Show UTAH LEGISLATURE fiNALLY ADJOURNS Members of Eighth Assembly Worked Eight Dayn Overtime In Concld eratlon cf Proposed New Laws Salt Lake lIyTho Eighth legislative legis-lative assembly of Utah adjourned Saturday March 20 after a session lasting sixtyeight days or Just eight days longer than the legislators are supposed to bo 111 session their labors la-bors for the last eight days being performed without compensation Thus the last day of the session was 227 hours and 47 minutes long The house adjourned at 1131 p m and I the senate just eleven minutes later Just before adjournment a commit teu < was appointed to wait upon the governor and inform him tint the Eighth legislative assembly was ready to adjourn A communication was sent to both houses by the governor declaring he had no further communications communi-cations to lay before the legislature and congratulating both houses upon the completion of their labors One of tho last act of the senate was to reject six of the appointments made by the governor as follows Fred W Chambers of Ogden state fish and game commissioner W D Candland Mount Pleasant state land commissioner W H Thain of Logan Lo-gan tate land commissioner F F Alexander Salt Lake member optometry opto-metry board H O Jensen Salt Lake member optometry board John Walsh Farmlngton trustee state Industrial In-dustrial school At the time of adjournment the governor had made no appointments to fill the vacancies caused by the failure of the senate to coincide with him and It is barely possible that all of tho rejpctcd appointees may servo until tho next session of the legislature legisla-ture As to the work of the Seon just closed the governor has aproved 81 of the measures passed and has 04 now In his hands which he may or may not approve These wero not all of the bills introduced by any means as a veritable flood of measures were sidetracked killed outright or withdrawn with-drawn rune last bill signed by the president presi-dent of the senate was the appropriation appropria-tion bill making apropriatlons for tho support of the state government for two years Ono of the important acts of the legislature was the decision reached to build a state capitol The capitol when completed la to cost 2000000 A measure of more than ordinary importance Is the insurance department depart-ment bill This measure provides for tho creation of a department of Insurance In-surance This department Is to be run by a commissioner whose solarIs solar-Is to bo 2500 and whose office ox penses are to bo 50011 Advocates of good roads cannot help but be pleased with the action of the legislature in providing for a sate commission which Is expected to see that the roads of the state are Improved Thr Irrigation district bill was also a most Important measure to be approved ap-proved by the legislature Under tho old law a farmer could not back his Irrigation project with anything more than the water tilings and canal systems sys-tems but under this district law the Irrigation system of any community can bo backed by all of the real property prop-erty of the Irrigated territory Thus a farmer Is enabled to float a bond that is just assound and salable as any municipal or school bond A most Important measure to the mining Industry of the state and es peclally to the western part of Salt Lake county and Tooele county Is the eminent domain bill which was passed over the veto of the governor The Utah National Guard was also the recipient of favorable legislation three bills relating to mining affairs being passed The most Important ol the three hills Is an act creating a state armory board and authorizing It to borrow front tho state land board SG000 to bo used In the erection oran or-an armory and arsenal In Salt Lake CityGovernor Governor Spry announced on Monday Mon-day that ho Iad decided to veto four bills which since their passage bv the legislature have caused a great deal of criticism The bills which the governor has announced that he would veto are commonly known known as the fire and pollen hill the liquor bill and the two Doc Moines government bills Tho fire and police bill placed the operation and control of tho fire and police departments in the hands ol a commission of three members to bo appointed by the governor the city however whUo hiving virtually nothing noth-ing to say regarding the departments to foot tho Ills The Des Moines bills provided for the control of tho city by a commission commis-sion of five comprising a mayor and four commissioners together with tin auditor tho remaining city officials to bo appointed by the commission Tho liquor bill nrovlded that pa loons be closed from 7 oclock In the evening until 7 oclock tho followni morning limited saloons to one for every 1000 population based upon tho census of 1900 which only gave Salt I aVp Cltv a peculation of 57000 and would decrease tho saloons from approximately 110 to 57 made treatIng treat-Ing a misdemeanor nnd embraced many other 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