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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE. Salt Lake City, Jan. 31 The senate occupied but 15 minutes in looking after the affairs of the people yesterday. yester-day. Two bills were introduced, one for the appropriation of SG.000 for the normal school, and a measure providing for payment of damages inflicted by herds of horses, sheep, etc., upon any hillside highway. Two other bills were read the first and third times and referred to committees. In the bouse, II. B. No. 6 was reconsidered re-considered and repassed. This bill makes the theft of a calf or sheep, or other range of farm animal, grand larceny. II. B. No. 37, authorizing sheriffs to collect commission on sales under execution when the property is bid in by a judgement creditor, came up on third reading and was passed by unanimous vote. Six bills were introduced and referred to committees. The members of the house appear to be anxious to get down to business, and an avalanche of new bills is expected ex-pected shortly. There is still a dead lock in the ballot bal-lot for senator. The last ballot taken yesterday resulted: McCune, 27; King, 13; Cannon, 7; Whittemore, 12; Powers, Pow-ers, 1; Sutherland, 1; absent, 2. Sutherland Suther-land received the complimentary Vote of the Republican members. Salt Lake City, Feb. 1. Because of the determination of the legislature yesterday to visit the new site of the university, neither the senate nor the house of representatives was in session for any great length of time. No unfinished un-finished business was touched, and only a few matters were presented and referred or filed for future consideration. considera-tion. A bill was introduced in the senate to create a. board for the examination exami-nation of barbers as to their competency compet-ency to shave customers. The house in its half-hour session received two new bills, two petitions from JVeber county relating to irrigation and school matters, and filed two recommendations recom-mendations for passage of bills. One ballot was taken for senator, resulting result-ing practically the same as the previous prev-ious day. Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 2. The senate passed two bills yesterday, No. 5, providing for service of summons from justices' courts; and So. 13, transferring trans-ferring Summit county from the Third to the First judicial district. A bill was introduced providing for the extermination ex-termination or capture of the outlaws in eastern Utah, and appropriating $5,000 for that purpose. House bill No. 7 was passed by the house. The bill provides that all cases appealed to the supreme court must be tried on the transcript filed, and no abstract, printed or otherwise, of the transcript or record shall be required by the supreme court. Typewriten briefs may be submitted in lieu of printed ones. Four bills were introduced intro-duced and referred to committees. One ballot was taken for senator, resulting: re-sulting: McCune, 27; King, 13; Cannon, 7; Sutherland, 14; Powers, 1; absent, 1. Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 3. The San Juan memorial was passed in the senate yesterday, and one new bill was introduced, to change the law so that county commissioners shall be elected for a term of fouryears, and arranging their retirement so that an election may be held every two years. A number num-ber of bills were reported from committee com-mittee and will be acted upon later. In the house a local option liquor bill was introduced and referred to committee, and a number of other bills of minor importance made their appearance. No bills were passed, however. Three ballots forsenator were taken, each ballot resulting as follows: McCune, Mc-Cune, 27; King, 13; Cannon, 7; Sutherland Suther-land 14; Powers, I. Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 4. The senate finished its business yesterday in less than fifteeu minutes. The bill granting justices of the peace jurisdiction jurisdic-tion in actions for damages to Dersonal |