| Show WITH LAWMAKERS the usury bill introduced by jenson makes it unlawful to take more than 12 per cent interest house bill no 1 by jensen makes taxes upon real estate a lien upon property after january 1 of each year house bill no 4 by dean author izes boards 0 commissioners to em ploy agents to exterminate clous weeds wesley walton is the oldest member in point of service in the senate mr walton is the senator from rich county robinson of singhara Bing hara has intro deuced a bill 7 to lafayette Ci dester for injuries re calved in discharge disc harga of his duty as an officer the senate passed the first bill of abe session on the it being sen ate bill no 1 making an appropriation of 35 for the contingent expenses of the session the democratic members of the house showed their mettle by naming a list of 1 for practically all the offices the democrats of the house number 8 frederick is the hold over senator from summit county and tor the last twenty years a resident of park city senator Is a na alve utahn having been born in proto in 1858 senator smith has introduced a bill providing or the revision annotation and printing of the laws of utah and creating a compilation commission appointments of commissions and making an speaker joseph announced at the opening of the house session on tues day of last week that each member would be expected to be in his seat promptly at roll call as promptness would be one of the rules of the house upon motion of mr marks democratic members of the last house who are members of the present body were allowed first choice of seats and republican members of the last house second choice the remaining members to have choice by lot J F tolton the democratic leader of the house discussing the gover nor s message said he found many per suggestions in it the gover nor he thought had made his message of too great length and had incorporate ed in it much unnecessary matter nurserymen want the legislature to enact a bill making it necessary tor tree growers to secure licenses before they can sell their wares in the state it is believed such a bill would great ly benefit the nursery industry of the state especially if a clause were in sorted making a state inspection ob liga tory for all nurseries neither the house nor the senate were in session to exceed thirty min utes on the the adoption of the report of the rules of committee and the first reading of a bill establishing a state insurance department and providing for the appointment of an insurance commissioner consumed most of the time of the senate the time tor introducing bills has been limited to the first thirty days of the session heretofore tells could be introduced up to the last day mak ing the work at the close of the ses sion exceedingly hurried the only way in which a bill can now be intro deuced after the thirty day limia expires 1 inon recommendation of a corn cittee secretary of state has sent to the senate a communication accod danied by three reports made by the commission appointed by abe last leg to investigate and report up on the question of the proposed mer ger of the agricultural college with the university of utah three reports were made one majority and two min orlay reports it Is said that representative kuch ler of ogden will at an early date in traduce a measure that will require that when complaint ot malfeasance or misfeasance in office or other charge of a criminal nature shall be brought against any official of the state before it shall be considered by a court shall be signed by at least twenty citizens for the avowed purpose of bringing about an equalization of the tax as sess ments in this state and for the purpose of compelling the owners of the great mining and smelting corpor actions in utah to bear their bur den of the expense of maintaining the government of the state a joint rev denue committee will be appointed by the enate and house of the present legislature representative orall thompson of millard county who has served in two legislatures prior to this says he will probably have few bills to offer during the present session mr thompson was a member of the first legislature but went down with other republicans in the bryan landslide which swept utah in 1896 he was a member of the last house and v as re elected to the present assembly A bill is said to be in the process of preparation by a member of the legis lature providing that sheriffs who are made defendants in civil suits rising out of the performance of their duty shall be indemnified tor their actor ney s tees by the state the bill will be favored by all sheriffs in the state who nave in the past been compelled to pay for their defense regardless of whether they win or lose the suits filed against them the discovery has been made that the senate is not to have a reading clerk this easlon the rotund voice of botka has been removed to mauritius where it Is doing duty ot uncle sam in a consular position and has no successor there senate bill no 3 by smith Is an act for the regulation of the tice of medicine and surgery in the state of utah and tor the appointment of a board of medical examiners in che matter of said regular an and providing for the repeal of title 5 re cased statutes of utah 1898 |
