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Show ' Salt Lake City, Jan. 12 Fifteen minutes sufficed to do all the business in the senate yesterday, as none of the members have as yet prepared the numerous bills which will be presented during- the session. Provision was made for stationery for the members, the journal corrected, and the third day in the senate came to an end. In the house the features were the adoption of rules of procedure, the discussion dis-cussion over a sweeping- proposition to exclude lobbyists from coming in contact con-tact with legislators, and the prelim-deration prelim-deration of three more billa for laws and three resolutions. Salt Lake City, Jan. 13. In tha senate yesterday, Mr. Rideout introduced intro-duced a bill for the sale or disposal oi the present site of the University oi Utah, together with the appurtenances therereon, and the acceptance by the state of the sixty acre tract of land conditionally granted by the United States government, and for the erection erec-tion of suitable buildings and the location lo-cation of the University thereon; and the appropriation of $100,000 to be used for such purposes. Speaker Roylance of the house announced an-nounced his selection of standing committees com-mittees at the beginning of yesterday's session. Hills were introduced and referred to the proper committees, prohibiting marriage between persons of different races; defining the boundaries o) Wayne County; relating to taxes and life tenants; relating to taxation oi railroad lands; prohibiting the exist- ence of trusts and monopolies in tha state of Utah; relating to the duties o) railroad corporations; providing for tha payment of the regular and contingent expenses of the Third legislature; to provide for the formation of railroad I ;corporations for the purpose of pur- chasing and operating railroads, etc., and one for the physical examination jof salaried teachers. Salt Lake City, Jan. 15. The first 'week of the third legislative session of the state of Utah came to a close -without anything special to distinguish it f,.m Yi-nri; n tr assemblies. As was the case two years ago, both houses of the legislature put in the first week organizing, or-ganizing, formulating rules, receiving the governor's message, appointing standing committees and preparing for the real work of law making that is to come. At the former session, in 1897, the senate, during the first week, had introduced in it eleven bills, as against six for the beginning week of this session. In the .house of representatives repre-sentatives last week twenty-three bills for laws were introduced, compared with eighteen for the preceding assembly. assem-bly. The house's gain offsets the senate's sen-ate's loss in number of bills introduced. For the next week and until the legislature leg-islature elects a United States senator in the manner provided by law, comparatively com-paratively little is expected to be done in the way of real legislation. Some time during Tuesday afternoon each house will take a ballot on the candidates for senator, and at noon tha next day, in joint session, balloting will be repeated. At least one ballot must be taken daily at noon until one of the candidates for senator receives thirty-two, a majority, or more votes. The political complexion of the legislature leg-islature is here given: In the Senate: Democrats, 14; Republicans, 2; Cannon fusionists, 4. On jointballot the Democrats Dem-ocrats have 41, the Republicans 16, and the Cannon fusionists from Weber county, 6; total, 63. To date only one bill has been favorably favor-ably reported for passage. It is Rep-1 resentative Jackson's measure proposing propos-ing to enable the Union Pacific to absorb ab-sorb the Oregon Short Line by an. issue is-sue of an additional stock and certificates certifi-cates of indebtedness. The hill is to be the special order for consideration Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The legislature took a recess from Friday till Monday, and very many of the out-of-town members seized tne op portunity to visit their homes. President Nebeker has announced the following twenty-eight chairmanships chairman-ships of senate committees, which are divided about as equally as possible in proportion to party strength and time of service: Apportionment, Peery; appropriations ap-propriations and claims, Thomas Ben-,nion; Ben-,nion; banks and banking, Peery; public pub-lic institutions, Smoot; public lands, Evans; public printing, Alder; railroads, rail-roads, Nebeker; rules, Smoot: salaries, Robison; state affairs, Chambers; live stock, Tanner; manufactures and commerce, com-merce, Kiesel; military affairs, Chambers; Chamb-ers; mines and minerals, Nebeker; private pri-vate corporations and insurance, Kiesel; Kie-sel; public health, Cannon; forests and forestry, Shurtlift'; highways and bridges, Tanner; agriculture and irrigation, irri-gation, Shurtlift'; judiciary, Rideout; labor, Rideout; elections, Wright; engrossed en-grossed and enrolled bills, Whitney; federal relations, Howell; Fish and game, Evans; contingent expenses, Reunion; county and municipal corporations, corpor-ations, Thomas; education, Whitney; ways and means, Bennion. Eloping Couple .UeetDealS. Shamokin, Ta., Jan. 12. Word has been received here that George Josephs, Jos-ephs, aged IT years, and May Sehmin-key, Sehmin-key, aged IS, were victims of the railroad rail-road wreck at West Dunellen, N. J., and had been indentified by relatives. -Josephs died in a hospital at West Plainfield, and the girl was killed out right. The young couple were eloping to" New York to be married, their parents having objected to the alliance, owing to the extreme youth of the couple. |