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Show LEGISLATIVE AFTERMATH. Sllcvt Sundays, early closing for saloons nnd nntl-clgarette legislation went by tho board. Tho report of tho coal investigation commlttco were ordered spread on the minutes of tho house. "First aid to the injured" hence-fotth hence-fotth must bo rendered by all mining companies employing moro than ten men. After a stfugglo that may bo classed as remarkable, tho act extending the right of eminent domain to smelting companies was successful. Hereafter any ono found guilty ot burglary in tho first degrco will sorvq a sentence of from twenty-flvo to for ty yonrs In tho penitentiary. Death ovortook tho bill for tho cro. ntlon ot a pollco nnd flro commission In cities of tho first class. ThlB meas. uro early wns designated tho rlppet bill. Senators J. H. Scoley and Potot Clegg banqueted tho mombers of the third house the nowspapor men on Wednesday evening before' tho clos of tho session. Februnry 27 was the fatal dny foi tho railroad, commission bill, a meas uro regarded as ono of tho big onei of the session. It was defeatod by voto of 34 to 6 In tho houso. Ono of tho notable laws passed bj tho legislature, and ono which has ro celved but llttlo public notice, was thi bill providing for tho Introduction ol tho Torrcns system of transferrin! lnnd title in Utnh. Randall's bill providing for tin granting of permission to cities ol moro than 30,000 to crcato park com missions Is designated particularly tc benefit Ogdon. That city has alreadj u fairly good systom or beautiful parks. Tho legislature convened January 14 nnd its constitutional limit ot sixty days exrlrod March 14, but by stopping stop-ping tho clock tho solons wero ablo to continue their labors for ono week, although they had ceased drawing their per diem. State, county nnd city treasurers nro to caro for tho public money in their keeping as they seo fit, depositing deposit-ing tho funds In banks not designated by law. Two bills requiring designation designa-tion of depositaries for stato and city funds wero killed in tho houso. Tho vexing problem of juvenile courts seems to hnvo been solved by ndoptlon of two acts relating to tho case of delinquent children. Tho bills which survived of a number that wero introduced on tho subject provide for tho appointment for flrst and second-cluss second-cluss cities of juvenile Judges by n commission consisting of the governor, gover-nor, attorney genernl and stato superintendent super-intendent of public instruction. Provision Is mndo for experiments in subterranean explorations with n vlow to discovering (lows of water that may bo used for both land reclamation purposes nnd domestic uses. Generous appropriations have been made for systematic borings and demonstrations, The governor has signed the bill allowing al-lowing tho Salt- Luko school board to levy a tax of GVj mills Instead of H'j mills, tho limit now allowed by law. This- means thnt tho teachers wilt ho allowed nn increase In salary at the beginning of tho next school year. As a result of tho bounty bill passed nt this session, sheepmen nre to be assessed n tax of three mills for the purpose of destroying wild unlnmls, Certificates aro not to be issued after tlio fund Is exhausted, which means that thoro will bo no back claims in the future. House bill No. 72, relating to the collection of pnlltnx, whb disapproved by tho governor on tlio ground that tho tltlo was defectivo In mnterlal ways and that corporations and employer em-ployer wore mado collectors of tho tax without compensation, Tho voto was sustained. The governor sent In his voto of house bill No. 2C0, providing for tho organization of mutual lire Insurance companies. Tho executive Bald that eighty per cent of mutual flro Insurance Insur-ance companies have fallod and that tho history or such organizations Is a history of disaster. .lust at tho closo of tho senato session ses-sion on the 19th, Chaplain P. A. Simp-khi Simp-khi received a handsome gold fob from the senators In appreciation of his "elllclont praying." as Prcsldont 1-ovo, who mado tho presentation speech, put It. Tho affair was a corn-plolr corn-plolr surprise to tho "pation." |