Show OLD POLYGAMY MY PROSECUTIONS 4 Memory Revived by Bill For Pay Payment ment of Witnesses and Jurors 4 CLUBS MUST PAY LICENSES MEAS MAKES HAXE LIQUOR LAW APPLY I Fifteen Fi e n new nev nei bills bUls were introduced in inthe the th state senate yesterday The rhe po no polygamy Jy a y prosecutions pros pra conducted in the tho territory Were recalled re by one of the th measures me providing for the reimburse reimbursement e ment nent of jur rs and ana witnesses s Among the other measures n were bills requiring clubs to t take out liquor licenses licens S taxa taxation liOn tion tl n of l Corporations at the rate of 10 cents a thousand annually on capital ca Ital stock and amI exempting flOO a month and smaller salaries front garnishment g Senator Bennion presented the bill for rol old witness fees S B 1 It prO pr prOvides vides vIdea for or the appropriation of over among about thirty claimants were ere either eithe Jurors or witnesses in crim criminal crimInal inal prosecutions prof mostly polygamy cases Cacs between 1874 and 1882 TV will ill remember that aft art after after er the wholesale l polygamy prosecutions prosecutions prosecutions were begun congress passed an act directing tle tite territory t to Pay all Jurors jUror and witnesses es their fees This the territory refused d to do in full at atthe atthe atthe the time the local authorities whose sympathies 8 were with the polygamists contending o tending that congress had no right t tto to take action appropriating territorial funds The Th consequence was that several thousand dollars worth of certificates were wO W b left unpaid until after statehood Aj U last session the state legislature provided pr for the payment of the fixing a time limit for the there urea re nt of or claims The present bill Is intended to supplement that pied pi of legislation by providing for forthe the payment of certificates which were not presented within the time limit and for the reimbursement of a few persons whose certificates were lost According to affidavits filed with the bill blU the records show that the fees represented by the lost l st certificates never have been paid out by the state The Th bill was referred to the state board of ot claim examiners for tor audit Hits Rits Clubs and Resorts The city authorities of Salt Lake have found it practically Impossible under tinder the he he present law to collect liquor licence fees fe s from clubs associations or on disreputable resorts or to prevent the sale of liquor In such places The state I law IS BO 10 o worded as to apply only to saloonkeepers Other dealers have i flaunted their federal licenses in the ther r faces of the authorities and have been able to persist in the traffic Senator A B Lewis yesterday Introduced a measure S B amending the liquor license lICens law so as to make mak it I t apply to associations clubs and sporting houses and otherwise fortifying It at technical points so as to make its en enforcement enforcement n possible Senate Bill No by Senator S Lewis Provides for A o monthly exemption exem tion tien In garnishment cases Two measured measures which If enacted anti and enforced would mean from to of ot revenue to the state every year ear also were w 1 introduced ed by Senator Lewis senate bills Nos and The first firs named na ed provides es for the filing with the tary df f state by wh eh fh corpora corporation corporation corporation tion of ot an annualS annual an ual statement shown showing the amount of capital stock the amount In and the resources sources r and liabilities ties The Th latter 1 measure provides for foran foran an annuM annual tax of ot 10 cents for f each 1000 in capital stock paid in the fee to be paid upon the filing of the annual state statement statement statement ment It is provided that the th state statements statements ments shall not be open to the public except pt upon an order of court and that tha the charter ot f a corporation failing falling to tofile tofile tofile file the required statement shall be re revoked ry r yoked d s Grist of New Bills Other OthOr bills presented are as follows Senate Bill No by b McKay In Including pipes within the application I of ot law which permits an owner of a water right to enlarge the I ditch or flume fiume passing through the land lam landof landor of or a neighbor Senate Bill No by Johnson Per Permitting the arbitration of water ater right disputes Senate Bill No by Johnson Au an issue by corporations of ot j I preferred or other classes of stock Pre Preferred Preferred Preferred stock has been issued under the present corporation law Jaw but there has been some doubt as to the legality Senate Bill No Hi by Lewis For a county sheep inspector to be under bond and entitled to 3 a day and 10 cents a mile mileage to be paid by bythe bythe bythe the person whoso whose sheep she p are Inspected the inspector to be authorized to quarantine quarantine quarantine antine for scab or other contagious dis case to o dip and nd to give a clean bill of health owners made liable for dam damage damage damage age caused by failure to keep diseased sheep in quarantine Senate Bill BilI No by Bennion Making judges chambers coextensive with their districts Senate Bill No by Whitmore Repealing the act establishing establiSh Ing the bu bureau reau renu of ot statistics According to Sen Sea Senator Senator ator Whitmore the bureau has found Itself unable to accomplish results owing to the failure of property owners I |