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Show SENATE PASSES HOTEUKURE PROVIDES FOR MORE STRICT REGULATIONS, BUT INSPEC-TOR INSPEC-TOR GETS SAME SALARY. Memorial Addressed to the Arizona Legislature Raises a Storm of Protest in Lower House. Business before the senate was transacted in less than a half hour ou February 3. and after the introduction introduc-tion of five bills and the passage of one bill and one resolution, adjournment adjourn-ment was taken until Monday. So far, with more than 120 bills Introduced, In-troduced, more than 100 remain in committee files, with only three bills on the calendar for the action of the senate. The biil passed was the one introduced intro-duced by Senator W. Mont Kerry, providing pro-viding for more stringent sanitary legislations for hotels. The bill as introduced in-troduced provided for an increase in ihe appropriation for the state inspec. ior amounting to $)00 a year, but this increase was eliminated. The second measure passed was the resolution introduced by Senator Will-lam Will-lam Seegmiller, which gave the assent pf the state to the provision whereby federal aid will be given for farm and home demonstrators under direction of the Agricultural college. The appropriation ap-propriation for the state's share has been made on an advancing scale until un-til it reaches $25,000 a year. Two juvenile court measures were introduced by Senator J. V. Thornley. Senator Charles Cottrell, Jr., introduced intro-duced a bill providing for an additional addi-tional appropriation of $40,000 for the maintenance of Utah exhibits at the California expositions. By unanimous consent the bill went on the calendar. Longer hours for employees in mills and reduction works employing the wet process are proposed in a bill introduced in-troduced by Senator L. B. Wight, which proposes to amend the eight-lumr eight-lumr law to permit work up to ten hc.urs a day ''if they so elect." A bill introduced by Senator Joseph Chez of Weber proposes to make it illegal il-legal for any saloon or seller of liquor to cash pay checks, and the hill also provides that all pay checks shall be marked "given for wages." In addition to the great number of bills introduced in the house February D, one bill was killed, one passed and one recommitted. The introduction of a memorial addressed to the Arizona legislature raised a storm of protest. The memorial requested the Arizona legislature to complete the road from the Utah-Arizona line to the Grand canyon. The judiciary committee introduced seven bills in the house which will carry out the recommendations of the different departments of the state in regard to the right of building and loan companies, loan, trust and guaranty guar-anty companies and foreign corporations corpora-tions to do business in the state. The joint appropriations committee met after adjournment Friday and Ubled house bill No. 71 by Emil S. Lund, to appropriate $100,000 to trade the capitol grounds by day labor. la-bor. The hill is considered practically practi-cally killed in committee, as it will Lake a two-thirds vote to raise it from the table. Discussion of the hill seeking to provide means for raising more money for the schools of Salt Lake and Ogden Og-den and of the bill proposing to permit per-mit the supreme court to appoint an assistant librarian and marshal, occupied oc-cupied most of the time of the senate on February 3 and after coming near death, both bills were finally passed. Tfro bills were introduced and three petitions received and favorable reports re-ports on three bills were adopted. The city and state labor organizations organiza-tions presented a petition to the senate sen-ate and to the governor asking for legislation that would give Initiative and referendum and recall to the. Charles R. Mabey's bill making it unlawful to trespass on the right of way or the property of a railroad com. pany, was killed in the house on February Feb-ruary 3, aftera' long-drawn out debate de-bate in which everything from the rights of a man desiring to cross a train holding a street to the right of 3heep and cattle men and the rights of striking railroad employees was discussed. The bill was prepared with the avowed intention of lessening the uumber of accidents to trespassers. Thomas Sevy's bill providing that the state board of land commissioners may sue and be sued on any contract or tort, was easily passed. The pandering and state white slave law introduced 'by Mrs. Lily G. Wolstenholme of Salt Lake, which makes it a felony for any one to receive re-ceive money from a fallen woman or For any messenger, chauffeur or person per-son to convey or make appointments by telephone or in any other manner to arrange for meetings between males' and females for immoral purposes pur-poses or for any hotel or lodging house keeper to knowingly rent rooms for purposes of prostitution, passed by a unanimous vote. Less than thirty days remain in which laws may be enacted by the present session, hut there are enough Jjllls before both houses to keep the tn embers busy. |