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Show ELECTROCUTION BILLJfLSENATE SALT LAKE SENATOR WOULD HAVE STATE EXECUTE MURDERERS MUR-DERERS IN MODERN WAY. New Measures Presented Which Would Regulate Placing of Electric Elec-tric Telegraph, Telephone and Transmission Linefc. One bill and the question of how many bills should be printed for the senate occupied most of the time at the session of the upper branch of the legislature on January 26, while but three new measures appeared in the house. Electrocution is substituted for hanging or shooting as a means of administering ad-ministering the death penalty to murderers mur-derers in this state -in a bill introduced intro-duced in the senate by Senator D. 0. Rideout of Salt Lake. The bill prescribes pre-scribes the way in which death sentenced sen-tenced prisoners may be executed. One stipulation is that the sentencing judge shall name the week in which the murderer is to be put to death, but leaves to the sheriff the naming of the actual day and time, which are to be withheld from premature announcement. an-nouncement. Automobilists must hesitate while people getting on and off street cars get safely out of range, if a bill introduced intro-duced in the senate by Senator J. R. Edgheill is enacted into law. Two bills to regulate the placing or electric telegraph, telephone and transmission lines on poles and in subways and conduits, were introduced intro-duced in the house by Representative Folkman of Weber. Another of the bills introduced in the interest of the railway employees of the state was presented in the house by Representative Dan B. Shields of Salt Lake. This measure regulates the size and character of caboose cars on freight trains with a view to making them more safe for the members of the train crews. Senator Charles Cottrell of Salt Lake introduced a bill in the senate creating a law whereby freight charges on carload lots of coal must be based upon the actual weight of coal at the point of delivery. Statewide prohibition was submitted to the Utah senate on January 20 in a drastic bill drawn by the Utah Federation Fed-eration of Prohibition and Betterment leagues and the Municipal League of Utah. Senator John H. Wootton of Utah county introduced it, at the request re-quest of these organizations, and no sooner had he done so than there ensued en-sued an exciting skirmish over the measure, in which Senator Wootton and his allies were victorious by a vote of ten to eight. The tilt came over the question of to which committee the bill should be referred. The measure provides for straightaway straight-away state-wide prohibition without any reference of the matter to the vote of the people, such as has been talked talk-ed of previously. If it is passed by both houses and signed by the governor gov-ernor it will go into effect on the first Monday in June, 1918. It repeals all other laws on the statutes relating to the sale of liquor. Fourteen bills and one resolution was introduced in the senate on January Janu-ary 19, while in the house four bilis were introduced and one bill and one resolution, both originating in the senate, sen-ate, were pased by the house and sent to Governor Spry for his signature. signa-ture. Three of the four bills introduced were presented on request of organizations. organi-zations. The liverymen of Bingham hacked one bill, the railroad unions a second bill and the sLate bar association asso-ciation another. Many members of the house propose to give "request' bill the right of way over other legislation legis-lation Monday's session of the senate was short, and the nearest approach to the transaction of business, aside from tlw3 introduction of bills, was a discussion of the joint resolution introduced in-troduced by Senator Joseph Chez providing pro-viding for the apointment of a joint committee to prepare a complete revision re-vision of the tax laws of the state. Relief for the situation in Salt Lake county, wherein the .bounty commissioners commis-sioners have been ible to carry out the intent of t'H "mothers' pension" pen-sion" law because c ick of funds is proposed in a bill introduced by D. O. Rideout of Salt Lake. Provision is made for the initiative and referendum in legislation in Utah in a bill introduced by Senator Joseph Chez of Weber. The bill a'so provides pro-vides that the same genprnl system may he adopted with n fo-ncn tn 'aws ordlnnnrrs. r-so'r'iins and Franchises granted by political sir-"livisions. sir-"livisions. January 22 was pay day in the le ''s'ature. Voucher' were s-ened. affidavits affi-davits made as to the number of mi'-s traveVi and small yellow chee1' were piven tn ea.eh member and to tl,j employees. V. II. P-'ld or S-n Je:' ' received t'm pnu p-age, 1 i---! traveled 4 1 ."i miles. I",.", of it oa horse back. In order t'Ihe ?tfe supreme pourt and tie V- ,,,w library rmy be properly rri' p1 r when these departments depart-ments are to the new cipitnl ?ena'cr Kbli 7 has intro'tiied a bill areatinr the Jiee of assistant librarian libra-rian and jSr mp court marshal. Members ef the sena:e artd th hru?e print Tneiav fpT-innn in sneeting the new eanitol. They vrf the guests nf the state eapito! eomniis f'on c r. the inspection tr'p. It i preb tble that l:efore the r ose ef the fe--sion thG te-:s!at;ire will meet in the tew- building. At the renuest of the Mnaieiea I.eaizue of Utah, Penater J. It. V.rl? leill of Juab county introduced a hili in the senate permitting the smallei :ities and towns of the state to lev j -peeial assessments for public im rjrovemenls. ! Senator Don B. Colton of Tints j rounty introduced a bill authorizint the state land board to grant rights o: vay over state lands to canal and ir rigation companies. The bill provide: hat the board may charge the irriga I lion people for the privilege, or ma; give it free, as it deems best. I |
