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Show WITH UTAH'S LAWMAKERB. Tho houso bill providing for dlvl-3on dlvl-3on ot counties in tho state failed to pass tho house. Claims of various newspapers of the stato, aggregating $1,978, wero allowed al-lowed by tho houso last weok The senato on March 1st killed and burled tho Croft nntl-clgaretto bill, ithlch passed the houso a week ago. Evory coud ,y In Utah presently wlh have a Juvenile court, If a bill Introduced Intro-duced by Marks of Salt Luko becomes a law. Tho conference committee report fixing fix-ing the appropriation for A. L. East-man, East-man, former slier I IT of Rich county, Injured In n fight with nn Insane man, at $1,260 was adopted. It tho legislature of Utah can have Its way, u uatlonnl department of mines nnd mining will bu created and tho president will appoint another member to his olllclal family, tho cabinet. cab-inet. Houso bill 170, regulating the umu of barbed wire within the state, which failed to pass, was called up for reconsideration recon-sideration Inst week and referred to the commlttco on highways and bridges. A Joint memorial session of tho two houses was held on tho 2Gth In Itonor of the memories of Representative Taft and Clint II. Leigh, who lost their lives In tho lamentable accident nt Bingham. A hilt Introduced by Representative Kuchler amends the present statuto relating to the Utah school for tho blind so that It will not bo mandatory upon tho Institution to receive pupils from other states. Sonato hill No. till has been approved ap-proved by the house. It Increases thu .work of assessors by compelling them Uo visit every section of tho county In which they reside and personally inspect the proporty nssossod. A hill providing that officers and members ot tho polico and flro departments depart-ments Jn all Utah cities shall hold their positions during good behavior, and cannot bo removed except for cnusc, ha3 been Introduced In tho senato by Senator Hulanlskl. Tho Bcnato has passed tho bill raising rais-ing tho salaries ot tho members' ot tho stato boord of ouqallzatlon from $800 to $1,500, after amending It so ns to make the number ot commissioners thrco Instcud of four, ns tho board has always been constituted. House bill No. 115, passed last week. Is by tho lato Representative Taft and requires flags to be raised on school houses on legal holidays. It was passed after adding Lincoln's birthday nnd flag day to the list of days on which tho flag should bu raised. The business of dairying Is defined In H. D. No. 279, Introduced by Robin-sou. Robin-sou. Tho measure requires that every porson engaged In tho dairying business busi-ness shall llrst obtain a llconso. The stato dairy and food commissioner Is to Inspect' the cows nnd tho premlsos of tho applicant for tho llconso mentioned. men-tioned. Thero was nothing Indecisive about tho way thu members of tho house sent the railroad commission bill to Its doom. Tho count showed a total of 32 against tho bill nnd 7 in favor of It. Two of thoso who cast their votes favorably, however, changed thorn be-foro be-foro tho poll wns announced by tho speaker. Six moro anti-Luke bills wero Introduced Intro-duced In the senate last week by the judiciary committee. All of them nrtf-aimed nrtf-aimed to correct abuses Incidental to thu practice In Justice cdurts nnd especially es-pecially tho notorious Murray court presided ovor by J ml go Durand and which Is used by Francis G. Luko ns a collection agency. Senate bill 127, by Lawrence, pro vldlng that contractors on public Improvements Im-provements shall give bonds for tho prompt and full payment of sub-contractors and laborers, and No. 133, by Johnson, granting a railroad company power to sell Its lines lying whollj In n foreign country, havo boon up-proved up-proved by tho senate. Inspection of cattle, sheep swine mid goats before being slaughtered lb tho burden ot n.hill, H. U. No. 227, Introduced by Robinson. Tho Inspection Inspec-tion shall bo mado by tho stato dairy and food commissioner. Post mortem examinations nre to bo mado; whole-somo whole-somo meat Is to bo designated "Inspected "In-spected nnd passed." Two of tho most Important measures affecting tho retail trade aro slated to como boforo the houso tho first of tht week. Thoy aro Mark's houso bills Nos. 151 und 152. Tho object of the proposed legislation Is to protect tho retail merchants against "dead beats.' Tho governor has sent to tho house his message of disapproval of house bill No. 37, providing for an Increaso In tho salary of tho stato superintend out of schools of $200 a year from $1,800 to $2,000. Tho governor's voto was based on the meageruess of the Increase. A bill providing an annual llconso for corporations and described by Spcnker Joseph as ono of the most Important measures of tho present session, has- passed the houso. If tho moasuro becomes a law, It Is estimated es-timated It will provide mi anual rev-onuo rev-onuo of $400,000. Following tho recommendation of Governor Cutler, Senator Miller, chair-man chair-man o( tho ways and means committee ot tho upper houso, has Introduced n Joint resolution submitting a constitutional constitu-tional amendment to tho voto of tho peoplo relating to tho rate of taxation taxa-tion for stato purposes, If tho lire nnd polico commission bill has half ns smooth sailing when It en-tors en-tors tho sounto as It had In the houso, it will speedily be In tho hands ot tho govornor for his oxecutlvo approval. Tho rlppor measuro went through tho lowor branch on rollcall with only eight votes recorded against It. Thu senato passed fourteen bills on the 27th, tho record of tho session In elthor of tho legislature, Tho bills woro sonato bills Nos. 113, 130, 114, 87, 119, 120, 121, 12!) and 31, nnd houso bills Nos. 19, 115, 21, 23 nnd 22. Most of tho measures wero of a technical naturo and of no general Interest. |
