Show I IA DAY OF SLAUGHTER r The Senate Kills TwentysIx House LMeasures + GIVEN BUT SHORT SHRIFT + IS OF MOR OR LESS flit PGBTARCE P4SS PRTAC I + The Appropriation Bill qonider at Some Lngt Readjustment of SaaePreetton of a Gavel Gvel t President Nebeker The Add Ad-d lde By Senator Cannon 4 The senate worked all daylong yesterday yes-terday baring the several in which they sauntered and discussed bills in committee and not until nearly midnight mid-night did thy cease from their labor Several biBs were passed many others rejected and a good stat mae upon the appropriation bill which will probably require several hours more work worTodav Today the senate will spend Sunday in dis business discusing its unfinished The senators do not consider this an infraction ofthe Sabbath for as Senator Sena-tor Smoot exnressed it i wont be Sunday Sun-day anyway this is still the ninth of March Immediately after the senate assembled assem-bled a communication was read from the governor stating that he had approved ap-proved senate joint resolution No9 providing for the payment to the Brigham Brig-ham Young Memorial association Qt funds from the semicentennial jubilee Senator Nebeker then had the bill making the abstracts ot abstract com pies receivable as evidence amended so that the abstracts of county ecord era should have the same privilge The amendments made by the house to senate bill No 65 which were unimportant unim-portant were concurred in Senate bill No 22 by Rideout creating creat-ing the office of district attorney was amended so that biennial reports snaI be made The bill was then passed House bill NO 18 was next taken up and passed after amending it so that hereafter in all counties the county recorder re-corder shall prepare assessors plats instead In-stead of the county surveyor House bill No 95 to fin the salaries of district judges in districts having a population of SOOOO or mere at 3GOO and in districts of less population at 3000 was called up next and defeated by the enacting clause being stricken out outHouse House bill No 160 providing that indictments in-dictments for larceny shall contain only one count was called up by Senator Sen-ator Evans and passed The commIttee 01 irrigation then reported re-ported recommending the passage of house bill No 19 crcating a reservoir fund Senator Evans moved that a committee of three be appointed to examine ex-amine aB house and senate bUs with a view to rejection and to recommend for passage only those that are absolutely abso-lutely neeessar President Nebeker on the floor of the senate suggested that it be named the committee on ex ecuton and Senator Evans accepted the amendment Senator Tanner in the chair apPointed Senator Evans Ride out and Kebeker as the committee THESE REJECTED The senate then sauntered for about an hour and ame back then to hear tie report of the exeuton committee which recommended that the following bills be rejected Senate bills Nos 69 90 10 42 85 79 21 26 67 25 52 82 91 72 81 i7 49 and hous bills Nets 42 11 128 120 165 101 161 79 12i 88 50 153 5 21 20 135 52 34 120 19 91 1 12 84 arid 102 and the report re-port was adopted Senator Evans then called up his bill providing that railroads shall fence their tracks and it was passed with very little discussion House bill Na 1S0 relative to property prop-erty exempt from taxation waBnext taken up and passed without debat Senate bill No 72 provIding for e tensions of notices of trials was called up and passed The president then announced that the pictures of several senators were wanted by the branch normal school The senate ten sauntered according accord-Ing to Senator Smoot and strolled according to Senator Evans and were to met at 830 oclock but i was nearly near-ly 1030 oclocl before the body vas called to order I THE APPROPRIATION BILL At once the appropriation bill was I taken up and discuss As a beginning begin-ning to the campaign of economy the amount allowed for clerical assistant I to the secretary of state for the years 1833 and 1900 was cut down from 6000 I toS5400 I The tate auditOrs appropriation for clerical assistance was increased from 300 to 5700 and his allowance fr contingent expenses was increuscll from 1000 to 4500 The latter Increase was made so a to provide for the public Hon of recorded marks and brands The attorney generals salary was cut from 3500 to 3OOQ and he was allowed al-lowed an addItional 500 for assistance in his office The salary of the attorney generals stenographer was increased from 1800 to 2COO The appropriation for enforcing the fs and gme laws was mae 60Q instead In-stead of 400 and the deputy wardens naiary was increaso from 700 to 31400 The state engineers salary was increased in-creased frdm 1000 to 2000 but his allowance crCe lowance for contingent expenses was cut down from 2000 to S6O The supreme court was alowe 1012 that beIng the defdt in the contingent expenSe account for 1897 and 1898 The salary of the supreme court reporter re-porter was increased from 1200 to 1600 The sum allowed for the maintenance 01 the sate library and the purchase of books ittS cut down from 5000 to MOO The appropriation for the geneTal maintenance of the stale university was CUt down from 80000 to 60000 The fund for apparatus and books was increased in-creased from 10000 t 10800 TIle fund for the maintenance of the agricuIura college was increased from 22500 to 21009 and an additional 4GOO was allowed for the extra teach errs for the winter course The fund for buildings and repairs up to the close of the academIc yca 19001901 was fixed at 15000 The Item of 5000 for the purcI1Gc of land upon which t erect 1 manual training department In connection with the state school for the deaf dumb ana blind was killed I PRESENTATION TO EB KER The business of the senate was interrupted inter-rupted shortly before that body sauntered saun-tered for dinner riat admit I of the I presentation to President Nebek of avery a-very handsome gold and slvermounted ebony gavel To Senator Cannon had been delegate dele-gate the pleasant task of making the presentation speech She rose in her place and spoke as follows Ir President or I may say dear Mr PresIdent I have been Intrsted by the members of fis senate with aver a-ver pleasant duty In Uelr behalf I express to you the honor and esteem in which you are held by the friends who nw surround you I deem i an honor sir to be the mouthpiece ot my colleagues upon this occasion and my only anxiety isIC I fall o convey to I you the sentiment of the hearts wh have learned to prize your noble work You have been to us all for many days a farr l nS hseand judicious fu presIding frIend ofer aiidi rue and faith The knoyl9ge kithe fact thabe are about to separte and dissolve our relationship a the senate of the third gislature of the fair state of Utah makes this p fittIng occasion to ex pre what p as mdlvidual member owe to yourconstattb unwavering justice jus-tice ot head and of heart By your own inherent qualities you have become a pillar of strength to our state and by genial methods thatcome to you most naturally ti As etoreS a woodland nooks Send violets up and pant them blue you unconscIously became our leader and now on parting we shall wish you Godspeed tb your northern home and we trust tat the friendship that we have been privileged to share in the past may be confirmed and deepen through icing to We many mg yeas come pe i shall think of you when gone a enjoy I lag the change of lassoing the horned I steer in the widespreading plains I of the north and taking Your I siesta in the seetscented alfalfa al-falfa field and dliIklng in the sweet aIr of the pure atmosphere of a valley both Rich in name and rich by nature In conclusion sir let me ask your acceptance of this gavel as a token of our regard and it will be pleasant for you to know that in this small gift every member of the senate 1s repre seated and when the roses of love gladden the garden o1 life and you looker look-er the niernentoesof Use pat may this gavel Mr PresIdent remind you of the pure and beautiful frIendship of your colleagues lIay good fortune attend at-tend your steps and speed you in safety to home family and friends This is the heartfelt wish of all who have been associated with you in this the senate chamber The gavel was enclosed in a handsome hand-some plush case and was handed to the president by a page and 11 Neb eker replied with a few appropriate words expressing his deep gratitude to his fellow senator for the honor they had done him Bills Killed By the Senate The following hots bills were rejected re-jected by committees House bill No 1 to change county boundary lines lnes house bill N 19 to permit fling of reservoir hoUse bill No 20 to reIpen judgments house bill No 21 to tale depositions In clvl actions house bill No 3 requiring vestibules on street cars house bill No 42 requiring measurement meas-urement of water turned into recur voirs house bill No 46 gUng aright a-rIght of way to the Utah Central railroad rail-road over the penitentiary lads house bill No 50 cutting thc allowance for state taxes from 10 to 5 per cent house bill No 52 relatingto procedure for new trh house bill No 79 increasIng the salary of the Cal mine inspector from 1000 to 1500 house bill No 88 requlr ing petitioners for townsite incOpor tons t be real property taxpaYes and not qualified electors merely house bill No 91 permitting elective officers of cites to appoint theIr own deputies house bill No 101 relating to adulteration i ton of vinegar house bill No 102 I amending fruit tree inspection law house bill No 12 IncreasIng number of free scholar tps in the state normal school from 100 to 200 house bill No 120 making judgments in justice courts enforceable In eIght years 11 stead of five house bill Ko 127 creating creat-ing office of forestry warden home bill No 128 to protect forests house bill No 130 to protect Aztec remains house bill Na 133 relatngto the choice of newspapers for publIcation oJ legal notices no-tices house bill No 19 permittIng county auditors to omit certain Items from their reports house bill Not153 to make drunkenness In any public place a mJsdeeantl house bill No I 161 relatIng to increase or decrease of salaries of city officers house bill No 165 to prevent the duplication of names of corporations house joint memorial Np 3 restoring to public domain forest reserves In Uintah county pouse joint resolution No5 prdviding for direct I legislation by the people |