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Show WITH UTAH LAWMAKER8. Tho houso has refused to ropenl tho net creating tho Utah Institute of Art, and tho Instltuto will bo continued. v Tho houso adjourned over Washington's Washing-ton's birthday, and n session wns hold on Onturdny to mnko np for lost tlmo. Tho sennto calendar Is being rapidly cleared nnd if the houso was mnklng as rapid progress, the last fow days ot tho session would not bo a strenuous stren-uous period. Tho only bill Introduced In tho son-nto son-nto on the 21st wns by Miller, nnd It appropriates $5,000 for building a brldgo over tho Rio Virgin river In Washington county. A measure providing that Salt Lako can tako a census ut nny tlmo the city council desires, It such census docs not conflict with n state or national na-tional census, passed tho sennto last wook. Sennto Joint mcmorlnl No. 2, by Park, asking congress to puss tho bill appropriating money to state normal schools for- work In agriculture and domestic science, w.ns passed unnnl-'mously. unnnl-'mously. Senator Park has Introduced n Joint memorial to congress, asking that body to pass thu Burkott-Pollard bill granting appropriations to normal schools fr work in agriculture and domestic do-mestic sciences. It sooms strange that Iho two Smiths in tho sennto Bhould always be opposed op-posed to each other, but nevertheless it is true. Tho first strugglo botwceif tho two was over thu Galveston bills and It has continued over since. Thu houso reconsidered Us action on senate bill 75, by Parks, rotating to tho stamping of gold and articles mado thereof, struck out the nmend-mcnt nmend-mcnt mado on Wednesday and passed tho bill as it camo from tho senate. Tho house commlttco on labor has decided to dofor action on H. B. V9, by Hono, tho eight-hour bill, until representatives ot tho sugar factory Intorcsts could bo heard, a request having boon rccolvcd from theso Interests In-terests for a hearing. 'Governor Cutler sont his first veto message of tho present session to tho scnato on tho 20th. Tho bill vetoed is scnato bill No. 1G by Hulanlskl, nnd makos tho violation of nny ordinance of any country passed pursuant to tho laws of tho stato misdemeanors. Tho feature of tho sennto session on tho 21st was tho fight mado on tho HolUngsworth bill increasing tho penalty pen-alty for burglary In tho Ilrst degree, which consists ot the use ot dangerous danger-ous explosives, to from twcuty-llve to forty yenrs In tho pcnltcntlnry. Tho bill was llnalli pnsscd by a vote of 11 to 6. Tho houso passed house Joint memorial mem-orial No. 6, by Hott, after tho member mem-ber from Sail Juan hud mado his mnld-en mnld-en speech to tho houso. It 1b a rcquust thnt tho wandering southern Uto Indians In-dians bo sent back to their reservation reserva-tion In Colorado nnd provented from committing doprodatlons In San Junn county. A peculiar measure introduced in tho scnato last week by John Y. Smith provides thnt each publication within tho stntcs shall publish in "every copy of every Isauo, In a conspicuous position, tho names of ownor, owners, proprietor or proprietors of such publication, pub-lication, together with the unmo of tho managing editor thereof." Tho following bills were passed by tho house, practically without opposition; oppo-sition; S. B. 58, by HolUngsworth, rotating ro-tating to tho form of summons; H. B. 116, by Marks, relating to replies In pleadings; S. B. 22, by Calllstor, relating re-lating to state reservoirs; II. B. 140, by Hott, relating to tho preservation of relics of tho cliff dwellers. A bill -hns been Introduced In tho senate by Senntor HolUngsworth allowing al-lowing Judges of tho district court their actual and necessary traveling expenses. Tho living expenses uro limited to $5 a day. All oxpenso accounts ac-counts nro to bo paid by the state Tho Judges now pny their own expenses whllo traveling from ono district to another. S. B. 107, appropriating $5,000 nnd empowering tho stato land board to employ counsel nnd Intervene In tho suit brought by tho fedornl government govern-ment against Arthur A. Swcot, Involving Involv-ing tho mutter ot titles to coal lands, was passed by the houso on tho 21st, without discussion. It wiis this measure meas-ure thnt raised u commotion In tho houso two weeks previous. Houso bill 40, by Tolton, relating lo filing of reports by city olllclals; House bill 208, by Bower; Houso bill 101!, by Thompson, to regulate tho conduct ot business nnd to provont any person or corporation from conducting or trans acting business under an nssumcd name; II. J, M. 5, by Crltehlow, asking ask-ing nn amendment to tho bankruptcy law; Houso bill 87, by Pedorsen, cro-ntlng cro-ntlng a stato board of accountancy; Houso bill 70, by Richards, regarding regard-ing county school districts, nnd II. J. R. 3, by Kuchlcr, providing for n portrait of former Govornor Hober M. Wells In tho oxecutlvo chambor, wero passed by tho house without opposition. op-position. A bill authorizing tho stuto board ot examiners to Invito urchltccts throughout through-out the United Stntcs to submit plans for a Btntu cnpltol building to bo erected erect-ed upon tho cnpltol ground b nt Salt Lako to cost $1,000,000 was Introduced In tho senuto last week by Senator W. N. Williams of Salt Luke. Threo senate bills wero aproved by tho sonnto members on the 21st. Ono relates to privileged commuulcatlu, another is tho burglary bill, and tho tlrlrd provides for a convention ot health. Tho house bill relating to oro purchases and tho 'fulsirylng of assays, was also approved. Tho bill advocated by tho Butchers Butch-ers & Grocers' association or Salt Lako makes an amendment to the statuto regarding exemptions from execution for debt. The only amendment proposed pro-posed is ono reducing tho exomptlon of a person's salary from $30 a month to $20 a month, or $5 n week |