Show SOLONS PROPOSE NEW COUNTY JOB Poor Commissioner Created Creat d r May ay Be For Anderson Ande son SEVERAL MEASURES PASSED f S THE THE th BILL AND I OTHERS INTRODUCED INTRODUCE 4 If I A new county job is to be created r and anI a special tax x levi levied levid d If It a measure I originating in committee on onI counties runs the gantlet The com corn committee I e yesterday reported several sev 1111 amendments to Senator Looses bill bUt changing the law relating to county boards so as to permit the granting of lIf ofa ofa a franchise t tl ti a n A in which he is Interested rhe The house com corn committee committee tacked on some amendments ts making radical changes in the law lav cre creating creating creating the officE of poor commissioner r rand and providing for a special tax for a poor iund besides making incorporated cities share part of the burden of f the care of jf the poor Without waiting to learn what the amendments were about the house adopted the report thereby ing all an the amendments am in the bill The measure was not placed on its final passage however and it has been or dered reprinted The first change ch nie proposed by the rom cam is to give health rs a com corn j I i of not over 3 a day Then rhen t I the committee seeks to tack a little expense on incorporated cities and towns by providing that wherever any indigent person or persons ns are tined the city must furnish medical at drugs and nurses and pay all expenses of burial In case of death Settlement Is Defined Iff Settlement required In order to tomake t tomake 1 I make any indigent person a care upon t e county is defined at length Four m residence is needed to acquire settlement and four months absence destroys It ft County commissioners are authorized to levy ey a special tax not exceeding 1 mill on the dollar doUar all aU of which Is to be turned into a special I poor fund The commissioners are re authorized to I appoint one of their number a poor commissioner to have special charge of the relief of the poor In addition to te his regular salary as a county commission commissioner er he is to receive not over a year in counties of t the first second s and third classes and not over a year In oth other other er counties The suggestions for these changes came from county commissioners of Weber Salt Lake and arid other counties said Chairman Colton of the commit committee tee on counties Some of the amend amendments amendments ments meats were vere submitted to us and some were drawn in the committee There Is a suspicion that the bill Is designed largely to provide a fat job for Cor Fussy Jimmy Anderson Under its provisions and the existing law a county commissioner could receive a maximum compensation of 2300 a year as follows Regular salary 1500 i salary as po pOor r commissioner exI ex P ns i Bills B s Passed assed In House eoUse t The following bills were passed passe t by t the house houser i s sHouse House Bill BUr No 29 J by eri acting in different form the statute ex x tempting ng former soldiers from froni pa papon poll pon tax House Bill No 61 t Iy by McKinnon Requiring ng payment of persons person um m ed as s jurors j or witnesses whether th er l they are afe sworn or not Senate Bill Bin No 52 by Lawrence Al lowing executors to lease or bond Dond min mn jag ing claims The he house concurred c In the ranat 4 amendments to house hOlS bill bIU No o 24 4 b bEvans by Evans ceding to the United States ht gi r v eminent ern elJ jurisdiction over land occuPied occupied Pied pled by federal l buildings bill for fora a sheep heep scab in inspector inspector inspector was killed during the authors I absence on account of illness Heber 1 A Smith who has introduced i a a sim ilar lIar bill bUl declared Metcalf care if his legislative IE child was slaughtered The question of raising the salaries j of o district and supreme judges came cam up the bills bUls on the subject by Represent Representative tive Spry and Senator Bamberger Leing eing the special order of the day Tha whole subject was referred back to the corn com committees on judiciary and salaries and fees fe s for further consideration The question of constitutionality of some points in the bills has been raised New Bills Introduced New bills bUls were introduced as fol follows lows H B 84 by Done by request Amends sections 1667 revised statutes relating to oaths and bonds of no notaries notaries tunes public and provides that tha the bonds shall be approved by the judge or clerk of the district dIstrictS court Instead a of the secretary of state The secre secretary secretary secretary tary of state is to issue two copies of the commission one of which with the autograph and the impression of his seal shall be filed with the clerk of or the district court The other is to remain the prop property property property erty of the notary Referred to the committee on judiciary H IL B 85 5 by Mrs Airs Coulter Tho anti antt cigarette a c provides p vIles that any person under und the age of oZ IS years who wh J shall shaH buy accept or have haye in hi pos pas po possession session any cigar cigarette tte or tobacco in any form or any opium or other narcotic in any eny form shall be guilty of ofa a m misdemeanor de eanor and upon conviction thereof th shall be fined tined in hi any aily sum not dot exceeding 25 or by imprisonment in inthe inthe Inthe the county jail jaB for a 3 term terra not exceed exceeding exceeding ing thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment Referred to the committee on judiciary H B 86 56 by Mrs Coulter Forbids any person under the age of or 18 IS years entering any public place where bil bU billiards billiards or pool is played The penalty is a fine not exceeding 25 or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days or orby orby orby by both fine and imprisonment Re Referred Referred Referred to the committee on judiciary State Experiment Farms The Chipman bill establishing state experiment farms was under discus discussion discUssion dIscussion sion for a short time The committee on livestock recommended fixing the number at three farms instead of five and cutting the appropriation from 7 to for the first year and from for Cor the second year These amendments were adopted Spry proposed d two amendments giving gIving ing sole authority in the matter to the directors of oJ the agricultural ex experiment experIment experiment station without the intervention intervention tion don of the state slate land board They were adopted Merrill then spoke of the fact tact that there is already an experiment firm farm jarm in Washington county under the of the state board of or horti fi re He m H wanted this placed under 1 the Jam am m supervision and moved moed to bill for revision toward hM end en Over the protest of Molyneux who d red the th Washington on county farm farma a fp horticulture JI t only and that its status S Should shoud not be hanged changed the mo nio mon IW I n h was carried Ca rIed |