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Show PROCEEDINGS OF LAW MAKERS The senate .md house joint commit- te on appropriations met today with Hi, governoi The Judiciarj commit tee of the senate reported favorably on srt.iite bill No II" relating to the closing of all Sunday amusements Favorable report on senate bill No 122 by Ohlson relating to the non-taxation non-taxation of widows' property up to $1;000 S. B No 146 hv Rideout. relating to the execution of criminals and fa-onug fa-onug ele( troi ut ion instead of banging bang-ing or otherwise, was reported favorably favor-ably H ft No W by fndd relating to corrupt practices In politics was killed kill-ed In the house hv a vote of 19 to 8 Mr Judd moved for reconsideration H P. Nn 93 bs Mabey, an act to promote the teaching of industrial subjects in the public schools, passed by a vote of s to 0. House Joint memorial No ." by Smith, asking that the Kaibab Indian ', reserve hp opened for homesteadlng passed the house by vote of .'id to 0 H B No. 7: by Hooper, en act regulating dance halls and dancing academics, was killed In the senate. H B No 13, ly Smith, relating to the duties of state road commissioners commission-ers passed the senate and was sent to tho governor H. B No. 182 by Christ onsen an Lcl to provide for the organization and governing of drainage districts and d elopmenl "i Irrigation canals, etc., passed 'he bouse by vote of 2H to 2i 1 1 R. No IS. by Mrs Skolfield. ask ing an appropriation of $4 000 for the sail Lake free kindergarten and Neighborhood house association, pasB ed and was sent to the governor H. B No. 84, by Pago, relating to dei rees in divorce cases and providin : (hat aftei the interlocutory le ree of Bis months has passed thai the decree becomes absolute unless contested Bill passed house ,md m ;iale Bills Signed by Governor II B No. -ii by Anderson Relating to selection ami transfer of land to the I'niterl States. ii B No U by Reynolds Relating to inspection of articles of incorpora I lion of banks by state bank commls-misiioncr. commls-misiioncr. 'o. 44. bv Wight- Defining the (iln.e of disturbing the peace. Penalty Pen-alty not to be more than $fH) or 60 days in jail No 45 by Wight Defining lime of t trial of criminal actions in justice of peace court Nw House Bills No. -'n3. by Committee on Irrigation Irriga-tion and Reservoirs Providing for , water commissioners w ithin the ! state and uelining their duties and (salaries also deputy water commissioners. commis-sioners. The onlv change proposed in the old law is the lacking of power I of appointing water commissioners from the state engineer and placing r In the bands Of district court. Bills Reported. II B., l'.'.t. b Bennion Relating to marks au, brands Unfavorably re-ported. re-ported. H. P L26, bj Page Relating to I lighting streets alleys, lanes, as-; easing the cost etc Favorably re- i ported. H B 17'.. by Bennion Relating to I fbearing and driving sheep and goat-; from one part ol" the state 'o' another Favorably reported MAY CLOSE SALOONS TWO HOURS EARLIER It" a b II passed by the Utah house I Saturday becomes a law. saloons in every "wet" city and town in the: : slate will close at 10 o'clock at night, i and none will be permitted to keep open on legal holidays, which days the bill puis on the same basis as. Bund as s The introduction of the bill in lh i ; house was never Intended b) the 'man who Introduced it to bi anything any-thing more than a courtesy to the Si'vcnili Day Adveniisi church people. peo-ple. Barnes of Salt Lake at the re-quesl re-quesl oi the Seventh Daj Adventists, Introduced three or four bills which were designed 10 wipe out all Sunday Sun-day closing laws and to put Sunday on the same basis as any other day of the week One of those bills pio- ded thai saloons close on legal hol-Idaj hol-Idaj as well as on Sundays, being a measure necessary to perfect the chain of the series of bills presented ,i the requesl of the Seventh Day ,d v entists All of the bills on the subject in-troduced in-troduced bj Barnes were killed on the adoption of adverse reports returned by the ..min larj committee The legal holiday closing bill was also adverse -fj reported bul on requesl of Welling Wel-ling of Box Elder Hie bill u;is put on the Hoor of the house Several times the bill has been sent to the foot of the calendai and twice the introducer has requested its withdrawal, with-drawal, each time without success w hen the bill came up yesterday i motion to lay on the table was defeated, de-feated, S8 was also motion lo indefinite!, indef-inite!, postpone Several amendment! amend-ment! calculi I i ' I be more or less amusing i ere offered and defeated m turn rhen Cardon moved that cities cit-ies of the Brat and second class come under the same provisions of the saloon sa-loon closing laws as country districts That is. that saloons every where shall not be permitted to keep open later than 10 o'( lock at night The amendment amend-ment was adopted. In that form the bill wont to a vote. It pastil b a vote of 39 to 4. Those voting Lgainsi it were Bamberger. Barker, Cook and Page The senate recently killed a simi lar bill Introduced under similar circumstances cir-cumstances by Senator Smith. |