1209 1206 recorder 1000 treasurer 1200 Attorn attorney ev superintendent of schools surveyor coroner auditor maximum salary for county treasurer and collectors until the office of county collector ceases to exist on june 1 1897 are ar dixe fixed lass class 8 1000 treasurers Treasur ers classes 8 3 and 8 senate bill no by jones providing for exemptions in cases of af heads of families who have not real estate subject to exemption the bill provides that all heads beads of if families who have neither lands town lots or houses subject to exemption as a homestead under tho the laws of this state shall be exempt from rom forced sale on execl execution lion of the sum mm of in personal property to 0 o be selected by the judgment d debtor eb lor c or r i in n abney ey referred to the judiciary Judi judiciary ciar y committee warrum allen alien and sutherland were appointed members of a conference committee to consider the disagreement to the house amendments to senate bill no 94 relative to the liens of judgments of united states courts the report of the committee on militia recommending the passage f the house militia bill with amendments mend ments was adopted the senate then adjourned HOUSE march 18 in the house session today the committee on penitentiary and reform school reported favorably on mr Soren sons sona bill to abolish capital punishment the report was adopted the adoption of the judiciary committees adverse report killed S B no 99 09 conferring majority rights on minors the committee on municipal corporations po rations reported favorably on 11 B no the bill introduced tuesday by mr nye nyc to take the place of H B no 99 09 report adopted the railroads committe reported favorably on I 1 mr Caz caziere ierg railroad bill int introduced r the day dav I 1 before the report being c adopted the adoption of adverse reports killed house bills nos 93 relating to 0 o private railroad crosh crossings ings 32 mr morrisons Morri suns sons bill for a railroad commission om mission and mr Boli thos sleeping 0 car bill the committee disagreed disagree ed on mr Critch lows railroad bill and returned tile the bill without recommendation M mr r clark moved a special committee to consider the bill mr critchlow baid this was only another move to delay the bill and asked that it be placed on third reading that the house might dispose of it as it saw fit mr darks motion was lost and the bill passed to third reading FISH AND GAME BILL the fish and game committee returned tile the fish and game bill with a favorable report which was adopted the senate by communication to concur in the amendment to S B no 94 mak ing the time limit on liens of judg ment five years instead of ten Aless rs critchlow nye and mans field were here appointed as a committee to settle the of opinion between the two houses H 11 B no 95 mr mining bill was taken up as u special order without important amend mert the bill was passed with but two negative votes in the consideration of the county bill the fee for ishuin issuing marria marriage 9 a licenses was placed laced at considerable discussion was occasioned by a motion to place the marrying fee at 1250 1 the house adjourned SENATE following the reading of the journal came a report from the committee on judiciary on the veto of the governor on S B no 57 n the university bill recommending mending its amend amendment ment as suggested by the executive the report was adopted tho the bill so amended and passed S B no 71 the exemption law came down from the house amended in certain places and upon report of tile the judiciary committee the same were concurred in and the bill passed S B no 55 providing for the selection of presidential electors as amended by the house came from the judiciary committee with a report that the amendments bo be concurred in mr sutherland stated that the house had added an amendment which did not obtain in any other state it had provided that in case cage of an elector being unable to qualify his place should be filled by a member of the same political party this was contrary to the spirit of the original law which contemplated no parties but provided for the selection tion of representative men of all states to choose boose a president and vice president of the united states unwritten law has changed this plan and he did not care to place this provision on the statute books and auld therefore move that the amendment be not concurred in mr Sut herlands amendment was defeated and the HO lie amendment concurred in registration rill BILL S B no 82 providing for a uniform system of registration C then came up as per pro gramme chidester Chi deeter moved to postpone its consideration until monday evans immediately amended by fixing the hour at 2 21 sutherland at once objected to any postponement at all the bill was on the table in the regular order and should be disposed of at once both motions were withdrawn to admit of a reading of the majority and minority reports which are as follows MAJORITY RE TORT FORT mr president A majority of your committee on elections to whom was referred S B no 82 an act to provide for establishing and maintaining permanent registration lists of all qualified electors etc have had the same under consideration and recommend that it be passed with the amendments herewith submitted jon JOHN F CHIDESTER chairman the original bill vests the power of appointing a board of re registration istra in each county with the county commissioners the amendment alluded to in in the majority report vests it with the governor of the stale stae the views of the minority were mr president A minority of your committee on elections to whom was referred S B D no 8 82 2 an act to provide for establishing and maintaining permanent registration lists ot of all qualified electors in the state of utah etc have had tho tha same under consideration and recommended that the substitute for section 2 be rejected and that section 2 as in the original bill be retained our reasons for such euch recommendation are arb first it creates an unnecessary board boar dand and inasmuch as all other election machinery is vested in the |