Show ture a Day at t Dome orne I f IMPORTANT T BILLS BEFORE THE SENATE 4 That tired feeling was predominant in the tile senate to such suh a degree yeter er ercia day cia that the solons J do any very v fJ 3 extensive legislating They did man manage age B 8 though e to get very much tangled tD ed edon on two or three questions que and ad Anoy adjourned alter after a session ses lasting three ch re houra including tWo o 0 recesses e rece during which time wa given them to think things over This is the way w y those tho e three hours bound were spent ent R To approving minutes of Wednesday V Y joint John session seRMon Thursday and Fri Fit Friday day 1 I hour To introduction of two bills 5 minutes To consideration of resolution re thank thanking thankIng thankIng ing O 0 S L railway 25 minutes To consideration of or resolution re thank irr I Idaho 1 14 10 minutes To recess 15 minutes To signing I 1 4 bills by the r I ITo den 4 minutes To another H ce during which Senator Thomas slept W IG minutes To further consideration of h b rt t felt resolutions 10 mut To Incidentals Incidental Si n t minutes The senators started out om well No o sooner i had ad the minutes of or the Joint see ses session eion sion ion Wednesday been een n than tham thc president pr t suggested suggest d that all reference to tJ Benner X Smiths Smith resolution boost boosting booSting ot ing lug Major Grant be expunged from the i records words It was done unanimously Then President Evans Evan wanted Tours Than Tb nt days day minutes s amended to how bow that tbt the senate had hd met at 3 t t it ii was Wednesday Jy that the meeting I had ad been held at that hour bour Howell be bethought thought himself that the minutes ot 0 f Thursday had been read once end and it took ns k ping OB on the part of the president and Mr el to con ince him bun that he was wae wrong Things were progressing nicely when hen Bennion discovered a typographical er or error error oror or in one of the journals a line turned 4 upside down Several senators ex exchanged e I changed hanged significant glances for or they could not see ee it that way They bad acI d their journals in front of th tn m and jf M they find any Hn s inverted and aDd suspicious suspicions glances gla were turned upon Mr Air Bennion It developed finally that he 11 was tas right and that the unspoken accusation ow OC from senators who ho w ere ete scar n ing the journals of f the house they having teen those in con connection connection connection with the consideration of o the joint session Ion Resolution Re of Thanks President n t and Senator AUler AMer offered senate concurrent resolutions Nos os 3 and aad ad 4 r sp and thanking the he Oregon Short Line tAne Railroad corn com company pany fo for the Id bo special 8 and th the theother other pruning P the Idahoans Idahoan from the I governor of or the tile state to the legislative l messengers mes engers for their hospitality and inviting the officials f and legislators to tJ return the visit whenever they felt f lt like it Mr mt mo moved vert that both resolutions resolutions t ion 3 be referred to the railroad com corn committee committee He lIe intimated that the wording A of both tooth w too gushing gu ing anyway and needed modifying rg The e on railroads retired r with the resolutions re and ami the senate proceeded to her hear three bills read react and referred Townsite Lands 4 One of these No 48 by Howen Is 18 an ana anat anat I a at t for the relief of the occupants of townsite lands lande in n the cases es of or persons Who ho have lived live for seven or more years in continuous possession lon of f such lands and providing that when fifteen years haU haIt have elapsed ed after the date a pat patent patent ent fOnt in is a entry such r settlers shall eMU be entitled to a deed ded to tot the t property and an may secure the tile deed by applying to the district court and paying not to exceed 5 5 an acre If It the lana lane is situated within a city or in incorporated Incorporated town toWn the application must be mode made m de to the thema mayor r or the e president of the board of trustees Adultery Prosecutions The first bill bitt to t be e introduced ty by y President Evans Evens No 49 is a proposed ed amendment to section 4 U of the Ithe re revised Statutes of 1318 8 in relation to making complaints and commencing proceedings In criminal cases canes It con a making it necessary for prosecutions prosecution for tor to be begun Un only on complaint made noade by the legal tv wire ie or husband of the accused Forest Reserves Memorial Senator Sherman presented ted a mem memorial memorial orial urial addressed to the secretary of the interior r at tt Washington The memorial is a request for tor a reconsideration of the die theA A It action Uon of the United States land com corn commissioner missioner in m withdrawing from settle settlement ment entry or other disposal bat liat No ember all vacant and lands from ni township No 2 north to township No 13 south and from range ran e ev Nu No v 5 east to range No 2 west pend pond pending pending ing a decision n as to the advisability of or orro c renting ro a forest reserve in the interest of the water supply of Salt Lake La e City The memorial recites that the area of land thus withdrawn Is out of proportion proportion tion ion t to the benefits to be derived trots inus much as only a few thousand usand acres acrea of o othis this land and has only connection with or relation to t the water supply As u to the tiie remainder of the vast tract Hs iu reser reservation r ration prevents prevent the citizens ns from ac acquiring acquiring quiring lands ands under the land laws of o othe the United States and also al o prevents prevent the front from selecting el ing these e val valuable valuable valuable grazing grasing lands in satisfaction of Q its Is S grants grante to Utah by congress 11 T The mt memorial l asks for an investigation tt A tion to be made in the near future futie k kang ang ing o io the restoration of the withdrawn AI 4 lands to public domain Senator St Kle Kiesel el caused cau ed considerable merriment by offering a resolution benedictions on n the Oregon Ore Oreg n Line Liue and all its ita officers and anI on the prize engine No 52 for or bringing I ft Vt hs bs legislators through their journey I without anything more serious than titan thana I Ia a slight headache he apiece The resolution i tion was wan read twice before its tt author consented to withdraw it ft The railroad comm reported the resolutions of thanks for tor the Idaho Iho trip I and ami they were adopted unanimously I including a vote ote of commendation for I D S Spencer the master of oC transportation tation for tor his energetic services dur I ing ins the trip Other business transacted during durin the I session was wan as the signing by Iby the dH th prest preal dent of senate enate joint faint memorial memoria No 3 congress to aid In the re no mation of arid lands in Utah House bill No o 47 17 Ib by Smith Smidt was read and nd referred to the judiciary j committee i |