Show GRASSHOPPERS A POUND POUN J 1 I i V 1 n House H use Agrees on this Bounty Amending Larsen Bill kT 4 OTHER OTH 8 MEASURES MEAS RES PASSED MOL WANTS ALL AIL LL mGR HIGH EXPLOSIVES LABELED 4 One cent a pound will wUl be paid for grasshoppers rs if it the senate concurs in inthe inthe Inthe the house amendment to Senator C P Larsons Larson s grasshopper g bill and if it the governor gives his approval The Th houSe hou e yesterday after considerable debate d bate passed P the bill with one amendment reducing the bounty from 1 to 1 cent centa a which makes the rate 60 cents cent centa a bushel The debate brought out considerable information about grasshoppers pers the lairs haunts ravages and modes of ot otc capture c No sooner had the bill come up when Child of or Weber county rose to oppose it ft Its time to draw the line on this flits giving s ving of ot bounties he said We have hive grasshoppers in our county but we dont ask the state to come to our res rescue rescue cue I I believe we wo ought to leave this to the county commissioners If this thing goes on well have grasshopper hatcheries hat herles down south Chipman told of o the experience in Utah county where 50 cents a bushel of sixty pounds was paid the total amount expended last season being Cut Bounty Bate Rate Austin moved an amendment cutting the c rate from 1 to 1 cent a pound Child brought out the information tion that eight or ten bushels of hop hoppers hopp hoppers pers p rs could co ld be caught in a day and sug suggested suggested suggested that at this rate it would be bemore bemore beS S more profitable to raise grasshopper T than wheat McFarland tried to strike strikeout strikeout strikeout out the clause making makin an appropriation tion but failed Anderson wanted the bounty fixed at BO 60 cents bushel but failed taIled explained that in Utah county the grasshoppers had in many places de destroyed destroyed 90 50 per cent of or the crop He told how the insects were usually caught Cither Ither Just at lawn or J after sunset a couple of men carry carr j between them on horseback a long I j frame over which canvas is stretched stretch ea and lope along over the field The l i hoppers fly up and are caught in the I I canvas sack Austins amendment was wa I I finally adopted r I Stewart offered an amendment pro providing I I viding that the state pay half halt Instead of or all the bounty This was lost and then the bill was put on Its final pas passage passage passage sage and carried The house concurred in the senate amendment to house bill No 26 by Brink extending to lodging houses the tile protection of the act against obtaining food or lodging under false pretenses pretense Going to Logan An invitation from President W J Kerr Herr of the Agricultural college asking the legislature to visit that institution was received Barrett Stoker and Merrill were appointed a committee to confer with a like lika committee of ot the senate as to the time of accepting this invitation and the similar one to visit the University of Utah Morris bill house bill No 50 provid ing that the state land funds may be loaned to the general fund on ott state notes to make nake up deficits was taken up and passed in the absence of its sponsor Luther and Hawley tried to get an ah amendment am tacked allowing the Investment of tho ho land bind f nd funda fUnds In irrigation bonds Stoker Chipman Richards McFarland and Austin con tended that Irrigation Investment would be unsafe McFarland called caned attention aUen Uon to the fact that the state had a reservoir fund which can be used for irrigation pur purposes purposes poses The amendment was voted down and then the bill was passed House Bill No 28 by Nash Revising the provisions for the burial by the cOunty cb fy of indigent old soldiers came up on a motion by Condon to reconsIder er Cr The bill had failed to pass because it could not muster enough votes to carry arry the emergency clause After some discussion the emergency clause was stricken out and the measure passed without dissent House Bill Bm No o 46 by Austin Chang ing the bureau of statistics law so as to provide a penalty for refusal to fur tur furnish nish rush Information came bame up Roberts said eald the assessor of or Cache county ob to the provisions making the county assessors collect certain information Information Information mation de declaring that the assessors could not get the facts as ns well as some other official Roberts asked that the bIl be recommitted to consider su h changes After some opposition this action was taken New Bills Introduced Besides B the two measles affecting j the university and agricultural discussed in another column new ne bills I were introduced as follows H BNo 74 by Molyneux Requires that after Jan 1 I 1904 all high ex explosives plosives containing nitroglycerine of offered offered offered for sale or kept In the state for forA A sale eale or use shall be packed In boxes or orp packages p and marked plainly with the name and place of business of the manufacturer date of ot manufacture and percentage of nitroglycerine or other r high explosive therein contained It Is made unlawful to have explosives o 0 of different dates in the same box or o to use a wrapper or or package pac age a second 4 time Penalty a fine of ot not over or Imprisonment for misdemeanor or both Referred to the committee on Judiciary H B No 76 by Hamlin by request Requires the county treasurer to write or stamp pa each tax receipt the amount of ot back taxes due and whether the property has been sold for tor della delin delinquent quent taxes Referred to the commit tee on Judiciary H B No 77 by Condon Is Identical in Its provisions with S B No Na 85 Si for the care of dependent children Re to the committee off orf Judiciary |