| Show IN THE TUP legislature A number of excellent introduced A bill for a county surveyor survey or who shall also act as road kuper thor and sealer of weights and measures to lo pe t A number of good bills have bare teen introduced into the legislature some partake of part partisan isaia spirit but many are excellent and adapted to the peoples needs need neither house met inet saturday v 1 SENATE january 23 prayer was offered by senator chidester house bill 42 for an act amend ng ing section 4 of chapter 23 session laws aws of 1892 was reported by the house as having passed that body it was referred to the committee on ways and means senator jones chairman of the committee on private corporations on bet alf of the committee introduced senate bill 27 the measure is designed to repeal the law which directs that all edge ments on articles of incorporation shall be made before the probate judge 0 of the county and permit the county clerk or any notary tary public to do the work the bi bill if passed house concurrent resolution no 5 0 providing for the appointment of a jom t committee of members of the house and senate whose duty it h a 11 b t 0 pro 0 de r I 1 w arl ht H 17 1700 ney genera aalto i 7 ri 1 U and a n d the supreme court and the ii justices hist ices thereof was then called up miller offered a resolution to the effect that thai the committee be authorized to contract for the apartments mentioned which resulted in the iha chair callin calling 0 senator warner to preside while w hile he spoke against the motion not the merits however but as to the expediency ile he thought the governor and other state officers should be provided with good rooms and in the ins magnificent 0 ent building where they m met et was the place to get them the rental was none too high considering I 1 ing the amount of money which had been expended upon unon it millers motion failed to carry and the matter will be taken up in committee the engrossment of Alli sons silver and the tariff memorials were reported and sent to the 0 governor for his signature after which wb ich the senate adjourned HOUSE january 23 in compliance with instructions contained in H C R no 2 speaker denny submitted the following reference of the various subjects in the governors message sage to committees finances of the state to the ways and means great seal real of state alread already y disposed of Of officer licer for state officials als already referred to special joint committee the penitentiary to penitentiary and reform university ef cf utah 7 aduca dional 4 the agricultural college educational reform school penitentiary insane asylum asylum for insane school for deaf and dumb and school for the blind 11 aduca I 1 dional the capitol grounds capitol and capitol grounds deseret Agli agricultural cultural and manufacturing society manufactures and commerce the intermountain inter mountain van fair manufactures and commerce education i education election law elections irrigation agriculture and irrigation f forest protection agriculture and irrigation reclamation maJon of and AIM lands agriculture and irrigation labor co committee on labor statistics committee on statistics restoration of silver joint committee on federal relations home industries manufactures and commerce railroad Legi legislation elation railroads and common carriers carriers i board of equalization ways and means presidential electors else elec chions S fees judiciary fish and game fish and game Ban banking kino 0 law judiciary the na national dional guard alitia Ali litia fire and police commission municipal corporations revision ot of tho the laws judiciary 1 constitutional convention deficiency fici ency appropriations hairier presented a petition from athe the littleton Litt lelon and milton livestock and range companies of morgan county asking 0 that present las be amended to lo p protect owners of cattle ranges from an invasion of sheep flocks and tor for other protection for cattle raisers II if 0 no 11 was introduced by thompson of millard in dav favor or 0 of f henry cohn of salt lake for 68 SO for storing safes upon motion by taylor the house honse went into commit committee iee of the whole to consider S D B so no IS 18 and the judiciary committee reports on house bills c e 6 and 9 when the committee arose it reported to the house recommending the passage of the four measures the following bills were introduced on first reading S 0 R no 2 by allison de manding Amb ambassador assado r bayards bayaras Ba yards recall fro from nathe the court of st james S B no 28 by committee on private corporations authorizing county clerks to take acknowledge ments in the organizations of corporations po rations 11 B no 57 67 by harris providing for the appointment of official court stenographers II 11 B as 58 by thorn Amen amending section 2028 chapter 10 compiled laws of 1888 the bill is a revision of the present revenue law it provides that during the session or as soon as possible after the adjournment of the board of equalization iza tion the clerk shall enter upon said assessment roll all the changa and corrections made by the board and shall add up the columns of valuation and on or before the first day of september shall make and deliver to the tax collector a true copy of the corrected roll with the total amount of taxes to each person firm corporation or association carried out in separate money columns which copy shall be duly certified to by the clerk of the county court and he shall report to the auditor of public accounts the amount of state and school tax assessed in said eam county and shall file the original a assessment aises roll in his bis office all state school and county taxes provided for in this act shall he be duo and payable on the first day of october annually and any and all taxes remaining unpaid on the first day of december decem her shall be deemed delinquent the county court at an any session shall have power on satisfactory proof being produced that any property has bas been ask assessed essed twice in the same year or to a wrong owner to correct said assessment and rebate the tax thereon or if the tax has haa leen been paid to refund the same and to charge charac the ecate with its porton of the tax so FO refunded and if the property ba hai been erroneously to a wrong person to as abess ess the propel ty to the oni owner ner if known I 1 on third leading the following bills which had been enacted upon in committee of the whole were pa sed 11 II B no 3 by wilson providing for the appointment of notaries not aries public by the governor and prescribing bill their duties and po powers ir H B no 4 1 by bolitho to pre vent the sale of live stock under fraudulent pedigree i it II B no 6 by condon making it a felony for any male person to carnally know any female between the ages of 12 and IS 18 years with or without her consent S B no IS 18 by uller stiller of salt lake with reference to the man management age of the state prison the bill which will become a law if the senate agrees to the house amendments passed the house the governor returned ff B no 5 without his approval with a message defining his reasons the bill pro prouder aided for the collection and covering into the proper treasury of fees by state and county officers bolitho introduced H 11 3 R no 2 directing that the sergeant at al arms of each house provide the secretary and chief clerk respectively with 23 25 worth of postage stamps for tho the purpose of mailing sills bills to members constituents of rich thought such a resolution would overload the secretary ary and clerk with work and be J lieveld the members knew best to i whom such things should be mailed besides the resolution was a joint one which would ic quire the operation cooperation co of the governor who had nothing to do with contingent expenses it should have been concurrent instead of joint boint and he be therefore moved the resolution be laid on oil the table which was wa done the speaker completed the committees on public linda lands and agri culture alture anti and irrigation by antoune announce ng the appointment of Sore neon 0 the former and shafer to the latter alter house adjourned SENATE january 24 senate bill no 8 for an act ze i elating lating to boards of fire and police commissioners in cities of and more inhabitants and to place the police prison and fire departments of raid aid cities upon a nonpartisan non partisan basis came up tip for second reading on a favorable report from the committee on counties and municipal corporations the committee having baving several amendments in verbiage e etc at cached to the measure senator warner moved the bill be printed with the amendments and lay over until monday after protracted debate warners amendment was lost sutherland offered an amendment providing that after the section which debars debars a member of the city council from being a member of the board that no member of the city council shall become a member of the board either while in the council and for a year after his term expires this was agreed a reed to jones gave notice that on 0 n monday he would offer several amendments to the bill on its third reading iri m out oat of the regular order by unanimous consent sutherland introduced trod senate bill 29 it provides that at the next general election and every four years thereafter there shall le be elected in each county a county engineer who shall hold office for four years the duties ol of the engineer shall be to perform the duties of county surveyor and in addition thereto the duties now performed by road supervisors and sealer of weights and measures mew ures ile he is given power er to administer in the performance of his duties he shall shaft make a resurvey of all county roads and es a uniform system of constructing ting county roads ile he shall make the lines of such roads by official survey and anyone disregarding the same may be fined from 10 to ile he shall also perform the duties oi of 1 sealer of weights and measures chall establish a standard of measurement for surveys and perform all other duties heretofore performed by the county surveyor road st si per visor and sealer of weights and measures the salaries of county engineer in the several counties are fixed as follows salt lale 1800 weber and utah 1500 summit tooele thoele Sin Sari pete cache box elder iron davis and beaver 4 1 1200 all other counties 1000 the bill abolishes the offices of county sealer of weights and measures and deputy sealer of weights and measures the committee on labor acting jointly with the house committee introduced house bill 49 for an act prohibiting blacklisting which provides that no company corporation or individual shall blacklist or publish or cause to be published or blacklisted any employee mec mechanic banic or laborer disc discharged barged or voluntarily leaving the service of the same and any officer or agent bein being guilty of this offense shall shaft be deemed guilty of felony and upon c conviction shall be fined not less than or imprisonment not less than GO 60 days or both the rules were suspended and the bill passed the governor notified the senate of his approval of senate joint demori memori il no 1 Alli sons silver memorial and senate joint memorial 1 lo 10 0 3 2 by the same sam e seri senator ator for the restoration of the mckinley tariff the house notified the senate of i the passage of senate bill bil no IS for the inana management gement of the bbate prison with certain amendments the rules were suspended and the amendments concurred in the following bills bill were reported as having passed the house house bill no 6 making the age ofton of consent 18 16 years and providing for punishment for felony of any male ver the age of 18 years who violates it house bill 18 concerning ies public house bill IS 48 for the preventing of the sale of stock under false pedigreed pedigrees grees house bill as concerning private corporations which was signed bythe by the president having pao passed ased both houses senate bill no 4 for incorporating the state school for the deaf and dumb was read the first and second times and laid over the act autho authorizing g notaries not aries public or county clerks clervi S to acknowledge know lede articles of incorporation was signed by the president it having passed both houses I 1 senate bill no 10 for the protection of female school teachers ii against ainest discrimination and providing for their receiving the same pay a as male teachers of the sanie same drw rad a alsa so passed HOUSE january 21 24 2 L honson presented a petition from residents of cachel cache county signed by john mack and 1 i twenty six others asking for favori able lel legislation gi with reference to the contemplated land bill under i which the lands of section 10 16 toNn township ship 13 north ran range e I 1 least aas t will be sold tile the petitioners petition ers rep resent that the section is occupied by iv settlers having small email tracts 1 i which are in many many instances their sole means of livelihood and ask that hat provisions be made for the sale of the land in question to the actual settlers at the government valuation per acre thel the I 1 petition leti tion was referred rf erred to the com iI mitlee on oa public lands as was also another petition signed by five residents of carbon county asking that all school lands be sold at the i same figure I 1 house claims nos bosl 1 21 2 31 3 4 5 7 8 9 and 11 were returned to the house by the committee on claims and referred to the board of examiners to comply with the gon eon lional requirement with ref arence to claims against the state on motion of taylor the houge went into committee of the whole for the consideration of committee I 1 reports smoot in the chair on motion 0 of f nye N v e 1 S B 2 28 8 empower I 1 1 ing county clerks and notaries not aries j public to take acknowledgements acknowledge ments in in the incorporation of stock comi 1 panics was taken up the consideration resulted in rt a recommendation that the bill pass when the committee should arise ferguson of carbon called up the report of f he committee on judiciary un on ff B no 20 providing thit that courts shall allow a reasonable attorneys torness tor s fee in cases wherein employees sue for wages giving three days dais notice to employers before beginning suit the committee recommended amending the tha bill by bv requiring the employee to give 6 fifteen days notice if ho he would avail himself of the pro vison for attorneys fees feel this proved a sticking point upon unon which the advocates ot of I 1 I 1 the nie measures could not bring 1 the 1 members of the house to agree agee with them numerous members took part in the discussion that followed the report of the committee of the whole was adopted by the house arid and nye then moved the suspension of the rules for the purpose of reading S B no 28 the third time placing it upon its passage the bill pissed passed was wag engrossed and later signed by the speaker and returned to the senate where it ori originated the judiciary committees report recommending that S J R no 3 be substituted for it II B 13 was was adopted both refer to the manner of providing district and other state courts courts with necess necessary arv books and dockets A gesza message ge to the house hous e was reid read announcing that the governor had approved senate joint memorials nos I 1 and 2 with reference to the free coinage of silver and rp enacting the mckinley Alc Kinley bill the majority report of the ju committee ic commending P that H B no 16 making fauni apal and other public corporations subject to garnishment for employees wages 6 being indefinitely postponed brought P on the fight of the day A minority of the committee rendered a report recommend tn aig uig that the bill pass and upon a motion M to substitute this for the majority ila bority 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