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Show I PROCEEDINGS OF LAW MAKERS New Senate Bills No 1ST Requiring the u?e of I'tah materials In the construction of all public buildings In the state. No Appropriates $10, 000 to In- TH?s:igate the water resources of the state and determine best methods of utilizing the same So. 1S9 Provides for the investment invest-ment of the redemption funds of the state In state, county, school and municipal mu-nicipal bonds. Bill Passed Senate hill 168 by Fckersler was passed, requiring a uniform course of studies In the schnms of the state Special CjitJCr. Rill No 189, which passed tr house hv a vote of 39 to o. is before the senate this afternoon It Is a pure food law and creates the office of dairy and food commissioner at a salary sal-ary of J2I0 He shall inspect hotels, cafes, restaurants, slaughter houses, factories, of and serve as central innltary Inspector. The bill prohibits the selllnp of mush or cereals in packages pack-ages containing prire? or premiums. 1 1 jj Senate Resc.utlons. HI Senate Joint resolution No. 7 bj I Rldeout Provides that the state man HI contract debt? to the amount of 1 1-2 H per cent on all taxable property In H the state I I S. I R. No 8 Asks Utah senators HI to advocatr a national university in Hi the department of education in Wash. H lngton, D. C HJ Signed by Governor. 2$!' House bill No 3 by Jndd which HI passed both houses, was signed by H the povernor toda. It allows the H winding up of the affairs of corpora- H tlons whose franchises have expired H by forfeiture. Flag Exhibition. I The Sona and Daughters of I'tah pioneers give a soclul at Odeon hall. Salt Lake, this evening, at which will be exhibited the state flag which is to be presented to the battleship Utah I The governor, legislators and newa- I paper men have been invited to be f present ! House News. The house yesterday forenoon killed . I Judd's bill for the c reation of ;t board I of examiners for court btenographerd. I The bill was killed on the adoption of an adverse report by the judiciary I committee. The committee took the position thai a board for the purpose f was not needed, inasmuch as uJ of the district court appoint their ste- I nographt-rs am are responsible for J their competency J The house yesterday passed Andr- . son's house biil No. 61!, which require.-" A that newspapers accepting Legal no- 'tlces for publication shall haw- th-? U qualifications of a bona fide news paper The bill was ameuded b I the Judiciary committee in such a way as to rob the original bill of qui li 31 of its Intent The bill as It passed 3 Uta house does specify certain quali- m flcatloas and in a way demands that M newspapers in which legal notices arc Eg published be at least somewhat bouu U fide The bill fixes the rate for pub 1 S llcatlon at not more than $150 per 7 folio of 100 words for the first inser- S tlon and not more than 60 cents for m each subsequent publication 5! YVardeu Arthur Pratt of the states 3 prison appeared before ibe Judiciar bb; committee of the house yesterday In m support of house bills Nos. 136 and frw 137. by Bamberger One of the bills H provides that a state parole agent , w; be appointed for convicts, and the oih- Jflj! er makes it a felony to supply con j$j victs. either In prison or in road jjj camps, with drups fit The house yesterday passed Mrs 1 King's bill amendinp the present reg- rfl, istration law in such a wav that Salt Lake City will not be compelled to I carry about 17.000 "dead " names on the registration books from year to aj year. Other cities are relieved In aim- i Mi ilar manner, but In lesser degrees 'a The Judiciary committee yesterday a morning considered house bill No 11'. J the Kriebel bill providing for the e re &, ation of a state boxing commission Chief of Police R F Grant appeared 3 before the committee to discuss the j measure Chief Grant could not go officially on record as favoring the 3. measure, for the reason (hat he bad I HK not consulted the city commission J about It. but he lei it be understond 1 that personalU be was in favor of the 'S measure . Dr. C Ci. Plummer also addressed the committee speaking earnestly in I. support of the bill. Dr. Plummer 4 hought that by placinj; boxing in the i bands of a state commission the sport 4 could be made absolutelv clean. it Is likely that the bill. If it re-1 re-1 ported out of committee ravorably, 4' will be so amended as to take In aUo I wrestling. Many person who are dev-I dev-I otees of the wrestling game have urg- ed Mr. Kriebel to Include that sport J In his bill, and he has promised to uo I H so. , Hous? bill No 7, by McRae. ?as J signed by the speaker yesterday The I H bill requires collection agencies to wj give bonds In order to do business. V i Senate News 1 A amendment to the state constitu tion permitting the state treasurer to I' deposit state funds under the dlrec- tlon of the state board of examiners Is proposed by a resolution introduced W in the senate yesterday by Senator G. A. Irerson of Carbon. The resolution is similar to that on the oame subject which was voted down by the people at the general election last fall. The senate fish and game bill by Craig was reported fuvorably yesterday yester-day by the flah and game committee of the senate This bill is identical with the Anderson bill, which was re ported favorably in the house on Mon-day Mon-day The bills were considered by the Joint ommlttee on fish and game In order to save time In Hie consideration consider-ation of the measure The bill will come up for final passage in the senate sen-ate tomorrow. The senate committee on education ..ill this afternoon Immediate!) after adjournment of the senate, meet to consider the proposed Sunday laws uow before the committee The most Important of these is the Lckersle Sunday closing bill, which Is similar i ii Hi.- i .'.ii don I' ll which was killed iu the house yesterday The Renolds house bill which per mits an appeal from the rulings of the state bauk commissioner to the state board of examiners will come up for final passage inline S"nate today Olu or important measures to be consider ed today are the Smith bill, which imposes a poll tax on all citizens qual ified to vote who fall to exercise their right of franchise, and the antitrust bill which bars mosi every one except state officials from accepting free rail-rood rail-rood transportation. Warden Arthur Pratt of the state prison appeared before the senate committee ou Judiciary to urge favorable favor-able aotion on the Rldeout electrocution electrocu-tion bill. Warden Pratt considers electrocution the most humane meth od of inflicting the death penalty ye' devised. He objec ts, however, to mak ing the warden the executioner, say ing that the executions should be under un-der the direction of the sheriffs of the Iriifferent r tint --.- The senate yesterday passed the resolution by Mrs Cannon designating the flag prepared by the Sons and Laughters of the Utah pioneers as the official flag of Utah It was said in support of the resolution that the flag presented by tin? Sons of the Amcii can Revolution nould become the governor's gov-ernor's flag. All the senators except President Gardner voted in favor of the resolution. President Gardner vot cd in the negative. The flag will bo presented to the battleship Utah Senator Charles Cottrell. Jr., of Salt Lake would stop smoking on the plat forms of street cars He introdm ed a t'lll in the senate yesterday making It unlawful to smoke within any com partment or portion of any street car occupied by women and children or upon the platform or entrance to a street car which women and children are permitted to use It imposes a line up to $100 or Imprisonment up to 30 davs. or both, for smokers who vl.i- I late the provisions of the bill. For the better protection of passen gers and employes on railway trains, Senator J R F.dghelll of Juab, chairman chair-man of the senate committee on railroads, rail-roads, yesterday Introduced a bill pro viding that all trains must be proper ly manned By the terms of the bill every locomotivn running without a train mu3t be manned by an engineer, fireman and conductor, every passen ger. mail or express train of leas than five cars must have an engineer, Tinman, Tin-man, conductor and brakeman. ever, passenger, mail or express train hav Ing more than five cars must have, in addition to the above crew, a flagman The bill by Senator Ivcrson authorizing author-izing the governor to convey back to rjtafa count the land formerly occu plod by the Btate as an experiment station, but abandoned foui .,irs was passed unanimously by the senate sen-ate yesterday District Attorney E O. Leatherwood appeared before the senate judiciar committee yesterday to urge the pas-sage pas-sage of the bill permitting the appointment ap-pointment of a special agent for the district attorney s office and the bill for an increase of the salary of the deputy district attorney from $1800 to $250" per year. |