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Show UTAH LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP Happenings In Both Branches of Ninth General Assembly. Two bills were approved by the house on Monday, January 1G, both relating to an Increase in fees for jurors. Two new hills were introduced. intro-duced. Ten new measures were introduced in-troduced In the senate, making a total to-tal of twnty-nine for tho present session. ses-sion. The reapportionment of the number of senators and representatives in the legislature to the different legislative districts in the state, according to the census of 1910, is provided in a bill Introduced in the state senate Monday by Senator S. J. Stookey of Salt Lake. Each house of the legislature Monday Mon-day unanimously adopted a resolution pledging the moral and financial support sup-port of Utah for the proposed Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco. Tho feature of the session of the house on Saturday, the 14, was the introduction by William L. Hayes of Utah county of the local option bill, In accordance with the promise of the Republicans at me late election. Under the provisions of this measure, meas-ure, the sale of intoxicating liquors outside the corporate limits of cities of the first, second and third classes will be prohibited except for medical, mechanical or scientific uses. In cities of the first, second and third classes the sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors will bo settled by1 local option. op-tion. To determine whether or not intoxicating beverages shall be sold in cities of the second and third classes, class-es, an election is called for Tuesday, May 8, 1911, when all voters eligible at the last preceding election, or registered reg-istered since that time, will be eligible to vote. In all cities where prohibition is lost, or where no elections are held in cities of the first class, the city councils shall have the power to license and regulate all places where liquor is sold. It is provided, however, how-ever, in the measure, that there shall not be more than one saloon, grog shop or other such place to each 2,000 inhabitants. Senator Badger of Salt Lake on Monday introduced a bill prohibiting certain classes of medical advertising in newspapers. This bill is a duplicate dupli-cate of one introduced two years ago by Senator Badger, which passed the senate but which was killed in the house. Senator Christopher Burton, Jr., of Davis county, on Monday introduced a. bill in the senate increasing the annual appropriation for the state road fund from '$27,000 to $00,000. In order to equalize the assessed valuation of mineral lands in the state, Senator G. A. Iverson of Carbon Car-bon county on Monday introduced a ioint resolution providing for the. submission sub-mission of a proposed constitutional intendment which permits the taxation taxa-tion of mining property" as other property prop-erty is taxed. Following out the recommendations of the Salt Lake Commercial club, Badger of Salt Lake on Monday introduced in-troduced a bill authorizing boards of :ounty commissioners to levy a special spe-cial tax to cover the cost of maintaining main-taining exhibits at local or foreign exhibitions. ex-hibitions. To prevent the spread of disease and improve the sanitation of the cities cit-ies of the state, Smith of Salt Lake an Monday introduced a bill in the senate providing that no city or town shall permit sewerage to be deposited nearer than 500 feet from a running stream. The sale and delivery of fruit trees ' j ather than those of the kind and species spe-cies ordered is made a misdemeanor i under a hill offered in the senate by Kelly of Weber. It provides that every firm or vender of fruit trees shall file a bond of $10,000 with the secretary of state. Eighteen bills were introduced in the senate during the first week. The first two bills passed by the house were introduced by Repre-tative Repre-tative Claude Y. Russell of Salt Lake. The first one passed amends the statutes stat-utes relating to highway robbery and fixes the penalty for persons found guilty at not less than three years or for life. The other is a bill providing for the punishment of men living off the earnings of fallen women. W. L. Hayes is the father of the third measure to be passed by the house. This act provides, as suggested suggest-ed by the governor in his message,-that message,-that the use of facsimile photographs or impressions of the great seal of the state shall be restricted in general and prohibited on advertising matter. In the future much of the work to be done by the two houses of the state legislature will take place Id committee meetings, and it is expected expect-ed that practically all or the committee commit-tee meetings will be held in the morning. morn-ing. Senate bill No. 13 (the hoodo bill) provides for the depositing of state moneys in national, state or private banks which will be required to pay not less than 2 per cent per annum interest in-terest on said moneys. But its author Is not superstitious and has no fear nf tho outcome of this measure. Senate blll.'i 10 tn 18 vm lri'r duc.fid on Friday, the K!lli, wiill" house blllit 8 to 14 were presented. Tho houso passed Senate bill 2, providing pro-viding that, bills passing the legislature legisla-ture may be engrossed by typewriter, An attempt to have the house adjourn from Friday until Monday was frustrated. frus-trated. Governor Spry sent a communication communica-tion to the senate, asking permission to cede certain lands near Fort Douglas Doug-las to the government. Senator Stookey introduced a me a ure making appointees rejected by senate Ineligible as recess appointees, A bill making pool selling, book making and other forms of gambling a felony was introduced in the house. A divorce bill has been introduced by Senator Kuchler, which permits a final decree to be entered by the court instead of an interlocutory decree, in case the parties to the divorce action have lived separate and apart for more than one year prior to the issuance issu-ance of the decree. To provide for the sheriff's inspection inspec-tion and record of livestock to be driven or shipped from this state to another is the object of house bill No, 12, introduced by Mr. Sanderson ol Sanpete on Friday. Eighteen new bills were introduced, making a total to date of thirty-two, while three bills were passed. A bill providing for the appointment appoint-ment of under sheriffs in all counties of the first and second class, creating an additional office in all such counties, coun-ties, has been introduced in the lower house by the judiciary committee of the house of representatives. If a bill introduced by Representa tive Harry B. Cole in the lower House of the state legislature is passed, beginning be-ginning with the first Monday in Jan uary, 1913, the salaries of the governor, gov-ernor, state auditor, attorney general and state treasurer will be materially increased. B. D. Harsberger, Democratic mem. ber of the lower house, from Bluff, traveled farther to come to the legislature legis-lature than any other member ol either house. The state will pay him mileage for 362 miles, 148 miles ol which had to be traversed in a stage coach. Senator R. W. Sevey of Panguitch is the tallest man in the senate. He has served two terms as sheriff ol Garfield county, but for the past two years has been working in connection with the bureau of animal industry. He is now serving in the second session ses-sion of his first term in the senate. Senator Carl A. Badger of Salt Lake on Thursday introduced a joint resolution reso-lution providing for the ratification . by the legislature of Utah of the proposed pro-posed amendment to the constitution of the United States authorizing au income tax. Eight hours are to constitute a day's labor in all retail stores and other places of business where goods are sold at retail to the public, if a bill introduced in the senate by Rudolph Kuchler of Ogden becomes a law. The house was in session but thirty minutes on Thursday, January 12. It met at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and adjourned at 2:30. The early adjournment adjourn-ment was taken out of respect to President Gardner, whose mother'died on Wednesday. Senator Badger of Salt Lake has introduced in-troduced a resolution providing that no so-called "junketing" trip be taken by the senate alter the twentieth legislative leg-islative day; that no visit as a body be made to the state mental hospital; that no bill, except by uanimous consent, con-sent, be introduced in the senate after the fortieth legislative day; that on the forty-fifth legislative day the president pres-ident shall appoint a sifting committee. commit-tee. The committee on irrigation in the house Friday introduced a bill amending amend-ing the present irrigation law to fix the purchase price of lands selected by the state for use as reservoir lands at $2.50 per acre. David H. Morris, leader of the minority, mi-nority, who received the complimentary compliment-ary vote of the Democrats for speaker of th house, occupied the speaker's chair for more than an hour Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon. The house on Wednesday adopted the report of its committee on rules, after a lengthy discussion. The committee com-mittee made slight cnanges in the rules, the most important being the shifting of the hour to convene daily from 2 o'clock in the afetrnoon to 10 in the morning. Another change was that no bill can be introduced in the house after the 30th day except by committee. It is reported that Speaker Robinson Robin-son has been assured of an appoint-l appoint-l ment in the United Slates consular service, and that he will leave for his post soon after the close of the present pres-ent session of the state legislature. Representative Hayes of Utah county coun-ty has introduced a bill providing that the use of the great seal of the stats of Utah for advertising purposes shall constitute a misdemeanor. Benner X. Smhh, one of the senators sena-tors from Salt Lake county, has the distinction of having introduced, four years ago, forty-three bills, of which thirty-two passed both houses, two were laid on the table and five were killed by committee. The adoption of senate bills 1 and 2, the former providing for the regular regu-lar and contingent expenses of the legislature, and the latter relating to engrossed bills; the introduction of two bills and a resolution by Senator Benner X. Smith; a senate joint memorial me-morial and two resolutions by Senator Sen-ator Badger, and the appointment of standing committees by President Henry Gardner, comprised the features fea-tures of the third day's session of ttu senate on Wednesday. The housa calendar contained six bills at the close of the session. To encourage the destruction of squirrels, ground squirrels, rabbits, gophers, chipmunks and other farmers' farm-ers' pests, Jacob H. Langston, representative rep-resentative from Millard county, has introduced in the lower house of the state legislature a bill to' appropriate $2,700 as an annual bounty to the divided div-ided amongst the twenty-seven counties coun-ties of the state. Two bills introduced by Representative Represent-ative Page of Piute county provide for the increase of witness fees in justice ind district courts and before grand luries. |