Show I I WORK IN HOUSE t SLOW Senatorial Interruptions Yesterday Hat An Effect On Business 4 POPULIST DOCTRINE WINS + s TB5Ez CAlt COMPAlnES lUST VESTIBULE NEW CARS e 1z General Act For Changing County Boundary LinesReconsiae1ltion of Bennions Liquor Prohibiton Bill L Results In ecommittnl Two ApprovaLs By th = Governor + Only 3 trifling amount of business re elved attention at yesterday mornings Interrupted sessIon of the house of representatives rep-resentatives The substitute for Mansfield Mans-field house blll No H for an act Providing lor the manner of changing county boundaries was the chief matter up for consideration The bill provides that the legal voters residing in not less than thirtysix square miles of territory ter-ritory embrccd in any count may be annexed to an adjoining county if at an election twothirds of the voters in such district and the remainder of the county give a majority in the alllrma tlye on such proposition No boundary line shall pe run within less than ten miles from a county srot and a question ques-tion affecting the changing of county boundary lines shall nOl be voted upon oftener than once in two years It is also provided in the bill tlllt 11 it be shown that the dismemberment and annexation would render the count from which the area is to be detached too weak to maIntain a county government govern-ment nt > election thereror shall be 01 1 jered by the board of county commis 9ion IS For the purpose of making it pdsstbie lor Emery county to annex that part of Sanpete ring on the east side of the 1 main range of mountains dividing the two counties Robertson offered an amendment providing for the annexing of the watershed to Emery county on lt yE Kt i a vote of the county to be benefited Sorensen characterized it as a land grabbing scheme The amendment was 1 defeated Consideration of the bill was not finished I fin-ished when this hour for convening the II joint assembly arrived and the passage pass-age of the bm went over till the afternoon I after-noon sesbion 4fter a haU hours dls cU5sion in the afternoon the bill was put ill shape for passage The vote on its passage resiited in 23 ayes and lii nays Engrossed copIes of house bill No 24 relating to ccrporate suretyship on bonds of fiducIaries and litigants and house bill No 156 defining public work were signed by the speaker and the chief clerk md forwarded to the senate sen-ate for signatures A message from the governor gave notice of his approrl1 of house bill No 31 to authorize sheriffs to collect a fee or commission on sales of property under un-der execution to judgment creditors Sente blll No 84 by Evans to grant preference rights to purchasers of state lands was referred to the committee on public lands Rouse bill Xo 181 was introduced by JacJtson through consent and ref ned to the committee on private corporations corpora-tions The bill Is the same as house bill No 76 which was rejected on Feb 20 and provides that mortgages given on the real estate of mining and other corporations shall be deemed to include the personal llloperty thereto attached PROTECTION FOR MOTORMEN The first bill passed at me afternoon session was JackOns house bill No 14 to require street car companies to provide pro-vide adequate protection from the inclemency clemency of the weather for thrr mo tonnen By a vote of 14 to 13 Bywater secur cd the adoption of an amendment providing pro-viding that it rhall not be necessary to equip wornout cars or those now in use with vestibules In Support of his amendment Mr Bywater said vestibules vesti-bules were not so badly needed after all and the cost thereof would he from HiO to 200 for each car His experience as a railroad employ convinced him that vestibules were experimental and had not proven to be satisfactory urn tectors from the weather Besides street car companies had given notice that it the bill passed without the amendment it would be necessary to reduce the wages of the employees to meet the expense of equipping the cars with yestlbules and as he understood it the employees favored the amendment amend-ment The bIll IaSSCI as amended by a vote of G ayes to i noC6 the negaUv votes being announced by Cummings Full mer and Crosby ONeils house bill So 157 to repeal section 4291 of the revised statutes which section forbids the sale of Intoxicating Intox-icating liquors within ten miles of an Indian reservation was passed b1 a vote of 33 to 4 Johnson Lav Sorenson and Smith voting in the negative The author of the bill explained thM the repealing of the old law was In the interest of good order the prohibition having become a dead letter and demoralizing de-moralizing in its effect since it did not apply to Incorporated towns withIn the reservation Senate bill No 48 WS substituted for Parrs houC bill No 137 and passed The s nte bill provides that city re corlrs In municipalities of 1200 inhabitants in-habitants or Jes sal be e officio city auditor POPULIST lIASURE PASSED lepreeenoatve Smith secured a re cnsderation of house joint resolution No 5 which proposes an amendment to the constitution authorIzing the leg islature to enact Jaws giving the peo pIe the privilege of direct legislation the resolution having failed to pass on TuenJa Speaking in support or the resolution Johnson said i was a PopulIst meat ur but like eli good things the de ara1on for the restoration of silver for instance originated with that party Bier and Smith supported the resolution and Lapish expressed hIs willingness to to the experimfnt Sorensn opposed the resolution on the ground that it was unnecessary legIslation leg-Islation The rote or the passage of the reso Juton resulted In tO ayes and 1 noes Christansen was absent and Cummings Cum-mings and Shepard acre excused from voting Tile vote announce against tile initiative and referendum scheme were those or Greenwood hansen Lloyd lIler urok Robinson Rob erbon Srern Stewart Taylor Wheeler lr Speaker AX JNOPERATIV PLAX The two bs pending before the leg flature providing an opportunity for voter to indicate on their ballots a for United States senator preference Unite Stte selutor 1Ccn an effectual decapitation Stewarts bm No 13 on this subject was rejected on recommendation of the committee tin eectons Nebe ers ten ate hill No 44 Qr smiar purport was recommended for passage by the min orIty of the commIttee and for rejection tion by the majority Speaking In support of the rcm mendaton to reject the bills Shepard sid any SUcl 1w would be of no effect v1atcvcmr and if the majority of the voters in lcated a preference for a tie publcan for senator and a Demo crtc legisZature wee elected or vice yma thing wduld be In an aWful fix BureI1 BureI1Te majority report recommending rejection or senate bm No 44 was 1 adopted FQPR NEW BiLLS Consent being gcn th foiIowing c two were Introduced and referred House bill No 182 by Fisher by request quest to appropriate 150 for the I maintenance in the hall of relics of the mner eibit uf the International Mining congressor t1e year1S99 and Minig conge 1 the YClS99 1900 feN ttle commltteeon rev nuesand appropriations Accompany lag the bill wa a petition from ban ers merants andbuin smen for its passage Hou bill No 18a by Stewart t aen sectionT1744 of the revised stat seon iits s that poll tax labor may be performed at any time from Jan 1 to Dee I In rh year instead o only from April to November under the di reton o the district road slpCvirr Committee pn judiciary On the pretext of perfecting Ben nions local option or liquor prohibition bill which failed of passage on 2mton day the metistire was tae up on reconsideration consideration Several amendments Qf slight Importance wee made to tile bill all fo the apparent purpose as the supporters of the mesure alleged of leaving i in such shape that the senate I would surely kilt it One method after I another was tried to put the bill to its II death and finally Jacksons motion to remit it to the commit on public heath prevailed I For te reason that Bennlons rem luton for a constitutional amendment lrmltng taxation of property in cit leg for maintenance of schools in the rural districts did not receive the required re-quired majority of yotes on Monday 0 reconsideration was ordered After in Cummings had made an argument favor of the resolution the roUcal anUs an-Us passage was proceeded with resulting result-ing In 21 ayes and C noes the negatve Parr Han votes being announced by Far sen Ivers Jackson Jolmson and Smith THESE WERE HASTILY PASSED rousa bill No 19 by Fisher to Cx empt county auditors frm the require ment of publishing detailed lists of warrants Issued in connection with annual an-nual 11nancla reports was taken up amended and nassed The amendment ase changes the time of making annual reports re-ports from July tp February and also makes the fiscal year end with the calendar cal-endar rear Inasmucha the whole county government act will have to be amended to harmonize dates and periods per-iods it is Drobable that the amendment amend-ment will be reconsidered this llorn lug ingUnder Under suspension of the rules senate sen-ate joint resolution No9 by Whitney vas nassed I Is similar to senate joInt resoluton No 5 recently Dhssed and rovldes for the transfer of all the balance of funds and property of the Utah SemICentennial commission to the Pioneer Monument association after reserving 225 to defray cost of medals for members of the commission as an expression or the states appre services elation of their iaihful and etcient MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS The resolutions adopted by the board of education of Sal Lake City protesting pro-testing against the passage of the proposed posed aendment to the school lawmaking law-making the superintendent elective by the voters at general elections and favoring a amendment that will enable en-able boys and girls to complete the high school course after reaching the age of 18 years were referred to the committee on education eucaton Notice vas receive from the gov Crnor of his approval of house bill No 85 by R01lance appropriating 1000 to I J 1V Allen In recognlor of hlg services ser-vices in the pursuit and capture of the Sprnsl < bank robbers said sum to be In full satisfaction of any claim against the state which the bcqefcary may have by reason of having lost a limb in the melee Representative Tohnson was granted permission to Withdraw house bm No 123 to repeal section 323 of the revised statute relating to revivor of judgments judg-ments The committee on enrollment and engrossment submitted the folowin house bills for signature No by Shepard relating to the docketing of judgments No G4 b1 Stewart to exempt city auditors from the ulrement to publish detailed lists of warrants issued annually No 69 by McQuarrie relating to method of giving notice of hearing of netton I for probate ot will The committee on public lads recommended rec-ommended passage of senate bills Nat 5G and S4 Evans propoSed state land law The educaton committee reported without reco mend ton Mrs Cannons Can-nons bill to require the teaching in the public schools of the effects of alcoholic human alco-holic drinks system and other narcotics on the Senate bill No 29 by Rideout to define de-fine what shall constitute a working day Of eight hours n public work whlcl i failed to pass in the house on Monday was reconsidered and passed pass-ed by a vote of 21 to lL The olowln = bills were recommended recommend-ed for passage House bill No 6 by Fulmer relatIng relat-Ing to the transmission of election returns re-turns House bill No 177 b1 Bennion relating relat-ing to the recording of marks and brands At G oclock the house adjourned till 9 this morning G |