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Show UTAH LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP Happenings In Both Brinchea ol Ninth General Assembly. i Senator Williams' bill providing fot urgency appropriations for state Instl tutlons received the unanimous approval ap-proval of the senate on Tuesday, while in the house the measure by Tobias relating to the qualifications of school trustees was killed, and House bill 12, relating to high schools, was withdrawn. with-drawn. These were the only measures meas-ures upon which there was final action. ac-tion. Jlut two new bills appeared In the limine, while four were Introduced Intro-duced In the senate. I A stringent measure with reference! tc) the storing of powder and dynamite dyna-mite was Introduced Tuesday by Sen-dor Sen-dor Uurton. The bill provides that no powder house, magazine or build-:ng build-:ng In which explosives are kept shall hereafter be used for that purpose within 1,000 feet of any residence or 'raveled country road In the state. The local optionists won a partial victory over the prohibit UiiIhis In the joint committee meeting Tuesday morning for the consideration of the lhU'ir question. The committee decided de-cided upon local option instead of pro HblHon in the county territory outside f Incorporated cities and towns, but the matter will have to be threshed 2iit again. Representative Peterson has Intro-lucod Intro-lucod house bill No. Ill In the bouse, providing for the creation of the of-lice of-lice of livestock commissioner, to be appointed hy boards of county commissioners, com-missioners, and whose duty It will be to Inspect all stock before it Is shipped int. of the state. A measure Introduced in the legisla-.iiie legisla-.iiie Tuesday, by Senator Kuchler of Weber, provides for the expenses for ludges of the district court when railed to preside In districts in which Ihey do not reside. The bill gives them traveling expenses not to exceed a day. I'nder the present law, tlm lodges must pay their own traveling fxpenscs. Three senate bills were passed by :t:8 house on Monday, one permitting certain cities and towns to Increase their bonded Indeotedness; another extending the time for the completion comple-tion of Irrigation projects by th stato. and the third extending the time for satisfying a Judgment from Ave to eight years. A f.ood of new bills appeared on Monday, fifteen bills and a resolution ssklng the Ctah congressional delegation dele-gation to Insist upon an Investigation by the United Slates Interior department depart-ment Into the opening of certain government gov-ernment land In Tooele county for sntry appearing In the senate, while five new measures were Introduced In the house. President Gardner of the state senate sen-ate on Monday introduced a bill creating cre-ating a Btate bureau of Immigration, labor and statistics. The bill repeals the present statutes with reference to the state bureau of statistics and substitutes the proposed law creating creat-ing the new state department. Four bills Introduced In the senate on Monday by Williams of Salt Lake, Increase the membership of state education ed-ucation boards and make a state official of-ficial ex-olTlcio chairman of each board. Senator W. C. Horsley of Itox Filler Fi-ller Introduced a bill Monday providing provid-ing that no Judge of the district court shall draw his salary uniil he shall make uftidavit that all matters which have been submitted to him for more than ninety days prior to his application applica-tion for salary have been disused of. The bouse bill relating to punishment punish-ment for robbery, making highway robbery punishable by life Imprisonment, Imprison-ment, and the senate bill relating to salary and allowances of the state en-gil en-gil .er, were approved by the aenato on Friday. That the legislators are determined to please their constituents by Introducing Intro-ducing almost any measure that any ( person wants brought to the attention t of the lawmakers, is evidenced by the I fact that at the close of business on ) Friday, 104 bills had been Introduced In the house, while the senate was a close second, with 98. The committee has reported unfavorably unfa-vorably on the proposed law to lengthen the terms of sheriffs and J county clerks from two years to four. So session of the lower house was held on Saturday, adjournment having hav-ing been taken until Monday afternoon, after-noon, owing to the fact that many of the members went to Logan Immediately Imme-diately after the Friday session to visit the Agricultural college. Thre bills relating to Juvenile courts were Introduced In the house j Friday by Mr. Hayes of I'tah county j Five bills, reattlng to the National j Guard of I'tah, were introduced in the , bouse Friday. Should these measures pass, a number of sweeping changes j will be made in the present law. I'he j m"nureB are calcuiat 'd to assist the . militia, and also provide for the build-Ins build-Ins of armoilf s. For the relief of Injured or disabled firemen, a bill was Introduced In the senate on Friday by Marks of Salt Lake. At the request of Oovernor Spry, the sennte committee on federal relations rela-tions Thursday submitted a bill to the senate ceding all cf the land now Included in the limits of Fort DuifUl reservation to the 1'nited States government. gov-ernment. 1 he bill went on the calendar calen-dar tor final passage. An even dojren new bills were tntr Jucod In the house on Thursday, mn': lng the total number of measures b 'ore the body at that time Just S while the senate had recehed measures during the present sessii at the clop of business on Thursday |