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Show WITH UTAH'8 LAWMAKERS. Senator Rasband's bill requiring mines to havo emergency modlcal cases for uso In casos of accident, has passed tho houso. Tho houso passed as amended by tho Bonato houso bill 37, by Richards, raising tho Bnlary of tho superintendent superintend-ent of public Instruction 'from $1,800 to $2,000. Senator Walton's registration bill changes tho present law so that tho registration books In nil towns and cities shall bo revised each year, Instead In-stead of every two years. The senate has disposed of tho I'ed-or I'ed-or sen marriage bill, which originated lu the house, by passing It without including in-cluding epileptics In tho classes to whom marrlago Is prohibited. Thu houso has received and adopted a favorablo report from tho special committee on tho Crltchlow bill creating a flro and police commission commis-sion for cities of tho first class. Tho housu gave tho death blow to hotiBO bill 114, by Tuft, requiring .wldo tires on wagons after January 1, 1916, by adopting tho majority report of tho committee on hlghwnys nnd bridges. American Fork gavo tho members of tho legislature, tho governor, his staff and others from Salt Lako a royal roy-al welcome on the night of the 13th, .when tho lawmakers paid that town iv visit. Tho bill of Senator Lawrenco changing chang-ing tho foes for Jurors and witnesses, failed to pass tho houso, twenty-five members believing that tho mcasuro would not accomplish the good that wns oxpectcd from It. Out of tho whole bunch of eighty-two bills Introduced In tho houou on tho 12th, tho only really notnblo measures wero a dozen offered by Mr. Clogg, tho purport of all of which was tho abolition of tho offico of district attorney. at-torney. Senator Hulanlskl's bills, Nos. 14 and 15, requiring caro but not fixing any speed limit for automobiles, and rnuklng it a misdemeanor to Interfere with any county road or public highway, high-way, have received tho approval of the houso. Tho Joint memorial Introduced In tho house on tho 12th, was the time-honored time-honored ono asking congress to an-i ncx what is known p.b tho Arizona strip to Utah, which probably has passed every legislature since statehood state-hood was created. The house has passed Croft's antl-cigarette antl-cigarette bill, which urohlblts, under severe penaltloa, the selling of cigarettes cigar-ettes In any form or ot cigarette paper pa-per after January 1, 1908. An effort to amend tho bill by striking out clg-aretto clg-aretto paper was futile. A petition from St. George citizens was received In the senate last week which set forth the fact that they "are slxty-flvo miles from a railroad. A railroad to St, Georgo would do us moro good In one year than a com-mlsion com-mlsion In 100 years. Give us railroads and we will run our chances for the rest." A resolution passed the house that a committee of four, two from the house and two from the senate, be appointed by tho speaker for the houso and the president of the senate, respectively, to formulate a programme of exercises exer-cises commemorative of Washington's Washing-ton's bltrhday and that the public bo Invited. The Galveston plan for governing a city la to bo applied to Salt Lako If the bills providing therefor, as passod by tho senate, aro passed by tho house. Sentiment In the senate was unanimous In favor ot the measure, meas-ure, which was fathered by Bonner X. Smith, and tho vote for it was unanimous. unani-mous. Houso bill Gl, by Kuchler, requiring street car companies to provide seats for motormon, to havo air brakes on all new cars put Into the Bervlco, and to requlro a motorman and a conductor con-ductor on each car or train, was passed by the house after being amended In several respects as to vorblage. If a bill Introduced In tho senate by Senator Wesley K. Walton, ot Rich county, becomes a law, It will bo no .defenso for a merchant or commission commis-sion man accused of selling decayed 'or tainted food to allege that ho did not know that It was unwholesome. Tho bill provldos a penalty for tho first offonso of a Alio ot $200. Senator Hulanlskl's bill permitting a nnmo to nppoar but once on an election ballot, was read a third tlmo and failed to pass by a vote of, ayes, 19; nays, 22; absent and not voting, 3; excused, 1. This bill provided ngalnst fusion ot tho several church parties. The houso concurred In the Bonato amendments to house bill 18, by Robinson, Robin-son, increasing the powors of tho Btato board of equalization. The Bcnato amendments added plpo linos operated In moro than one county to tho list of properties to bo assessed by tho board. John nollo, roporter of tho proceedings proceed-ings of tho Bupromo court, naked tho sennto Bnlary commltteo to rnlso his pay from $800 to $1,000 a year. Tho commltteo roported favorably. On tho 15th, on motion of Senator Hol-llngsworth, Hol-llngsworth, tho salary of this official was cut to $600. Sonnto bill No. 12, by Hulanlskl, providing that salaries of county otllcors otll-cors shall bo full compensation for nil services rondered, nnd providing for tho compensation of doputy officers, wns read tho third time nnd, upon mo-tlon mo-tlon of Mr. Clegg, tho enacting clause was strlckon out. Tho Bcnato, unlike tho houso, has no rule limiting tho Introduction, or bills. On tho 12th, 104 had been Introduced, In-troduced, which la about 50 less than at a corresponding tlmo at tho last session. A consorvntlvo estimate places tho total number which will ba Introduced at 160. Tho aonato has passod tho bill Introduced In-troduced by tho joint commltteo on public land which appropriates $5,000 for tho employment ot special counsol and expert witnesses to fight1 tho school coal land casos In tho federal courts. This Is tho samo raoasure I which tho houso killed. |