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Show SEEKS REVISION Of POWERJF CITIES SENATOR ECKERSLEY PRESENTS BILL TO CHANGE LAW ON WATER PROTECTION. I House Approves Bill Prohibiting Taking Tak-ing ,cf Livery Rigs to Any Other Place Than F;epresented to the Owner. Revision of the law relating to the powers of city councils is proposed in a biil introduced on February 1 by Senator Joseph Eckersley, which city oi.icials say will have a serious bear' ing on the municipal water supply, it . it becomes law. j The bill is proposed to amend the present law by inserting a paragraph j concerning the jurisdiction of the city j over water works to confine jurisdiction jurisdic-tion to land "owned by such city," and I by the insertion of a proviso clause on ithe section giving jurisdiction for ten ! miles above the point from which the water is taken, which says that this law, nor any ordinance, shall be construed con-strued by the iunicipality or by the courts as authorizing the city to deprive de-prive any person of the "ordinary and reasonable use of their lands and streams of water" flowing through them or in which springs take their rise "or to in any way impair the i rights of the owner or limit the reasonable, rea-sonable, ordinary and customary use of such property." Business in the house looked up on February 1, and while the committees to which more than fifty bills have been referred did not report many for third reading, yet the members introduced intro-duced fourteen bills and two resolutions. resolu-tions. The liverymen's bill, whioh has been recommitted to the judiciary committee commit-tee tnree times, came up for final passage pas-sage and after being amended in minor details so that it would Include the taking of an automobile as well as a horse, the house passed it unanimously. unanimous-ly. The bill makes it a misdemeanor, to ride or drive an animal or vehicle to any other place than that represented repre-sented to the owner or person in charge when the animal or vehicle is hired, George F. Goodwin's bill providing that undertakings on appeal from justice jus-tice courts might be dispensed with on the making of a pauper affidavit easily passed. Two bills were passed In the senate on January 29, and three were sent back to committees with instructions to revamp and renovate them. The bills passed were Craig's senate sen-ate bill No. 18 and O'Neil's house bill No. l. The Craig bill was a mere formality, providing for the conveyance convey-ance by statute of a parcel of land in Weber county to the Farr Development Develop-ment company, the state board of ex aminers having traded a parcel of industrial in-dustrial school land for it. The house bill, by O'Neil, the new representative from the new county of Duchesne, was merely intended to give that statesman legal status in tjie lower branch of the legislature, his county having been created since the legislative districts were made. The bill creates Duchesne county as a legislative district and was amended amend-ed by the senate to provide that the county he a part of the Fifth senatorial senato-rial district. Two bills were passed by the house on January 29, one being an act limiting lim-iting the discretionary powers of shc-riffs and chiefs of police; and the other an act permitting husbands or wives , to testify against eaot other concerning facts alleged to have occurred prior to their marriage. Prohibition of the sale cf liquor by mail or wire order in dry territory and of the transportation of liquor from wet to dry territory in the str.te is proposed in a bill introduced on January 29 by Senator Funk, and referred re-ferred to the committee on agriculture agricul-ture and irrigation. uKuniits legujauuii oi cue employment employ-ment of children and women in Utah is proposed in a bill introduced January Janu-ary 29 by Senator L. B. Wight which is drawn to replace the law enacted en-acted in 1911, with a form such as is now in effect in many states of the west. This bill, generally, places the age for beginning work at 16 years instead of 14. A bill providing for the "headless ballot" in Utah, similar to the ballots, used in Massachusetts New Jersey, Colorado, Nevada, California and other states, was introduced in the house on January 27 by Representative Representa-tive P. P. Christensen of Salt Lake. The proposed law does away with party emblems and places the candidates candi-dates for each office on the ballot in alphabetical order, with the residenca and politics of each candidate set forth after his name. Under this bal lot the voter must cast his ballot Soi each candidate he chooses to vote fot instead of voting for them all in blanket form under a party emblem State-wide prohibition. by th amendment to the constitution route was proposed in the senate on Jan uary 27 by a joint resolution intro duced by Senator Charles Cottrell c Salt Lake. At the close of business on Januarj 27. there had been' 85 bills introducei in the senate, and 39 in the house, bq sides numerous resolutions. Yembers of the judiciary commit, tee of the senate mulled over the pub lie utilities bill and others of tin huge pile of bills before it on Janu ary 23. when there was no forma! ses sion of the upper house. numbers must be licensed by 3 state board if a bill introduced bj President V.'. Mont Kerry in the sen ate becomes a law. The bill .'-rente; a state plumbir.g board and a sa'ar ied officer to be known as the st:u sanitary npector. His duty will t. to inspect sanitation conditions throughout the state. |