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Show MORNING SESSIONS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE ure and .was not even- re&'d' by title, which is over a page and a half long. A majority of the Committee oi Railroads Rail-roads presented an. unfavorable' report on Joseph's H. B. No. 100. requiring street railway companies to furnish seats for motormen and airbrakes. A minority report was presented yesterday yester-day sirned by Joseph and tyvo others, and a fight madeor its adoption, but it lay over. : Joseph took up the fight again this morning, and spoke until called to time by the Sreaker,- urging that the favorable favor-able minority report be'adopted. A rollcall was demanded on the vote and the bllll providing that all double- The morning session of "the House was largely given up to a .discussion of H. B. No. 232. by the'Cbmmlttse on Irrigation. Ir-rigation. The . biU repeals all laws , of the State that are In conflict with certain cer-tain Government irrigation laws. Heretofore Utah has not bean getting Its share of money for irrigation as the State laws were such that the money would not have been distributed as the Government wished. ... The bill -was amended la several minor mi-nor details and passed. H. B. No. 232, by Committee on Irrigation, Irri-gation, as a substitute for 'House bills No. 193, 196 and 197, changing the present pres-ent State laws on irrigation so that they conform to the United States laws, passed by a vote of 39 ayes to 2 nays. Dalley and Cromar voted in the negative. nega-tive. The bill la a thirty-three page meas- iraca cars De equippea wun saieiy air brakes, failed by a vote of 17 ayes to 22 nays, the . majority 'report against the bill winning. I The following committee reparts were adopted: Ways and Means H. B. No. 131, by Roberts, for good roads, not to pass. S. B. No. 94. by Hollllngsworth, to tax gifts and legacies, to pass. I S. B. No. 02, by Johnson, providing I for a State board of examinations for I osteopaths and placing them In a sepa- rate class from medical practitioners, passed by a vote of 41 ayes to 1 nay. Fishburn voted against the bill. - McCrea spoke for the bill and urged Its passage. - 8. B. No. 8C by Lawrence, amending the laws relating A the practice of dentistry, passed by a unanimous vote. H. B. No. 20, by McCrea, changing the salary of the Adjutant-General from 1500 to $1000 a year, passed without the emergency clause, by a vote of 28 ayes to 10 nays. ' McCrea explained that the Adjutant-General Adjutant-General had under his care $150,000 worth of property and was required to give heavy bonds, and that the greater part of his time was taken by the State. . |