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Show r - 1 ; ' i UTAH LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP Happenings In Both Branches of Ninth General Assembly. The liquor bill which was passed on March 4 was reconsiib re I n Tuesday, Tues-day, and alter an acrimonious debate, de-bate, and being amended In a slngl particular, was again pssed. Tula) amendment (hinged the closing hour from 10 p. m. to 12 o'clock midnight. The general appropriation bill was Introduced In the house on Tuesday, The bill provides an appropriation of $2.194. 037. 19 fur tho maintenance of tho various state institutions, tho state ofllci-jt. and to natisfy claims und to provide for other expenses of the state government for the ensuing two years. The senate by a vote of 12 to 0, passed the bill authorizing tho assessment as-sessment of the costs of public Improvements Im-provements on abutting property owners, Tuesday. The bill Is ono of particular Interest to Salt 1-ake City and one which permits tho making and completion of public Improvements Improve-ments that are impossible at present Tho banking bill, one of the Important Import-ant measures before tho legislature, shorn of tho features to which the bankers of the stale objected, passed (he s nate Monday by a vote of 11 to 1, Senator Kelly casting the dlsnenU Ing vole. Senator lladger's bill designed to slop the "whfe slave" trafllc was passed by the senate by unanimous vote- Tuesday. Tho bill Ilxes a maximum maxi-mum punishment of twenty years In the state prison for "white, slave" Iraflickers and provides for the method of enforcing the provisions of the act. There were 102 bills on the calendar calen-dar lor final passage In the senate Tuesday night when the senate adjourned ad-journed and almost as many in committees. com-mittees. The senate Tuesday (lei lined to np-polut np-polut a sin Ing committee. It was pointed out that hero were a larire number of bills on tho calendar awaiting await-ing aeiion of the senate and that tho bills wore being rapidly reported out by the committees. Tho office of Hlato examiner of public pub-lic accounts Is created by a bill by Senator Hyde, which passed tho senate sen-ate Tuesday. The bill passed with three dissenting voles. They were cast by Hut ton, Funk nnd Olson. At t ho conclusion of a lively do-bato do-bato tho house Monday afternoon rejected re-jected the adverse report of tho Ju-(Ibiary Ju-(Ibiary committee on house bill No. 3fl, by tho committee on labor, the anti gambling measure, and placed tho mill on tho calendar for futuro consideration. The work of the appropriations committees of both houses has been practically completed and tho general appropriations bill Is now In the bauds of the printer. The bill Is a long ono nnd contains In detail the Items of estimated expense for the various state departments for the ensuing en-suing biennial period. The tolal amount of tho appropriations carried by the bill Is $2,137.715. Senator Ilenner X. Fniltli of Salt Lake Intioduct d a bill In tho legislature legisla-ture Monday, compelling railroads to Issue free transportation v?ithln the state to certain state and county officers. of-ficers. Tho senate dlsi ussed at length Monday afternoon tho bill by Ilorsley creating water districts and providing for water commissioners to settle disputes dis-putes between water users and to al-Jiidieate al-Jiidieate tho writer rights of Individuals Individ-uals and corporations. After th-j discussion dis-cussion the MM failed of passage by a vote of 9 to 5. The senate on Monday killed the Hlin s joint memorial, which asked congress not to ratify any reciprocity reciproci-ty treaty with Canada, which would a fleet the tariff on lead, wool, llvo-st(k llvo-st(k or farm products. The rnetn-f rnetn-f riii in this form was practically against the reciprocity treaty as a whol... With only six members of tho sen-ute sen-ute favoring tho measures, tb pun-He pun-He utiliiles ami sntlpass bills were killed In th" ( nate on Saturday. Tho public ut!!,t!.s bill provided for tho creation of a commission, which would have been given gnat lattltudo In tli" control of nillo-aJs, wer, telegraph and telephone, companies, etc. Tiie senate on Saturday passed tho Ma ks bill creating a r ' f fund for disabled firemen. Thirteen lie asures met their deifli in the senate on Saturday, while thieo were given their quietus it the house 'll.rte li'jiior blila were slaughtered lu the s nate on Friday by adverse cornniittt reports. The measures ei.- by Jrittie W. Funk. Democrat, who wanted state-wide prohibition; a bill by President Henry Gardner, which was a copy of the Hayes bill, and one by Senator Cail A. Hmljter, which was ueil larji-ly as a bus! for the committee bill that wan passed by the senate on Thursday Senator H. W. S. vy of ;.irtield In troiluecd s bill in the scra'e Monday providing for the establishing of n exp-rlinenl station at I'aiiguitc'i on the grounds owned by the I anrultrh si hoot, and placing the scho-d bud the Htati-ui under the direction of the sgricu'tural college. The bills by Senator Kelly, placing the regulation of Infectious and trans tnUsable diseases under the control of the state board of health passed the senate Tuesday wtth only one op-(osing op-(osing tote, thst of Senator J. A. Hyde of Juab. |