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Show APPROPRiATION Bir PASSES THE SENATE But Two Votes Cast Against the Measure Which Provides for an Expenditure of Over $2,000,000. The senate on Monday, March 15. with but two dissenting votes, passed the omnibus appropriation bill. The bill as it passed the senate carries car-ries a total appropriation of $2.332.-i 011.65, which is $91,000 more than was approved by the committee on appropriations appro-priations and claims in the- senate.; This is in addition to special appro-; priations in specific bills pending before be-fore the legislature, amounting to $41,-1 500. The main additions to the bill Monday were appropriations for the improvement of roads in the different counties of the state. Almost every senator asked for road appropriations and got them. The debate -of the different items oc-! cupied the attention of the senate all ! day long. The Marks ripper bill, the fire and j police commission measure, which j many of its opponents declare will prove to be unconstitutional, even if: it gets upon the statutes, passed the house after a sharp struggle. Senate bill No. 52 passed the house j without opposition. This bill provides j for state aid in building storage reservoirs res-ervoirs in that the state may extend loans. Senate bill No. 166. reducing the number of the board of control of the art institute from seven to three members, mem-bers, was passed in the house. The appropriation ap-propriation was increased by the new lawfrom $1,000 to $2,000. The terms are to be two years. Without discussion and without op-1 position, the house passed senate bill No. 146, relating to garnishments. The bill, in effect, is that garnishments! may issue from courts of justices of the peace instead of courts of record.! as now provided. Other bills to receive the approval j of the house were, S. B. No. 171. relating relat-ing to the distribution of state funds: a measure providing for the creation of the office of state bacteriologist: relating to the creation and maintenance mainte-nance of the state board of land com-1 missioners, and fixing the schedule of fees that may be charged by county recorders for filing papers and for certifying copies. The senate on Saturday passed nine- j teen bills, while four 'measures were; killed. Important among those passed were four good roads bills, the irriga- j tion district bill, and a bill appro- j priating $25,000 for a Utah exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle next summer. . House joint resolution No. 12. ask-1 ing that the congress do not permit the cancellation of surface entries on lands which may contain coal be withheld, with-held, was passed. The Thornley automobile bill, which provides for the registration and I license of all automobiles and chauf-fears', chauf-fears', passed the senate. The Marks bill, providing for the j extension of the terms of the members of the state board of optometry from two to four years, passed the senate, but was amended so that the purpose of its introduction was defeated. The senate passed unanimously a j bill authorizing the state armory! board to erect a new state armory on the capitol grounds. The house of representatives sus-j tained the veto relating to inquests.; Only two votes were cast, against the 1 proposition to sustain the veto. House bill No. 209 was passed in the house. This act provides for the '. extension of the eight-hour work day j to sugar factories. The house passed the bill providing for the establishment of relief fund ; for firemen in incorporated cities and i towns. A long drawn out debate about i the constitutionality of the proposed measure was precipitated. The house committee on livestock; killed senate bill No. 42. by 'Stookey. j -creating the office or state veterinarian; veteri-narian; At the session of the house and ' senate on Friday which the journals will show were held on Thursday, the ! clock having been stopped a mini-. ber of bills were passed while sev- j eral were laid to rest, one of the most important measures to be killed being ; the public utilities bill, which faiied to meet the approval of the senate. A ; motion was made to strike out the enacting clause, and the following was the vote which decided the fate of the bill: Affirmative Senators1 Brinkerhoff, Bullen, Horsley, Hula-niski, Hula-niski, Kuchler, Marks, Miller, Seely, Bevy, John Y. Smith, Stookey and ! Williams. Negative Badger, Burton. Benner X. Smith, Wilson and Presi-; dent Gardner. Bills were passed by the senate relating re-lating to the disposition of money derived de-rived from the investment of land grant funds; making anpropriations I for constructing and improving roads in Washington county: amending laws relating to the appointment of the board of trustees of the Agrlcul-1 tural college, and fixing their terms of office: creating a state dairy and food bureau, defining its duties and powers, and making an appropriation for the purpose of carrying out the ! provisions of this act. An act requir lng poultry, game. fish, butter and eggs, which have been in cold storage more than three months; to v:e labeled "cold storage;" an act providing for a siaie veterinarian', the manner of liis appointment, prescribing his duties, du-ties, and providing for the control and supervision of dangerous and contag ious and infectious1 diseases of do-' mestic anima!s. In the house a bill was passed authorizing au-thorizing the University of Utah to erect a central building at a cost not exceeding $250,000 and appropriating the neceFsnry money for that purpose, and authorizing the partial conversion of the University of Utah permanent land fund into cash, loan thereof and method of repaying the same; to prevent pre-vent certain abuses connected with the drilling, operation and abandos-ment abandos-ment of wells on lands producing or containing petroleum or natural gas; and an amendment to the laws relating relat-ing to owning or renting buildings; keeping, residing in or resorting to houses of ill fame: together with a number of other amendments of minor importance. Thursday. March 11. was the last day for which Utah's legislators will draw a salary, and from that time until un-til final adjournment they are working work-ing without compensation, except the knowledge that they are giving their time for the weal or woe of the commonwealth. com-monwealth. The senate passed the bill providing for the creation of a fire and police commission for the city of Salt Lake, also a bill which, if it becomes a law will probably be known as the Burton insurance law. The Burton bill creates a state department de-partment of insurance with a commissioner commis-sioner of insurance and a deputy commissioner, com-missioner, with salaries of $2,500 and $1,800 per year. The insurance commissioner com-missioner is required to file a bond of $15,000 and his deputy $10,000. The term of office of the insurance commissioner com-missioner and deputy are to be four years from the date of the approval of the act. The insurance laws of the state are thoroughly revised in the bill, the so-called so-called "board" companies given the preference, since they can more nearly near-ly comply with the terms of the bill. For the support of the department a tax of iy2 per cent is imposed on all premiums. Senator Smith's bill, increasing the qualifications necessary for admission to the bar was passed. The senate bill creating a state board of statistics and the measure extending the duties of the board of pharmacy failed of passage. In the house the bill providing for the Des Moines plan of government for Salt Lake City was passed, there being but six votes in opposition. Senate bill No. 138, relating to the duties of the state engineer in connection con-nection with irrigation enterprises, the measurement and appropriation of water and 'the like, passed the house. This is, one of the important irrigation irriga-tion bills and is a companion to the bill for the establishment of irrigation districts. The Badger prohibition bill, senate bill No. 148, was reported by the sifting sift-ing committee of the house without recommendation. The muclj-talked-of fish and game bill passed the house by a vote of 33 to 9. The bill has now passed both houses as presented by a convention of sportsmen, with a few minor changes, which, while they may not meet with the approval of the sportsmen, sports-men, are not of much importance. The seventeen members of the senate sen-ate voted as a unit on Wednesday, March 10. in favor of the liquor regulation regu-lation and local option b' '. presented by the committee ,on manufactures and commerce, after having subjected it to several amendments. The bill as it was finally passed by the senate provides for county local option without restriction in twenty-five twenty-five counties in the state. In Salt Lake and Weber counties there are two units in the local option. One is the county exclusive of the city and the other the city exclusive of the county. It provides for such elections elec-tions to be held in September of each year on petitions signed by 25 per cent of the voting population. The regulation features of the bill are very drastic. Among other things they provide for: A non-partisan licensing li-censing board to be appointed by the mayors of cities of the first and second sec-ond class; a state commission of three to superintend the regulations of saloons in the different cities; limiting lim-iting the number of saloons to one for every 1.000 of population; closing of saloons from 7 o'clock each evening even-ing to 7 o'clock in the morning, and all day on Sundays; liquor to be sold in one room only, which has only one entrance, with no blinds or obstructions obstruc-tions to a clear view from the street; no booths, tables. chairs, billiard tables, slot machines, dice, etc., to be permitted: treating is prohibited; brewery-owned saloons are abolished: license for retail dealers in cities of the first and second class increased from $1,200 to $1,800. The house on Wednesday passed the eminent domain bill over the veto of Governor Spry. It "was the first veto message sent In by the governor and was on one of the most important import-ant measures to come before the assembly. as-sembly. Th bill gives the right of the exercise of eminent domain to smelting companies within a radius of four miles of the works, providing that the company has already acquired ac-quired by purchase or otherwise 75 per cent of the property within the area sought to be used for the purpose indicated. The four state capitol bills were also passed by the house. Another bill of importance passed by the house was the measure designed de-signed to establish a workshop for the adult blind, in order 1hat they may become self-supporting. |
