Show WANT A NORMAL SCHOOL Snow Introduces a Bill For One at Beaver CITY POLICE JUSTICES MONSON WANTS THEIR POWERS CURTAILED Debate on the Bill For Funding Debts Senate Refuses to Concur i House Amendments Senator Chambers Will Entertain the Idaho Ida-ho Legislature All Alone Other Business of the Senate Senator Snow introduced a bill yesterday yes-terday providing for the establishment of a branch of the state normal school at Beaver city similar in a great many respects to the measure Introduced last winter which was fought so vigorously by those who believed itto be a needless need-less expense Thu bill however differs dif-fers from the other in this that it provides pro-vides that within 90 days after the passage pas-sage of the act the Beaver stake academy shall vest in the state the title to the building and the blodk of ground upon which it stands with the condition condi-tion that the property shall revert to the donor in case the state shall fail to maintain a school there for one year The school is to be considered a portion por-tion of the state normal school and is to be under control of the regents of the university The measure was referred re-ferred to the committe on education and will be reported back within 0 the next few days I is not believed there I will be the opposition there was to the bill presented last winter I CITY POLICE JUSTICES I I Senator Monson presented a bill providing pro-viding that the power of the city justices jus-tices of the peace shall be curtailed by limiting them to cases of violation I I of the city ordinances and town bylaws 1 by-laws which if tfassed will confine i them to city cases pure and simple I The bill went to the committee on judiciary I ju-diciary This measure is designed to I keep the city justices confined in their I i own proper sphere and give the civil business which they manage to accumulate accu-mulate to the regular elected justices of the in the peace precincts FUNDING DEBTS There was but one debate of consequence conse-quence in the senate yesterday and to an ordinary observer that would have seemed unimportant although considerable con-siderable weight attached to the same I came up on the bill introduced by Mr Hamer providing that citiec towns school boards and school districts may fund the indebtedness existing at the time Utah was admitted as a state The bill a originally introduced provided that counties should have the right to refund but upon debate the word counties was eliminated from I the bill This was done after considerable consider-able discussion many of the senators evincing a disposition to avoid giving giv-ing the right to issue bonds and the bill was virtually passed but was laid on the table for one day by consent I was taken from the table yesterday and again considered The bill as presented pre-sented reads An act permitting cities towns school boards and school districts dis-tricts to fund the floating indebtedness existing at the time Utah was admitted at a state Section 1 That all cities towns school boards and school districts that had a floating indebtedness at the time Utah was admitted as a state are hereby authorized to borrow an amount of money equal to tfie amount of such floating indebtedness in addition to the limit of indebtedness now provided bylaw by-law Sec 2 All money so borrowed shall be applied on the payment of the present pres-ent floating indebtedness and no bond or note issued by any city town school board or school district upon which such money shall be borrowed shall be sold for less than its face value together to-gether with accrued interest at the date of such sale Sec 3 This act shall take effect upon approval When the subject came up yesterday the senate decided to eliminate the words in the first section in addition to the limit of indebtedness now provided pro-vided by law The second section was also changed by striking out present floating and inserting the word such and there is where the trouble began Mr Caine thought there was a nig ger in the woodpile and that the bill was not a necessary one While not exactly opposed to it on the principle that it was a bad measure he did not see the use of the measure at this time and thought advantage could betaken be-taken of it to the disadvantage of the taxpayers He would like to have action ac-tion postponed until he could have time to investigate the case and see if the measure was one which would be acceptable to his constituents Mr Harbour did not see the use of the measure and argued that it was merely increasing the time for the payment of the obligations Finally Snow offered a motion recommitting re-committing the bill to the committee on judiciary The measure is said by those who favor it to be a good one and one which if passed would save the county of Weber some 36000 per year in Interest inasmuch as i would give them a chance to retire a lot of old warrants which are floating around and pay only 5 per cent on the indebtedness indebt-edness which is now costing them 8 and at the same time is inconveniencing inconvenienc-ing the taxpayers who have warrants which are discounted from 12 to 15 percent per-cent DIDNT CONCUR A message came down from the house announcing the passage of the bill introduced by Mrs Cannon providing provid-ing for the compulsory education of deaf mute and blind children with amendments The amendments consisted con-sisted of inserting a hyphen between the words deaf and mutes Mr 1r Smoot called attention to the fact that a child might be a mute and able to hear and might be deaf and able to talk and that this amendment of the bill would deprive them of the right to go to the school He proposed the senate refuse to concur in the amendments amend-ments offered After some explanation of the matter mat-ter Mr Caine moved the senate refuse re-fuse to concur and the motion prevailed pre-vailed and a conference committee of which Mrs Cannon is the chairman f teJ el cN was appointed to meet with a like com I mittee from the house and discuss the materIDAHO IDAHO LEGISLATURE Senator Chambers is not going to Logan Lo-gan today He is going to entertain the Idaho legislature Attention was called to the fact in the morning hours that the Idaho solons were coming down and Mr Harrier the chairman of the special committee appointed on Thursday to consider the matter arose and stated that they had noti fied the members of the visiting contingent con-tingent that the legislature had made arrangements to go to Logan and that they would be pleased to entertain them on Monday He moved as the sense of the committee that a special committee of those who were not going go-ing to Logan be appointed to entertain enter-tain the visitors and that the committee com-mittee be authorized to expend a reasonable rea-sonable amount of money from the funds of the state to be hereafter appropriated ap-propriated in such entertainment This motion prevailed although Senator Harbour thought it Was discourteous to the Idahoans for the Utah > > > solons to go away and leave them here whole day when we knew they were coming In Europe that would be cause enough for a war said Harbour and we ought to do something more How will you have the committee appointed asked Mr Evans who was in the chair I would suggest the patriot who wants to entertain the visitors was the remark of the senator from Weber I have a date with an excursion to Logan pleaded Harbour with great emphasis whereat everyone laughed Finally Senator Chambers was appointed ap-pointed and will today give an imitation imita-tion of a man with a legislature on his hands The balance of the business of the senate outside the reading of the code which was proceeded with as usual was purely routine routne Senate bill No 31 the act for the protection of the health of women and girl employees was reported from the committee on engrossed and enrolled bills and signed by the president in open session and ordered sent to the house where it will be toyed with The Coughlin and George trial was brought up yesterday by the presentation presenta-tion of a claim by George Gatrell for taking the testimony In the same the claim amounting to some 34 It was referred to the state board of examiners exam-iners House joint resolution No 13 authorizing au-thorizing the secretary of state to distribute dis-tribute copies of the compiled laws Of 1S97 had some errors in its composition compo-sition and was referred to the committee commit-tee on judiciary which is the grammatical gram-matical organization of the senate Evans resolution providing for the opening of the Uintah and Uncompah gre reservations having passed the house was referred to the committee on engrossed and enrolled bills The senate refused to concur in the house amendments to the memorial of Rideout providing for a petition to congress for an amendment to the constitution causing senators of the United States to be elected by a direct vote of the people and then the senate sen-ate at 2 adjourned oclock until Monday afternoon |