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Show I PROCEEDINGS i OF LAW MAKERS New Bills. IT R 212 by the labor commission--An act creating a minimum wage for femalps Women 18 years old or less to receive not less than 75 cents p?r day; adult learnern or apprentice? no: less than 90 cents per day and expert enced adults not less than $1 25 per 1 1 .-. H. R 218 by committee on arts An act relating to the. appointment of officers and director of the Utah Art Institute by a genera! appointment made from a list of nominations made up by the members of the institute The directors to be One, an artist, one architect two citizens Interested in the institute. S R. 260, special joint committee on taxes An act defining what are county chargeB- Houte Bills Passed. ! H R. 20G by committee on appropr! mlons, an act creating office of state 1 examiner of public accounts Passed 29 to 0. H R. 207 by committee on appro I prlations Providing for hdrographio I survev throughout the state. Passed 2R to 2 S R 136 by Smith An act relating i to the leasing and purchasing of coal I mines and mining property Passed ; 28 to 2 S. R 143 by Rooth An act relating J to the sale of cocaine, morphine her- j oln, codein and other narcotic drugs, I also providing penalty for possession I of opium pipes and other equipment Resolution Passed. Senate Joint Resolution, No 8. by Eckersley Relating to aid to be given giv-en by the United States to industrial education and the establishing of a national university and department of I education in Washington Passed f, house, 31 to 1. 1 Bills Reported Favorably H S. H. 204, by Craig Appropriating money to investigate the duck malady. H P. 116, b Kriebel Boxing commission com-mission j S R 227 Authorizing the governor to transfer certain state lands to Farr Development company of Ogden H B. 97, by fudd Relating to hav. lng service bars in hotels I H. B 180. by Judd-Relating to I change of venue J Sifting Committee. Today a sifting committee, consist ing of Smith. Broth and Wight, was named by the senate Bills Passed by Senate 9 R. 140, by Cottrell Authorizing cities of first and second class to c;eate parks, boulevards, etc. s. b 148. hv wight Authorizing cities of first 2nd second class to 6ell ! and buy electric light and power' m' s Hd, b Rldeout Eleclrocu-I ton bill Rroth offered an amend-i amend-i fin. making the form ot death op-H op-H H L ticnal. Amendment killed He then H? Opposed the section which requires the body after death to be placed In quicklime, but was voted down The ? measure passed without amendment Bills to be Acted Upon Today I S, J, R. N'o 8 by Eckersley A rese R F lutlon relative to securing aid from Pl ' ,n" United States government in es-; V tablishlng a national university and' H I departmenl of education P S R. Xo. 130 by Iverson An act I relative to applications of preferred! claimants to purchase public sc hoo! i : lands S. R No. 115 by Hammond An act providing for the Inspection of catth 300" sheep before being shipped or 1 slaughtered f H R. No. 133 bv Bamberger An act relating to the establishing and main ..-lining of public parks, etc.. by cit-: cit-: ics of the first and second class. S. R No. 98 by Williams An act authorizing an appropriation for tho celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. H. B N'o. 206 by the committer on appropriations An act to repeal chap tei 11S, laws of 1911, creating the office of-fice of exomin-r of public accounts II B No 207 by committee on appropriationsAn ap-propriationsAn act providing for a h wlrographic survey throughout the slate. H B. No 201. by committee on highways and bridges An act appropriating appro-priating $o.00rt to reimburse Emery county for building a bridge across the Green river at Green River. Utah. SENATE NEWS. Salt Lake, March 5 The senate sen-ate yesterday 'tb considerable consider-able speed killed the bill by Senator Sena-tor Joseph Eckersley of Wayne conn ty which provided that the premiums premi-ums for official bonds should he paid out of the public funds. Senator Eckersley Eck-ersley said that at the present lime In manv counties the salaries were too small to permit of the official securing se-curing a bond from a surety company, compa-ny, as the premiums in some cases would almost equal the salaries Senator Sen-ator Funk said the bill was just an other evidence of the extravagance which some of the senators seemed to favor. He said the bill would work io the advantage of certain Interests who had been particular!;, active this session. On the final roll call all except ex-cept Senators Eckersley, Edgheill and Kelly voted against the bill The bill providing for the infliction of the death penalty by electrocution, instead of by shooting or hanging, as provided by the present law will come up for final passage in the senate sen-ate tomorrow Senator D. O Ridcout, author of the bill, declares that the sentiment In both houses is strongly In favor of the bill and he believes that it will be passed by practically a unanimous vote In each house I The Rideout bill for the establish- i ment of land banks on a co-operative basis In order to provide cheap mon i ey for farmers, was recommended for I passage yesterday by the senate com I mittce on state affairs and federal telations The bill is the adoption of the plan of President Tafl for furm-I furm-I ers' co-operative land banks which has operated with such success in , German and France The plan was icdorsed by the national congress of governors at its session in December. Decem-ber. The senate yesterday passed the Smith public improvement bill, which permits citv councils or commissions to assess the cost of paving street intersections against the abutting i property owners of the paving district. dis-trict. At present the cost of paving intersections is borne by the city. Sen-, Sen-, ator Smith stated that the lack of funds had compelled the city to fore go making needed stree improvements. improve-ments. The public improvement bill introduced intro-duced by Senator Ferry at the request of many residents of the county outside out-side the city permitting property owners own-ers in the county to petition for and secure street improvements on the payment of special taxes was recommended recom-mended for passage yesterday by the committee on County and municipal corporations with an amendment limiting lim-iting ihe operation of the lav.' to counties coun-ties of the first class. The committee on railroads met last night with representatives of railroad emplocs and official relative to the EdghelU bill which would ompel railroads rail-roads to increase the number of men on large trains The emplrycs declared de-clared more men were m-ceary for the Fafefy of the employes and the traveling public. The officials opposed op-posed an;, law compelling ihcni to Increase In-crease train crews The joint committee on revenue and taxation yesterday submitted its ad-erse ad-erse report on the general revenue and taxation measure prepared b the state board of tax commissioners Without opposition the adverse report of the committee wan adopted and the bill killed. The senate yesterday passed Senator Sena-tor Kelly'8 bill providing for compensation com-pensation for expert witnesses in murder mur-der trials. Senator Kelly in explaining explain-ing his bill said that frequently the nefense of Insanity waft set up it) murder trials and under the present law the court was powerless to employ em-ploy alienists to Inquire into the sanity san-ity of the defendant The vote on the bill follows: Ayes Booth, Craig, Fckersley. Edghelll. Iverson, Kell . Olson, Rideout. Smith. Wight 10 Noes Cottrcll, Funk. Lunt, Thornley. Williams, President Gardner 6 1-2 nn |