Show res Brief Visit t to o Salt Lake j 0 NEW NE MEASURES IN THE SENATE One bill was passed and two new measures were w re introduced in the senate yesterday 7 r Johnson introduced S B No 0 50 O h is an amendment to the law wr 11 the payment of per diem dad aad nd e allowance for tor jurors in to t tt t quests que tR The old d law allows a aF mw F and 20 j t tnt per r mile in going to tn fn 1 inquest t for fr jurors sworn to attend in inquests n quests while the amendment proposes that they shall be entitled to the t amount when legally required to serve It was referred to the Judiciary committee Senate bill No N 71 1 by b Tanner pro proposes proPOses poses noses a change in the system of equal equalizing eQualizing equalizing izing taxes iu n cities of the third ThIM The he kill bill III provides that the county corn COID of f each county coun ty as a board of ot equalization shall equalize equalise the these as a se roll of the whole county In Ift Including eluding the assessments for tor g general genera taxes of cities and towns instead of leaving the equalizing equalising power to Councils of or third class claas cities as u hereto heretofore fore This measure was referred fco to t the Ute committee ommIttee on county and am municipal corporations cOrpor n nun Gouny un Commissioner Bill Dill BillJ J s Ibm bill to chancre dauge the tte term of ot of county nty ty nen from tr mt two t year yel so 90 that tat ith t 11 the election on next year one commissioner k shall be elected for four years yrs and end two t tw for foi two tw years was aa reported by tie the committee on oft n county and municipal corporations and recommended for pee pat passage sage The report was wu adopted and aub sub subsequently the Ute bill bm under a suspension of the rules rues w was s about to be voted upon ion ionI I en un fl h he be question que of ot ita Its final Unal passage wh wb vv h n Senator Love objected object d He want wanted ed more light on the subject and the measure was lowed to go over till T Monday j Under the head of committee reports report 4 J also S B No M relating to the eJ c e eV V r tion of qt municipal officers was returned a recommendation Pee atlon that it be re ls referred re I ferr to the committee on county and municipal corporations The recommendation w we s acted upon The bill bRI introduced by No Nos 38 s providing for the approval of the i bonds bunds of the die state treasurer auditor and am attorney general was passed after ater some debate with an amendment dment giving the approving power to th the state board of examiners instead of ot the i inor xo to 0 gover over governor governor nor as originally in tented ed Lawrence LaWTence wanted to know mow If certain members of the board uld not be in a position poskin to pass upon their own awn surety Yes Ye assented as Howell the attorney attorney attorney ney general who li wi wih h the governor a d secretary of state constitutes the board would ouid be in that position but his hie bond would be subject to the approval of the theother th other two members as ae well Lawrence suggested that the power I be given to supreme court adding addi g fl r It t Is bad policy to allow officials to act upon each others othere bonds anyway He Hero proposed ro this thI as a substitute amend n d dment ment nent Kesel K h sel suggested that the occasion might arise when hen ben the supreme court 1 would hare tode to deIde a question of or the tle theE E of the bonds in case cane of de do default fault Lawrence withdrew his nis tute and the bill was passed by a vete vote 4 ot of 17 to 0 O Petitions 1 Two o petitions were ere presented on oRe one oner toy oti r f va President Evans Evanz vans and the other by Son Sen Senator I ator Smoot both being beinA resolution C 1 at a mass meeting of at Provo protesting against the board of health rules rule in excluding children from public schools and a d further protesting prote tt against Governor mor Wells action The z ix petition which M wa as is signed by Royal M I L Barney and other Provo i i a committee of the meeting asks the senate to defeat the proposed ed and enact the lc Inn bill blU Another echo of the Boise junket wee was M heard when Senator Murdock offered off r r 4 senate concurrent resolution No 5 ex extending e tending the thanks banks of the nat a ad d house huse if the latter concurs to the th firms ft fi s of Salt Satt Lake City which contributed to the comforts of the trip The resolution i tion was unanimously adopted |