| Show THE legislature tiie statesmen hard at work IMPORTANT MEASURES UNDER consideration the bill for a fourth district declared to be impracticable the or franic act MONDAYS WORK COUNCIL mr hall presented a bill to invalidate certain titles claims mortgages etc referred to committee on judiciary mr hall also presented another bill to enable members of corporations to raise loans to be used among vea only the bill is a very lengthy one referred to committee on private ancor po rations mr hall presented a bill to amend sections 2320 23 20 and 5 22 re to committee on railroads A from the governor giving an to visit the at prove february and signed by the president of the board of that institution was referred to committee on asylum mr hall reported that the joint committee on a messenger for alie iro vernor had met and disagreed owing to the former instruction of the council to its committee the report was adopted mr richards presented a resolution empowering the secretary of the territory to employ a messenger for alie governor during the present sitting of the legislature at a salary of ia per day mr hatch moved to amend by striking oat the four and making it two it received no second alie resolution was adopted by a vote of 9 to 2 mr lund presented an item of stationery expense of the second district chui coui t to alie amount of due geo D co ot st louis referred to committee on claims ins HOUSE after alie ui ual preliminaries mr naked that mr ferry of summit county be excused for the day the request was granted mr reid presented H F 12 a bill for an act providing for the collection of taxes on t ansi tory referred to committee on ays and means he also presented H F 13 a bill au and requiring the several county recorders to furnish abstracts of mortgages to the assessors of the county where the mortgagee resides referred to committee on ways and means another bill by the same gentlemen section lf the compiled laws referred mr presented a bill repealing section 2206 of the compiled laws the same appear to be covered in the recent amendments offered committee on live stock mr thurman from the committee on judiciary to whom had been referred H F 7 a bill creating and denning the fourth judicial district reported the legislature had not power to pass such a bill but recommended that congress be to empower the legislature to create and define such a nis brict they recommended therefore eliat the bill be laid upon the table mr alien wanted the matter to go over for a day or so until lie got time to think about it he was not a lawyer but he wanted to read the law mr had no particular desire to crowd alie matter but the statutes said should le divided into three judicial districts alien it said that it did not mean four districts he thought that the report should at once be adopted mr allen thought it might be better to pass alie law in question send it to congress and ask that body to ratify it mr thurman said that idea had received consideration but it was the idea of the committee eliat it would be better to set absolute power on the matter mr pierce was in favor of at once adopting the alie report of the committee if was hid idea th at congress intended to reserve the power to divide the territories into judicial districts and that legislature had no power in the matter ohp report of the commit tco was adopted mr kam ball presented the claims of G R belnap sheriff of weber county and asked that they be referred to the committee on claims and public accounts tho speaker presented a communication from H L A culmer concerning the matter of the establishment of a burgau of statistics which vas referred court commissioner presented his report for the two years last past which was read and referred A message from the council announced that that body had passe I 1 C J R 1 providing for the appointment of an executive messenger messen gei the of the resolution went over until tuesday TUESDAYS WORK THE COUNCIL A communication was received from the house announcing that it had received alie report of court commissioner peoer which was sent for the tion of the council it was read and returned to alia house agreeable to request committee on tho judiciary reported 0 F 4 to validate and make addiss able in evidence certain mortgages deeds ats etc and stated that they had examined the same and recommended atiat it be received as a bill the report aas adopted 0 F G a bill to prohibit members of fhe legislature from being appointed to certain offices way reported favorably upon by alie same committee and alie report adopted committee un claims reported ad en the claim pi george D barnard A co of st louia for stationary furnished clerk of the second district court the claim of dr M H hardy for services rendered at the insane asylum were reported upon and the committee asked that the account be disallowed the report vaa adopted and the account committee on insane asylum reporter favorably on iho invitation to isit provo an tile 21 ehst the report was accepted b a vote of C lo 10 5 the two liberal members voting against each A wa a introduced by mr bootle to the effect that john dturner WT urner court 0 alie first judicial district be ten days in which to make Ms report owing to sickness in bis family the resolution were adopted C JF 4 on deeds and conveyances to bo made valid as evidence passed its second reading with one amendment bainy added by sir C C richards Q F 0 to prohibit members of the froni beag to acrin passed pie read ingland e niiles was suspended for the third rending the bill was then passed with a full vote in the litlo was amended by adding the words or elected and then approved as alio title of the act A communication was received from alip 0 public accounts stating hp lease of his office became vacant on thead the ad of 6 on appropriations A communication was received from 0 J of the chamber of commerce iny itin the niem bera to attend a meeting of ane chamber cn amber for the discussion of a proposition to rase an appropriation for the eving of the streets of salt lake city and other improvements the invitation was accepted for alie dinst C F 4 was aaen read and was amended by adding alie word approved it was then placed on its passage II 11 voting in its fauvor the title of the bill was made the title of the acta communication from the honse was read informing tho council that the bonse had accepted alie invitation to visit the insane asylum on the dinst TUB several heads under the order of business were called and passed without any response when alie introduction of bills was reached mr hammond introduced II 11 F 16 a bill to amend sections 2802 of alie compiled laws referred to the committee on judiciary C it 1 a resolution in reference to a messenger waa taken from the table under a suspension of the rules it was read tiie first and second time mr alien thought a point of order could be raised against this method of alie resolution had been referred to a joint committee and that committee had never made any rep rt and now to pass it would not be in keep ing with dignity the chair informed the house that the committee referred to had disagreed mr creer was not in favor of alie passage of the resolution lie noticed appropriation biad been made alie last two sessions for the governor and lie considered this duplicating former measures the manner of aliis measure coming up as it lias struck him as a little strange lie was in favor of the measure but nut of aliis way of doing it on motion the matter went over till today to day when it will be made a special order A communication was received from alie council accompanied by a written invitation to visit alie asylum on thursday stating eliat they had accepted alie invitation to vi it said institution on thursday alie hist on motion of williams the indita tion was accepted by alie house C it 6 waa received this is the john W turner matter referred to on alie council proceedings alien alio light lucli a resolution as aliis could not be suspended under the territorial law it would require a joint resolution at least if it could be done nt all kimball creer and thurman all agreed eliat alie law requiring the court commissioner to report within alie first ten days of the session is merely directory and not mandatory and that without any action now the report could come in later and might be accepted by them alien moved to amend by inserting do not concur but the chair ruled tap amendment not in order as it was a mere negative of the original proposition upon the motion to concur aping called it was almost unanimously A communication chamber of commerce was received inviting the legislature to meet with the chamber on thursday to to consider certain questions with regard to paving streets and sidewalks and also the proposition as to whether we should not ask for a government building to cost instead of the invitation was accepted |
