Show POLIE ANT FIE BILL Passed After Taking Away the Governors Power to Appoint 1 TH BOARD NOT CONTINUED t City Council and Mayor Will Make the Appointments The Hoube Did Xot Favor tlc Centralization Cen-tralization of Power as Proposed Bill Land Rill Passed nt in the IUlLnntl nil Last Critchlow Mill AmendltiR the Homocirtc Law Defeated After I Af-ter n Hot Debate Live Stock Bill Recommitted Busy Session The house out in a big day yesterday yester-day gayI met at 10 oclock in the morning in accordance with the resolution adopted the dav before and ere night came had disposed of three of the most perplexing mea ures the session do with They were the has had to wih the fire and police bill and land hill fre polce bi bill The for the justifiable homicide bi fo1 mr two were both passed and the lat vote Considerable ter was Idled by a close siderable other business was transacted transact-ed and the day was marked by much vigorous debate The land bill came up in the mornIng morn-Ing immediately after the transaction of a few minor Aatters of routine business busi-ness It was amended in a few particulars I ticulars and yrssea with slight opposition oppo-sition consuming all of the morning siton before the hours except a few minutes 8 close which were devoted to the livestock live-stock bill Etocl bi In the afternoon Mr Critchlows bill afernoon repealing part of the law on justifiable justifi-able homicide came up at the opening of the session as a special order I has been amended to obviate some of the objections to it but the opposition after more and was not all withdrawn afer wa than two hours of oratory was killed on final passage bill followed be The fire and police bi folowed r ing passed after the first section creating creat-ing the fire and police commission had been amended to take the appointing power out of the hands of the governor gover-nor as provided in the committee report re-port and leaving it in the hands of the mayor and council and by being in so worded a to neither perpetuate office the present heads of departments ofce legislate them out of office Two successive attempts were made to kill the bill by Mr Curtis who 6nce moved to indefinitely postpone and again offered J of-fered a substitute for the bill repealing I F the present law MORNING SESSION i The house received from the senate K B No 19 relating to corrupt practices prac-tices in elections S B No 95 providing provid-ing for service of venires and subpoenas subpoe-nas by mail S B No 96 in relation to the certifying of warrants and certificates certifi-cates of indebtedness of counties and cities su < = titute for S J R No4 relating re-lating to the opening of the Uncompah gre Indian reservation LAND BILL DISPOSED OF Mr Cushing moved to suspend the rules and take up the land bill He L 1 gave way to the reading of a communication communi-cation from the senate announcing the passage of H B No 121 and that the senate had also passed H B No 126 with amendments which were concurred concur-red in by the house The land bill was then called up I AS TO SALINE LANDS Mr Cazier for whose benefit section IS had been left open for amendment moved to reinsert in the section the I provision extending the operation of the bill to saline lands which had previously pre-viously been stricken out He spoke at length in favor of the motion which I was Clark carried over the objection of Mr AMENDED FURTHER Mr Sevy asked consent t allow 1 amendments to b offered to section30 which fixes the time for which grazing lands may be leased Objection was made and the gentleman moved to suspend sus-pend the rules which prevailed He then moved to amend by making the time five years Instead of ten as provided pro-vided by the bil WAS DEBATED Mr Taylor was in favor of the amendment Mr Gibson wanted the state to derive de-rive as much benefit as possible He was opposed to the change Mr Andrus representing one of the largest stock districts of the state said he did not believe stock men would care to lease for less than ten years They would be put to much expense in preparing a means of watering and five years would not pay them Mr Thompson of Sanpete was urgently ur-gently in favor of the change Ten y ars was In favor he said of the rich stockmen to the exclusion of the smaller smal-ler interests He hoped the amendment would prevail A GOOD POINT Mr Morrison made a strong point against the amendment He said the donation of these lands to Utah wa not made by the government for the benefit of the poor sheep men or for the benefit of any other class of people peo-ple The donation was made for the benefit of the free schools of the state 4 which should bo enabled to derive as much a possible from them without anybody being considered Ten years would increase the revenues by half Mr Clark was unequivocally opposed to the amendment AMENDMENT ADOPTED The question being put the roll call ordered resulting a orderd resling Ayes Beard Bolitho Bernhisel Con don Curtis Cazier Egan Fergusson of Salt Lake F guson of Carbon Gibbs Karris Lewis Iowry Merrill Murdock Nye Raddatz Robinson Stevens Sned eker Shafer Sevy Sorensen Taylor Thompson of Sanpete Thompson of Millard Wilson total 27 Nays Andrus Critchlow Cushing Clark Gibson Homer Howard Larsen Lenrmon Morrison Monson Maughu Mansfield Nebeker of Salt Lake Nebe ker of Rich Smoot Mr Speaker total 17 absent 1 FURTHER AMENDMENT DENIED Mr Wilson moved t suspend the ules to amend section 20 the house denying him the privilege i 1 Harris made the same motion in J i > J1ll1 relation to section 39 The gentleman was secton Messrs Clark Cushing Cush-ing and others fo not having discovered discover-ed before what he considered defects Mr Harris replied that he considered consid-ered the bill should be left open to amendment until perfected and wa supported by Mr Murdock Mr Cushing came back with the remark I re-mark that If the bill were to be considered con-sidered to the end of the session it I would not be perfected to suit every body The amendments desired to be I offered could be brought to the attention atten-tion ctf I the senate The motion was overwhelmingly lost and the roll call on final passage ordered THE BILL PASSED by the following vote Ayes Beard Bolitho Bernhisel Con don Curtis Cushing Cazier Clark Egan Fergusson of Salt Lake Ferguson Ferussn son of Carbon Gibbs Heiner Howard Lewis Larsen Lowrey Lemmon Mor Neb rison Merrill Maughn Mansfield eker of Rich Nebeker of Salt Lake Nye Raddatz Robinson Stevens Sned aker Shafer Sevy Sorensen Taylor Thompson l of Sanpete Thompson of Millard Wilson Mr Speakertotal 37 Na Andrus Gibson Harris Mur docktotal 4 absent 4 THE LIVE STOCK BILL H B No 44 the live stock bill came up a a special order the consideration when it continuing till the noon hour was recommitted going to the judiciary for an opinion as to the constitutionality constitution-ality of a proposed amendment and to have the bill perfected When the bill came up Mr Clark moved to amend that section which relates re-lates to the time after which estray animals an-imals may be taken up and sold by changing the eighteen months provision provis-ion to two years After some discussion discus-sion the amendment was adopted Mr Wilsoi offered a substitute for section 10 which reads Sec 10 In case the owner of any animal ani-mal trespassing as set out in seton 9 shall not I be known and cannot I after reasonable search be found the constable shall forthwith advertise for I sale by posting up notices in three conspicuous I con-spicuous places within his precinct and by advertising twice in some newspaper I newspa-per having general circulation in the county Said notices shall give a description I de-scription of the animals including all marks and brands and shall state the time and place of sale and that if not I claimed and taken away within ten days from the date thereof he will sell the same to the highest cash bidder I Mr Harris rose to speak to the ques I ition to adopt the amendment but proceeded pro-ceeded to argue at length on the bill I in general when Mr Nebeker of Rich raised the point of order that he was not speaking to the question which I point was sustained by the chair Mr Harris thereupon moved to recommit re-commit to the judiciary committee Mr Critchlow objected The judiciary judi-ciary committee had all i could attend to The committee would consider the bill but as chairman he would not undertake un-dertake to promise to get to it in the I near future He moved to amend by referring the section No 10 together I with Mr Wilsons proffered substitute to the attorney general for an opinion the constitutionality of the substi tute having been questioned by Mr Andrus Wlthoutputting the pending motion bill recommitted the speaker ordered the bi recommi ted to the judiciary The house then took a recess tilll30 AFTERNOON SESSION Whenthe Tiouse convened in the afternoon af-ternoon Mir Critohlow at once called trnoon up his bill amending the law in relation rela-tion to justifiable homicide which was ton interim down s a special order In the terim since the bill was last up Mr Critchlow had inserted an amendment to the section involved extending the number of instances when homicide is justifiable to include when committed to prevent an attempt to commit rape I upon the wife mother daughter sister or other female relative or dependent being later added or an attempt is made to defile such person the amendment amend-ment being intended to compensate in some measure for the portion of the section to be repealed Dr Condon inquired as to what difference dif-ference the bill a thus amended made I in the present law Mr Critchlow explained that i the bill passed the law would stand as now except that the justification jn the heat of passion and in cases when the offense had been committed were removed ofen5e ben commIte wer r moved Mr Stevens spoke against the bill He thought there was not enough difference dif-ference to warrant taking up the time of the house in passing the bill Mr Smoot spoke very earnestly and at considerable length In opposition to the measure He thought the chief objection ob-jection to the bill now was that killing was not justifiable after the offense had been committed This however wa sufficient reason why i should not pass He took exception to the statement made by Mr Critchlow when he first spoke In favor of the bill that tnere a not a respectable minority of the practicing attorneys of the state who prctcing attrne o would say the bill was anything but barbarous In its tendencies He had taken occasion to Investigate the matter mat-ter and could say he had found some of the ablest lawyers in the city who favored the present law remaining He held that a man should be by the law justified in taking the law into his own hands and acting a judge jury and executioner ex-ecutioner when his home had been invaded in-vaded and any member of his family defiled Mr Nebeker of Salt Lake thought the bill as amended was infinitely better than before but while all members of family warp protected a hired girl or servant was nOt There were many respectable re-spectable girls who went out to service vice to whom the jurisdiction of the law should extend To satisfy the gentleman tleman Mr Critchlow consented to insert in-sert the provision relating to dependents depend-ents entsDr Dr Condon moved the previous question ques-tion on > the final passage of the bill speak but gave way to allow Mr Murdock to Mr Murdock considered the bill a It now stood a highly proper one The old law was enacted many years ago I and had doubtless served its purpose well but we had now reached a time when it could bp improved and should be He considered it eminently proper that the justification when the offense had been committed should be removed remov-ed I was a bad thing t let a man I know that he could weeks after an I act had hem committed go out and shoot another down in cold blood Mr Bolitho interpolated the inquiry I as to which the gentleman considered the worst the attempt to commit or the accomplishment Mr Murdock in replying said he did not want his boy to feel that he was justified Jn taking human lifeunder any circumstances He thought his and almost any other mans boys would feel with the law as at resent res-ent that they were in duty bound to avenge any great wrong which they might learn had been done a sister Mr Nebeker asked i he did not want all young men to feel that there was great danger in leading girls astray Mr Murdock replied that if a law was drafted making i capital punishment punish-ment for such offences he would vote Continued on Page 2 t t TT d |