Show I In tIle Afternoon I The House was again called to order at 2 p m and as Powers and Varian were absent the bill to place the police and fire department on a nonpartisan non-partisan basis went over until 3 p m and the militia bill was taken up ADJUTANTS SALARY The first discussion came on fixing the salary of the adjutant general and it was moved by four members to make i 1000 750 500 and 250 On Tolton inquiring what would be the duties of the office Pigman suggested that the fixing of the amount go over Varian suggested the amendments be laid on the table Pigman moved to lay them on the table and the motion was carried I A BOMBSHELL I Then Varian threw a veritable bombshell bomb-shell by calling attention to the fact that the motion carried the whole bill to I the table and calling for the regular order There were looks of blank astonishment as-tonishment on the faces of the members mem-bers in favor of the bill but there was no getting around the matter ANOTHER MEDICAL BILL I H B 129 Stanford by request introduced in-troduced another medical bill Referred Re-ferred health to the committee on public healhPAY PAYMENT OF FEES H B 130 Varian introduced a bill to provide for the payment of jurors and witnesses fees and making ap j I I propriations thereto Committee on I I ways and means iTO i-TO PROTECT SETTLERS j I I I I I 1 H B 131 Stanford introduced a bill Ito I-to protect settlers who settled on school lands before the establishment I of the land office and not knowing the law neglected to preempt Committee on judiciary i COUNCIL BILLS I C B 31 by Williams to provide for the investment of a permanent fund for the University of Utah was referred re-ferred to the committee on education C B 63 to allow board of education of cities of the first and second classes to assess taxes was referred to the committee on education i LOCATION OF COUNTY SEATS C B 85 to provide for the location of county seats and election of officers in new counties wag referred to the committee m counties APPROPRIATION FOR ROADS H B 132 Pigman presented a bill making an appropriation of 30000 for the improvemnt of roads to be divided divid-ed according to the amount of asses slob property uommuiee on upyru I priations I THE CAPITOL GROUNDSI Clark moved to take H J R S by Hatch to vacate the capitol grounds from the table Carried and the icso lution referred to the committee on capitol grounds Varian moved to take H J R 4 relating re-lating to the payment of criminal EXpenses EX-penses by the counties from the table Carried and referred to the committee on judiciary FROM THE COUNCIL The Council sent notification of the passage as amended of H B 64 the bill limiting the practice of attorneys before relatives On looking at the amendments i was seen that they had Changed the whole sense of the bill and were written in green instead of red ink 1 A communication just then came from the upper house asking for a return of the bill and the request re-quest was granted UTE REMOVAL The Council also sent notification of the passage of H J 11 14 protesting against the removal of the Colorado Utes also of the approval of the printing print-ing contract and contractors bond also of the passage of C B 46 providing provid-ing for the establishment of a school for the blind and also of the concurrence concur-rence in the House amendments in the House amendments to C J M 2 and C13liZ i LEASING OF SCHOOL LANDS i H B 49 by Johnson to turn the proceeds from the leasing of school lands into the county treasuries was laid on the table j DELINQUENT WAGES I H B 50 by Powers to make corporations cor-porations pay two per cent per month interest on overdue wages Was killed i only Powers and Toltqn Doting for it Powers explained his vote by saying he believed no corporation should be delinquent in its payment of wages for more than twenty days and if one should find it necessary to so delay i should be under the necessity of paying II pay-ing a penalty of 2 per cent I Powers police and fire bill got the right of way but was put off for I twenty minutes i TO PREVENT CATLE STEALING H B 92 by the committee on livestock live-stock to prevent the stealing of cattle I at railway stations and killing of stolen stock by providing for a shipping inspector in-spector and the showing of hides of J I slaughtered animals was taken up on I the favorable recommendation of the committee on live stock Talton said the amendments would subvert the original intent of the bill Therefore he moved to lay the bill on the table Lost I The bill was partly read and Parsons moved to strike out the enacting clause cause 1 Lost I I There was a little more reading and Stanford moved to postpone further consideration until the 10th of March I unt Johnson and Hatch said the bill should go through as i is needed to stop the cattle thieving Ivins said catte that as a stockman he would give i as his judgment that the bill would not cure the evils complained of Powers police and fire bill again got the right of way and was again postponed post-poned for twenty minutes The motion to postpone the branding and cattle inspecting bill was lost POLICE AND FIRE BILL There was further discussion on the bill and the whole thing was cut on bi the special order Powers police bill amended in and fire bill The was further particulars and passed unanimously I unani-mously without any discussion I Then the House took up the militia t bill and amended it in some particulars particu-lars When it was gone all over several sev-eral members raised a question of expense ex-pense Ivins said he was in favor of the bill if it would not interfere with the revenues Pigman explained the Pigan expense would be less than 3000 for the organization and that 69000 would be drawn from the general government for ordnance stores Nebek out flanked flank-ed those who were pushing the bill I j with a motion to lay on the table This motion carried Tolton moved to adjourn Lost j i The cattle branding and Inspection bill was again taken up and several members endeavored to have the bill amended These failing Ivins took the floor against the Will saying it was cumbrous and will bring more expense and trouble than it is worth The bill was killed on the following vote AyesClark Dougall Hatch Hub bard Johnson McKay Monson Moore Wines 9 Noes Ivins Mason McBride Nebe ker Parsons Pigman Powers Sears Stanford Stoker Tolton Varian Warner War-ner 13 Adjournment was taken at 610 |