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Show k DEBATE Oil W bills keeps must Measure for Redisricting j ' State Causes Recourse to Feeling Argument i Practically alt th afternoon of yes-j terday wai taken up In tha house hy debates over two meaaurea, the bill i providing; apportionment for legla- 1 latlve purpoaea and the Standish bill for regulating the practice of medicine, medi-cine, tha latter occupying moat of the time. The apeclal order of the house for yeaterday afternoon was the meaanre of Senator Petera designating the senatorial and representative districts . of the atate for the purpose of repre-aentatlon repre-aentatlon in the legiHlature fixing the boundaries of the districts and the number of aenatora and rapresenta- r tivea to be elected from each dlatrict. DISTRIBUTION. senatorial distrlcta and twenty senators, sena-tors, as follows: Kirs district, BoxeMer county, one afnator. Second district, Cache county, one aenator. no county outaide of Salt Laka City hall hava more than two aenatora. . ANOTHER PLAN. , ,' McShane'a meaaure would diatrlct tha atate for senatorial purpoaea aa followa Klrat diatrlct, Boxelder, Cach eand Rich counties. Second district. Webar, Morgan and Davis. Third diatrlct Salt Laka county, outaide of Salt Lake City. Tooele. Summit and Daggett counties. Fourth diatrlct. Utah. Waaatch. i Uinta and Duchesne counties. Fifth district. Juab. Millard. Beaver. Iron and Waahrngton countlea. Sixth district. Sevier. Piute. Wayne. Garfield and Kane. Seventh district. Sanpete, Carbon. Emery, Grand and San Juan counties. coun-ties. Klghth district. Salt Lake City. The . representative distrlcta were left aa In the original bill. After McShane had offred the amendment he sought to withdraw it and there waa a preliminary wrangle over the question, the chair finally holding that the amendment had been seconded and waa therefore the property of the hou.se. FLING PERSONALITIES. Then followed a prolonged debate, participated In by McShane, Douglas and Speaker CaJllster. who advocated the amendment, while Carey. Seeg-miller Seeg-miller and A. W. Morrison opposed it. Personalities were Indulged in considerably con-siderably during the debate and finally final-ly the amendment waa adopted by a vote of 14 ayes against 5 nays, with eight absent. The bill aa amended waa paased by a vote of 39 ayes, 4 nays. 3 absent and not voting. The measure waa returned to the senate, where It was said that the amendments amend-ments wmm? -not DrTonctirrea'In.'ana" that a deadlock would ensue. When the bill of Senator Standlsh waa reached there followed a long debate. de-bate. In which more than half of the members participated. There were two reports on the bill preaented to Tnird (liMrlct. Rich. Morgan. Summit Sum-mit and Ijajrgett counties, one senator. sena-tor. Fourth district, Webr county, two H?natnra. Kifth dlntrict. Wasatch, Duchesne and IMnta cotintien. one senator. Sixth district. Salt I-ake county, six senators. Seventh district, Utah county,' two senators. Klchih district. Juab and Millard counties, one senator. Ninth district, Kan pets county, one senator. Tenth district. Pevler, Wayne, Piute and Garfield counties, one senator. Kleventh district. Beaver, Iron. "Wiishinifton and Kane counties, one senator. Twelfth district. Emery. Carbon, Orand and San Junn counties, one senator. Thirteenth district. Davis and Tooele countlea. one senator. I POPULATION BA6E8. I This basis of representation Is one j senator for each 25,000 inhabitants ori major fraction thereof residing: In the senatorial district. Vor the house the baais of representation repre-sentation Is given at one representative representa-tive for each 10.000 inhabitants or major ma-jor fraction thereof, or fifty-five membera of the house. On this basis Salt Lake county was Riven sixteen representatives, Boxelder. Sanpete and Carbon, two: Cache county, three; I "Weber and Utah countlea. four each. When the bill was called up in the house yesterday afternoon Repre-sentatfve Repre-sentatfve McShane moved to strike rss out all of section one, which pertains to the number of senators, and Insert an amendment maklns; the number of senators twenty-four instead of thirteen thir-teen and fix the number of districts at eight, with three senators from each district, and creating: a new district of Halt Lake City, but providing that the house by the committee on public health, the majority favoring- the passage of the meaaure, while the minority mi-nority was against the bill. Th reports, re-ports, however, were set aside by the sifting committee. The measure provided pro-vided for the regulation of the practice prac-tice of medicine and surgery In all Its branches and any system or method meth-od of treating human ailments without with-out the use of drugs or medicines and without operative surgery and obstetrics ob-stetrics and to license the same. AROUSES DEBATE. There waa a hard fight made upon the bill when it was acted on in the tipper house, where it was passed by a vote of 13 ayes, 3 nays and 2 absent. It was reported to the house on February Feb-ruary 25 and went to the committee on public health and was not reported re-ported out of the committee until March 2, when the two reports were made. The bill was on the calendar when the sifting committee took over all bills and that -committee reported the measure to the house. Final action ac-tion by the house yesterday passed the bill as It came from the senate. The vote was 31 ayes, 11 nays, 6 absent., It was returned to the senate and will now go to the committee on engross- ' Ing and enrolling. A communication from the senate i advised the house that it had refused j to concur in the amendment to sen- I ate bill No. 121, which is the bill ere-I ating a department of agriculture, and the house, on motion of McShane. declined de-clined to recede from its amendments and the chair appointed as a conference confer-ence committee Representatives Day, Khees and Sander. - The Joint committee on appropriations appropria-tions submitted Its report on the budget bill, house bill No. 85. with amendment, but the house declined to have It read until this morning, when It came up as unfinished business. |