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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE I FINALLY ADJOURNS Menber: of Eighth Assembly Worked Eight Days Over-time in Consideration Consid-eration cf Proposed New Laws. Sal! Lake City. The Eighth legislative legis-lative assembly of Utah adjourned Saturday, March 20, after a session j lasting sixty-eight days, or just eight days longer than the legislators are I supposed to be in session, their labors la-bors for the last eight days being performed without compensation. Thus the last day of the session was 227 hours and 47 minutes long. The house adjourned at 11:31 p. m., and the senate just efeven minutes later. Just before adjournment a committee commit-tee was appointed to wait upon the governor and inform him tnat the Eighth legislative assembly was ready to adjourn. A communication was sent to both houses by the governor, declaring he had no further communications communi-cations to lay before the legislature and congratulating both houses upon the completion of their labors. One of the last acts of the senate was to reject six of the appointments made by the governor, as follows: Fred W. Chambers of Ogden, state fish and game commissioner. W. D. Candland, Mount Pleasant, state land commissioner. W. H. Thain of Logan, Lo-gan, state land commissioner. F. F. Alexander. Salt Lake, member optometry opto-metry board. H. O. Jensen, Salt Lake, member optometry board. John Walsh, Farmington, trustee state industrial in-dustrial school. At the time of adjournment the governor had made no appointments to fill the vacancies caused by the failure of the senate to coincide with him, and it is barely possible that all of the rejected appointees may serve until the next session of the legisla-" ture. i As to the work of the se"ion just closed, the governor has-aproved 81 of the measures passed, and has 64-now 64-now in his hands, which he may oi may not approve. These .were not all of the bills introduced by any means; as a veritable flood of measures were side-tracked, killed outright, or withdrawn. with-drawn. The last bill signed by the president presi-dent of the senate was the appropria tion bill, making apropriations for the support of the state government for two years. One of the important acts of the legislature was the decision reached to build a state capital. The capital, when completed, is to cost $2,000,000. A measure of more than ordinary Importance is the insurance department depart-ment bill. This measure provides for the creation of a department of insurance. in-surance. This department is to be run by a commissioner, .whose salary is to be $2,500, and whose office expenses ex-penses are to be $5,000. Advocates of good roads cannot help but be pleased with the action of the legislature in providing for a state commission which is expected to see that the roads ,of the state are improved. Th irrigation district bill was also a most important measure to be approved ap-proved by the legislature. Under the old law. a farmer could not back his irrigation piwject with anything more than the water filings and canal systems; sys-tems; but under this district law, the irrigation system of any community can be backed by all of the real property prop-erty of the irrigated territory. Thus, a farmer is enabled to float a bond that is just as sound and salable as any municipal or school bond. A most important measure to the mining industry of the state, and es pecial'y to the western part of Salt Lake county and Tooele county, is the eminent domain bill, which was passed over the veto of the governor. The Utah National Guard was also the recipient of favorable legislation, three bills relating to mining affairs being passed. The most important of the three bills is an act creating a state armory board and authorizing it to borrow from the state land board $85,000 to be used in the erection of an armory and arsenal in Salt Lake City. Governor Spry announced on Monday Mon-day that he had decided to veto four bills which since their passage by the legislature have caused a great deal of criticism. The bills whioh the governor has announced that, he would veto are . commonly known known as the fire and police bill, the liquor bill and the two Des Moines government bills. The fire and police bill placed the operatien and control of the fire and police deaartments in the hands oi' a commiss'on of three members, to be appointed by the governor, the city, however, while having Virtually nothing noth-ing to say regarding the departments, to foot the bills. The Des Moines bills provided for the control of the city by a commission commis-sion of five, comprising a mayor and four commissioners, together with an auditor, the remaining city officials to be appointed by the commission. The liquor bill provided that saloons sa-loons be closed from 7 o'clock in the evening until 7 o'clock the following morning: limited saloons to one for every 1.000 population, based upon the census of 1900, which only gave Salt Lake Citv a population of 57.000, and would decrease the sa'oons from approximately 140 to 57: made treating treat-ing a misdemeanor and embraced many other stringent provisions. |
