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Show HI PROCEEDINGS OF ; I THE LEGISLATURE e SALOONS ARE TO BE ALLOWED TO REMAIN OPEN UNTIL MID NIGHT-ALL SUNDAY LAWS ON NOISY AMUSEMENTS TO BE REPEALED CHATTEL MORTGAGES BASED ON CROPS TO BE GROWN AUTO DRIVERS MUST COME TO A FULL STOP BEFORE CROSSING RAILROAD TRACKS l New Senate Billt. No. 141. by Cornell Prohibits y franks or fees to be received by public pub-lic servants for public duties ' No. 142, by Coltrell Issuing of h censes to insurance and surety companies com-panies la No 143. b Booth Relates to sell ing of cocaine, opium or morphine and provides for destruction of attach merits used in ranking opium Penalty for violation of law is $500 to $5000 t and 6 months to 5 years in prison, 'or both. 2 New House Bills. No. 144. by Judd Prohibits trespass tres-pass on property of railroads. No. 145, by Judd Relates to letting of contracts on public printing; re qnlres all printing to be done In cities where contracts are, unless printing offices are without adequate facilities. . Fixes penalty at $.100. No. 146 by Van Wagoner Provides 3 foi creation of new county, when majority ma-jority of taxpayers In a district do- 7 peal for special election to be held I 'n July and vote for segregation. No. 147 by Loveless Defining powers pow-ers of county commissioners as to roads, defining duties In regards 10 roads, providing for annual poll tax and who shall be responsible for colli col-li lection and expenditure of the iuone No. 148 by Hammond Compelling tax in advance on cattle brought li from other stales No. 160. by Barnes Providing for public utilities commission to regu- I j late and control rates and fares of railroad also electric light, gas, power, pow-er, telephone and telegraph corona- nits Makes a pproprlations for com mission. I No 151, by Judd Relating to qua! ification and appointments of district i court stenographers and providing for a board of examiners for such purpose pur-pose No 1"2, by Judd Relates to allowance allow-ance of costs in courts I No 163, by Ma bey Provides a pun- I iihment of ?,oo for the abandonment . 1 or wilful neglect of wife and minor r children No 154. by Mabey Forres rail rods to fence right of way. L No. 155, by Mabey Prohibits dnv- ! er of automobiles crossing a railroad (l at road crossings before coming to a ',. frill stop No 1"7. by Cardon- Pvolates in ? . . I of intoxicating liquor and opening and I closing of saloons Saloons must Clo6e on all legal holidays No 1SS. bv Cardoh Appropriates I $15.00fi for road from Logan to Lake-j( Lake-j( ft town in Rich county No. 159, by Kenyon Requires the I keeping on file in state office of llve-I llve-I stock marks and brands fy I No 160, by ( annon Relates to the ' filing of notes and papers required by law in county recorder's office, In I I order to make them lawful y ' No 161. by Dnnlon Chattel mor: gaes ma be based on crops to be Ml grown in ihc future a No 162 by Barnes Allows saloons' " In wet r itles to be kept open until midnight. No. 163. by Barnep Repeals prea-ent prea-ent Sunday laws against nnis and 'P" other amusements :j No. 164. by Barnes Regulates the Itinerant vending of medicine and ap-j pliances for treating diseases and In-. In-. Juries. Vendor required to pay $150 8 year for license No 165, by Barnes -Cities of flrsr 1 clas authorized to provide decora tion and street lightings on certain public occasions. Can expend $5,000 OB any one occasion, but not more i then $10,000 annually. New House Bills. A bill was introduced in the house j yesterday by Barnes of Salt Lake de- signed to keep weeds out of agricul-tural agricul-tural seeds sold In Utah The first '"; requirement is that every package I of seed must be labeled with the name of the Beed, the name and ad dress of the seedman, Importer or ftft dealer, a statement of the purity of the seeds If they are below stsnd-1 stsnd-1 ard, and the locality where the seeds pjljf were grown if known The state! p dairy and food commissioner is to ' Tl an analysis of all seds sold in h j0 Btate and supply information result - 1 2 'nB from the tests, False represen-tation represen-tation made to the commissioner is I '"0 made a misdemeanor 2 e max'mum bond that may be rc - ' I quired of a city treasurer in any city is limited to $250,000 in a bill intro-, duoed in the house yesterday b ludd j 0 of Salt Lake. The present law makes , the treasurers bond not less than! the amount of the whole tax for ;he liljf current year Iff! A bill Introduced in ihe house yes- freS ' terday by Anderson of Sanpete says j gr r tbat the killing or Injuring of livestock ourt1 by a railroad shall be prima facie II & evidence of the negligence of the 1. (V road, and the owner is given power to 'jL 0 recover the full value of the animal J together with attorney fee of $2.' in case suit is necessary within 6" Ins .'1 after the claim has beeu presented 221 to the company. ; A bill was introduced In the house 0 yesterday by Blwood of Carbon, by Jj'l request, providing that in any city jor town Incorporated since June 27, JJ7 1 1911, the date of the liquor election. " the city council or town board shall. ' 1 on petition therefor, cause a special J local option election to be held I' B xP'&iued that If a place in either JJJJJjr "wet" or "dry" decides to Incorpo-II Incorpo-II rate, that place assumes a government govern-ment of its own and It then, under the terms of the new bill, becomes optional with the inhabitants whether tho shall or shall not remain "wet" I or "dry, ' as the case may be, Inde-j Inde-j pendent of whether or not the count is "wet" or "dry." Mr Elwood says the bill is not designed to meet any particular instance, so far as he is aware Henrie of Garfield yesterday introduced intro-duced in the house a bill approprl-a'lng approprl-a'lng $o000 for the maintenance and ; Improvement of the Panguitch experiment experi-ment station and 00 for the pur- I chase of pure breed and grade dairy eattle in order to start the dairy in dustry at that station 1 he house yesterday, by a irol lacking two of a cousiit utional majority ma-jority rejected house bill No 75 by Loveless The bill prohibited count) attorneys from defending persons who are charged With crime In their own .counties and furthermore prohibited county attorneys from being conn 1 1 for utilities corporations. The Judiciary Judi-ciary committee struck out the latter provision Thus divested of its principal prin-cipal object, the bill came before the house There evidently appeared no good reason to the members why a count attorney should be prohibited by law from defending a criminal In his own county and thev did not rally to its support The vote was' 21 to 9 against It. One of the road bills introduced by j Smith of Kane at the request of the sUtte road commission was passed by the house yesterday. It v. as houte bill No. 13 It provides for an ap- I propriation of $97,200 for state road purposes, to be apportioned equally among the various counties The old law appropriated $60,000 The n v 1 apportionment gives eer- count) approximate! ap-proximate! s $31.(110 instead of J.'i under the old law. The requirements of counties In meeting the apportion-I ment Is lived on the following ba- j sis Those counties having an as-sesHed as-sesHed aluation of $2,000,000 or less one fourth of the state apportionment . , $5,000,000, one-half, more than 54.-! 000,000 an equal amount with the state allotment. Precinct tax is fix-1 ed at a flat rate of 6 mills. The; old law gav the county commission-en commission-en discretion bv providing that a tax up to 6 mills' might be levied '1 here If also a provision intended to prevent destruction of state hleh. ways b persons or companies operating oper-ating under a franchise from a coun-1 coun-1 ty in the laying of pipes and like I works. Bamberger of Salt Lake yesterday introduced a bill in the house giving the board of pardon6 power to parole pa-role convicts other than murderers-. The latter may be paroled after n j service In the state prison of 15 1 years. The warden of the prison given authority to appoint on of his guards as state parole agent. It fa made the duly of this official to pro-de pro-de the board of pardons, as a bourd of parole, with all necessary data regarding re-garding applicants for parole Another bill gives the warden, the deput warden and eery keeper jimI guard of , the state prison all powers now possessed by count sheriffs nnd 1 other peace officers This provision Is intended to assist in the recapture of convicts who may escape from con - 1 Id road camps Bamberger also presented a bill making the passing of drugs to convicts con-victs either In the prison or in a convict camp a felony. Krlehe) of Salt Lake yesterday introduced in-troduced in the house a bill which makes the telephone rates charged ! by the Mountain States Telephone &. Telegraph company on January 1,1 1913, the maximum rate that may be I charged for telephone service. In i other words, an increase in telephone- rates is made unlawful A bill Introduced in the house es-terda es-terda by Page of lJiute. by request, makes possible a material change in the present system of municipal Street 1 lighting. The bill provides that whenever when-ever the Roernlng body of a city or town shall deem It advisable 10 llgh" any part of the city streets it Is to gie notite of the creation of the lighting improvement district mu'li; after the manner in which sewer, side- 1 walk and street paing improvement districts are now created II a ma- 1 jority of ihe propertv frontage pro-1 tests against the establishment of the improvement the proposition is! not to be renewed for six months The judiciary committee of the house yesterday considered house bill No 62, by Anderson, relating to publication pub-lication of legal notices and fixing I the rates therefor and also requiring that legal notices shall he published only In bona fide newspapers I 11 Masters of the Bingham Bulletin and the ProVO Herald and C F Hnlsh oT the Eureka Reporter were preHer.t ami faored the bill. The committee, j will hear further (digestions before j reporting on thp bill. It Is likely that another bill will I I be presented today on ihe subject of; It gal printing. This bill will require that the proceedings of city councils, town boards and boards of county commissioners be published in order that the public may know what these bodies are doing and how they do it.; In practically every state except Utah the proceedings of boards are pub-1 pub-1 llshed It is to be provided In 'he 1 new bill that the publication of t ho 1 proceedings shall rotate; that is, that I ! no newspaper can hae a monopoly on t he business. The house yesterday passed Ma-bey's Ma-bey's joint resolution urging congress to pass the Crago bill, which provides pensions for the widows and orphans of soldiers who fell In the Spaulah-Ameriean Spaulah-Ameriean war Kimball of Millard yesterday Introduced Intro-duced in the house a bill providing that actions at law must be Instituted Insti-tuted In the counties wherein the de- fendant resides. Mr. Kimball said that it Is often the case that persons per-sons are sued who live at a point remote from rhe place where the ac-j ac-j Hon Is begun and that he dofaulte judgment rather than incur the expense ex-pense necessary in traveling to th? place where the suit is filed, because he saves money and time i it Senate News. The senate committee on public In stitutions yesterday recommended for passage the senate bill bv G. A Iter-son Iter-son 01 Carbon, authorizing the govcr- nor to convey to I tah countv a cer-Uln cer-Uln tract of land within that count Tho land was originally ceded to the state by Utah county ior the purpose; of halug the ntato establish an agricultural agri-cultural experiment station on it The state, however, decided not to estab-llsb estab-llsb 'he experiment station and as a! result the land lp unoccupied. Three appropriation bills, introduc- ed bv Senator W V Williams for Salt lake, which were on the calen- 1 dar for final passage esicrday. went j over until ioday at the request of j Senator Williams, who was in Ogden with other members of the appropriations appropria-tions committee Inspecting the State institutions in that city One of the bills appropriates $7500 to assist in j defralng the expenses of T'nion and ( 'onfederate eierans In attending the semi-centennial commemoration ot I the battle of Gettysburg at Gettysburg, Gettys-burg, Pa. next July Another appropriates appro-priates $100 as a special award for aged school teachers The third appropriates ap-propriates $1000 to State Dairv and1 Food Commissioner Wlllard Hansen.! which is the amount of unpaid com-! pen6ation due him from the state Two special orders will occup the attention of the senate today. One! la Hie Cotnc-ll bill, prohibiting the' manufacture and sale of the so-CSlle 1 parlor matches within the slatf. and the other Is the Eckerslev bill, extending ex-tending the powers of the state text book commission to the selection of! text hooks for high schools of the I state Senator Renner X. Smith yestei introduced a bill defining more specifically speci-fically the boundary line between Salt Lake and Davis conntie? I'nder' the pregent law thr mouth of the Ionian river Is one of the points on the boundary I he exact location of1 the mouth of the Ionian has never been determined and as a result some Of the property Jn Its vlclnit Is as- fessed both in Salt Lake and Dais! counties Senator Smith's bill locates the mouth of the Jordan by pectlon lines in order ihnt there may he no dispute as to where the propertv shall be assessed The bill was referred to the committee on county and mu- 1 niciual cornoral Ions A hill v.-a introduced in the senate vesterdav by Senator Benner X Smith of Salt Lake amending the probate code so as to class coal lauds with other mining property in the matter of probating an estate Coal lands are unclassified under the present probate law and attorneys have felt that this amendment was necessarv In order that there might be no misunderstanding of their classification clas-sification In order that the jurisdiction In criminal cases may he determined, Senator D 0 Rideont of Salt Lake yesterday introduced a bill which provides pro-vides that where the acts or effects requisite to the consummation of an offt-nse shall have occurred in two or more counties jurisdiction shall le In any of such counties When an offense is committed near the boundary bound-ary line of two 01 more counties the bill proides that jurisdiction shall be in any of the counties in the event of a murder where the victim Is Injured In-jured In one count and dies In another, an-other, jurisdiction shall be in the countv where the Injury was inflicted The bill went to the committee on j judiciary |