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Show UTAH'8 LAWMAKERS. jl Tho osteopath bill has passed tho jH house by a voto or 24 to 13, seven Mm members nbsent. -,BJ Tho first forenoon session ot tho Mm houso during tho present assembly fflj wait held on tho 7th. 4HJ Tho various committees ot tho 'BJ louso nre losing no tlmo In pressing BJ :helr work as tho closing days grow BJ tower. ,BJ Tho sennte has nasscd a bill nniirtv Bl printing $7,000 to bo expended In BJ building bridges over the Rio Virgin Bl river In Washington county. BJ Ellwood Orth, of Ogden, engrossing 4 MM clerk of tho house, Is rcgnrded an -BJ ono of tho most skillful artists with a steel pen In tho whole west. BJ Tho members of the Utah leglsla- turo wcro tho special guests of tho BJ stato university on the 6th. About 40 BJ of tho solons composed the party. BJ Sennte Joint memorial No. 2, urging congress to pass legislation favorable BJ to tho teaching of the art of ngrl- BJ culture In common nnd normal .-BJ schools, wns adopted by the house. BJ S. 1). 181, fixes the annual salaries BJ of state officers ns follows: Governor, BJ $4,000; state treasurer, $1,500; tnto BJ auditor, $2,000; attorney-general. $2,- ,BJ 000; stato superintendent of public In- BJ struction, $2,400. BJ There wns no session of the house BJ on tho 5th, owing to the fact that BJ the greater number of the members BJ had taken a trip to Logan nnd failed BJ to get back to the capital city in tlmo BJ for tho day's- work, BJ H. B. No. 30, providing for the elno- tlon of stato superintendent of public BJ Instruction; presenting his quallflca- Bl tlons, nnd providing tor tho appoint- Bb meat and compensation ot a deputy. Mm has pnssed the senate. Houso bill No. 92, by Richards, Mm fixing tho per cent ot bonded lndebt- Bl edness In school districts, Increasing BB tho rato from 2 to 4 per cent, failed BB by a voto of 1C nycs to 17 nocst Ho- BB tlon for reconBldorntlon was an- Bfl nounced, Bfl There was a reception In honor ot tho Democratic mombors of tlio legls- HB lature on tho evening ot the Cth at BJ tho homo of Mr. and Mrs. James IL BB Moylc, Snlt Lake, tho affair bolnR BB given under the auspices of tho Wo- BBJ man's Democratic club. v BB Sonato hill No. 19, by Rasband, pro- mwM Siding that mining companies, shall , BBJ havo In readiness stretchers and "first 'BBJ aid to the Injured" to be used la BBJ case of emergency, wns passed by BBJ the, house. Tho mensure applies to -, 'BBJ mines omploylng ten men or more. ' 'iABJ Robinson's house bill No. 71, whlcb BVtwJ passed the hotiBC Friday, makes -ft ua- 'TTwflBJ lawful to make or have in one's pos (BBJ session tools of a burglarious charao BBl tcr, or deadly weapons. If the Inten- a flBl tlon be to uso such Implements to ''. HB break Into any house. Tho offense Is ' BBJ tn'"i a misdemeanor. 1 BBJ Houso bill No. 70 provides that 1' WU wiiuro an entlro county Is constituted BjB Into ono school district It shall be Bfl county school district or the first class. IB Heretofore In order that a- county IB might bo n district of this class It was Bfl necessary that it should hnve 3,004! flfl children of school age. HI Marks' house hill which failed on Thursday was passed by tho houso on flj Friday. Tho measure Is designed to HI Increase the revenue for school pur BjJ poses In Salt Lake City and fixes the BJ rato of tax levy. As passed by tbt :flfl houso its provisions Include n clause 'H to provide moro money for tench em4 HJ salaries. BJ Tho sonnto has approved ot the claim or P. T. Farnsworth. Jr., for flfl $2,125 for services performed ns an- flfl slstant attorney general from August flfl 1, 1005, to December 31, 190G. It an- flfl pears that tho legislature two years HJ ago mado no appropriation for tho fl pay of the assistant In that ofllco, flfl and hence tho claim, IB In order to establish n uniform ays- tern of weights and measures, the jo- Mml dlclnry commltteo of tho house baa Bfl Introduced H. B. No. 298. This bill fixes tho number of pounds thnt shall flfl bo contained In a bushel and other- flfl wise defines means of measuring BB commodities. Avoirdupois pounds ;BH shall bear to troy pounds the relation ' 'HB or 7,000 lo 5,760. -iHH The principal argument made by C. 'HI Mr, Park In the college consolidation ' ' Bfl debate, was that tho Agricultural BB college Is merely a high school for tho BBJ people or Cnclio , county and main- flflj tallied at stato expense. He showed -flfl by statistics that there only nine ng- i'flflj rlcultural students at Logan and that BJ the seventy-one In tho college depart 'BBJ mont aro being educited nt an : 'Bfll pense of $85,000 a year. BBJ By a vote of 12 to ft the stni flflj sennte passed tho Park bill conqoll- ,111 dating the University of Utah and HflJ tho Agricultural college nt Logan. Tho BBJ voto was: For consolidation Sena- BBJ tors Brlnknrhofr, Cnlllster, Clegg, BIJ Gardner, Holllngsworth, Lawrence, BBJ Miller, Park, Rasbund, Hemic- X. BIJ Smith, Williams and President lve BBJ 12. Against consolidation: Sena- 1 tors Bullen, llulanlskl, Jolinnon, BBJ Secly, John Y, Smith nnd Walton C. HflJ Benson sheep bill has passed tho HHE house, with an amendment fixing 16 HBJ days for time for a band ot sheep to tjSfll pass through a county. The present iWffl law Is 20 days. Unless they do this iHJc tho flockmastcrs will have to pay tax- es on tho band In tho county whero HfflSff found. (Sm By tho terms of a bill Introduced MtW by Senator Bullen, the courses nt tb Agricultural college at Logan shall ?rViA'f bo freo to all residents of the state. For outsiders tho trustees may fix a v2j suitable tuition chnrgo, and an tn- JtVpvkX trance or registration fee of $60 Is -to be exacted. ryvld Important action was taken In tbo - -i'B'-jW house on the Gth, when the speaker MIh appointed a sifting committee, wfccuo sV'V 1 mission It will bo to sift the good 'M'I from tho chaff In the way ot bills and iKi put the good to tho front. This com- .'.JOflfS - mltteo Is composed of Messrs. Kuch- .iMlfH' ler, Robinson and Hott. . 'tsfV S. B. No. 1G0, by Judiciary coin- SSt-jT mltteo, to prohibit corporations frost. flBtt making contracts of champetry and HJH maintenance, or c.ngnglng In the butsl- BHJ ness of soliciting and maintaining 1IU-, flflj gallon In the courts of this- stale, and BBJ providing a penalty for the violation BBJ thereof, hns passed tho senate, BBJ isLs '"'flflU -'-'Jflffll dBBWBfl |
