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Show House Notes A bill having to do with prison-made goods from outside tho stateof Utah haa been prepared and will be offered for the consideration of the house by Welling of Box Elder. In speaking of the bill hist night, D. F. Collctt, secretarv of tliu Manufacturers Association of Utah, who prepared It. said: "It was our Intention to present a bill that would prohibit tho sale In Utah of goods made by convict labor in other states. Attorney General Albert R. Barne3 Informed us that this would not bo allowed by the Interstate commerce laws. The provisions of the bill as prepared pre-pared requiro one who nell3 convict-made goodB to take out a license costing S50o and to be backed by reliable bondsmen to i the amount of $5000. Also he shall mark and brand every article sold, 'Convict - I Made,' and shall keep a record of goods bought, from whom, prices naid and to whom sold, and make a public report at specified intervals." I Th house ,'esterday adopted II .J. H No. " In CnnU b" Tqnent. iiMlijnr t , irapitrl om i.lsslon to speuf, lie use o, I rtah matortalH onlr whercvar Doeslble In tho construction of tho state house. Tho vote was 85 to 9. Those who opposed the rosolutlon said they had ample- faith in the wisdom and ability of tho capltol commission and wcro opposed to tying Its hands in nny way. Tho same resolution reso-lution was killed In the senate last week by a large majority. The house yesterday passed II. B. No.' 11. by Barnes, prohibiting fake "fire." damage." "wreck" and other numor-ously-advortlsed "saleB." An amendment amend-ment by the committee makes the penalty pen-alty a fine of from $2G to ?300 Instead of from $100' to JS000. Anothor amendmont roduces tho imprisonment from a maximum maxi-mum of twelve months to six months. Christcnsen's H. TJ. No. 33 was passed by tho houso yesterday. The bill prohibits pro-hibits unfair competition and discrimination discrimina-tion on tho part of any person or company com-pany bolwoen dlfferont sections of tho stato and applies to domestic and foreign corporations alike. It is designed, according accord-ing to the author or tho mcnouro. to prevent pre-vent a big company underselling a amnll-or amnll-or conooni in any part of tho state until tho amaller company Is compelled to go out of business and then raising tho ratea again. Mr. Chrlstonson gavo as an Illustration a case In Sevior county, where, ho said, a. small salt, works wan put out of business by the bigger salt interests in-terests which sold salt In Sevier at less than one-half the figure It charged Jn other parts of the state. Other Instances of like character wore cited. Tho altornoy gcnoral is" empowered to prosecute violations of the act, Avhcn. In his Judgment, prosecution should bo had. Thin provision makes Its operation stale-wldo stale-wldo If the bill becomes a law. The original bill provides for a minimum mini-mum penalty of a fine of $200 and a maximum fine of $10,000. These wcro reduced re-duced to $100 and 53000, respectively. A bill was introduced yesterday in tho house by Loveless of Utah providing thut no county attornoy shall defend within his county any person charged with crime, nor shall it ho lawful for any county attorney to act as counsel for env railroad, electric light, telegraph, or tele-phono tele-phono corporation during his term of office. of-fice. A bill was introduced In the houso yesterday yes-terday by Morris of Washington for an appropriation of J1000 for the renair of a bridge across the Rio Virgin in Washington Wash-ington county. Speaker. Secly yestordav signed S. B. No. 10, by Lunt. relating to interest on deferred payments on state lands. Tho bill had previously been signed by tho president of the senate and It Is now with the governor. Tho committee on municipal corporations corpora-tions vestcrday reported favorably Car-don's Car-don's IT. 15. No. G3, relating to tho extension exten-sion of time for claimants of lots In town-sites. town-sites. Tho same committee reported favorably fa-vorably Cardon's IT. B. No. 30. requiring bonds from corporations receiving franchises fran-chises from cities. Tl. B. No. 40. by Carrion, relating to punishment for statutory offenses, was passed by tho house yestorday. The bill makes the possible punishment more sevore and gives the-lower courts greaton discretion. Reynolds's H. , B. No, 44 was passed in I tho house yesterday. The bill takes from the bonk commissioner the power to prevent pre-vent persons engaging In the banking huslness wherever they see fit to do so. The prosent law provides that tho bank commissioner shall bo the Judge of whether or not any locallj-v alrcadv has banks enough. Mr. Reynolds cited tho situation at American Fork, where, ho said, thore was but one bank and where anqlher was needed. He said there should be opportunity for competition In tho banking business as well as In any other kind of business. Barrios of Salt Lake yesterday Introduced Intro-duced in the house a bill declaring It unlawful un-lawful for a atroet railway company to operate a streot oar for the transportation transpor-tation of passengers unless there be in cho.rgg of such car a motornian and a conductor. Violation of tho act is made a misdemeanor, punishable by a tine of not less than 50 nor more than $250. to be Imposed upon the official responsible for the violation. Each day's continuation continua-tion of the operation of cars without tho presence of tho two operatives Indicated is made a soparatc offense. A bill of great importance to laboring men of union affiliations was introduced In the bouse yesterday by Barnes of Salt Lako. The bill declares that It shall be unlawful for any individual or member of any firm, or any agent, officer of employee em-ployee of any company or corporation, to coerce, require, demand or Influence any person into any agreement, either written writ-ten or verbal, not to Join a labor organization organ-ization or not to remain a membor If he Is ono already, as a condition of such por-son por-son procuring employment or continuing In tho employ of tho employers described. de-scribed. Violation Is made a misdemeanor, punishable pun-ishable by a fine of not less than $o0 or Imprisonment In the county jail for not less than thirty days. The bill went to the committee on labor, la-bor, of which Jones of Juab Is chairman. chair-man. Tho commltteo on highwaya and bridges of the house, of which Smith of Kano Is chairman, held a meeting yesterday forenoon at tho New Grand hotel- The bills introduced at the request re-quest of the stato road commission wero up for consideration. Several Interested porsons appearod with suggestions and the measures were carefully gone over. Indications are that they will bo materially ma-terially amended in Important provisions provi-sions before thoy are reported to tho house. Tho committee will hold another mooting at 7 o'clock this evening. Oldham of Cache yesterday introduced in tho senate a hill extonding the powers of town trustees so as to give them authority au-thority to appoint Justices of the peace, a power not conferred upon Ihem by the present law. |