Show prohibition BILL BEFORE legislature measure introduced by joseph J cannon has the support of the anti saloon league the advantages and disadvantage ct prohibition will probably be dis cussed from every point of view by the gentlemen now assembled in salt lake city with a view to amending ond improving the laws of the state ol 01 altah on saturday january 23 rep joseph J cannon intro a bill which marks the initial steps of the temperance advocates to lar the sale or manufacture of cants in the state of utah another hill waa introduced in the house last bearing on prohibition but the measure introduced saturday is the official bill of the anti saloon league endorsed by the leaders of the movement the series of bills prepared by the special committee and approved by the convention having to do with good coads in utah held recently in salt lake have found their way officially to the legislature the bills number seven and cover the various points suggested bug at the contention house joint memorial no 2 asking for a land grant of 3 acres for the establishment of a fund for a state capitol purposes was introduced in the house by parmley of carbon the mei norial ia similar to that intro deuced in the senate holman ot salt lake county has in produced trod a bill providing for the 1 punishment unish ment of persons furnishing false information to newspapers senator rudolph kuchler champions the cause of the women s clubs of the state in a bill providing tor the tate control of the traveling libraries of the state which are now being cir at the expense of the women s clubs of the state A bill introduced by senator bullen of cache provides for the reduction or rather equalizing ol 01 the entrance fee at the agac college the fee tor non resident students is low red from 25 to 10 while that of residents lesi dents is raised from 5 to 10 of especial importance is senate bint memorial no 1 introduced in the senate by senator james dil u the memorial petitions congress tor a grant of 3 acres of and land to be sold to provide funds to be equally divided between the arec tion of a capitol tor utah and the am provement pro of the roads throughout the state it is estimated that the bale of this land would braig 2 an acre or 6 A bill which would deal a death blow to sunday amusements if it be comes a law was introduced in the house on monday january 25 the 1 ill provides that not only the one who provides the amusement include ing theatrical performances base hall or in tact any amusement shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor hut the patrons will be equally guilty the joint resolution providing that the business of the legislature be suspended on the day of febra ary 1909 as a particular mark of respect to the memory ot the great emancipator lincoln was passed as wag H no 3 by clegg amending sections 2938 and 2940 chapter 8 comp led laws of utah 1907 relating to the manner of corn actions eight new billa were introduced in the house and one joint resolution russell salt lake county introduced the first bill pertaining to public utilities he is desirous of ascertain ing the ownership of the telephone companies and asks that a commit tee of three be appointed to invests gate the status of the two companies A bill was introduced by holman providing for a state mine inspector at a salary of 2 per annum and expenses not to exceed per an num the senate waa in session less than half an hour but in time several rew bills were presented one by ben ier X smith providing a death pen alty for life term prisoners in the state penitentiary who assault a guard or the warden senator herschel bullen proposes amending the law creating a state b i reau of statistics providing for the control of the b bireau by a commis bloner who shall be appointed by the governor by means of three bills senator carl badger proposes the amendment of three sections of the compiled laws of the state relating to nomona t on for public office senate bill no 2 establishing hoi idlas in the bear for observance in utah and which added lincoln s birthday to the list of holidays failed to pass the house on tuesday janu ary 26 the vote against the measure teeg 21 to 10 holman s bill no 31 providing that justices of the peace be required to hold inquests in cases where per ons meet death in an unnatural manner passed the house with tour dissenting dis benting votes the bill as nally introduced was amended in a material degree although the main fea tarea are retained there was a sharp debate in which holman and baker took the chief parta house bill no 14 relating to sher ills fees passed bv a vote of 27 to 2 the bill increases the fee tor serving summons from 50 cents to 1 and in other minor ways changes the present system the office of state veterinarian 1 intended to be created by a law pro posed in a bill introduced in th fouse by fuller representative hugh A mcmillin of salt lake introduced a bill provid ing tor a commission of three q lali fled and suitable persons to revise the revenue and taxation system of the state rock M pope representative from wasatch county presented a bill in the house which in effect places a bar on treating should this bill be i come law every one would have to buy their own intoxicants and the author figures it would be almost as good a thing for the morals of the commonwealth as prohibition thompson of mallard county has in traduced a measure which provides tor the holding of farmers and domestic science institutes and schools ind takes the place of the present laws covering the same subject the members of the senate in bulged in an hour s debate on tues I 1 day and after the smoke had cleared away and the casualties counted it was discovered that the entire con troverse tro versy had been needless and the discussion out of order the discus sion was on the appointment of a committee to investigate whether or not it was advisable to continue the operation of the state experiment farm at lehl this was following a suggestion of governor bspry concern ng the farm the committee on county and mun corporations recommended for passage senate bill no 19 introduced by senator john Y smith this bill provides that in case the proposition pio position to bond a city tor an amount exceed ing at a bond election the mayor and and laws of the state la voted tor by a majority of those vot ing at a bond election th mayor and city council shall be permitted to is aue bonds to the amount allo ved by the on and la vs of the state A bill introduced by senator sevy provides that it any property i has been sold tor taxes the date of suan sale be written on the tax notices sent by the county treasurer to prop erty owners this is to guard aga ast the fraudulent transfer of property to which the title is not clear on thursday january 21 the gov erner the members of the legislature and their wives spent the day as euesta of the university of utah dur mg their visit to the school the law makers learned of the needs of the institution at first hand As a conse quence of this visit there was no ses on of either branch of the legislature the senate got down to real bus 22 with the ress on friday janavry presentation of six bills the demor ial to congress asking for 3 acres of government land tor the pur I 1 ose of building a state house and improving the public roads and then adjournment was taken until mon day afternoon at 2 clock governor william spry is to have Ms office refurnished and improved to the extent of 1 it senate bill no 17 gets through eight new measures were present ed in the house and considerable other b illness transacted it devel aped that progress was being retard ed owing to the fact that the renters had tailed to furnish the house with printed copies of bills that hae been presented house memorial no 1 requesting congress to a law by which the arizona strip will be annexed to utah was signed by W of the house after it had leen presented by the committee on engrossment and enrollment in the house on jan a iry 20 ashton of salt lake introduced tour bills which are designed to cover the juve i ile court system cements white of utah county was added to the committee on fish and game by speaker robinson the fish and game committee consists now of nine mem bers two petitions tor prohibition were received both aiom salt lake count representative cannon of salt lake county introduced a r solution provid ing that the university of utah should haie in the benefits of the camelle letl rement allowance archibald of summit anty intro deuced a bill in the house for the se lection of text books for schools out sida the districts in first and second class cities by a commission the head of which shall be the state kuperm of schools |