Show BANK department BILL RECEIVES SENATE APPROVAL measure curtails authority of secre tary of state and creates a state banking department elim bating the qualification that the bank commissioner must have had three years actual banking experience the senate on february 18 passed the banking department bill the tho vote was 11 to 4 three senators being ab sent mere was lively opposition to the bill on the floor the bill would cur tall the authority of the secretary secre of state who Is ex officio bank commis cc amis stoner the tull bill tubes takes this work from him and creates a state banking de part pertinent ment headed by a bank commis stoner drawing 3 a year salary the cardon sunday closing bill was killed in the house on february I 1 18 8 by a vote of 21 to 15 on a motion to strike out the enacting clause it was not an easy death though forit for it took the opponents of the measure just two hours to talk it to death D 0 rideout s bill providing pen aleles for persons who borrow money on the representation that they have Te resources sources and assets they do not pos sess bess was passed without opposition in the senate on tuesday seeming attempts on the part bof of the minority to make political cap capital al out of the house action on the ques tion of the election of senators by direct vote failed in the house on feb buary 18 and the report of the corn com cittee on resolutions favoring the constitutional amendment was passed with speaker W J seely H T rey nolda and W L van wagoner alone in voting against the measure the bill which started oui to define the qualifications of newspapers put pub lishing legal advertisements and fix ing the rates wound up in the house on february 18 stripped ot of many tea fea tures proposed and was passed only ene one dissenting vote the bill says that the rate for legal advertise menta ments must be not more than 1 50 a folio of words for the first publication and not metre n than tha a 50 cents a folio tor for subsequent publications regulation of the size of train crews to promote the safety of pas mongers and employees is made by a bill which senator J R Edge heill in trod traduced tuesday the bill bilk lates the number of engineers fire men conductors brakemen tora kemen and flag men which trains of different length must have confusion of flags and state history which resulted in an holding tip up mrs an nie rife wells cannons house resolution adopting as the state flag the banner to be presented to the state for the battleship utah was settled tuesday and and the senate passed the tesola tion president henry gardner cast ing the only negative vote indeterminate sentences for persons convicted of 0 felonies other than trea son and murder are authorized in a bill by D 0 rideout introduced tues day in the senate the bill also pro vides tor for a board of parole and for more of prisoners than ob bains under present laws county courts for counties of the second third and fourth class are created by a bill introduced in the senate by A L booth judges of these county courts are to be elected tor for two year terms the bill provides but county commissioners are empowered to 0 o appoint temporary judges persons who ho observe another day of the week as the sabbath are ex empt from applicator appl icat on of the sunday closing law and may keep their places of business open on sunday accord ing to a bill introduced by request in the senate by D 0 rideout appropriation of tor for in tion of the mysterious duck malady that has killed off thousands of the water fowl of this state Is proposed in a bill introduced in the senate by william craig governor william spry on february 15 5 approved several senate bills and one house bill the house bill signed by the governor increases the pay of jurors from 2 to 3 per day depre Benta tentative tive A M durham Is the author of the measure it becomes effective sixty days after the adjournment of the state legislature the date the increase will become effective Is may 12 the senate b ils signed by the governor are senate bill no Is 9 by han sen ben relating to the procedure in case one of the parties to a joint bank ac count dies senate bill no 13 by booth relative to the filing of chattel mortgage 3 senate bill no 16 bylund by lunt reducing the interest on deferred pay ments on state lands from 8 to 5 per cent senate bill no 19 by S smith mith amending the law relative to forcible entry and detainer and senate bill no 36 by booth validating certain conveyances made in good faith but not in strict compliance with the law bills creating two new state officers sanitary inspector and fire marshal were introduced in the senate on february 14 house bill no 10 introduced by the Judic ud idary laxy committee as a substitute for or house bill no 59 passed the house on february 14 by a vote of 25 to 12 clearing the docket of the last of the liquor bills cintr introduced at ae the request of the municipal league it ot utah this bill amends the u ent laws making it a misdemeanor for a i minor to have I 1 quor in hisa pos session those voting against the bill were barnes benson cook I 1 11 I 1 wood marchant Alar chant mcrae openshaw I 1 page robinson swenson wilcox and jseeie three bills governing actions anc salaries of the state land board were introduced in senate on february 17 by G A iverson the bills were to give the board the right to besig nate assistants to the state engineer to supervise construction of reservoirs desei taking that power from the en gincer to increase the salary of commissioners from 1 1200 to 1 1800 a year and that of the secretary from 1 1800 to 3 a year to I 1 the board from investing money from state lands in irrigation or drainage district bonds attempts attempt on the part of 0 the minor ity of the house to inject politics in to the consideration of a resolution tor fox the direct election of senators on mon von day through improper wording of the committee committees s report on the resolution resulted in sending it bach back to the corn com cittee again lawyers appointed by the court to defend pen penniless niles defendants may re cover fees from the county up to 10 a day for time sp ant in conduct ol 01 cases according to bienner X smith s senate bill no 62 52 as amended by the committee on judiciary which was passed la in the senate on monday the lower house of the utah legis lature on monday went on oil record a being opposed to an eight elgh hour thour day when it passed a substitute measure which provides that in utah ulfat factories efty f aty seven hours shall constitute a week s work excepting when property or life is in imminent danger those favoring ithe the measure say the sugar f factories ac tories are the only institutions dt dl erectly affected at present regulation of the branding of closed packages of apples pears and peaches la is proposed in a bill introduced by joseph eckersley in the senate on february 17 7 and indorsed by the her hor of the state the education committees c bill pro viding for combinations of common country school districts outside of the first and second class and permitting the smaller combination districts to secure more revenue in III taxes was passed in the senate on monday this provides tor for but one school board for entire counties outside cities of the first and second class taking property bought on the in plan out of the state before the entire purchase price has been paid Is prohibited in senate bill no 34 passed ty by the senate such con duct Is regarded ag as a misdemeanor when hen the property Is of less value than when of greater value a felony fifteen thousand dollars Is ap abed for the orphans home and day nursery in a bill passed by the senate on february 17 the one dissenting vote was cast by president gardner senate bill no introduced february 17 by the committee on muni munt cipal corporations provides that it shall be unlawful to maintain any pest house except such as are authorized by city and county or town corpora eions and located by the state board of health although his joint resolution for d di election of united states senators was defeated in the upper ho hoise ise senator rideout has introduced a bill tor for direct election on the preferential plan by request the house on february 15 passed the new sheep bill the measure was introduced by the committee on live livestock stoLk it was drawn in conformity with the suggestions of the bureau of animal industry of the united states and Is uniform with the laws now in operation in adjoining states the new bill gives the board of sheep commissioners power to antine sheep in case of disease it if the owner refuses to dip at once it also gives the federal sheep inspectors power temporarily ito to quarantine when they find infected sheep pending the action of the state sheep commission ers so far as the house committee on municipal corporations corpora tons Is concerned the texas tommy the grizzly bear and the bunny hug may be danced unless the authorities of the cities and towns themselves forbid the committee considered cons dered hooper hoopers s house bill no 79 which sought to reg dance halls and to prohibit tain rag dances and decided to return the bill to the house with an adverse report reconsideration of the bill intro deuced by anne ann e NN ells cannon of salt lake county providing for an ampro Pria tion of 50 for a women s dor for the university of utah was brought up by claude T barnes on aury 14 and the bill which was killed the previous day went to the committee on appropriations for consideration in connection with with the general appropriation bill hooper s bill providing provida hg for the fencing of all farm pasture and graz ing lands in the state was killed by the house on february 15 on an ad verse report of the judiciary judic Judici mry commit tee seven bills passed four killed and thirteen introduced was the record of the senate on the one of tie vie busiest days of the sess bess on in the house but two measures were presented three passed and two killed salaries of municipal court judges in cities of the second class having a population of more than 15 pre ore iii ir creased from 1800 1 to 2 and the term erm of office lengthened from two to four our years by a bill introduced monday by senator william craig the ogden municipal court would be the only one affected the house on february 15 passed house louse joint memorial no 2 urging congress to pass the crago bill providing for tire pensioning of widows and orphans of spanish american war soldiers iol diers A |