Show UTAH legislative GOSSIP I 1 happenings in both branches of ninth general assembly the liquor bill prepared by tle the joint committee was vaa presented simultaneously in the senate and house on friday according to the new measure cities towns and territory outside of cities and towns are made voting units in determining question of saloons or prohibition it if licenses are refused by officials authorized to pass upon them appeals may be prosecuted to the district and supreme courts applicants for saloon license must hie file a bond of oe with not fewer than two sureties license holders r are reliable for all damages grow ing out of tho the sale of intoxicating liquors saloons must be on ta the 0 gr ground aund floor and the entire interior r in full view from the exterior minors miners or wo we men cannot be employed in saloons saloons are not allowed to remain open after 11 at night and cannot reopen until 6 the following morning no license will be grant ed for a longer period than one year or for a shorter period than three months license is fixed for retail dealers ranging from to 1 1800 a year wholesalers to 1000 distillers to 1000 druggists and pharmacists to brewers 2150 to 1250 and clubs to 1000 1 senate joint resolution no 1 by badger based the senate friday afternoon by a vote of 12 to 2 the resolution ra ratifies tilles the proposed amendment to the constitution of the united states authorizing in an income tax it the bill introduced in the senate senat friday by senator hyde becomes a law utah will be among the leading states of the west within a 1 few years in TI the matter ot of good roads roide and bridges the bill provides lor for a bond issue of by the state board of loan comeil commissioners ss loners two bills both having for their ob eject the better development ot of the state were introduce Int A in the senate friday by the committo committe on agriculture agil culture and irrigation senator Kuch lers bill providing that in A tle tie vote among members of city councils tho the mayor may cast the deciding vote has been killed governor spry his signed hou house S ebi bill II 11 no 4 by russell making the maximum punishment for highway robbery I 1 imprisonment for life the minimum Is oe five years vears three house measures were killed friday one related to the malicious construction of tenses and other obstructions another provided for the appointment of poll pollo emen for rail raad and steamboat companies and the third prevented females under the age of 21 years from getting married without the consent of at parent or guardian representative mcrae introduced his first bill in the house friday afternoon the bill is to prevent the waste of water from artesian wells A similar measure by day was introduced at the samp same session there was no session of the legis lature on oil saturday both the senate and house adjourning on friday until monday members of the senate vis cited the agricultural college at logan on saturday three bills were passed by the senate ateon on thursday anti and two were killed thirteen were introduced bringing the total of bills so far presented in the upper house of the legislature to an all even senator iversons eversons Iver sons bill giving to the state laud land board control over all the lands of the state and including lands lying below the waters edge of any stream or lake passed the senate on thursday with but one negative vote senator hydea bill relating to the election and qualifications of county superintendents of district schools passed the senate without opposition it prescribes that superintendents shall be over the age of twenty live jeanis must have a high school diploma and also show they have had live years experience as teachers to ascertain what recommendations made in the governors message have been enacted into laws by the legs lature laruie and what others are aie pending or remain to be acted ti upon on speaker vi 1 W robinson of the house of rep on thursday appointed a committee of seven members to provide prizes to be competed for at the annual exhibitions of the utah poultry association it a bill ap 2000 was introduced in the lower house of the state legislature on thursday the measure introduced by representative senta tive hayes granting juven juventia tip courts jurisdiction over felony committed by juvenile offenders except in cases where the prescribed penalty penally la Is either life imprisonment or deith death was passed by the house on thursday thurida Y senator J W funk one of the t two we democratic members of the senate Is of the opinion that 2500 obo Is too much for a state capital building and ho he wants to amend the law enacted two years ago fixing that sum sam to 1 1 I ns as the amount tor for a building the fraternal insurance measure was passed in the aliouse friday at af hernoon ter noon with only one dissenting vote that of rage pago ot at pluto plute the measure fixes the rates on tables of mortal I 1 ty in a uniform manner gives fur ther protection to the policy policyholders holders gives the insurance commissioner au dhority to examine into the financial condition ot of the companies by a vote of twenty to nineteen the bill introduced by tive F L miles providing tor for a mill tary poll tax was killed on the floor nf n the house on friday |