| Show THE legislature COUNCIL january 28 1888 the council convened at 2 pm MW mr young was exe excused used irom from communications were received from james dunn david stoker john D peters and fredk kesler I 1 thanking the council for courtesies extended house concurrent resolution no 10 providing for a clerical asril assistant stant for the committee on claims at a salary of 4 per day was concurred in by the council find and was consequently adopted an invitation was received from warren N dusenbury resident president of the board of directors or of the insane asylum to visit the asylum on friday next tho the tha thanks fiks of the council were tendered and the time tor for such visit was left to be determined by the com attee on asylum marshall made a report from the joint committee on the double memorial for presentation by delegate came caine to Co congress Agress praying for permission for aliens to hold property and for a fourth judge for utah etc moving that as the memorial referred to two subjects it be so as to make two memorials instead of one the report was adopted tha two memorials were read under al ai suspension of the rules 9 t three times and passed marshall presented C y 14 11 a bill providing for and do defining the fourth judicial district of utah which is ia to include the counties of utah millard and sevier the bill cassea passed its first reading and was referred to the committee committed on judiciary J ciary marshall presented C V F 9 an a bill in relation to county recorders which was read the first time and amended it passed its second reading marshall drew attention to sur surplusage plas in the printing of bills pointing out the words territory of utah etc the president called the attention of the committee comm on printing print lne to his bis suggestions gest ions smoot moved the passage of U J P F 9 under a suspension of the rules carlisle sad and bryan objected and the motion failed Wo woolley for reasons set forth by him moved that the third reading of the bill for an act to provide for the classification of municipal referred pat corporations and towns be deferred until called for parried carried the rocky mountain bell telephone company tede tendered through its president C P annett a telephone for the ube use of the council 4 shurtliff hurt liff moved its acceptance with the thanks of the council Cou acil smoot moved to amend the motion by specifying that the president be authorized zed to designate the location of the in instrument a trume n t carried on motion of smoot the council adjourned till 2 p m tomorrow rousi i 4 TAO 28 opening exe exerts flewell was ex cased the comilia A ament ported that r bi fixin the time at which e a go J act had fiad been sent sens to governor Gov erbor 1 thurman taurman cb chairman sirman of the judiciary committee report edi in favor of th the e bill in relation idu to tides on a railroads also in favor of moyles hoyles bal bill I 1 in relation to the age of consent both reports were adopted and the bills were filed for second reading the report of P L williams territorial commissioner of district schools was read it to is a voluminous f document and recites the litigation respecting the office and the rendering pt report soy county school superintendents which wils was terminated by the ct of the zd ed munds tucker lay law under indo which mr williams was re appointed by the territorial ri rit orial tortal supreme court the report treats of t the e changes ineat in elc books made last summer the causes leading tp to I 1 iti the doings of the school convention etc it IS names the books which were adopted and states the terms on which they were to be furnished so far as the commissioner is informed the books which were adopted are giving satisfaction he tad pad investigated the causes producing a scarcity of books but had not fixed the responsibility the reports rece received IV ed from county superintendents were incomplete and inaccurate aej and hence not entirely satisfactory at least le astone one member of the blaid boa d ol 01 trustees of a school district should be accustomed to keeping accounts the commissioner disclaims any amy intention to tio ariti else cise unkindly the county superintendents and speaks in b high welk sh terms berm of their services w which are elsbet gratuitous or poorly paid the commissioner r is of ef opinion that the duties of these 0 officers will never beadell be well done unless provision is made to pay them the report that census is incorrect showing as it does a decrease in the school population this is 18 attributed to imperfections in the 8 school chool I 1 law w T the 11 e commissioner had bad tried to obtain statistics relative to real estate etc owned by school districts but bat information resulting was too incomplete to tabulate it was evident liw however Never that more school houses were great ly needed some districts in salt lake county owned no school buildings whatever and schools were being bei nahed held in inadequate quarters the report attributes this condition largely to the nature of the school law which will not admit of raising a fund large enough to erect suitable buildings bail dings the commissioner recommends the issue of bonds for erecting school houses and aad that the latter be ample and well built the commissioner is not well acquainted qu quain ted with the class of teachers throughout the territory but speaks highly of those in ba salt lake county praksi praising 0 g their energy and disposition to advance in their profession he advocates legislative nt ol of teachers institutes he be urges in strong language the establishment of free schools I 1 nsiah familiar arguments I 1 in fay bayor 0 r af bifi position he recommends in addition lo 10 the territorial three mill tax that counties be required to raise a tax the commissioner reminds the assembly that no funds have been provided to support his office effice furnish stationery the expenses of which including considerable printing he be haa baa borne personally he also complains that school officers have not been furnished with copies of the school law until he be caused it to be printed and circulated among them he deals with the duties of the state in educating its children and ane manner in which the duty daty should be performed and argues that the giving of an education to th the e children free of charge is not the bestowal of charity but a measure adopted for the safety of tb th estate the commissioner admits that he be has no knowledge of the inculcation in the district schools of religious doctrines but complains that children are not taught the wrongfulness ol of polygamy and unlawful cohabitation lie he states in effect that this is an offense of omission raner than of commission the commissio ner refers to the sc s c cefis and influence of ef the mist ion schools and fears that detriment to the public schools may result unless a wise policy shall be pursued by the lawmaking power A draft of a bill for a new school law accompanies the report modeled i after abat of arizona the commissioner refers to the normal department of the university in complimentary terms statistics abc acc accompany moaby ithe report which was referred tu to the committee on education the speaker announced that the commissioner had h ad furnished copies 0 of the school law in pamphlet to form rin for distribution among members of the assembly alien moved that copies of the report be prin printed teA king suggested that the house wait to hear from the committee the motion was lost the council concurred la in the hen house se resolution providing clerical help tor for the house committee on claims king introduced a local option liquor bill which was read and referred to the committee on sections the council has passed a memorial to congress asking for a fourth judge for the territory and asking a the amendment of the alien laud land law taurman said the bar association had expressed willingness to aid the 1116 assembly in these matters and suggested that the memorials mno rials be made thle the special order for a future day the memorial for a fourth judge was read in full ful richards moved that it be referred to the joint committee on memorials for their operation cooperation co with the bar association king suggested that it might be deemed beneath the dit dianita anity of the house to seek help from the bar association soo lation richards urged the advisability of laying before congress an am the informal tion possible and scouted the idea of it being undignified for the house to obtain statistics etc from the bar association Aft after ersome some discussion the memoria in relation to a fourth judge was made special order for wednesday the memorial in relation to the alien land law was read in full it sets forth the necessity of permitting aliens to mineral lands on kings motion it was made special order tor wednesday richards mistrot need a bill to prevent crimes against the elective francaise referred to the judiciary committee Kun ball introduced a bill to the spread of diseases among sheep referred to the committee on live five stock kimball introduced a bill amending the present law iu in relation to railroad corporations referred to the e com littee on private corporations montgomery introduced a hill relating to the construction and maintenance of barb wire fences referred to th the committee on judiciary the clerk read an lo to the house to visit tomorrow the Orp orphans bans rome home and day nursery tr proffering offering vehicles king moved to accept carried 3 p pm in being the hour fixed |
