Show M ASSEMBLY full text of the contest liepolt BILL printing difficulty minority adopted m the GouD cil proceedings COUNCIL council met at 2 p m president breaden in the chair an invitation was received from the president and faculty to aisic the va versify on notion of H K booth the invitation wag accepted aad referred to the the reports of the beform school and agricultural were distributed taylor of salt lake presented a recommendation of J R bloor from typographical po union referred to the aint committee on printing of the committee nn contingent expenses seat in a lait of articles requisite for tha use of the committee clerks the matter was by williams and seaman on the democratic side ana endorsed by H E booth and raylor on the bida laylor irom the committee on griat ang a and a minority report on the majority report accepted the bid of the salt lake lithographic company the majority report was read and williams moved that tha minority be accepted by adams H booth moved to amend by put tin in majority where minority occurs williams eaid that there waa no question aa to which anon id be adopted tha minority report was adopted all but booth of salt lake and taylor voting aye ane committee on insane asylum reported that tha date saturday the ath mat be fixed aa the date for the to the asylum adopted H C B 30 by booth of provo re labing to the relief of voluntary firemen was read by title and feied for second reading C JB 31 to regulate voluntary assignment sign ment for the benefit cf creditors baj introduced by C B 32 by booth of provo provided for paying i bounty to the raiders of sugar beela C B 33 by taylor respecting the territorial library and defining the duties of the librarian C B 34 introduced by taylor pro tided for an appropriation for the teri library C b 35 by seaman in relation to county clerks U B 36 by seaman respecting the regulation of ane operation of railroads booth of salt lake was called to the chair ana president breeden presented a memorial rea pectin ano proving up on desert land entries which was referred to the committee on memorials to congress taylor that tha report of the committee on public printing oe taken from the table carried booth moved that the report of the committee ba accepted and that J B bloor be elected public printer williams asked who bloor ia whether he is a primer and what bis tiona are taylor replied that he is highly ia commended and has held a similar position iii nevada and he thought california eaid he waa not clear aa to thy appointment ol 01 a public printer without hayand thought it a feature in these mercenary daya that any man should offer to assume any duties for honor merely iio would prefer considering a public printer a public servant and pay him for his eer vicea he then that the re port be laid tho table carried CB nod 1012 and 23 before referred to were read the second time and fied lor last reading expedition was the order of tha day and CB 30 41 32 and 36 which passed their drat reading earlier in the session were read the second time and to the proper com mit tees presented the claim of harmel fratt for for leaah rendered abs tbs territorial auditor referred to the committee on claims council at 4 to convene again on monday at 2 p m HOU B opening exercises communications from the council announced that it had passed the state hood memorial and the honse contini ant expense bill the amount in the latter 1000 instead of 2000 mcbride eaid the berleant at arma had already incurred expenses amounting to and opposed the amend ant as did varian the amendment 8 rejected A from the chamber of commerce protested pio tested against the bill to and recited reasons liiv it should not pass referred to judiciary committee the tribune invited the house to visit it establishment oa motion of monday st w is axed j ag the tibie for the fisit president deat of the utah university invited the house to visit in a body or at the of members on motion of stanford the invitation was accepted tha to suit their convenience in balcine the visit hatch presented a claim of ane sheriff of wasatch county for expenses incurred in capturing varian presented a similar claim for frodi the sheriff of salt lake county A petition from the printers union endorsed J B bidoor for public printer committee on printing alien presented a claim of 40 from fred cr lyngberg Lyng bere warner presented the claim of dr condan for 50 for expert testimony in a criminal case alien introduced a claim for 23 for incurred in the contest case ot dougall Doue all vs robertson Ko bertson asars from the committee on claims on a number of minor cladma tace committee on elections reported as follows on tha contest cise of hueh AI against the peat of alex G mr speaker your commilee comm ieee on elections to whom was referred the matter of the contest of hueh M dougall for tha seat in this bouso now held by alexander robertson under and ty of a certificate of election issued by the utah commission beg leare to report as follows under agreement of counsel for the respective carlies par lies a special commis kijner sij ner E A wedgwood esq of provo wae appointed to take testimony at various places within the eleventh and twelfth legislative districts this testimony with other papers was duly presented to the committee and after argument by counsel for the parties the question was considered at leneth by c lamitee lami Uee the parties agree and the committee finds that Spring villa city and spring ville precinct haye bad since 1883 and until the formation of mapleton pre the same boundaries that spanish fork precinct lays adouth aad west and to springville Spring ville precinct up to the time when mapleton precinct was created that in 1891 tb utah in pursuance of law the territory of utah for legislative elections that spanish fork precinct was assigned to the twelfth disi brict abat in tha year 1892 the county court of utah county wherein said precincts are situated created a new precinct and named the bamo mapleton said mapleton precinct was formed from territory lying within the afore aard Sorin iville and fork pra cincis that is to say the territory parti ally within each the eleventh and twelfth legislative districts thus the county court ot utah county the territory ot utah for legislative elections if the results following their acteon be confirmed but thare ia BO power granted county courts for such a purpose the lawa of congress Uon gress laws of 1890 and 1891 provides a method of dis tiBe the territory and expressly ie dares that the districts created there under shall until further provision he made by the congress this is he rule laid down by ane paramount authority the legislature cannot change it much aksa should the power ae conceded tu the county courts if one such court can change the lines of a legislative all can thia would open the way for a constant shifting of legislative district lines to suit the exigencies of elections in those districts many of which we have in this territory we and that twenty five vole counted returned and canvassed as from the eleventh district were cast at the election in question by botera resident in th territory couth of tha line dividing spanish fork and springville Spring ville precincts said territory now beta included with said mapleton precinct That twenty five were baat by voters residing the twelfth legislative district and were warrant of law cast counted and returned aa a part of aard eleventh district that bilty beven were cast within said mapleton precinct at aid election of which tha contestant re fifteen and the conte atee received forty two that contestant received as re tamed by the utah and contested cont estea votes your committee is of the opinion that the twenty five ballots cast by parties residing within the twelfth dia brict should be thrown out and deducted from the total number received by the contestant nud the contested cont estea in said empleton Mp leton precinct in proportion to the number ot votes received bv each in said precinct this would i aduca the contestants total vote in the district to and the contee teea to we therefore recommend that hugh M dougall be declare by the house entitled to sit as th duly elected representative from mhd eleventh district and that his name be placed upon the i roll of the house as such tiye 0 E ALLEN chairman wanted to know if the committee had endeavored to find how the people whose wore thrown out baa voted alien eaid he nut cara to ent r into full details the had reported unanimously powers wanted to know if the corn cittee had gone tj on a precinct in which there was only ono ballot box and bad taken and sifted out all the votes put in aiom th district south of a certain line alien then explained how mapleton Ma precinct had been made in 1892 from a part of and a part of spanish fork precincts the boundary between those two precincts mark r ing the boundary line between the eleventh and twelfth dig he said that the botine in this precinct ia all right except in an election fur members of the the committee holds that this division was male in order that the people should vote in the eleventh district the people of the precinct could as well have voted i n the twelfth dietrict in looking into this case the commit tee decided that the twenty five votes should be taken away from the two candidates according to the percentage of votes cast by them in the entire precinct he aard thi is the established rule ebeier asked f the committee had done anything to find out how the twenty five man voted who live south of the line alien cai I 1 the committee did not consider that neca as the rule in those cases is that the votes shall be divided pro rata debaker disputed this argument and s iid that the committee should have endeavored to find how many of the south of the line voted for each of the candidates and if they could not have ascertained this they should then and then only have re sorted to other means of dividing the vote in support of hie arn tinn h read from mccrary on election varian and alien disputed his rean sonic ane of unseat ine Robar was put and the vote resulted as fol iowa alfs alien clarar hatch johnann Joh naon mcbride mckay moleon moore parsons powers ser se r stanford stoker varian warner wines speaker 18 noes hubbard ivina tolton 4 powers explained that he voted aye only un the report of the committee and the statement of alien bengali beins found to be present the clerk was instructed to notify the secretary that he desired to be sworn in committee on asylum reported recommending that the two committees had agreed to visit that institution 01 a from next saturday varian from the judiciary committee recommending that H B 81 be referred to the committee on public health and that H B 29 be rejected adopted A minority report from the printing ommittee was raad as follows ROOMS jan mr speaker we a majority of the coun il committee on printing but a minority of the joint committee on print gsg aaice to present a minority report on the matter of awarding the contract for public or inting and represent that in accordance with a re of the council an advertisement was inserted in the papers soliciting proposals for the public printine in answer to which six bida ware received numbered I 1 2 34 5 and 6 on opening the bida it waa found that biag three and six were much atlow all others that bid no 5 waa accepted by the majority report which was 13 per cent higher than bid no 3 and over 15 per cent higher aban bid no 6 from the majority report we dissent having bida from the public and parties havins acted in good faith in offering their olds we do not now sea how any discrimination can be mude in favor of anyone because of any condition that may have surrounded aim and further aa no sect parta or organization was barred from bidding we claim it very unfair 10 impose conditions upon them afterwards not con bained in the advertisement we therefore recommend tho award for the public printing be made to bid der no six G for the following follo winz rea bons eons 1 that we belleve he is amply prepared to do the work promptly effectually and to tho of the legislature 2 that his proposed proponed security is unexceptional and sufficient 8 that ane bid no 6 is per pages of minutes less and 2350 per of pamphlets loea than the bid of no 5 recommended by the majority maio rity of this joint committee signed j JE booth JOHN MAH powers said it had bean in committee that the minority report should be withheld until the majority report should be presented and be therefore moved that it lie on the table till the majority report should be read carried by varian A bill designed to give impecunious partied to baits a chance to appeal by their papers printed for them on their mat boj an affidavit that they are impe cun bous committee on judiciary by stanford A bill to amend the law law relating lo 10 the payment of jurors etc committee ways and deaca meaca H B 43 by hatch to tho section giving a bounty for the killing of wild and birds committee on ways and means H B 44 by stanford to amend the laws t to school lands committee on ways and means H B 45 by johnson designed to repeal the law pas sedat the last session in relation to the befouling of waters by adeep committee on public health H B 46 by johnson designed to amend the laws regarding assessments committee on judiciary H B 47 by wines to give a bounty on sugar beets during this and next year winea wanted this referred to the committee on manufacturers hubbard wanted to know whether a bounty on beets should not be consid ered by the committee on agriculture marisn thought the committee on was made nn for tha joae of the consideration of such bills tolton said be thought a matter of this kind should go to the agricultural committee in order that the farmers should be judged by those of their kind he did not doubt that if they were given 50 cents the vicious legista legists legis ts i tion of the republicans would boon take it away but he vented them judged by their own kind the roll was called and resulted as follows ayea alien dark john son mcbride mckay stars varian warner wines speaker 13 nays hatch habbard ivina moors neb eker powers stoker tolton 9 powers before voting asked if thi were a political question that would be affect ed by hia pair with mason varian to the surprise of all sid i was hatch said it was entirely un non partisan because it wai simply on a question of changing from one corn mi atee to another bhea both are ee 1 publican in complexion the debate waa shut oft by ivins who reminded the speaker that during that day when he wished to shut off the democrats on lead and sugar he had ruled against interruptions of roll call powers voted the report of the committee on print ing was taken from the table and made the special order for next monday varian wanted to know what had bacome of the report 0 the auditor and treasurer tha bill of varian which provided for the extension ol 01 time to bean suit on open accounts from two to three years was killed on recommendation men dation of the committee on judi ciary winea presented the report of J B court commissioner commies ioner ef the firby district committee on judiciary adjourned at until monday LEOIS LATIVa LINKS i alexander Eo bertson wll be natis fled with 33 to cover actual expense a for which he now has a bill in john E booan and john seaman stood together on the public printing and carried the day by a big majority in the council yesterday mrs ira D wines came up from lehl thursday and accompanied her husband to logan today committee work is the order of the day the building ix well supplied with committee rooms three verbs and only one woman is the way john E booth commented on president Bree doas bill delatin re latin to ane maintenance of illegitimate children in a section where there were three distinct verbs and only one nominative wants his desk moved among |