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Show WITH THE LAWMAKERS. (Continued from preceding page.) that there are many oases where an Innocent man has been convicted on purely eirtumstantiaf evidence and when his life is taken for a murder he did not commit the state is powerless power-less to make amends. The bill was referred to the committee on judiciary. judi-ciary. Horticulturists of the state are urging urg-ing ho passage of a bill introduced " in the legislature by Senator Joseph Kckorsley of Wayne county. The bill requires that all closed packages o' fruit, packed in such "a manner as t-prevent t-prevent their being readily inspected, shall be labeled with the name and address of the person, firm or corporation cor-poration having possession of the fruit at the time of packing, also the name of the aiiet and grade cf the fruit. The hill was leferred to the committee on manufactures and commerce. Senator Rideout introduced his bill providing for the direct election ot United States senators. The bill would make the election of senatois by populer vote possible, should the proposed constitutional amendment to' this effect fall. It provides that the senators shalhbe nominated either by a primary election, by convention or by petition. The nominees are to bo voted upon at the general election and the members of the legislature to be pledged to vote for the senator sena-tor receiving the highest vote at the election. Pensions for teachers in all parts c f the state will be made possible if a bill Introduced in the senate by -Senator Benner X. Smith becomes a Ibav. The bill places all of the teachers of the state on a retirement basis, similar simi-lar to that now In vogue in Salt Lake. One per cent of each teacher's salary sal-ary will be deducted to provide a retirement re-tirement fund from which the pensions pen-sions will be drawn. Some change? aro alao made In the retirement law affecting the teachers of the Salt -Lako schools. |