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Show SENATE PASSES LIVE STOCK BILL MEASURE PROPOSES TO COMBINE SHEED COMMISSION WITH STOCK DEPARTMENT. Three Bills Are Passed by the House Under Suspension of the Rules Senate Adjourns in Honor of Former Member. Consolidation of the stale live stock department and the state board of sheep commissioners was the senate's work on February 27, and the bill by Senator J. V. Thornley, providing for the appointment of a state live stock sanitary board was passed with a few-slight few-slight amendments. Aside from consolidating con-solidating the two departments the bill generally follows the present laws affecting both, but the administration will be in the hands of a board of three members to be appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of the senate. Another live stock measure passed the senate in the form of a memorial authorizing the governor to appoint a man to go to Denver and another to go to Carson City to lobby for uniform uni-form laws relative to the taxation of transient stock. Under suspension of the rules the house on February 27 passed three bill and memorials. It was necesary that several memorials be passed at once that they might be sent to congress con-gress before it adjourns. Charles R. Mabey's memorial asking for an annual expenditure of $25,000,-000 $25,000,-000 on roads in states sparsely populated, popu-lated, and Parley P. Christensen's me morial that persons under the civil service should be retired and pen sioned, were passed by the house in rapid fire order. The other measure provides for appointment of justice of the peace in second-class cities under 15,000 population. Adjournment of the senate was taken February 27 through passage of a resolution of respect to the memory of R. K. "Thomas, formerly a member of that body, and the resolution was ordered spread on the minutes. Senator L. B. Wight, chairman of the senate judiciary committee, offered a motion Saturday that the senate adjourn ad-journ until Tuesday in order to permit the committee to catch up with their work, but the senators from "a hundred hun-dred miles from nowheres," as Senator Sena-tor Seegmiller expressed it,, disagreed witn Senator Wight and adjournment wao taken until 10 a. m. Monday. Members of the house of all shades of political affiliation who are in favor of state-wide prohibition, held two caucuses cau-cuses Saturday, at both of which was mapped out a plan of procedure to be followed on the floor of the house in connection with the prohibition bill. Twelve tills were passed by the Utah senate on February 25, while three were killed and eleven were reported re-ported out and placed on calendar. Among the measures passed are the bill relating to venue in civil actions which provides that suits for damages dam-ages against corporations where the cause arises in remote counties where the corporation makes its headquarters; headquar-ters; the destination coal weights bill and the bill providing for the organizing organ-izing of co-operative personal credit banks. The appropriation bill giving the families of each victim of the Lopez hunt $1,500 passed and a series of bills providing for the filing of chattel chat-tel mortgages and making such mortgages mort-gages valid for three years was also approved by the senate. The grist of the day included two house bills, one fixing the requirements for admission to the bar and the other providing penalty for giving drugs or explosives to state prisoners. The destination coal weights bill re-enacts re-enacts the law of two years ago that carried no penalty clause. It provides pro-vides that payment of freight in car-ioad car-ioad lots on coal shall be on a basis of weight at destination and the railroads rail-roads are required to weigh coal with out charge at points where track sca.'es are maintained. The bill was amended to allow 500 pounds shrinkage shrink-age to the car. The house killed eight bills and passed only two. One of the measures meas-ures passed makes the federal food and drug standards apply to Utah. House bill No. 140, by J. W. Kelly of Piute, also passed, provides that the National Guard of Utah shall be subject to the call of the president for duty either outside the territorial limits of the United States or of the state. The bill will likely get for the Utah national guard greater appropriations ap-propriations from the federal government govern-ment if it becomes a law. Five bills were passed by the senate sen-ate on February 26, after the morning session which was taken up with the killing of the bill providing for the making of public improvements without with-out letting contracts. One bill psrmitting the district attorney at-torney to incur necessary expenses in criminal prosecutions was passed as was another permitting district at- torneys to appear in misdemeanor cases and preliminary hearings when he so desires. S. B. No. 5 by W. Mont Ferry, appropriating ap-propriating $6,000 for the orphans' home, passed without a dissenting vote or without debate. A bill has been introduced in the house which would compel the inter-i inter-i change of traffic between electric and I steam railroads. The bill provides ! that common carriers in the state ' shall give the same rates to all per-! per-! sons, firms or corporations and that ! they shall not accept one class of goods at carload rates and another class of goods at less than arload rates. The highways and bridges committee commit-tee of the house has presented a bill for good roads tributary to county or , i state highways. i |