| Show A rebuke to john G graham corrupt practices bill in the senate bill providing for the election of electoral votes work of bogli houses the senate passed three bills yesterday but the deficit in the calendar was more than supplied by the introduction of four new measures one senate bill and two house bills got through third reading and the final vote the senate measure was the corrupt practices act senate bill no 19 introduced by allison and it was the only one on which any tight was made although this is a measure concerning elections there was no politics in the debate democrats as well as republicans voting for it the opposition was confined to the republican side and it mustered only three totes the other measures passed were house bills no 82 and 83 respectively the fee bill and the bill to provide for judges pro tempore with the kissage of the last bill the senate cleaned up all the business on the table and today will start with a clean slate introduced AND REFERRED the provisions of the bills introduced and all referred to the judiciary committee yesterday are given in the follow in abstracts senate bill 55 by sutherland concerning electors of president and vice president of the united states of america the bill provides for the appointment by election at the next general election in tio vember of as many electors as the state may be entitled to the certificate i election shall be served on each phon elected notifying him to attend at the office ef the secretary of state at the beat of government at the hour of 12 noon on the saturday next preceding the second monday in january next lifter his election and report himself to the t this state as in attend ance shall be filled by vote of the electors but in case of failure the governor shall appoint on the second bionday in january the electors shall meet and perform their duty in conformity with united states laws BILL senate bill no 67 by sutherland providing for the government etc of the state university the university is made a body corporate and has all the rights given such institutions under law it is made the highest branch of the public system of education in butali and its courses ot study shall be arranged to supplement and continue alie other branches of the public system the government is vested in a board of nine regents appointed for a term of six ears after 1896 the having power to fill all vacancies the president and secretary shall be regents but the treasurer shall not the normal school shall be continued for both sexes and its course may extend to a period of lour i ears or until graduation and its course shall include practice lion and one hundred free scholarships may ae maintained the holders of which exempt from registration or entrance fees fifty 0 anch shall be made annually each for the term of two years and students may be re appointed appointments shall be made by the superintendent on nomination by ibe county examiners no partisan political sectarian or religious doctrine shall be taught and no political or religious test be required any person giving to the university lor the purpose of establishing a shall have the power of naming such professorship A bequest of entitles the donor to name the professorship and appoint the first incumbent sixty thousand gives the donor the right to forever name the manner in which the professors shall be appointed CIVIL ACTION DEFENSES senate bill 63 by chidester Oh idester by re relating to civil action defenses and appeals without costs alie bill provides that any person may commence defend or appeal a civil action to a final decision in the supreme feurt without giving an appeal bond or for costs or depositing a fee by taking the following oath 1 I A B do solemnly swear that I 1 am not able to bear the expenses of the action which I 1 am about to commence defend or appeal and that I 1 am justly entitled to the relief bought in all cases provided for the clerks sheritta Bh eritta and other officers are directed to perform their services cervices vices and witnesses are required to attend without fee if the court at any time before the trial ahall receive proof that such oath is probably untrue or tho action frivolous it may make an order citing the party to appear and show cause why he should not rave bonds tor cost security and in the event of his failure BO to do tle cause may bo dismissed failure to prosecute an action shall result in judgment being awarded against the party eo failing thia action does not apply to cases of libel and malicious slander ACTION TAKEN the president signed senate bill no 10 prohibiting discrimination against females employed as teachers in alie public schools the committee on elections reported senate bill no 19 the corrupt practices act with amendments two bills came up for third reading senate bill no 12 the bill to prevent diseases among sheep and senate bill no 52 for the creation of the office of state printer the former to permit the sheep men to be bieard from was postponed for one week and the latter to give the senators time to educate themselves in the printing art was laid over until thursday CORRUPT BILL the corrupt practices act senate bill no 19 caused the first discussion of the day I 1 came up for a third reading the to the bill made another determined stand against it candland offered an amendment to limit th operations of the bill to counties of over glen miller opposed the amendment if the bill was good at all it was good for the whole state allison said if alie amendment prevailed the bill would apply in only three counties in the state corruption was found in small counties as well as carpe ones was the recent corruption in sanpete county only a myth candland the sanpete senator replied to this question which was directed to the whole house by saying that the corruption in sanpete was really corruption in salt lake allison said he did not know anything about that but the senate had already taken school districts third class cities towns and precincts out of the bill which limited its operations to larger places that w as enough in the way of exemption the law was in force in force in new york illinois and other states where it had greatly lessened the evil of election corruption jones asked what provision of the bill was not covered by the present law alliason replied that the bill was a great deal broader in its scope and covered all binds of offenses against the election franchise evana spoke briefly against the amendment saying if the measure were adopted it should ba adopted all through so that it would apply to all parts of the state Cand landa amendment was then doted down on division there being but three votes or it CITIES OF CLASS evans offered an amendment to strike out a portion of an amendment previously adopted eo as to make abo bill apply to cities of the third class this was adopted sutherland then moved to strike out the enacting clause bd as to kill the bill in support of this motion he held that the bill was useless and unnecessary inasmuch as the offenses it was designed to prevent were already covered by the existing law on bribery and corruption chidester did not think alie present law broad enough men could easily evade it and the bill under consideration would do away v ith many abuses practiced today jones supported the motion to strike out the enacting clause lie might favor the bill it it were abbreviated but if the legislature kept on passing such bulky measures it would take two volumes to hold the utah laws all laws be plain and simple and tho bill fell short of this requirement he believed in all safeguards against the abuse ot the elective franchise but did not in the compulsory filing of campaign statements the subject was amply covered by the present law booth did not think the bill was a reenactment of the old law it was much broader and its provisions all tended to the purity of elections a very desirable thing in all states the speaker then compared the provisions of the bill with those of the present law WOULD mm selections snow said be had not taken kindly to the bill at first but since hearing the arguments in its favor thought its pro visions were at least entitled to consideration era tion there were several good reasons for its adoption it would protect candidates and voters the spirit of the bill tended toward the purification of elections and no honest man could object to it the speaker related a story he bad heard of bow a republican sheep man had sent all his Ee publican gerders herders to the polls and made the democrats stay with the flock the bill would stop such practices candland thought the previous speaker was mistaken in bis conclusion on the sheep story the reason that the democratic gerders herders remained with the flock was probably that they knew they come back and look a sheep in the face after going to the polls and voting the democratic ticket lie was opposed to the bill and thought ita enforcement would kill it corrupt men would evade it and honest men did not need it on motion of glen miller the committee report was changed so as to make the bill apply to elections for members of boards of education the report was then adopted and the bill passed by the following vote ayes allison booth chambers abi dester driscoll Drie coll evans mckay glen miller R E miller warrum banow zundel mr presidents dentIS noes candland jones sutherland 3 absent barnes warner 2 the title was then amended to cover the purposes of the act and the bill was ordered sent to the house the house sent down bill no 93 regarding the health of clerks nail ers etc which was referred to tho committee on public health house bill no sa providing for alie appointment of judges pro tempore was taken from the table and passed ayes 12 noes 4 absent 2 the negative votes were booth evans zundel and mr president substitute for house bill no 34 concerning evidence required to convict in grand larceny case was rejected on alie report of the judiciary committee house bill no 82 alie fee bill was taken up and passed under suspension of rules ayes 15 noes 0 absent 3 ahe senate then adjourned in the house lommon was yesterday ad judged by the house one of the duly elected members of that body from utah county and alie contest brought for the seat occupied by mr lemmon by james F bringhurst was dismissed six members only supported the elections committee majority report that recommended the seating of mr bringhurst four of the six lewis condon sevy and nye are members of the committee whose report they were bound to support the remaining two morrill and taylor believed that a case had been made for the republican candidate the matter was brought up shortly after the beginning of the session by mr lewis much to alie surprise of the democratic side who attempted to interpose dilatory motion believing that their only hope lay in delay claims were presented end referred to the board of examiners as follows by dobinson Ko binson claim of M D harris ex collector of kane county in the sum of 1260 for uncollected taxes by andrus claim of thomas P cot tarn collector of washington county in the sum of 1815 for uncollected taxes by heiner claim of W J eddying ton constable in morgan precinct morgan county expense in criminal cases A petition was presented by mr sor the signatures of selectmen R P halt and frederic J jones and francis Nic lson prosecuting attorney G A adams and county clerk A L macdermott of san juan county the petition was evidently intended to be one from the district court judges of the state an introduction to that effect being pasted over and san juan county officials inserted the petition roads whereas in lauy of our counties there are no resident lawyers or any persons who are competent or familiar enough with the criminal practice of district courts to conduct prosecutions with sufficient regard for the technicality of law to insure convictions in cases that will undoubtedly come up and whereas very many of the counties being under a large increase of expense inconsequence of statehood and there bein no provisions made yet for that extra expense therefore we respectively ask the legislature to pass a bill at tho earliest possible date providing for the appointment of district prosecuting attorneys to accompany the several district judges on their circuits and assist and advise the prosecuting attorneys of the several counties and providing for the biennial election of said district prosecuting attorneys and also providing for a suitable remuneration biot such district attorneys to be paid out of the state treasury as may be provided by law UTAH COUNTY CONTEST at this juncture lewis asked that the elections committees report in two utah county contest cases graham vs Smoot and simons vs larsen favorable to the contesters cont estees be adopted this was done with unanimity then mclewis Mr Lewis followed with a second request that the house proceed to the consideration of the third contest from that county vs lemmon to bring alio matter up properly he the adoption of alie report sorensen moved the adoption of the minority report then raised the point of order that alie two reports were still before the committee of the whole speaker denny ruled that mr soren sens motion was in order and mr smoot was recognized to speak to alie question in a vigorous speech that lasted half an hour the utah county member urged the adoption of the minority report mr critchlow followed he did not believe that alie elections committee majority report was correct nor the minority report either two of the votes claimed for the contestant were proven and two more should be deducted from the total this difference of four was not sufficient to wipe out lemmons Lemmon 8 majority and for that reason he could support neither report both being inaccurate and incorrect at the conclusion ot his rc mr critchlow moved the pre question which could not be put until mr lewis had spoken under the special rule that gave the chairman of the committee the closing speech DEFEATED BOTH KE rOOTS mr lewis urged strongly that the majority report be adopted repeating in succinct from the arguments that had been effective with the committee the minority report was then defeated by a straight party vote when the vote recurred on alio majority report recommending the unsealing unseating un of lemmon and the sealing of bringhurst Bring burst tho contestant it resulted in iia defeat also by a vote of 6 ayes to 31 noes 8 be ing absent uhe vote in detail was ancs condon lewis morrill nye taylor C noes andrus beard Bolit lio curtis critchlow Cushing Cazier dark egan fergueson of salt lake gibson how murdock mansfield of salt lake of rich robinson Sl ovens smoot sorensen thorne thompson of sanpete San pete thompson of millard speaker denny 31 DISMISS then critchlow moved that alio contest of vs lemmon be dismissed the question was put and alio motion carried with only a couple of disson tins votes ayos bass voice and con dons piping tones alone being audible the next order of business was called but delayed by an impromptu levee held at sir lemmons desk round which the members gathered to congratulate him on his victory AND REFERRED bills were introduced an dupon second reading referred as given herewith by stevens to provide for a uniform system of free schools throughout the state of utah it went to the committee on edu cation by nye saving the right of appeal in cases in which alie judgment was rendered by united states and supreme court commissioners commissio neis prior to the admission of utah and in which the time to appeal had not expired on january 2 1896 in all such cases the right of appeal ia extended for a period of fifteen days after the passage of the bill referred to the judiciary committee OF THIRD DISTRICT by fergusson of salt lake by request Pro vidma for the appointment of a clerk for the third judicial district court by Fer gussion |
