Show ch cago to make price of steel Pitt birg pa F A ogden freight manager tor for the jones laughl nl 1 steel company the biggest in depend ent company in the country and the most bitter opponent of the united states steel corporation on thursday made the amazing statement coming from him that he feared in the near future chicago would make the prices for steel and that pittsburg would be relegated to the background in other words he sounded the death knell to pittsburg as a great industrial center larger number of members was pies ent another prohibition measure was introduced in the lower house of the utah legislature on saturday ledru ary 27 it priti provides vides for strict brohl I 1 rohl as the former bill did and adds the provision for a dispensary tern tem one in each county where on by physician liquor may f ie e had the question ot of prohibition or so much ot of it as Is provided in the bill is to be put up to the people at a ape caal election on june the date decad d upon tor for calling the special elec lion tion in connection with the capitol A petition has been presented in the legislature for the creation ol 01 a lew county out of 0 portions of uintah and wasatch counties three towns are candidates tor for the honor of becoming the county seat theodore myton and roosevelt A bill by PL sell makes it obliga tory upon the state and municipalities to give the preference ol 01 employment to citizens of the united states or those who have declared their anten lion tion of becoming citizens ten bills were passed by the sen ate three were killed and one went over till a later date of the bills seven were senate bills the three house bills passed by the senate now low lack only the approval of the glovernor bo Lo vernor before becoming laws one of the important bills passed v as house bill no by ashton authorizing cities and counties of 0 the state to appropriate money for the entertainment of the G A R 11 visitors to the encampment next summer to ce held in salt lake A measure aimed at the carrying car bt of concealed weapons by the foreign ars in salt lake county mining camps has passed both houses As compensation for the loss of the state tate engineering experiment station the senate voted an appropriation of 2000 2 to the university of utah for carrying on archaeological and his investigation and exploration in the regions in soi so thern rutih for merly werly occupied by cliff dwellers dv ellers when the house convened on ari 1 day february 26 there were twenty bills upon the calendar and two more were favorably reported from commit tee after tour four hours of the session four bills had been disposed of there was a lengthy debate over house bill no relating to annual corpora tion license in which nearly every member took a hand the bill was finally passed by a vote of 23 ayes 11 nas hays A enate bill was passed authorizing the district attorney in ju judicial dacial districts having a population of 75 or more inhabitants to appoint an assistant and provid ng the qualifications salary and duties of said assistant the bill prohibiting the un author aed use of the name or picture of any public institution in this sate state or an any y c officer or private pei son tor for the purpose of advertising was also pas passed sed friday was the first day since very early in the p besent session ot of the senate that no new bill made its ini bial bow and the entire day was do voted to the consideration of mea raa ures already before the house ol 01 0 I 1 which there are a gleat great demand the greater greaten part of the session was taken up by the reading of the bulky production of senator williams and the military authorities providing to fo the enactment of a set of laws tor for tho governing of the state militia its in maintenance and conforming to the provisions pro visions ot of the dick bill which Is necessary in order that the depart ment may benefit by the lions made to the states bv by the federal government the bill finally passed other measures approved were S B 22 providing for the erection of bridges in emery san juan and uintah counties and m mik 11 ing an appropriation S B 0 prohibiting the circulation of de rogatory roe roz atory statements concerning banks and trusts H B 2 providing for the exercise of the right of eminent domain by foreign corporations at a joint session ol 01 the senate and the ho he ise of representatives I 1 eld thursday afternoon february 25 at 1 30 0 clock governor N william illiana spry read a special message to the legisla ture urging the advisability of pass ing legislation which would have for its object the imme inline hate commence ment of work on the new state capit capitol 0 I 1 building the governor went into de tail tall on the bills to be introduced on this subject and immediately after the dissolving of the joint session four bills were introduced in each houe in which the points taken up in the message of the governor were in eluded almost the entire regular se slon of the house was taken up in the con sider atlon of the state horticultural commission bill w which aich was finally passed by a vote of 34 to 1 ahe state armory bill vias passed by the senate the all bill provides for the creation of a state armory board ani authorizes the board to erect a state arsenal in salt lake city pro provision vistol being made for the funds the armory bill provides that the board to be created shall consist of the governo the secretary of state and the tant general two bills by senator badger ing to special tax funds in cities were passed ten new measures were introduced in the senate and eight in n the house |