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Show BANK DEPAFrrMEHT BILL RECEIVES SENATE APPROVAL Measure Curtails Authority 'of Secretary Secre-tary of State and Creates a State Banking Department Eliminating the qualification that the bank commissioner must have bad three years a tuul banking experience, the senate on February 18 passed the banking department bill. The vote was 11 to 4, three senators being absent. ab-sent. There was lively opposition to the bill on the floor. The bill would cur-tall cur-tall the authority of the secretary of state, who la ex officio bank commissioner. commis-sioner. The bill takes this work from him and creates a state banking department, de-partment, headed by a bank commissioner commis-sioner drawing 13,0(0 a year salary. The Cardon Sunday closing bill was killed In the house on February 18 by a vote of 21 to 15 on a motion to strike out the enacting clause. It was not an easy death, though, for It took the opponents of the measure just two hours to talk It to death. r. O. Rldeout's bill providing penalties pen-alties for persons who borrow money on the representation that they have resources and assets they do not possess pos-sess was assed without opposition in the senate on Tuesday. Seeming attempts on the part of the minority to make political capital out of the bouse action on the question ques-tion of the election of senators by direct vote failed In the bouse on February Feb-ruary 18 and the report of the committee com-mittee on resolutions favoring the constitutional amendment was passed, with Hpeaker W. J. Seely. II. T. Reynolds Rey-nolds and W. L. Van Wagoner alone In voting against the measure. The bill which started out to define the qualifications of newspapers publishing pub-lishing legal advertisements and fixing fix-ing the rates, wound up in the house on February 18, stripped of many features fea-tures proosed, and waa passed wltn only one dissenting vote. The bill says that the rate for legal advertisements advertise-ments must be not more than f 1.50 a folio of 100 words for the first publication publica-tion and not more than 50 cents a folio for subsequent publications. Regulation of the size of train crews to promote the safety of passengers pas-sengers and employee in made by a bill which Senator J. 11. Kdgehelll Introduced In-troduced Tuesday. The bill stipulates stipu-lates the number of engineers, firemen, fire-men, conductors, brakemen and flagmen flag-men which trains of different length must have. Confusion of flags and state history which resulted tn holding up Mrs. Annie An-nie Wells Cannon's house resolution adopting as the state flag the banner to be presented to the state for the battleship Utah was settled Tuesday and and the senate passed the resolution. resolu-tion. President Henry Gardner casting cast-ing the only negative vote. Indeterminate sentences for persons convicted of felonies other than treason trea-son and murder are authorized in a bill by D. O. Rldeout Introduced Tuesday Tues-day In the senate The bill also provides pro-vides for a board of parole and for more paroling of prisoners than obtains ob-tains under present laws. County courts for counties of the second, third and fourth class are created by a bill Introduced In the senate by A. L. Ilooth. Judges of these county courts are to be elected for two-year terms, the bill provides, but county commissioners are empowered to appoint temporary judges. Persons who observe snother day of the week as the Sabbath are exempt ex-empt from application of the Sunday closing law and may keep thell plucea of business open on Sunday, according accord-ing to a bill introduced by request In the senate by D. O. Rldeout. Appropriation of $300 for Investigation Investiga-tion of the mysterious "duck malady' that has killed off thousands of the water fowl of thla state is proposed In a bill introduced In the senate by William Craig. Governor William Spry on February 15 approved several senate bills and Dite house bill. The house bill signed by the governor increasea the pay of Jurors from 13 to $1 per day. Representative Repre-sentative A. M. Durham la the author jf the measure. It becomes effective sixty da.vg after the adjournment of the state legislature. Th date the HKTeaxe sill become effective Is May 13. The senate bills signed by the eovernor are senate bill No. 9. by llan-en. llan-en. relating to the procedure In case Dne of the artles to a joint bank ac-rwunt ac-rwunt dies; uate bill No. 13, by IWw.th, rel.itjve ta the filing of chattel mortgage; senate bill No. id. by Lunt. ! reducing the Interest on deferred payments pay-ments on state lands from 8 to 5 per cent; enat bill No 19, by Smith, amending the law relative to forcible entry and detainer, and senate bill No. 36. by Itooth. validating certain conveyances made In good faith, but not In strict compllalce with the law. P.illa creating to new state officers sanitary Inspector and fire marshal were Introduced In the senate on February It. House bill No. 10. introduced by the judiciary committee a a substitute for bouse bill No. 59, passed the house on February H, by a vote of :5 to 13. clearing the docket of the Isst of the liquor bills Introduced at the request of the Municipal League of Utah. This bill amends the present pres-ent laws making It a misdemeanor tor I a minor to have liquor in bis pos-I pos-I tension. Those voting against the bill were Ilarnea. Ilenaon, Cook, El- ood. Marchant, McIUe, Openiha', Page. Kobinsoa, Swenson, Wilcox sad See ley. Three bills governing actions an4 salaries of the state land board -were Introduced in the senate on February 17 by O. A, Iverson. The bills were: To give the board the light to deslg n ate assistants to the state englneet to supervise const rm-tlon of reservoirs, reser-voirs, taking that power from the engineer; en-gineer; to increase the salary of the commissioners from $1,200 to $1,800 year and that of the secretary from 1.8(H) to $3 000 a year; to prohibit the board from Investing money from ttate lands In Irrigation or dralnagi district bonds. Attempts on the part of the minor Ity of the house to Inject politics la to the consideration of a resolution foi the direct election of senators on Monday Mon-day through improper wording of tht committee's report on the resolution resulted In sending it back to the committee com-mittee again. Uwyers appointed by the court to defend penniless defendants may r cover fees from Ute county up to $1C a day for time spent In conduct ol rases, according to Ilenner X. Bmlth'l senate bill No. 52, as amended by tht rommlttee on judiciary, which waa passed In the senate on Monday. The lower house of the Utah legislature legis-lature on Monday vent on record at Ix'Ing opposed to an eight-hour day, when It passed a substitute nieaaurt h!r,h provides that In Utah factories fifty seven hours shall constitute a week's work, excepting when property or lire la in Imminent danger. Those favoring the measure say the sugar factories are the only institutions dl rectly affected at present Regulation of the branding of closed packages of apples, pears and peaches Is proposed In a bill introduced by Joseph Eckersley in the senate on February 17, and Indorsed by the hor-ticulturlsts hor-ticulturlsts of the state. The education committee's bill providing pro-viding for combinations of common country school districts outside of the first and second class and permitting the smaller combination districts to secure more revenue In taxes, waa 1 .a seed in the senate on Monday. This provides for but one school board for entire counties outside cities of the first and second class. Taking property bought on the Installment In-stallment plan out of the state before the entire purchase price has been paid Is prohibited In senate bill No. 34 passed by the senate. Such conduct con-duct is regarded a a misdemeanor w hen the property is of less value than $500; when of greater value, a felony. Fifteen thousand dollars Is appropriated appropri-ated for the Orphans Home and Day Nursery tn a bill passed by the senate on February 17. The one dissenting vote was csst by President Gardner. 8enate bill No. 186, Introduced February Feb-ruary 17, by the committee on municipal muni-cipal corporations, provides that It shall be unlawful to maintain any peat bouse except such as are authorized by city and county or town corporations corpora-tions and located by the state board of health. Although bis joint resolution for direct di-rect election of United States senators sena-tors was defeated In the upper house, Senator Rldeout has introduced a bill for direct election on the preferential plan, by request The house on February IS passed the new "sheep" bill. The measure was introduced by the committee on livestock. It was drawn in conformity with the suggestions of the bureau of animal industry of the United States and is uniform with the laws now In operation In adjoining states. The new bill gives the beard of sheep commissioner! power to quarantine quar-antine sheep In case of disease If the owner refuses to dip at once. It also gives the federal sheep inspectors I power temporarily to quarantine when 1 they find Infected sheep, pending; tha ( action of the state sheep commissioners. commission-ers. So far as the house committee on municipal corporations Is concerned, the "Texas Tommy," the "Grizzly Hear'' and the "Runny Hug" may be danced unless the authorities of the cities and towns themselves forbid. The committee considered Hooper'a bouse bill No. 79, which sought to regulate reg-ulate dance halls and to prohibit certain cer-tain "ran" dancea, and decided to return the bill to the bouse with an ' adverse report J Reconsideration of the bill Intro j durcd by Annie Wells Cannon of Salt Uke county, providing for an appro- priatlon of tr.tt.oo0 for a women's dor- j mltory for the University of Utah, was brought up by Claude T. Barnes 1 on Fehraury 14. and the bill, which ' was killed the previous day, went to ! the committee on appropriations for consideration In connection with the j general appropriation bill. Hooper's bi'l providing for the fencing of all farm, pasture and gnu- i Ing lands in the state was killed by i the home on February 15 on an ad- ' verse report of the judiciary committee. commit-tee. Seven bills paused, four killed and thirteen Introduced was the record of the senate on the 13:b. one of the biiHk-st days of the session. In the bouse but two measures were pre- ' sented, three passed and two killed. ' Salaries of municipal court judges la cities of the second class having a pop- 1 ulatlon of more than 15.000 are Increased In-creased from $1,800 to t2.500 and the term of office lengthened from two to four years by a bill Introduced Monday by Senator William Craig. The Ogden municipal court would be the only one affected. The bouse ob February IS passed bouse joint memorial No. 2. urging congress to pass the Crago bill providing pro-viding for the pensioning of widows and orphans of Fpanlih American war soldiers. |