Show IN LEGISLATIVE HALLS Cache County Gets a Bite at the Public Pie LOCAL OPTION BILL KILLED Tlie Question as tothe Asylum Appro luloii Tito Agricultural College The Goyernora Approvals THE COUNCIL All the nidmbers were present when President Smith called the Council to order Quite number of visitors filed in and out between the two houses allay all-ay The House sent back C F l No 21 the banking bill with an amendment substituting stituting the name of J T Little as Bank Commissioner instead of the Secretary retary of the Territory The amendment amend-ment was concurred in MR YOUNG of the committee on fish and game reported back a substi ute bill for H F Nos 40 and sub utute for the protection of fish and game Read the first time and filed for second reading TIn BONDING BILL H F No Go providing for negotiating negotiat-ing a jaufor public purpose was taken up on second reading On motion of bIl Marshall action was postponed until un-til today BILLS PASSED C F No 11 substitute a bill provid ug for and defining the First and Fourth Judicial Districts of the Terri of Utah came up on second reading It provoked quite a spirited debate between Mr Smoot and Mr Bryan Mr moot made a very etttctive speech ob jeiting strongly to the new District Court being held alternately at Provo and Nephi It would entail a greater amount of labor and expense and the majority of the people were decidedly in favor of retaining the court at Provo Put the court wholly either at Nephi or Provo but dont have it alternating MR BRYAN thought the mileage alone would more than cover the extra cost further it would be a great convenience t o the people of that portion and urged strenuously the claims of Nephi in that respect The bill was pissed with a slight amendment under suspension of the rules The vote standing ayes 7 noes i 3 not voting 2 j Substitute for H F Nos 40 and 49 for the protection ot fish and game was passed under suspension of the rules THE GOVERNOR APPROVES A message was received from the Governor approving C F No 42 appointing ap-pointing a board of commissioners on Capitol grounds Rccess until 2 pm The Council did not resume its ses ioa until nearly 8 oclock for the reason that the members were down to Savages having themselves photo graphed in a gro p APPROVED A message from the Governor stated his approval of C F No 38 a bill unending an act defining the boundaries bound-aries of counties etc THE AGRICULTURAL CTLLEGE H F No 81 a bill to establish an agricultural college was taken up read the first and second times and passed under suspension of the rules this bill provides for the establishment of an agricultural college to be located in Cache County It is for the purpose of teaching such branches of learning as relates to agriculture and the mechanical me-chanical arts Twentyfive thousand dollars is appropriated therefor to establish it Congress appropriates 15000 per ear for the maintenance ot the institution THE APPROPRIATION BILL was passed with amendments S THE INSOLVENCY BILL C F 2 the insolvency bill camp from the House with two slight amendments amend-ments which were concurred in by the Council Referred to the committee on enrollment LOCAL OPTION KILLED H F No 30 the local option law then loomed up MR MARSHALL moved to strike out the enacting clause This provoked a lively debate which was indulged in by nearly all the members mem-bers MR SMOOT was dacidedly in favor of local option It was demanded by a great many people in the Territory The district which he represented would greatly be benefited by the passage pass-age of that law He would vote for such a measure and thought it ought to go through MR MARSHALL said the gentlemans remarks reminded him of the old story of tho fox who accidentally had his tail cut off and wanted all the foxes to have theirs decapitated Because it suited his locality it would not do for others He had seen evils arising from the local option law and would vote against it MR WOOLLEY was in favor of the bill He believed that the majority should say whether liquor was to be sold or not in any locality It would prevent saloons from being cpBned on other than on the business streets and residents would be free from having saloons in their vicinity MR YOUNG was cognizant of the evils of prohibition as experience had shown in this Territory Wherever prohibition had been tried dens of vice and infamythe vilest of the yilehlld sprung into existence The people had suffered financially morally and physically phys-ically from it He was against the bill MR BRYAN expected all the members would be placed on record regarding the bill If prohibition was national he would favor the bill as it was otherwise he was dead agafnst it MR CARLISLE favored the bill He bought that saloons conducted openly resulted in mrra hum than if conducted con-ducted privately On the call the vote stooa as follows i Ayes Bryan I Howe Marshall Olsen Shurtliff Young G Noes Carlisle Smoot Wiminer Tut tie Woolley And Jake Moritz who had been uninterested interested listener picked up his hit heaved a sigh of relief and lelt THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE reported that they had agreed regarding 0 F No 18 the asylum bill Adjourned until tuday at 10 a m HOUSE The claim of J Z Stewart presented by Mr Howell went to the committee ou claims AS TO POOB PERSONS MR TUUBMAN from the judiciary committee reported a bill to allow poor persons to commence and prosecute suits in all courts of the Territory FCE THE PAYMENT OF JURORS ETC MR THUBMAN presented a bill providing pro-viding for the payment of jurors witnesses wit-nesses and phonographic reporters and creating and definIng the duties of court commissioners THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE The bill to provide for the establishment establish-ment of an agricultural college came ip as snecial order and was slightly amended Wneii it came to the Question of location lo-catIon Mr Howell moved that it be at any place in Cache County ME CKEEB wanted the question of location lo-cation left to the judm nt of the tras tees to be hereafterappcinted ME HOWELL supported his motion and made a strong speech in favor of his county His con titutents were mostly engaged in agriculture He thought it would be u tium tribute to the people of Cache hat the College should be locnted Cucne was entitled to it Weber had the promise of the Reform School Salt Lake wa amply provided for in the matter of public buildings and Utah County had the aylum Cache had re c ned nothing yet MR CREER entered his pretest in fi vigorous manner U tah County had all no advantages Cache had and even I more The question of location was an important one and the general good demanded that it be placed to Utah County MB JONES also spoke in favor of his action ot the country Ha disliked delegating the question of location to the board MR HATCH was of a different opinion ie really thought the House was getting get-ting sectional If he had had his way is would have located the Reform School at Fort Cameron but those who desired that failed to work hard enough they did not buzz one another enough and therefore got left MB THuRMANYOU struck it There was mere discussion by Richards Seegmiller and Moyle By a vote of 12 to 7 the motion of Mr Howell prevailed MR CLARK wanted the bill amended so as to appropriate 20OOQ instead of 25000 MR HELM wanted it reduced to 15000 MB RICIIABDS insisted that 25000 was little enough ME CLARK was not opposed to the amount so far as any locality is concerned con-cerned but ho would like to ask the gentlemen who were in favor of large appropriations where the money was to come from MB RICHARDS replied We arc going to norrow it or raise the taxes MR THURJIAN did not like to hear the remarks that Salt Lake had her public buildings that Ogden had her reform school Provo tbo University and Cache the agricultural college From the depths of his heart he wished the asylum was somewhere else II Mis fRFRHenr hear n n I MR MoYaEto Creeiat Paysoa i for instance MB jHuriiAN proposed to vote for I 2oOCO he was willing to be as liberal is it was possible to be in the appropriations appropria-tions to all such public enterprises Mn SEEGMILLEB made a strong speech in favor of the establishment of Ihe college portraying the good that must come out of it I I The bill then passed by 20 ayesthree members being absent THE JUDICIAL DISTRICTS The Council reported that it had passed House substitute for C F 11 with one amendment The amendment amend-ment was concurred in and the House took a recess until 2 pm WHEN IT AGAIN MET consideration of the bill providing for the incorporation cf cities as amended by the Council was had The amendments amend-ments were all concurred in IROM TEE GOVERNOR came a communication to the effect that he had approved the bill prohibiting prohibit-ing the selling or giving away of any liquors on election day also that h1 had attached his autugraph to H F Gt fixing the time for electing the members of the Legislature FISH AND GAME The fish and game committee to whom was referred the petition of J R Walker and others in the interest ol pisiculture reported a bill in accordance with the petition and recommended that the bill be placed upon its passage THE INSANE ASYLUM The committee on asylum for the insane in-sane handed in their report MBKING moved that the committee on appropriations be instructed to insert in the appropriation bill the sum of 16048187 for building purposes Ho Hade a strong speech in favor of a liberal appropriation for the asylum we had been just and generous in regard to other institutions and there was no reason why w1 snould be niggardly in regard to this one Reform schools agricultural colleges col-leges and other institutions provided for were good things but this place was one of necessity The Chair suggested that the app10 priations already made exceeded tne borrowing power of the Territory exclusive ex-clusive of the revenue MB CjARK wanted the matter of an appropriation for the asylum to go over until tomorrow in order that ue members might find out where the money was coming from ME THURMAN objecte J If the idea was to defeat the appropriation asked or It might as well be done right now and here We have been lioeral in the matter of an appropiiation for Capitol grounds that is merely a luxury we have provided for an agricultural college col-lege that is a convenience we have provided for a reform schoolthat is a necessity now we ask for an appropriation I appro-priation for ths asylums matter thitl o ershadowed all others in the iern tory He referred in a feeling manner to the unfortunates who were crowding the present quarters and showed the neces II ity for more room He hoped that in this matter at least all would throw aside personal leeling if ever they had any and put themselves upon record Other States had done much more than we had Much had been said upon this floor that the House was acting upon a progressive basis He hoped this was so He made a strong and telling speech MK Hoon objected to a postponement I postpone-ment The House was just as ready now to vote on the question as it would be a month hence ME MOYLE insisted that the matter go over It had come upon him at least quite suddenly and he was not I prepared jast at present to handle it Mn ALLEN was surprised that any I gentleman should get up on the floor of this House and say he knew nothing about a matter that had been before him since the earliest day of the session What was tne reason for the delay Was the idea to kill the bonding bill l If the gentleman is not ready now when will hA be Shall we go on and build new institutions and fail to finish those now in our charge If we cant provide for the present institutions institu-tions let us go to the Governor and implore him to veto all the measures meas-ures we have passed for new institutions institu-tions for Capitol grounds for the reform school for the agricultural college etc Why have the gentlemen who have voted away so much money suddenly become so tender on the sUbject sUb-ject They were not quite so touchy so economical when the wind blew their way MR HATCH was ready to vote now for the appropriation of 100000 if anything any-thing had to remain unprovided for let it be those institutions which have not yet been started The motiou to postoone however was carried and the bill will come up under special order today THE APPROPRIATION BILL as amended by the Council was taken up and the amendments concurred in ON MARKS AND BRANDS H F 83 substitute a bill providing for the revision of the recoida of marks and brands passed MORE LIQUOR LAW C F 39 a bill amending Chapter 28 laws of the Territory of Utah 1886 entitled an act licensing and regulating regu-lating the manufacture and sale of intoxicating in-toxicating liquors Passed THE JURY BILL The bill providing for the payment of jurors witnesses and phonographic reporters re-porters and creating and d fining the duties of court commissioners was amended and wen over until today as special order Several claims were allowed and the House adjourned until 10 oclock this morning |