Show YESTERDAY of the legislature transacted after the standard went to press jacksons house bill no 34 passed requiring street car and other railroad wp orations to protect their drivers and motormen from inclemency of tho weather by providing vestibules vesti bules on their care during tho joint session recess the house took up mansfields house bill no 14 providing for alie change of county boundaries it requires the petitioning titio ning by lie inhabitants of not less than ono township for the submission to the people at a general election a prop position for annexation to an adjoining county it also provided that it the proposition tailed to carry it could not ae presented again for four years to prevent too frequent contentions in boundary questions rio extended the ticie to ten years and the amend carried mansfield was called upon to explain thice involved sentences and some grammatical alio joint session intervened and tho bill was taken up again at the afternoon session when mansfield argued the merits of the lill and it was passed ly a vote of 23 to 1 smith got a reconsideration of his initiative and referendum resolution and asked for its passage on alie ground that no harm could come from alie question of direct legislation to the people bywater and Johnson spoke for its adoption the latter saying that any proposition giving last say to the people was a good tiling whether it was a populist proposition or not the resolution was adopted by a vote of 30 to 12 bennion likewise received a reconsider atlon of liia resolution no 3 the control of city and district i bhoola cumminas ss defended alie resolution on the ground that free schools were a state institution and alie taxes for their support should bo evenly distributed even if salt lake suffered financially per contra lie argued that alie country contributed tri buted one third of the support of alie county poor farm and district courts in which this city was the greatest beneficiary he advocat cil generosity to our country cousins the previous question shutoff further debate against the protests of shepard and resolution passed SO to 1 two reports came from alie committee n on senate bill no 44 to enable voters to indicate a choice for united states senator alie majority recommended its rejection and jackson and smith favored its passage Slew arta house bill no covering the same subject was rejected on alio committees recommendation shepard spoke for alie adoption of alie majority report on the senate bill on the ground that alie indication of a choice for senator would leavo no effect and would probably serve to entangle future legislatures corae alian this one lias been alie majority report was adopted 16 to 9 and alie bill was rejected under suspension of the rules alio house passed whitneys Whit senate joint resolution no 9 directing tho secretary of state to deliver to the brigham young memorial association all alie funds and property received from the semi cen tennial jubilee commission A similar resolution providing only for alie deliverance of alie funds had been way recalled on alie governor t alio once defeated local option bill was taken up again on reconsideration and harris of weber undertook to perfect it with amendments originally alie bill provided eliat saloon keepers should celoso up three days after the was prohibited but this was corrected and the time was extended 0 o ninety days Jacki ion offered amendments doubling tho fines and imprisonments provided for belling of liquor and they were defeated shepard went to the other extreme and cut tho penalties to a low notch believing eliat as they stood no jury would convict his propositions also failed harris went on making minor amendments and the opposition tried to get a recommitment and finally succeeded by a vote of 18 to 16 the defeat of hideouts Rid eouts senate bill no 20 providing that eight hours shall constitute a days labor on all public works was and the measure was passed by a vote of 28 to 11 fishers house bill no 19 doing avay with the requirement for abo publication in county auditors annual statements of d list of warrants issued and to whom was taken up for passage it provides that only the totals of expenditures on each account shall be published harris of weber proceeded to mix up all the laws relating to the fiscal year by proposing an amendment changing the lime for alie auditor to make liia report from july to february and for the year ending december instead of juno several other lawa will bo in conflict with alio change alie bill was passed unanimously in this shape KILLS introduced consent was given to jackson to introduce alio following house biej no by jackson to section statutes in regard to powers of corporations it provides that corporation mortgages shall include personal property as fixtures and a part of real estate alio same bill as no 76 was killed in committee and is rein trod referred to committee on private corporations presented a petition from cral prominent citizens asking for the continued maintenance of the mineral exhibit now in the hall of relics and lie received consent to introduce the following bill house bill no by fisher making an appropriation for alie maintenance of the utah mineral exhibit of the international mining congress alie sum of 1500 is appropriated for the purpose for the next two years referred to the committee on appropriations stuwart was permitted to introduce house bill no by stuwart to amend section 1744 revised statutes relating to poll tax 1 it changes the time of giving notice to persons required to work on roads for poll tax from april ast 1st to november to from january ast 1st to december making persons subject to such work during the entire year referred to commit teo on judiciary alie committee on education recommended alio consideration of mrs cannons senate bill no 37 providing tor the teaching of the effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics on the human system the public land committee recommended for passage evans senate bill no 84 granting preference rights to state lands and of senate bill no fia by evans creating and defining the powers and duties of alio state board of land commissioners jahnson hiss bill no relating to reviving of judgments stating that lie it would bo killed anyway senate bill no 84 by evans granting preference right to lands was referred to alio on public lands SENATE senators will and abel john evans were near a conflict on the bloor of alio senate yesterday afternoon alie controversy came up during the discussion of senator evana bill no 83 which requires railroads to fence their track on all improved land when the bill wag called up by its author a report of alie railroad committee of senator is chairman was read recommending the rejection of the bill the adoption of alie report was moved and senator Rid cout who was in alie chair waa about to put the question when abel john jumped up to his feet with a protest 1 I object to thia most earnestly he i said and I 1 do it for the reason that I 1 do not think it has been properly considered before the committee senator has said that he get a quorum of the committee and that ho simply submitted the report after having obtained a con census of opinion on the bill this is no way to do business I 1 believe wo not to adopt alio report and eliat we i hould consider the bill here senator took exception to evansa criticism ho did not believe i the senator had any right to utter euch remarks then why you submit amendments to the bill and let ua con eider them here shouted evan lam going to criticism criticise critic ise this in any language I 1 choose and well sea whether aliis bill is to bo killed or not we whon ye retorted senator wall well show you who we arc replied able john his face turning pale with anger and when we do you wont be one of us the motion to adopt alio report was lost and the bill will bo taken up in regular order A substitute for a bill no 97 providing for the establishing of a branch experiment in one of the southern counties met defeat in the senate house bill no by relating to the examination of attorneys was called up and passed k BILLS introduced alic following bills were introduced senate bill no tanner to amend sections 1719 and statutes relating to the fees of registered iphar racists and heir assistants t the bill increases the registration fee of pharmacists and their assistant it went to the judiciary committee bill no 93 by wro vide for the holding of primary and to punish offenses at lucli elections the bill was referred to alic committee on elections |