Show kr wg i CT h j v AS THE legislature DAY DY flani our correspondent I I iu ili cil ell a 11 number of bills were reported by the competent committees committe ez among these we nye notice il 11 F 32 providing for fees of jurors in civil cases councilor E snow moved to refer the bill to the judiciary from tho the fact that the bill fails jo to cover the whole ground brought to view in our judicial business and ia h defect defective ivo in removing the evils wo nye are suf fier ing litigants in civil cases should pay their own expenses and the expenses of alic jurors before the passage 11 of the poland bill the practice was to require litigants to pay all expenses in civil cases and the counties to pay tho the cap expenses ensch in in criminal cases but since sine c then the practice has been to leave jurors at ht the mercy of litigants and for the tile territory to pay criminal cx expenses and mid the mileage of grand rand and petit jurors and witnesses in both civil and criminal cases emea tt the tile law requires names to bo be drawn cadi each year year and if the panel is ex blaust tol to draw other names the number of jurors eo so drawn would not fall short of 1000 each year and the territory is paying the mileage of all these persons so drawn the councilor read some certificates of witnesses and jurors in the second sec d judicial district from which was deduced the fact fac t that the charges for in mileage were about three fourths of the expenses of our jury system he wished the bill referred to tho the committee to see if any system could be adopted to make make the he civil business bear its proportion odthe of the mileage as well as the per diem the bill was referred another bill of genarah interest was II 11 F 72 to encourage encourage D the r manufacture of sugar NY which b i c b wa was read as amended by the tile committee councilor wells moved to further amend by making it compulsory that the pounds of merchantable brown sugar for which 88 premium is offered shall bo be produced in the territory in the tile year in which the award i is given the bill passed its third reading by unanimous consent councilor I caino presented a bill to amend section 43 chap title this bill transposes the word of tile pre present seni section conferti con conferring ferri ng upon women the elective franchise so that it shall read that ever every woman born or naturalized in i n the t lie united states or who is the wife widow or tho the daughter of a native born or naturalized citizen of the united states of tho one years who has resided in this territory six months next preceding any general tr special election aba shall 11 bo be entitled en titled to vote at any c election in this territory this measure is introduced to place beyond quibble the construction of the thi law co conferring f C rn upon w women omen the elective franchise and tind councilor nine said he lie hoped the governor would sic sign i it so that there would hereafter te be no room for doubt in any persons mindi mind on tho the truo true meaning of tho the law petitions for remonstrance and against granting park city a city charter were presented and referred to the committee on municipal Gorp corporations orations A A message message being received from th the house s stating tating that one of the council amendments to the sugar bill was not concurred in theroun cil receded from its position on the objectionable amendment the house likewise had a rush of legislative labor crowding upon ulon it necessitating an a evening session session at 10 besides the regular session session mr farr irom tho committee on oil judiciary reported b back ack tho tile house bill establishing and protecting the maternal rights b of married women with amendments and recommended it ile he also reported on oil the house bill relating to costs in criminal j cases and recommended its passage mr francis moved that matteo on appropriations be instructed ted to inquire into the pro propriety rie t Y of appropriating 1000 for certain c I r t purposed purposes in morgan morman county kc re mr partridge introduced a joint resolution providing that there shall bo be elected a special commissioner whose duty it shall bs be to collect ali all information possible relative to irrigation wherever it may be found and aid such as may be of interest in this territory and that 1000 be appropriated for the salary and use of such commissioner the substitute bill bills ga 86 and 88 to amend section chapter 21 was taken up on oil its third reading it provides that where the amount due as taxes is is over an additional re remittance cc may be made to any amount not exceeding ceedie one half of the amount so due the ahe substitute which makes s uther amendments was adopted and sir ur preston moved that the tax may be remitted to tho the amount of 10 only and the motion carried tile bill then passed the council bill relating to the th taxation of dogs was amended by the judiciary and was wa taken staken up on ita its third reading and the amend am end ments odthe of the committee were adopted tho the bill brought brough tout out some discussion cus sion it provides that a county tax of independent ot the city tax might be assessed against a dog dor the bill was passed ith both branches of the legislative JV assembly adjourned until wednesday da REPORTER Rr LT AT CITY CUTY mar alar i gaea vt |