Show TWO HEALTH MEASURES PASSED BY UTAH SENATE one provide provides for immediate report to health authorities in case of tu tub b ercul osia osis other ice lea Inspect inspector Ir in two health bills introduced by senator W mont ferry by acque request a t of the elate state board of health were passed in tho the cenate on february 21 ono requiring immediate reports to tho the health authorities of cases of tuberculosis ercul osis and tho the other providing for inspection of ico lee by health authorities before it is sold senate bill no Is tho the ono one relating to reports of tuberculosis it was passed without opposition thero Tho was some discussion of tho other measure senate senat bill nto no 7 tho the ico ice bill senator senater L B wight endeavored to amend tho the bill to stipulate that only ice tee used for beverages drinking water w ater and culinary pur purposes rAises need pass inspection spec tion backing ice tee need not bo be absolutely pure ho he argued arg U ed ills ilia amendment was voted down so the bill covers ico for all purposes link in tho midland trail was passed up to tho the governor on friday i through the passage of senate bill no 91 by the house with only three votes opposing those these voica votes being cast by enos boullon Benn Boun lon of uintah county george 11 robinson nobl of rich county ind IN W L van wagoner of wasatch county senator iversons Iver sous senate bill no relating to preferred claims on school lands waa was passed in tho the senate on february 21 bootha booths senate bill no 38 TO relating lating to issuance of patents on state lands was also passed authorizing the capitol commission to enlarge and make symmetrical the grounds for tho the new statehouse by ee 30 curing adjacent landa lands is the purpose of A bill introduced in tho the upper house by y henry W V lunt house bills nos and by R TA L judd as passed by the house bonse ou on february 21 nil fill what lawyers declare to havo have been a long felt want in tho the statutes 0 the state relative to the venue of civil cases an n district courts president henry gardner charged that sentiment was playing its pan part in the passage of the senate on february 21 of the smith bill appropriating for improvement and marking of the pioneers trail over the mountain into salt lake valley house bill bil no 48 providing for an au appropriation of for or the free froe kindergarten and neighborhood house was passed through the adoption 0 of a minority report of the committee on appropriations increase in the membership of tho the state horticultural commission in crease in salary foe for the state horticultural inspector and provision for as IT trany any deputy inspectors as the coin coln vil balon deerea dev necess necessary ury are among the provisions of Ecker beys senate bill no nd introduced Feir february uary 21 the governor has bas signed e innate bill no 17 by eckersley an act increasing appropriations for school districts receiving state aid so they can raise salaries eal arles of teachers six bills were approved by the senate and elx six by the house on february 21 the house sheep scab bill was passed in the senate on february 20 without opposition all the senators voted for it but one who was not in the senate senat d chamber when the ote note was taken this bill increases the powers of the state board of adeep commissioners to stamp out disease the board haing the right to condemn and destroy infected animals Benn Renn lons ions county demonstrator bill passed the house february 20 without opposition carrying earning an appropriation of for 1913 and an increase of 2500 thereafter until the yearly appropriation should amount to a year the bill pro provides viLes that the agricultural college of utah shall furnish the demonstrators tor or the van vart ous our counties paying spa special ial attention to those remote from railroad transportation por tation house bill 79 the hooper antl anti texas tomm measure which was downed in the house by a tie vote was revived there on february 20 trimmed a bit and passed by a vote of 0 31 to 7 two entire sections were stricken out and a vote to strike out the enactment clause was lost by a vote of 11 to 26 an initiative and referendum bill was introduced in the senate on an february 20 by senator L M olson eight per cent of the tho voters vt of the state under tho terms of the olson bill may mar initiate any measure which the state legislature would aavo avo power to pass or refer any measure already passed by that legislature back to the tho po ople for their acceptance or rejection after considerable debate on the floor the enate senate c voted to return benner X smiths anti bacs bill to the railroads committee for further consider aun j I 1 aou would amended so having boon been it poll tax daxl laws the present lot oti repeal benner 19 passed february enate enato on bill no 28 provid C smiths senate T road tax of 3 for all qualified ng a coat cast failed to citizens of tho state who heir ballote ballots at election close 8 to 10 ben sen iho loto ioto was ara who voted for the bill we were r e igors booth craig FA eckersley ke raley Idge holl L and terry rideout cynith 8 S voted gardner who president against echi iverton it oo lunt cottrell Cott reli olson fr funk cornley ilan and williams senate bill no 0 9 known know a as the and duplicate of the pure food bill a bill which was lost at the last ses SO slon after it had been passed by both house und senate and be before fora it had received the necessary signatures res to make it a law W was passed by tho bouse house on february 19 tho the bee Ino inspector bill was passed in too tho senate on february 19 it was senate bill no 49 by edgee III and was amended by the committee on III live tor for t me he stock to cut the appropriation new department to for tho the next two years by a vote of 30 to 11 the lou house se on february 19 passed the bill introduced d by alma swanson raising the PON tax to 3 and providing for the collection ot or poll taxes through the pay rolls of individuals and corporations A motion by edward southwick to include women in the poll POI I 1 tax law received just two otes both from utah county senate bills for th tho 0 remainder of the session go to the foot of the house calendar according to a decision of the house on february 19 the house also decided to cut down debate by limiting opening speeches to three minutes and closing speeches to five live minutes senator lunts bill providing for a board of optometry examiners and for more stringent examination of ot per sons who ho would engage in an that profession in utah was as passed in the senate on the tho one of senator booths bills amending the laws relating to sale salo and pos selon of narcotic druga drugs was recommended for passage in the senate by the committee on public health and labor and the other booth bill on the tho subject was killed house bill no by anderson providing for boys and girls homo home contests contexts under supervision of extension division of agricultural college passed the house on an the the house set the seal seat of its approval upon four bills on the w while bile the senate approved the s same e n number aber Fe february breary 24 will be the last day for of bills in the senate except by committee there had been no rule in abo senate limiting the time for introductions but A L booth moved on the to set the as the limit and the other senators voted with him there thero was no session of the legislature on saturday bt birthday rth day eliminating the qualification that he the bank commissioner must have had bad three years actual banking experience he the senate on february 18 passed the banking department bill the I 1 lote ote was vms 11 to 4 three senators being absent there was lively opposition to tho the bill all on the floor the bill would cur tall the authority of the secretary of state who ie in ex bank co nis 1 lioner the bill takes this work from him and creates a state banking department part ment headed by a bank commissioner drawing a a ear salary D 0 hideouts Rid eouts bill providing penalties for persons aiho ho borrow money on the representation that they have resources and assets they do not possess was vlas passed without opposition in n tha senate on tuesday seeming attempts on the part of the minority to r make mike political capital out of the house action on the ques tro uon n of the election of senators by direct vote failed in the house on february 18 and the tho report of the committee on resolutions favoring the constitutional amendment was passed with speaker IV J seely H T reynolds and W L van wagoner alone in voting against the measure the bill which started out to defene he the qualifications of newspapers pub lishing legal advertisements and 1 fix I ing the rates wound up in the ho house use on february 18 stripped ol 01 many tea fea tures ures proposed and was nas passed wito wit a only one dissenting note ote the bill save says that the rate for leg legal 4 ments roust must be not more than 1 so 50 a folio of words for the first ion tion and not more than 50 cents a folio for subsequent publications indeterminate sentences for bemons convicted of fel felonies onles other than trea son and ad murder are aro authorized in a bill by D 0 rideout introduced tue tues day in the senate the bill also pro vides for a board ot of parole and for more paroling of prisoners than ulan ob tajes under present laws las bills creating t two tao ao new state officers sanitary inspector ana fire marshal we were introduced in the senate on february 14 |