Show I R WITH UTAHS LAWMAKERS The usury bill Introduced by Jensen makes It unlawful to take more than 12 par cent Interest House bill No1 by Jensen makes taxes upon real estate n lion upon properly nflor January 1 of each year Houso bill No I by Dean authorized author-ized boards of commissioners to employ em-ploy agents to exterminate porn I Ious weeds Wesley K Walton Is tho oldest member In point of service in the senate Mr WpUon In the senator from Rich county Robinson of Blnglmni bus introduced intro-duced a bill nproprlatlng 7500 to Lafayette Cldostor for Injuries received re-ceived lu dlschiiigo of his duty as an officer The Honato passed tho first bill of the session on tho 16th It being Senate Sen-ate Bill No1 making an appropriation of 36000 for the contingent expense l of the session Tho Democratic members ot the houso showed their mettlo by naming a list of nominees for practically all tho offices The Democrats of the house number 8 Frederick Rnsband is the holdover senator from Summit county and for tho last twenty years a resident of Park City Senator Rasband Is a native na-tive Utahn having been born In Provo Pro-vo In 1868 Senator Smith has Introduced n bill providing for the revision annotation and printing of the laws of Utah and creating a compilation commission appointment of commissions and milking mi npioprlutloii therefor Speaker Joseph announced at the opening of the house session on Tuesday Tues-day of last week that each member would bo expected to be In his seat promptly at toll cull us promptness would bo ono of the rules ot tho house Upon motion of Mr Marks Democratic Demo-cratic members of the last house who aro members of the present body woro allowed first choice of seats and Republican members of the last houso second choice the remaining members to have choice by lot J F Tolton the Democratic loader of the house discussing tho governors gover-nors message said he found many pertinent per-tinent Suggestions In it The governor gover-nor he thought had made his message of tob great length and had incorporated incorporat-ed in it much unnecessary matter Nurserymen want tho legislature to enact a bill making it necessary for tree growers to secure licenses before they can sell their wares In the state It Is believed such a bill would greatly great-ly benefit the nursery Industry of tho state especially if a clause were inserted in-serted making a state inspection obligatory ob-ligatory for all nurseries Neither the house nor tho senate ware In session to exceed thirty minutes min-utes on the ICth The adoption of the report of the rules of committee and the first reading of s bill establishing a state insurance dcpartittcnt land i 3 providing for the appointment of an insurance commissioner consumed most of tho time of the senate Tho tine for introducing bills boa been limited to the first thirty days jf tho session Heretofore bills could be introduced up to tho last day makIng mak-ing the work at tho close of tho session ses-sion exceedingly hurried The only way in which a bill can now bo introduced intro-duced after tho thirtyday limit expires Is upon recommendation of n com mltteo Secretary of State Tingoy has sent to tho senate a communication accompanied accom-panied by three reports made by the commission appointed by tile last legislature leg-islature to Investigate and report upon up-on the question of the proposed merger mer-ger of tho Agricultural college with the University of Utah Throe reports were made ono majority and two minority min-ority reports It is said that Representative Kuch lor of Ogden will at an early date introduce in-troduce a measure that will require that when a complaint of malfeasance or misfeasance in office or other charge of a criminal nature shall be brought against any official of tho state before It shall be considered by a court shall be signed by at least f twenty citizens For tho avowed purpose of bringing about an equalization of the tax assessments as-sessments in this state and for the purpose of compelling the owners of the great mining and smelting corporations corpor-ations in Utah to bear their just burden bur-den of the expense of maintaining the government of the state n Joint revenue rev-enue committee will bo appointed by tho senate and house of the present legislature Representative Orvll Thompson ot Mlllurd county who 1ms served In two legislatures prior to this says ho will probably have few bills to offer during the present session Mr Thompson was a member of the first legislature but wont down with other Republicans tin t-In the Bryan landslide which swept Utah in 189G He was a member of the last house and was reelected to the present assembly A bill is said to be in the process of 1 preparation by a member of tho legislature l legis-lature providing that sheriffs who are made defendants in civil suits rising out of the performance of their duty shall be indemnified for their attorneys attor-neys fees by the state The bill will be favored by all sheriffs in tho state who nave In the past been compelled to pay for their defense regardless of whether they win or lose the suits filed against them Tho discovery has been made that tho senate is not to have a reading clerk this session Tho rotund voice t of Thedoslus Botkln has been removed to Mauritius where it Is doing duty for Uncle Sam In a consular position and Theodoslus has no successor there Senate bill No3 by Smith Is an > not for the regulation of the practice i prac-tice of medicine and surgery in the stato of Utah and for the appointment of a board of medical examiners in j h the matter of said regulation and providing pro-viding for tho repeal of title OS Revised i Re-vised Statutes of Utah 898 cl i I |