Show A STA T E I 1 I 1 doings of our oar law las makers ma in both branches still after taum tanners ers se scary a bolin a er aaion of the code eted in the senate bad and forwarded tu he house 4 wednesday T 0 r home memorials me 0 bonef I 1 in 0 coo creseto gre bresel seto to give div e th the e b bu ul 1 7 to the ata women of utah and 1 lug ther ak a k ing that it be given 0 miners hospital came up 0 n ad bead ing senator evans evana move 0 lecorn mit both with instruct to the committee commit lea to draft a aj asking Con congress aress to taij 1 ate the building to the state fey ny pur pose that the legislature ay here after decide on which f carried by vote of the senate serial be coni on federal R eions will framo frame the new demor I 1 house joint mem demoi NO asling asking that citizens of on ii be re imbur sed for damages damage in indian wars as all a 11 ar 1 by taj federal re relations latiol tle was passed under uncle r sul 1 of the rules 31 on oil motion m tion of ow t e ar corn aill affa affi to allow the house hous qc Z cittee to meet with t cenate judiciary committee commile e binl the day and evera every day a tir until ta 1 a rl report por t can be made on t the so see seronil d v volume of the code r the senate referred rev erred itol action of the previous day and upon consideration restored the minimum rate for liquor licensed to to per annum action on the report of I 1 the conference committee on the he land board bill was deferred der erred ji A i senator monson moved a reconsideration gide ration of the vote tv sv which the bill requiring the branding of prison made goods as it would have the effect of preventing the employment of e convicts in the state prisons and would riot not affect prison made goods 0 from other baates after considerable consid erble debate the motion to reconsider consider was lost s 1 ahe I be judiciary comil committee littfe reported on several bills on the recommendation men dation clation of the committee the senate rejected house bill to provide for exemptions from levy and sale on executions the subject being covered by the code also house bill no to prohibit tile the supreme court ic porter aiom hold any other office under tinder the state the amendment bythe by the governor in the title of af the iha bill to amend the law fixing the marriageable marr age age was made and the bi bill ll 11 as amended was passed senator gave 0 notice aie huniu move lo 10 the vote rejecting 0 I louse house bill no loii relating to the position of supreme curt c urt reporter three senate joint resolution on s nos 5 6 6 arid and 7 provided for v various ar constitutional amandine amendments ailts bearing on legislative practice were passed under tinder suspension of the rules by unanimous vote senator ilide rideout cout got a i lispin sion of the lules iules to move a further for ther amend amendment meat to the code proposing losin to fix maximum salaries of state prison employees employ tes As amended the day before a sliding scale nas adopted leaving it di with the governing loverill go verill ing board boar d the was adopted by a vote of oft 0 to 3 arid and the salaries salaried of i ill it state slate prison employees were fixed at stated amounts A further amendment was waa adopt ed authorizing the waiden to retain the guas within the prison for sixteen hours it a day da y although they will be required to work but eight hours the house hiving having hefti ed to concur in the senate amendments to the tha joint memorial or on indian depredations house joint memorial no 7 a conference WES ordered arid and the president named senators Moi ion allred and aright as senate conferees the president brei ident signed senate bill no iso 22 providing for the compulsory education of deaf mute and blind b ind children adjourned till THE HOUSE wednesday hideouts arideo Rid eouts U Vs cuban memorial came up it at the hie bebin bev inning i of the morning session there vias little debate on it the in me e orial passed Cen Benn niona ions bill no to protect pine and balsam timber in the mountains was taken up and after slight emendation amen dalion dation passed 11 hopkins bill no ko for the support of illegitimate children imster pasi ej on thesda Tu tuesday esda and reconsidered was again passed the railroad lail road bill was made the special order for taylor a house joint resolution no 21 proposing an amendment to erections 3 and 12 article 1 13 of the constitution came up at the b ginning of the afternoon session es sion the resolution was introduced for the purpose of doing away anay with the taxing of mortgages by failure to 1 cel aali n S f W notice ot motion akon ider wag yen by mangan and ol 01 drien brien d bill no 1 sl providing for the payment of employ employers eis before the at ath odthe of the monthford month for the wages wades of the preceding month came up u sorensen of grand moved to strike out the enacting clause of the will bill a tuition that received several seconds obrien made a plea for the bill stating that it was based on a principle of human justice and that such a law was in force in in many states obrien closed the debate after which the motion to strike out the enacting clause was lost then the bill li was as amended by the elimination of the provision for the payment ot of wages waged i in in money provision was also made for an agreement between employer and el employed u aloyed as to the method of payment the bill was subsequently passed only murdock Murdoc lc sorensen Soren aen of sanpete San pete sorensen of grand hereen T sen and wheeler voting against it wilsons Wil sons bill no cl 62 amend amending ilig the tavern keeper lien law of 1890 then came up in speaking to tile the bill its author said that the idea of tile the measure was to simplify the method of proceeding to a sal sale of a delinquent boarder boar deir s effects lie ile said that under the present law the costs ol of appraisement and other expenses usually reached 15 1 or 20 this it was sought bought to avoid the bill was passed without a dissenting vote Thoms onh bill no ko requiring the submission sion to electors in cities or of propositions to grant franchise and subsidies idies talen taken U up loan offered an amendment providing guthat that no franchise shall be given save for a consideration lo it was adopted there was little debate and the bi bill 11 was passed without opposition bleers arri irrigation aaion bill was wag then considered kenner moved the striking out of the en enacting actina clause for the rea reason son that it created a new llev office that of state engineer fing ineer murdock defended the bill ile he on ath fagg STATE legislature continued from page barje I 1 said a state engineer was wag needed in utah and asserted aster ted that no subject had been so much neglected by tile the legislature as that of irrigation didn dian t believe the officer a necessity particularly as utah without an official state engineer had evolved the best system of irrigation ri aaion in the world then the debate became genera general continuing for some time when the vote was had on the to strike out the enacting clause it resulted in defeat 10 to 20 26 then vatious various salaries for the state engineer fixed in the bill at 1500 per annum were made the amount finally being left at 1000 the bill was then passed 24 to A kenner presented the report of the conference on the public land bill lie he said that the senate had bad receded hom its position on oil the salary question iii estion the report was adopted aud the bill passed cook of rich gibson Gib sni hardy and voting in the ap negative active the house declined to concur in the senate amendments to gibson s demoi memorial is asking for compensation for the veterans of the clack black hawk war var and gibson taylor end and mrs anderson andersen were nani named ed tho the house members odthe of the conference asked inquiry as to when the code would reach the house provoked some criticism of the senate which has been promising to forward the code daily for some time past N wilson vilson roylance and thomson mere finally selected to ascertain definitely when the code would reach the house Keon keinerd Ke onera erd income tax bill was then called up As drafted it provided for a tax of 3 per cent on oil all incomes in excess of 2000 then creer amended by bv making makin 0 the tax 3 per cent the crear amendment nas adopted and the bill passed romney and shepard Sli epard alone botin voting in tle the negative there was vas a bate baie quorum present when at 8 0 clock speaker perkins called tho the house to order later several came iu in but the attendance was dep depleted eted by the departure of members to attend committee mec meetings tings so that ten minutes after speaker perkins had called mr kenner to the tha chair there was bc Ec arcely a score of members visible vi ible tho the journal of the preceding 0 day was read after which the county committees substitute for i loans bill no authorizing salt lake county to pay the civic federation 01 for foe expenses advanced in prosecuting the bo cases was taken up taylor explained the tha circumstances of the expenditure lie ile told of the bood bo lina in connection with the furnishing of the joint building he said that the county treasury was empty at the time and that prosecutions prosecution were impossible until eighteen gentlemen a associating thern themselves selves together as uie the civic federation advanced fotioo pach each making a fund of mr taylor said that the total ex pense of the prosecutions had reached about 2000 and though no criminal conviction was inas secured they had resulted rehul ted in stopping the payin payment crit of furniture warrants to I 1 the amount of 26 which would in all probability be saved to the county roll call was begun on tile the passage of tho the bill when a member interrupted to ask that members it in the building be summoned to the house soon they came I 1 shepard an all abe absentee entee objected to consideration of the bill ile he asked for moie time and the chair permitted him to move that the bill bo be set for thursday afternoon the motion prevailed and then the house adjourned rrie ME SEX TE thursday the bill aimed at supreme court reporter tanner come up and will receive final consideration on friday senator hamer B s bill leveled at the railroads and designed to deprive such corporations orations from evading i ng responsibility lor for accidents by taking refuge behind the fellow servant law was killed on third reading senator hitaker whitaker e bill to establish a statistical and labor bureau was also defeated but the author will try to have it reconsidered the house bill makinia tile the city marshal city city attorney and city auditor elective offices odices was passed as was also tile the b bill to prevent the cutting of evergreen tr trees acs on the public lauds lands I 1 1 by unanimous s con coa ent snow secured an amendment to the code authorizing county auditors to charge ra 2 for the birst description of property properly on tax salt sale deeds and ft 1 for each additional description on the recommendation of the committee on irrigation and agri culture cul tuie senate bill no 21 2 creating I 1 a board of horticulture was rejected and the code title being beina the present law on oa that subject in nas as reinstated by unanimous consent senator smoot introduced senate bill no 03 appropriating I 1 1000 tor for the maintenance of a fish hatchet hatchery v I 1 for the years 1897 and the senate then adjourned i rna HOUSE thursday Sh epards bill no covering the subject of assignments was passed without a dis enting vote the judiciary committees bill no allowing transcripts of appeals to be typewritten instead of cd was next on the calendar shepard spoke briefly in support of the bill stating its necessity as a means of if savin saving to litigants theu the bill was passed senate bill no 50 providing pio viding for a branch normal school babool in ia tb the e southern part of the state was war taken up after full discussion was passed gibbons gibsons Gib sona sons bill no 12 5 prohibiting m the talc ale of liquor within ten miles in iles of an indian reservation next was passed then the bill covering the code title on railroads was taken up sloan moved to strike out ti tha is section prohibiting discrimination in freight rates opposed the motion with much vigor then thomson moved the substitution tit ution of sections 24 and 25 of I 1 11 I 1 c e code for sections 21 and 25 orthel of the I 1 ill id the thomson and a moment later late sloans motion prevailed 23 to 7 then wilson moved to strike out the enact ina clause this motion candied aia the bill was as defeated this bill was introduced by bv consent B by y robinson requiring inquiring owners of livestock live stock eatock to re record their marks and brands the first volume of the code had bad by this time reached the house after a parliamentary tangle as to the proper way to get the matter belore before the house it was decided to withdraw the code from the judiciary committee and consider it witia the senate amendments then presented a resolution which was adopted making the tha consideration of the code the fourth order of business following immediately after the reading of tho journal if we do this and spend some time on it each day said he be it will make maka it appear more reasonable to believe that we really read it A k recess until 2 followed hideouts Rid eouts Senate bill cre creating atilia a S state board or of education came 0 up at tho the beginning of the afternoon session and was passed after a t number of minor air had been made v then sloans loans bill authorizing salt lake county t repay the civic federation th tb aal amount u nt expended 0 in the pro froais CT sat t building I 1 bribery bribe ry ca cases IT was as taken up on motion of Thore seu consideration of the bill was deferred pending in its printing For Fors sheea bees maximum rate bill next came up and the enacting clause was j promptly sti icken out the vote on taylor s joint resolution no 21 proposing an amendment to lo sections 3 and 12 article XIII of the ti constitution which tailed failed on oil wednesday was reconsidered and passed at the commencement of the I 1 evening session the reading of the code was immediately begun in title 2 on motion of forshee an amendment was inserted providing that the receipts from the sale of estraya shall scalf go into the county treasury in the title relating to cities and towns an amendment was inserted giving to city councils the power to provide by ordinance for the examination and licensing oi of engineers and the examina examination tian of boilers engines and elevators sloans loans tf amendment carried providing for a board of fire and police commissioners commissioners only in cities of inhabitants or more then I 1 rov lo lance said this killed the effect en act of the chapter and moved that the chapter be entirely stricken out carried thoresent Thore sens amendment to the chapter on towns was carried re quiring a map or plat of all towns to bo be filed with the county recorder by the mayor obrien OCrie ii proposed an amet amendment idzent to the chapter on elections in the title cities and towns requiring the city council to district the city ninety days beffie the election into precincts contain containing iu not more than 00 votes sloan asked that the amendment be ba deferred until he might prepare a substitute to prevent the gerrymandering man dering of districts his request was granted ranted after which it was decided that the clerk should inform the senate at tho the end of each session of the amendments made roylance Lloy lance made an ineffectual effort to have the titles read adopted then at a motion to bd journ was made it failed and the rapid reading of senate amendments was resumed for a few minute i when adjourn |