Show NEARING THE END yesterdays doings in the THE BILL A warm dobat e in tho house mr sharps amendment A busy day COUNCIL march 9 at 10 the council met and after the usual opening exercises tho appropriation bill was received from the house where it had been amended by reinserting the item of 1000 for a bridge across uintah river in thia amendment the council concurred some changes had made in the we ler county appropriation which also received the sanction of the council A motion to reconsider mr sharps motion of friday last to strike out the ninth item which provides for an appropriation of for jurors and witnesses and insert the sum of by mr shurtliff was carried on motion of mr sharp the following was added to the bill for the payment of witnesses and jurors in criminal cases in the district courts of this territory for the years and 1887 one half to be drawn each year iu equitable pro portions to each district to bo de ter mined upon by the auditor of public accounts provided fd eliat tho above amount ceball 19 drawn only upon vouchers duly authenticated for services as witnesses and jurors in cases which the territory ie liable pro aided vided further that jurors in criminal cases where the territory is liable be paid one dollar and fifty cents per day for each days actual attendance at court and fifteen cents per mile ono way for the distance necessarily traveled from the place of summons to place of holding court the council continued the cazier item of on the bill and the hill waa further amended by appropriation 2000 for messenger and office expenses of the executive the bill was then passed amended the intoxicating liquors measure vetoed by the governor was reported back from the committee without recommendation messages announcing that the house had rejected the for the council bill changing millard and juab county boundary lines and that it had concurred in the lehi city charter amendments were received and an informal re cess wag at 12 the council waa called to order air francis from the committee on private corporations reported on the fire insurance companies bill vetoed with amendments suggest ed by hia excellency the report was adopted the amendments agreed to and the amended bill was passed unanimously recess pm was taken and at that hour the appropriation pria tion bill was again taken up the house having amended the executive expense item by making it 2250 some difference having arisen between the two branches of the legislature as to some cointa of parliamentary practice tho inquest of the house for a conference committee was granted and hammond nJ burton and slack were appointed the amendment to tho appropriation pria tion bill was passed the committees on tho bill for removing insane convicts to the territorial asylum with amendments was adopted and aher bill was filed for a third rending after reporting that they had destroyed all cancelled auditors warrants tho committee appointed to attend to that matter was discharged H F 64 providing for tho removal of insano convicts to the territorial insano asylum was read the third time and after u slight amendment was passed another informal recess was taken to await the action of tho conference committee which finally reported that the council was right in its action in regard to the item in the appropriation bill the report was adopted the appropriation bill was again received from the house with two additional amendments amend mente one to reimburse N W clayton for clerk hire and to increase treasurer jacks salary by the cazier item in the appropriation bill again came up and after discussion t was finally ex lunged from the bill the house announced that it had passed the substitute for 0 F 34 on insurance companies amendments the council concurred and the bill was sent to the another message was also received announcing eliat the house concurred in tift to the insane convicts bill an adjournment till 10 a m on wednesday was then taken HOUSE march 9 tho house was called to order at ten the appropriation bill was taken up and mr west moved to amend the item of 1000 for the repair of the road through devils gate so that tha amount might be expended under the direction of weber county that privilege having been accorded to davis county aa the bill then blood mhd change was buado and as alie insisted on striking out the cazier item a second conference committee farnsworth Thur raan and mclaughlin was appointed to consider the matter the amendment appropriating in the place of for the insane asylum was concurred in and alio bill was returned to the council Conn cil the lehi city charter bill as amended by the council was con burred in C F 2 a bill changing the boundaries ot juab and millard counties was warmly contested by mr king who characterized the measure a scheme and said the citi zens of his county were rigidly posed to the provisions of the bill the bill had no friends in the house and on coming to a vote it was defeated the appropriation bill with the amendments of for the jury and witness pay the insertion of 2000 fur in the executive office and the on the cazier item ignoring tho request fora conference committee was received from alie council the great conflict on jury pay was ended by the house concurring in the item by a vote of 15 to 7 anderson baty dark houston howell kimball lund mccullough mclaughlin rider stratford stuart woolboy Woo lloy west and young voting for alie measure cannon farnsworth king smoot thurber and thurman against it and mr hatch being absent these who changed their votes from no to aye since ing of the vote on march ath are stratford and west the proposition to appropriate for messenger services was promptly voted down the cazier item caused a hot debate and the motion to strike the item out being lost a bresli conference committee composed oathur man west and caanan was pointed to consider the matter in connection with some points of parliamentary lia practice the bill was returned to the council and a recess till 2 pm taken at was called to order west occupying the clifair mr being absent on account of sickness anc afternoon va consumed iu considering the appropriation bill and listening to the reading of the union depot bill the latter was about to it was put off and made the epenial order for wednes day alc tlc appropriation bill finally came back from the council with abo messenger service item increased to 2250 after some debate tho amend ment was concurred in the councils proposition to limit the deliberations of tho conference confer enco committee to tho parliamentary point involved in the calior item acceded to and alie committee so instructed they then departed upon their errand A recommendation from committee on live stock to annually to aid in the capture of cattle thieves was voted down tho fire insurance bill was received from the council amended and returned A motion by mr thurman to add to the appropriation bill the sum of to reimburse tho auditor of public accounts for clerk hire during the past four yeara caused in the basin after considerable cross firing abo question came to u vote and was inserted in tho appropriation bill for the auditor and for the treasurer the committee recommended that the auditors calary in alie fua turc be 2250 per annum and the treasurers Treasur ers instead of both acro adopted tho report of tho conference committee that the council was right in repard to the cazier item was adopted and the appropriation bill was sent to the committee on enrollment from whence it went to the governor after the bill had been disposed of it was discovered that the advance of ealar iea of the auditor and treasurer had been inserted and it was decided to make u a supplementary bill including these and other unfinished measures billa amending the charters of provo and cedar cities were reported back read the airet and second aimee and filed tho house then adjourned until wednesday at 10 am i s a t |