Show UTAH legislature members of eighth assembly worked E days over time in conald aeration of proposed new laws salt lake city the eighth legis assembly of utah adjourned saturday march 20 after a session lasting sixty eight days or just eight das longer than the legislators are s opposed to be in session their la bors for the last eight days being performed compensation thu the last day ct the session was VI hours and 47 minutes long iho ho ie ad at 11 31 p m and the senate juat eleven minutes later just batore adjournment a comm t tee wis appointed to wait upon tie governor and inform him tuat the eighth legislative assembly was ready to adjourn A communication was sent to both house by the governor de clarin he had no further to lay before the and congratulating both houses upon the completion of their labors one of tre last acts of the senate was to reject six of the appointments mad by the governor as follows i W chambers of ogden bbate fish and game commissioner W D candland Land land mount pleasant state land commissioner W H thain of logan bbate jand commissioner f alexander salt lake member metry board H 0 jensen alt lal e member optometry board john aish trustee state in dutreal du trial school at the tine of adjournment the governor had made no appointments to fill the vacancies caused by ile failure of the senate to coincide with him and it is barely possible that all of the rejected appointees may serve until the next session of the ture As to the work of the se ion just closed the governor has approved 81 of the meas ires basseo and has ca now in his hands which he or may not approve chese were not all of the bills introduced by any means as a veri taMe flood of measures were side tracked 1 llred outright or biti drawn the last bati signed by the dent of the senate was the aloi bill raining appropriations for the support of me state government tor two years one of the important acts of the lesi ht ire was tre deals on reached to b lid a state capitol the capitol when comple ed Is to cost 2 ire of more than ordinary importance Is the insurance depart ment bill this measure provides for the creation of a department of in aurance this department Is to be run by a commissioner whose salary Is to be 2 and whose office ey per PS are to I 1 e 5 M alps of good roads cannot her but 1 p eadd with the action 0 the le slat re in providing for a sta e commission which Is expected to see that the roads of the state are improved the irrigation district bill was also a most important measure to be ap proved by the legislature under the old law a farmer could not back his irrigation project with anything more than the water filings and canal terns but under this district law the irrigation system of any community can be backed by all of the real property of the irrigated territory thus a farmer Is enabled to float a bond that Is juat as sound and salable as an municipal or school bond A most important measure to the industry of the state and es pec lally to the western part of salt lake aty and thoele tooele county Is tae eminent domain bill which was passed over the veto of the governo the utah national guard was also the recipient of favorable i three bills relating to mining stairs being passed the most important ol 01 the three bills Is an act creating a state armory board and authorizing authorising autho rising it to borrow from the state land board 85 to be used in the erection of an armory and arsenal in salt lake city governor spry announced mon day that he had decided to veto tour bills which since their passage by the legislature have caused a great deal of criticism the bills which the governor has announced that he would veto are commonly known known as the fire and police bill the liquor bill and the two des government bills the fire and police bill placed the operation and control of the fire and police departments in the hands of a commission of three members to be appointed by the governor the city however while having virtually noth ing to say regarding the departments to foot the bills the des bills provided for the control of the city by a commis sion of five comprising a mayor and tour commissioners together with an auditor the remaining city officials to be appointed by the commission the liquor bill provided that sa loons be closed from 7 clock in the evening until 7 clock the following morning limited saloons to one for every 1000 population based upon the census of 1900 which only gave salt lake city a population of 57 and would decrease the saloons from approximately to 57 made treat ing a misdemeanor and embraced many other stringent provisions |