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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE Mabey Anti-Race Track Bill as Amended Is to Be Defeated and the Senate Bill Will Pass Ogden and Salt Lake to Have State Exhibits Ex-hibits for Which $100 000 Is to Be Appropriated Street Car Bill Requiring Two Operators Reported Unfavorably Drugkss Healing Heal-ing to Be Regulated. New Senr.te Bill. No 121. by Rirleout Exempts volunteer vol-unteer firemen, who have served five years, from poll tax. No. 122. by Olson Exempt- WS and orphans from taxes on v7 10 worth of property No. 123, by Williams Regulates the practice of drugless methods of healing by requiring a license and a standard of proficiency. Christian Science Is exempted from th require ments of the law New House Bills. 'o. RS, by Cardon Creates Utah de velopment commission and provides for a permanent exhibit of the natural and Industrial products and resources to be established and maintained in Ogden a ri-1 salt Lake, appropriating $100.0no for this purpose. No SG, by Dastrup Application for use of the unappropriated waters of the stato must bo mad in writing to the state engineer and specify the amount and the use to which the water wa-ter is to be devoted. N'o. ST. by Barnes Establishes in the state free employment bureaus No 88. by Judd - Exempts dentists from Jury service. No 89 Defines powers and duties of state hoard of oxamiuers of the dentists and provides for revoking ol" licenses of dentists. No. 90, b Kriebel Board of land commissioners Is jtiven direct man ngement and control of all land grant ed to the state b the United States government Race Track Betting Must Go. The amended hill on race track betting bet-ting will be turned by the house this ,' ftrrnoon and the senate bill prohibiting prohib-iting all forms of race track gam bling. substituted. Committee Reports. The following house bills were fa-orably fa-orably reported from committee this afternoon. N'o in on hydro-carbon mines N'o 15. on Inspection of hydro-carbon mines. No. M. regulating sale and manufacture manufac-ture of Intoxicat mg liquors. No. 58, prohibiting sale of tobacco to minors and defining disorderly conduct. con-duct. The following bills were reported on adversely: N'o. 64, for relief of companies whose charter are cancelled N'o 72. requiring street cars to be operated by two or more persons Game Law Petition. A petition was received from the j Chesapeake Duck club opposing the bill providing for changing the time in which ducks can be killed House News. The hoiy?e yesterday passed H B I N'o. 30, by Cardon The measure re- quires electric and gas lighting com-1 com-1 panies that receive franchises from j cities to put up a bond Indemnifying n city in case of damage resulting from operations under the franchise. V.. B. N'o. 63. by Cardon, was passed pass-ed in the house yesterday by a vote of 32 to 2. The new act extends the j time of claimants to townsite property prop-erty for the next two years. It merely mere-ly continues the law adopted in 1909 on the same subject. An important amendment to the, election law is contained in a bill in-! troduced in the house yesteruay by j Page of Piute. The hill eliminates that portion of the present law which prevents the indorsement of the can- I I didate of one party b another party whose candidates are put up by peti-! peti-! Hon It is designed to rench such a I condition as was presented last fall in the case of the Progressive party I and State Superintendent of Public Instruction A. C Nelson The Progressive Pro-gressive party was eager to indorse Mr. Nelson s candidacy, but the law i prevented It doing so. The Page bill , is intended to meot like conditions. Page of Piute yesterday introduced bill which amends the present di-I di-I vorce law so as to procure the entry I of a final decree of divorce by either ' party to the action. At present this I l privilege Is limited to the plaintiff . The house yesterday passed S. B. j 1 N'o 36. by Booth which validates ; j deeds to January' 1. 1913. This ac-tlon ac-tlon renders instruments recorded between be-tween 1907 and 1913 valid The last preceding similar action was taken In 1907. when deeds between 1901 and I 1907 were validated The house also passed S. B. N'o. 9, by Booth, which makes It possible for either person to withdraw deposits depos-its from banks when those deposits are made under two separate names. S. B. No. 13. by Bootb, was passed by the hou&e This bill repeals a law now on the books which conflicts with ! a more recent enactment The new I act relates to the recording of all pa-I pa-I pers filed with the recorder. The law I repealed permitted chattel mortgages to be merely filed and not necessarily necessari-ly recorded. S. B. N'o. 19. by Smith, passed the house. It relates to the occupancy of property under rent or lease. The new act provides that a tenant s successor suc-cessor must observe the same conditions condi-tions as the tenant hlmrelf The judiciary committee yesterday considered the liquor bills introduced by Judd at the request of the Munlc- ' ipal league of Utah. The reports of J the committee will be favorable, except ex-cept that the bills will be amended in; minor particulars The president of the senate and the speaker of the house yesterday signed sign-ed S. B. No. 17, by Eckersley, appropriating ap-propriating 112,000 in aid of district I schools The bill now goes to the 1 go ernor There was a long argument yetter-day yetter-day In the house on H J M. No. 2. which urges congress to phsk the CragO bill providing pensions for the j widows and orphans of Spanish-Am -ericas war veterans The argument j was on the grammatical construction) of tho measure, and in the end the; whole question, memorial, grammar and all was recommitted to the committee com-mittee on federal relations. Southwick of Utah yesterda) introduced in-troduced in the house a bill for ihe establishment of the Torrens land title ti-tle syetein In this state. The bill contains about 12,000 words and is re-I re-I plete with forms of certificates and blanks of registration The ques- tion of the adoption of the system : is left to the people of the various vari-ous counties, to whom it will be submitted sub-mitted on petition of 25 per cent of 1 the voters. The Torrens laud title system is in use in several states. It 1 makes titles to land filed under its ! provisions prima facie evidence of ownership, and eliminates the necessl-I necessl-I ty of procuring; abstracts of title from i professional abstractors. The livestock committee of the house yesterday reported favorobly on Day's 1 bour.t bill The committee cut the annual appropriation from $50,000 to $35,000, reduced the bounty on coyotes coy-otes from $2 to $1 50 The tax on range stock is imposed in order to provide revenue for the bounty fund When the house session began yesterday yes-terday Welling of Box Elder speaking speak-ing to a question of personal privilege, privi-lege, acknowledged in error of which he had been guilty on Monday when he said the 1912 Republican platform carried an amendment of the federal income tax amendment As a matter of fact, that indorsement appeared In the platform of 1910. Mr. Wellinc begged the pardon of the house for his mistake which, he said, was no doubt due to his excitement when he made his hsterical but futile attempt at-tempt ' to get the honor for Utah 01 being the one necessar state to rat Ify the federal constitution amend ment. Senate News. Undertakers actttall engaged in their profession are exempted from ' jurv duty by a bill introduced yesterday yester-day in the legislature by Senator YY. IN. Williams of Salt Lake. The Hansen banking bills, which 1 were to have come up for final pas sage in the senate yesterday were put over until today because of the ab sence of the author of the measure The senate Judiciary committee yes terday recommended the passage j without amendment of the Durham house bill, which increases the pay oi j jurors from $2 to $3 per day Anoth er bill which covers the same subje t is before the judiciary committee, and will be reported adversely should the senate pass the Durham bill. The urgency appropriation bill ' which releases approximately 5235,000 1 for distribution among the various do partmente of the .tate government' until su' h time as the regular appropriation appro-priation bill is passed has been en- j grossed. It will be signed by the president of the senate and the speak ! er of the house and sent to the gov- ernor today. The judiciary committee of the senate sen-ate today reported unfavorably" on Senate Bill No. 27, by Smith, limiting the service of writs and proceedings 1 In city courts to sheriffs and eonsla-bles. eonsla-bles. Favorable report . from the judiciary judici-ary committee will be received by the senate on Senate Bill No. 22. by Smith, and Senate Bills 44 and 45, by Wright. These three bills are purely J technical and correct defects in the present laws. The senate committee on education recommended for pasage Senate Bill N'o. 79 by Eckersley. relative to the formation and duties of the state text book commission Favorable recommendation was received re-ceived by the senate yesterday from the committee on live stock relative to the Edghelll bill creating the office of state inspector 1 f apiaries and regulating reg-ulating bee culture In the state Today's calendar in the senate in- eludes among the bills for final pas-age pas-age the resolution ratifying the con-Btltutlonal con-Btltutlonal amendment for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people the Hansen banking bank-ing bills, the Durham bill increasing the fees for jurors and the Edgheill bill creating a ctate inspector of api- arles. The committee on fish and game from the senate and the house met Jointly yesterday and considered the fish and game bill The committees hope to be able to report it for pas sage by the latter part of the week. Changes in the school laws of the state with r view to making the. school system in cities of the second class and in other school districts more efficient are proposed by two bills introduced yesterday by Senator Joseph BSckerslej of Wayne county. Race Track Bill At 3 o'clock this afternoon the favorable fa-vorable report of the judiciary committee com-mittee on H. B. No 34 became a special spe-cial order H B. No 34 is the Mabey anti-pool anti-pool selling and anti-bookmaking bill. The judiciary committee yesterday reported re-ported the bill favorably, with a material ma-terial amendment The amendment is one of the sections of the Kriebel bill, which makes betting a misdemeanor misde-meanor The operation of a pool room or bookmaking at any place Is made a felony by the original bill, and that provision is not affected. The section sec-tion providing the penalty attached to a misdemeanor applies only to those who think they have a "good thing" and proceed to put up their money to back their Judgment. Another An-other amendment makes the penalty for the felon one year in prison or a tine of $2(mmi or both. The judiciary committee has yet ta-1 ken no cognizance officially of the; Tbornle bill passed by the senate on j Monday The Thomley bill was a du- i plicate of the Mabey bill, and if the Mabey bill passes in its original form or as amended by the house Judiciary committee the senate bill will un-doubtedly un-doubtedly be killed on adverse com-mlttee com-mlttee report. Another act of the Judiciary com- 1 mlttee In connection with anti-book-making legislation was the reporting! adversely of house bill No. 68 by! Kriebel by request. This bill made stringent provision against pool rooms but permitted bookmaking at races at the track and at the time of the races. The report was adopted by the house and the Kriebel bill is dead |