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Show HOT TIME IN LABOR HALL Spirited Discussion of Employers' Em-ployers' Liability Bill Results Re-sults in Committee Favoring Favor-ing Its Passage. There was a lively time at the meeting meet-ing of the T'tah Federation of Laber hall last night over the report of the , committee which was appointed some time ago to draft a bill to be presented to the Lfgislature on employers' liabilities. lia-bilities. The committee, which consisted of live member, returned a majority and minority report on the proposed bill. Mr. Tripp, one of the signers of the majority report. intimated that the other members of the committee had not done their part of the work of drafting the bill. Lund on the minority side came back at Tripp. At this jxdnt in the proceedings proceed-ings a number of the members took a hand in the matter, and it was some time before the chairman could restore order. The bill under discussion is similar to that in Massachusetts, providing that the eatate of anv employee who is killed while in the discharge of his duty shall be paid a stipulated sum bv the employer without the necessity of going go-ing to law; or that in rase the courts must be resorted to in i t to define the exact manner or circumstance of death, the estate shall have the same recourse as a person not an employee, would have in c.io ..f death. The majority was not in favor of having the bill offered to the Legislature. Legisla-ture. One signer of the majority report stated that lawyers had been consulted :.nd that thev had given it as t h .-i r opinion that there was no nee. I for such a law in Utah. Those who favored the bill intimated that it was nothing strange that lawyers t-honld not want to see such a law pRjs. as it would de- I prive them of good fees in damage suits. The minority rep.-rt was adapted bv a ' imall margin wh-'n the matter was put I to a vot. |