| Show r NT BILL IS s mm HOUSE PASSES MEASURE PROVID ING TWO IN COUNTIES OF population the senate would be increased to twentynine twenty nine member members and the house to fifty eight if the measure law salt bait lake and weber counties were A ere pitted against nearly the rest of the state in the house on march 3 when H B no 44 by C W V pope of rich county for or reapportionment of vie tile state was under discussion and final linal ly passed the bill provides that ca each ch county in the bbate shall bo be entitled to one senator and that tho the pop necessary for a county to have more than one senator shall be he or better under the provisions of the bill salt lake would have two senators and twenty representatives the senate under the bill Is increased to t twenty enty nine members and the bouse to fafty eight members the house passed the memo ilal by senator george 11 II dern dorn of sail salt bake lake asking congress to pass the foster mining bill the house also passed the senate resolution by senator william permitting the agricultural college to use land grant funds in extension ork members of the state senate were ere guests of fred J klesel at ogden on march 2 when they went nent through the plants ot of the ogden packing company and the becker decker brewing company then ate dinner at the weber club returning to salt lake at 9 0 clock passage of the bill by the senate on march 2 providing for the payment of theodore kytka whose services as a handwriting expert were engaged during the prosecution of tho the ogden blackmail case followed a debate in which aich senator joseph chez of 1 county characterized it as I 1 live tive and vicious legislation an important measure passed by the senate was the roads regulation bill introduced by senator J II 11 edg heill providing that automobiles must stop when hen they approach street cars which are loading or unloading passengers consolidation of the state lire live stock department and the state board of sheep commissioners was as the sen senates atea work on february 27 and the bill by senator J W thornley providing tor for the appointment of a state llva live stock sanitary board was passed with a few slight light amendments aside from consolidating soli olid dating atlar the two departments the bill geno generally mily folio follows via the present laws affects ILC both but the administration will be tn n the hands of a board of three members to be appointed by the governor by and sith ith the consent of the senate another ahe liv e stock measure passed the senate in the form of a memorial authorizing the governor to appoint a man to go to denver deaver and another to go to carson city to lobby tor for term lawo lawn relative lo 10 the taxation of transient stock under suspension of the rules the house on february 27 passed three bill and memorials it was cesary ne that several memorials bo pissed at once that they might be sent to congress before it adjourns charles R memorial asking for an annual expenditure of 0 on roads in states sparsely populated and parley p christ eisens ue me that persons persona under the civil should be retired and pensioned were ere passed by the bouse house in rapid ahre order the other measure provides for appointment of justice or ot the in second clarq 1 cities under population adjournment of the senate was TAS taken february 27 through passage of a resolution of respect to the memory of R K thomas formerly a member of ot that body and the resolution was ordered spread on the minutes minu tea senator L B NV wight ight chairman of the senate judiciary committee offered a motion saturday that the senate adjourn until tuesday in order to permit the committee to catch up with their work but the senators from a hundred miles from as senator expressed it disagreed with senator wight and adjournment waa aa taken until 10 a m monday Al members embers of the house of all shades of political affiliation who are in favor of statewide state wide prohibition held two caucuses saturday at both of chith was as mapped out a plan of procedure to be followed on the floor of the house in connection with the prohibition bill five bills leq were passed by the 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 letting contracts acta one bill permitting the district attorney to incur necessary expenses in criminal prosecutions was passed as was another permitting district attorneys to appear in 1 ras misdemeanor demeanor cases and preliminary hearings when he so desires S D no 5 b W mont ferry appropriating tor for the home passed without a vote or without out debate |
