Show THE legislature COUNCIL feb 9 mr smoot was excused on account ot of sickness A received from toe the house council of the passage by the house of H F 24 a am bill for an act preventing crimes against the elective franchise read the first time and referred to the committee on elections I 1 the council was notified of the passage by the house of H P F 27 a bill rea lea re a ing to the construction and maintenance of et barbed wire fences in the territory of utah read the first time and referred to the committee on oa agriculture marshall presented C F 24 a bill concerning occupant claimants read the first time by its tule title and referred to committee on judiciary ludi ciary C E F 31 21 a bill providing for banking was called up forie ond reading the hill bill provides among other things that not less than ai six persons two thirds of at whom wham shall be residents of 91 territory being subscribers to the stock of any contemplated bank mabbe map be formed into a corporation for the purpose of banking whenever of stock has been subscribed and 25 per cent paid thereon the capital may be increased creased la to alter after 95 25 per cent there of shall have been paid in every officer must hold bold in his own awn name at least five shares of stock any vacancy in we the board of et directors dball be filled by appointment by the remaining directors marshall moved that section 22 1 be added providing that this act ace shall take effect t and be in force from and atter after its passage carried atna C F 21 1 ther then passed its second reading in and was filed for third reading H F 43 a bill amen amending diug section of an act revising the code of civil procedure of utah territory was called for second reading after amendment passed assed its second reading anait was t filed aed tor for third reading C P F 23 bill defining the proper method of drawing monies from the territorial treasury was then called tor for second reading read a second time and a third time under suspension of the rules and so passed C F 2 a bill providing for proceed ink rokel 1 in n insolvency was then called for reading woolley moved that the rules be suspended and the bill was pass B bryan suggested sag that the importance of f gan the e bul bill required further considers tion Mars marahall bAll moved that the third rendial reading carried carrie be postponed till monday TO the council then adjourned gorai february esth hoge introduced a bill tor the projection ot quail yi shand game committee rait tee montgomery introduced a bill allowing poor Ier persons sons to institute and prosecute rose cute suits in u the courts of the territory judiciary committee iler introduced a bill in relation to public domain committee on agriculture and irrigation richards introduced a bin bid repealing certain sections of what is known as the stock law it leaves only three sections of that law A motion to refer to the judiciary committee was lost and it went to the live stock committee A communication from the governor was read accompanied by a communication from f rom daniel graves the serl the latter was referred to the committee on manufactures and commerce the barb wire fence bill was called up under special orders kins king moved to amend so as to provide that the owners of fences could not be punished it if the latter substantially cannot conform to the requirements of the bill 1 hoge urged that the provision requiring existing fences to be made to conform to the bill was ez ex post facto creer breer took a different view as did moyle and richards farnsworth farns worth opposed kings amendment and thurman favored it the amendment was lost by a vote of 11 to 10 roueche offered an amendment amend meat providing that spreaders or supporters might be placed between posts posta that are f urther further apart than the bill allows lost lest helm moved to amend section one so as to require four wires to a fence and to allow posts to be 30 feet apart with spreaders or supports 10 feet apart the amendment was treated as a substitute allen alien moved to amend the substitute statute so as to allow three wires lost helms substitute was lost the tile bill passed by a voe of lt it ayes 6 noes Thur tuan moved to amend the title 0 of the bill to make it read A bill to protect the stockman at the expense ol of the farmer jones moved to postpone the amendment indefinitely carried m the council passed without amendment H F la a bill in relation to ag rides on railroads H F 6 hoges marriage bill came up under special orders r richards mooted to postpone it till tomorrow carried I 1 king moved to adjourn carried feb 9 1888 opening exercises the minutes contained a statement at length of the reasons why chiet chief clerk resigned namely that the utah central railway hallway desired to employ him as engineer on their proposed line to southern california I 1 latch hatch moved to stride out oat all the language in reference to the railroad aut and the causes of the resignation carried Jarr led land was excused for a few days at the request of ef who explained that the gentleman had been no tItled by telegraph of bf sickness la in his bis family hatch presented a bebon bewon from ella ellas S and 94 9 others of salt lake city asking for the passage 0 of a local option law committee on elections king from the special colw committee atee on OH nomination nami nation of a chief clerk named 0 F whitney as the unanimous choice of the committee adopted and the gentleman was elected in answer to a question from richards king said no minute clerk had been nominated by the committee thurman moved that a committee be appointed to select a minute clerk to succeed mr whitney jones favored an immediate selection by the house i the speaker explained that the ques tion of a minute considered by the special committee and lie be thought that if the matter were referred to that same committee it would report in ten uee eq was in favor of reference to a committee to report tomorrow kiss king said tie committee had had before them the names of E H anderson anderaon of ogden and R W slow sloan and C S burton the speaker said the question was now on the election of a minute clerk howell suggested that mr whit resignation as minute clerk had not been offered the chair tendered it and it was accepted A motion was put to refer the nomination of a minute clerk tola to commit tee and lost I 1 Rip richards hards noRina nominated ted E H anderson andersen bf ogden hatch nominated R W sloan kin king nominated C S burton barton t and dimbat nominated H G gwilt whit ney the last three being of salt lake all were presented in succession but neither heitker received a majority malo rUy renewed his nomination of F E H anderson and hatch that of ib thurman tharman said mr sloan wo old hake an excellent minute clerk cleric had been a prominent candidate lor for the position before the session opened I 1 and a number of members were then I 1 disposed tto support him but transferred their support to kr mr whitney because of his popularity and ability he asked the election of mr sloan 11 1 richards urged that thai the two chief limpers of the house were tram salt lake aud that mr anderson anderaon woj was I 1 competent man inan aud and the tron oi 0 I 1 the house Rouse should be distributed hatch suggested that weber county had bad had the chief blerk who W 0 had ha voluntarily t unta rily fay resigned a and that the rouse house wa was under sunder no further obligations to that county A vote was takes taken on sloan and an derson each candidate the resal result being a tie I 1 I 1 thurman renewed his motion to refer the nomination of a minute clerk tp to a committee of ahr three ethe the committee to te report to this session carried tho the chair appointed thurman richards and kimball Eim bali the enrollment committee reported report bd that the bill to punish stealing rides on railroads had been forwarded to the governor wood introduced a bill tor for the relief of prisoners released from the penitentiary tent iary referred reybourne hey bourne introduced a bill to prevent the spread of contagious dis diseases bases among live stock referred moyle introduced a bill to provide for the custody and use of books in the territorial library alry it requires the books now in the library to be deposited in the university library the regents to give security committee on library the committee on minute clerk reported in tavor favor of E H anderson adopted and the gentleman was elected richards offered a concurrent resolution requiring ahe committees on appropriation to prepare the general bill not later than feb lost greer offered the same resolution with the date changed to feb 22 allen alien asked what the purpose of the resolution was |