Show SIFTING COMMUTE COMMITTE WILL TAKE CHARGE IN HOUSE seven members to go over measures before lower house and S ft the wheat from the chaff the lower house of the utah legis lature on march 4 authorized the ap of a sifting committee and he committee on committees met after adjournment to select the mem bers of 0 that death dealing tody body the following constitute the sifting hearle garfield chair rain judd salt lake dastrup na ayne anderson sanpete matey mabey davis pape plute welling box elder tho the two last named are dem debats the motion authorizing the sifting committee carried with it the instruct tion that all bills introduced here after shall go to that committee as well as all senate bills coming to the house beginning thursday all bills in the hands of house committee will be turned over to the sitting sifting commit tee the appointment of the committee means the expediting of all business in the house if the committee named on march 4 follows the rule set by ITS predecessors many a measure will come to a a timely or untimely death as the viewpoint may tte be four bills passed by the senate on march 4 were v ere house bill no 38 by anderson an act amending the fish and game laws of the state senate bill no by funk an act regu lating the business of employment agencies asen cies sena e mil bill no 54 by kelly an act providing for compensation expert witnesses in murder cases sen sell ate bill no 92 by smith an act per nutting assessment of paving street intersections against abutting prop erty the house approved the following bills on march 4 house bill no 86 by dastrup requiring bonds with ap for water house fouse bill no by committee on irrigation and reservoirs giving dis dier brict courts power to appoint water commissioners house bill no 89 by judd giving state board of dental ex ox power to inspect dentists of fl akes ces senate bill no by lunt appropriating 7 tor for conducting experiment to determine subterranean flow of water the general fish and game bill was p pissed alsed by the senate on march 4 by i unanimous nani vote with but few changes from the form ii which it passed the house after it had passed senator banner X smith of salt lake lak who was as absent at the time it passed called attention to the tact fact that the bill as parsed pa sed authorized spring shooting in altah sanpete juab millard emery and beaver deaver counties and asked that the bill be reconsidered he failed to muster enough votes notes however A joint committee was appointed by the speaker on march 4 to take up aith mith a like committee from the sen sell ate the various bills now before the legislature relating to the handling of lublic funds those billage bil lare house bill no senate bills nos 5 6 the speaker ap pointed to represent the house bam berger of salt lake hammond of grand and swenson of tooele thoele the house on march 4 passed sell ate till bill no by lunt making an appropriation for the conducting of experiments to determine the hubter rdean flow of water in this state the senate bill carried an tion of 12 this was cut to 7 by the house the committee on public utilities at the request of 0 mabey and welling on march 4 introduced in the house an anti pass bill introduced in the senate by smith and recently killed by that body the prohibition against the i fuance of passes makes the usual exceptions in favor of employees their families the inmates of eleemosynary and charitable institute ans and the like the appointment of a board of wa ter commissioners to have control ot of the water right granting and adminis of the state Is recommended by the house committee on irrigation and reservoirs through the bill intro deuced by the committee on march 3 the state road commission commissions s appropriation pria tion bill provid ng 97 for the road building fund was passed in the senate on A arch a I 1 after much tion in which it was denounced as div ing arbitrary powers to the commis sion and into which appos tion the question of deducting appropriations from counties receiving road boons from the midland trail and pioneer trail bills was as injected on roll call there were 11 votes for the hill bill and 3 against 4 being absent and not voting voting for the bill were booth Edge heill ferry perry hansen iverson lunt rideout smith thorn ley williams and gardner opposed funk runk olson arid and wight absent cot trell craig eckersley and kelly cottrell cottrells Cot a senate bill no aimed at street car smokers struck a snag in the senate and went down to de teat feat with the close of the month of feb fe b rusty there had been bills intro diced di ced in the house many of the bills that came in last week however were substitutes for bills already presented thus far the house has disposed ot of practically three fourths of the bills originating with nuth itself almost one halt half the bills reported by committees were kial killed d on adverse recommend a t ons owing to these facts the house Is in excellent shape and unless there is a flood of bil s from the senate it may be possible to get through the session without the appointment of a st s ting committee the corrupt practices bill intro deuced by R L judd of 0 salt lake T a as voted down on march 3 on a motion to strike out the enacting clause offered by M H kriebel the purposes ot of the act were outlined by mr judd who said the bill sought to strike at some of the more prevalent election evils in utah one of these evils said mr judd was the practice of 0 promising offices and political preferment before elec tion in return tor support another evil was as classed as the irregularities in the organization of political corn com whereby some committees acting without a treasurer and with out outs a report failed to account for funds contributed the bill provided that all candidates spending more than 20 in a campaign must file certified accounts the anti antl automo bile clause was also outlined and the feature providing against demands for contributions from candidate although permitting voluntary contributions hardly had joseph eckersley con eluded an eloquent speech in be behalf haltof of his sunday closing measure in the upper house on march 3 than the bill wa summarily put to death the pioneer trail bill was approved by the senate on march 3 the bill carries an appropriation of j for the marking location and improve ment of the road followed by the pio plo of 1847 into salt lake valley benner X smith smiths s senate bill no 15 the original antipass bill introduced at this session of the legislature was killed on march 3rd the enacting clause was stricken out after a long debate in which senator smith de dared that the committee had amend ed it into a rather than anti pass measure the senate has voted to transfer the branch normal school in cedar city from the university of utah to the state agricultural college one house amendment to the bill was stricken out this action was subsequently con burred in by the house and the bill bids fair to go into effect it signed by the governor consideration of the senate bill ap 15 for drilling wells in the and district of utah brought up the question in the house as to what the state land board had done with the 5 appropriated two years ago representative J lo E bardons Car cardon dons s bill proposing an appropriation for the utah development commission was reached on the calendar on march 3 but on account of the absence of mr cardon the bill was placed at the foot of the calendar again the general understanding is that an amendment will be offered cutt cutting the hon tion from to the following bills acre viere passed by the house on march 3 providing for teaching of industrial indu trial subjects in public schools and mak ing appropriation of 1 for apeci men cabinets to be prepared and sent out by state normal school relative to opening of kaibab in dian than reservation an a act providing for the creation of drainage districts making provisions tor for the administration and financing thereof giving cities of the first class the right to provide special decorations lighting and entertainment for con mentions vent ions public gatherings and cele orations brat ions regulating sale of matches and qualities of matches permitted to be sold amending laws relative to transfer and voting power of stocks in cor po rations lons amending laws relative to criminal procedure appropriating for marking designating and improving pioneer trail into salt lake valley under dl ill of state road commission relative to patents on state lands land providing punishment tor for obtain ing goods or credit through false statements resolution of sympathy to depre sent athe atiNe J D reynolds of the death of his father three bills were ere passed by the sen sell ate on march 3 senate bill no 43 edgheill Rem reinstating stating delinquent corporations house bill Is no day an act making the branch normal school in cedar city part of the agricultural college house joint resolution no I 1 mrs cannon re lating to a state flag pas passage age and approval of all bills carrying appropriations and enactment of bills covering requests now before the legislature would make up a budget just about 4 greater than the estimated revenues of the state for the next two years accord ing to compilations and informal re ports now in the hands of the joint committees on appropriations Edge heill s bill reinstating corpora eions delinquent tor for non payment of the state I 1 cense u was I 1 passed in the senate on march I 1 without opposition the meas re provides pio vides that for rein statement the corporations may pay un the back tax together with inci d antal costs rideout s electrocution bill doing away with hanging and shooting aa means of executing murderers in this state has been recommended for pas sage in the senate by the committee comit tee on state affairs and federal relations all saloons in utah will be closed on all holidays and they will also close at 10 0 clock every night it if the senate agrees with the house in pass ing house bill no as amended and passed by the house on rebr february uary 28 house bill no pending in the state legislature and intended to mod afy the commission form of govern ment in cities of this state has hag met with the disapproval of the laws and legislation committee of the salt lake commercial club expressed in in a report adopted by that committee d 4 0 fe |