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Show liOpiET DUCHESNE BILL MEASURE INTENDED TO GIVF STATESMAN LEGAL STATUS IN LEGISLATURE. House Passes Measure Permitting Husbands or Wives to Testify Against Each Other. Another An-other Prohibition Bill. Two bills were passed in the senate on January 29, and three were sent back to committees with instructions to revamp and renovate them. The bills passed were Craig's senate sen-ate 'bill No. 18 and O'Neil's house bill No. 1. The Craig bill was a mere formality, providing for the conveyance convey-ance by statute of a parcel of land in Weber county to the Farr Development Develop-ment company, the state board of ex aminers having traded a parcel of industrial in-dustrial school land for it. The house bill, by O'Neil, the new representative from the new county of Duchesne, was merely intended to give that statesman legal status in the lower branch of the legislature, his county having been created since the legislative districts were made. The bill creates Duchesne county as a legislative district and was amended amend-ed by the senate to provide that the county be a part of the Fifth senato rial district. Two bills were passed by the house on January 29, one being an act limiting lim-iting the discretionary powers of sheriffs and chiefs of police; and the other an act permitting husbands or wives to testify against each other concerning . facts alleged to have occurred prior to their marriage. Prohibition of the sale of liquor by mail or wire order in dry territory and of the transportation of liquor from wet to dry territory in the state is proposed in a bill introduced on January 29 by Senator Funk, and referred re-ferred to the committee on agriculture agricul-ture and irrigation. Definite regulation of the employment employ-ment of children and women in Utah is proposed in a bill introduced January Janu-ary 29 by Senator L. B. Wight, which is drawn to replace the law enacted en-acted in 1911, with a form such as is now in effect in many states of the west. This bill, generally, places the age for beginning work at 16 years instead of 14. A bill providing for the ''headless ballot" in Utah, similar to the ballots used in Massachusetts New Jersey, Colorado, Nevada, California and other states, was introduced in the house on January 27 by Representative Representa-tive P. p. Christensen of Salt Lake. The proposed law does away with party emblems and places the candidates candi-dates for each office on the ballot in alphabetical order, with the residence and politics of each candidate set forth after his name. Under this ballot bal-lot the voter must cast his ballot for each candidate he chooses to vote for instead of voting for them all in blanket form under a party emblem. State-wide prohibition, by the amendment to the constitution route, was proposed in the senate on January Jan-uary 27 by a joint resolution introduced intro-duced by Senator Charles Cottrell of Salt Lake. If this resolution passes both houses by a two-thirds vote, the proposed amendment to the constitution will go to the voters of the state for ratification, ratifica-tion, as follows: "The manufacture and sale of intoxicating in-toxicating liquors shall forever be prohibited in this state, except for medicinal, scientific and mechanical purposes." At the close of business on January 27, there had been 85 bills introduced in the senate, and 39 in the house, besides be-sides numerous resolutions. Lobbyists must tell their real names and addresses, who employs them and how much they get for it, if a bill to be introduced in the upper branch of the legislature by Senator George H. Dern becomes a law. Senator John W. Thornley of Davis county introduced in the upper house his bill asking an appropriation of $100,000 for the state highway in Davis county. This is the highway from Salt Lake to Ogden. One-fourth of the money received by the state commissioner of insurance insur-ance on fire and lightning insurance in towns which have organized fire departments must be paid into a newly new-ly created "fireman's relief fund," under un-der the terms of a bill introduced in the senate on January 27 by Senator L. B. Wight of Summit county. Representative Dan B. Shields of Salt Lake, through a bill introduced on January 27, in the lower house, proposes to increase the number of justices of the supreme court from three to five and increase the term of service for each justice from six to ten years. Senator D. O. Rideout of Salt Lake has introduced a bill providing that where persons are convicted of murder mur-der on circumstantial evidence they may lie found guilty only of murder in the second degree, not the first degree. de-gree. The bill went to the judiciary committee. Advocates of prohibition called at the senate chamber Wednesday night to give endorsement to the bill for state-wide prohibition introduced by Senator John 11. Wootton at the request re-quest of the Utah Federation of Prohibition Pro-hibition and Betterment leagues and tli Municipal league of Utnh. |