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Show VCTIilG IiltClHES ARE PLANHEDjOR USE HERE House Passes Bill Provl4lnfor That Method of Ballot Bal-lot How Up to the Senate. ; The Installation of voting machines In , Salt Lake and other cities of Utah may be looked for fa the next Presidential election If the Senate and Gov. Wells view the question In. the same light as the House did yesterday. The bill Introduced by Hamlin providing provid-ing for use of the machines was passed by an overwhelming majority. The measure givea County - Commissioners Authority to purchase or lease voting machines, and their use 1 sanctioned in all elections. When H. B. No. 69, sixty-two pages long, was called up Mr. Cahoon moved in order to take a test vote and o. perhaps, save the. time of reading It. to strike out the enacting clause. No. 69 was the county-unit school bill, by Mr. Done. The author was Invited to take what time he needed in explaining the scheme. He said the bill provided that each district or group of districts In a county should elect a number of the county school board, which? board should elect the County Superintendent. -Among Its advantages, he argued, were equal distribution dis-tribution of taxes according to school population, and the Impossibility of representatives from one part of the county dominating those of other sections. sec-tions. - ' As Mr. Done was called home by sickness In his family, the bill was made a special order for. Monday afternoon af-ternoon at t o'clock. This, bill has Inspired more petitions and protests than any other bill which has come before the House. The general gen-eral Impression is that It canno muster mus-ter votes enough to become a law. The curfew bill (No. 82). by Mr. Col-ton, Col-ton, was passed by the House almost unanimously. Its opponents being Messrs. Child, J. E. Johnson, J. H. Johnson and Wilson. The "bill provides pro-vides that children under 12 years who remain on the streets after 9 o'clock at night may be fined $5. Allowing or permitting a child to be out after that hour is also a misdemeanor, for which the parent may be fined up to $10. Mr. Wilson objected to the arresting of children and wanted to strike out that part of the bill, but bis amendment amend-ment failed. Molyneux and Stone were the only members of they House who voted against H. B. 128. a bill providing that not less than one-half of tbe property owners in a given part of a city can prevent the levying of a tax for local Improvements. Now one-third can prevent pre-vent any improvement. The House is willing to Impower County Commissioners and boards of trustees to revoke liquor licenses for good cause upon three days' notice. The provisions are embodied in S. B. 104, by Mr. Sherman. It passed without argument. argu-ment. . |