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Show AT THE CAPITOL. Senator Clyde has introduced a bill providing for the collection of a grazing graz-ing fee on all livestock from outside states which may be grazed in Utah. The fee is $1 a head on livestock, 50 cents a head on cattle and 13 cents a head on sheep. The fees are to go to the credit of the livestock board fund. Four more bills were introduced in the senate on February 14, one of them being intended, to increase the salaries of two state officials. Under the proposed pro-posed law the state treasurer, who now receives .$2,500 a year will be paid $3,-000, $3,-000, and the state superintendent of prfblic instruction will receive $4000 per annum. His present salary is $3000. Governor Bamberger signed the sabotage measure on February 17. In general, the bill prohibits the advocacy, advo-cacy, teaching or suggestion of criminal crim-inal syndicalism or sabotage or the commission of any unlawful act or tiling as a means to accomplish industrial indus-trial or political ends, change or revolution; revo-lution; and also prohibiting assemblages assemb-lages for the purpose of such teachings or suggestions and making it unlawful to permit the use of any place, building, build-ing, rooms or premises for such assemblages. A bill authorizing cities and towns to assess users of water outside the corporate cor-porate limits for their share of maintenance main-tenance expense has been approved by the house. The killing of livestock by railroad trains will be held prima facie evidence evi-dence of negligence on the pari of the railroad if the senate now approves of house bill No. 34, by Masters, which was passed in the lower branch on February 17. After killing a bill which provided for and defined the boundaries of the Third judicial district by adding to It the county of Daggett in order that an additional judge might be foisted upon the district, the house on February 14 passed a senate measure which would give the district an additional judge. There were fireworks In quantity quan-tity before the bill was finally passed and plain language was used. The house on February 14 passed the measure by D. P. McKay, providing provid-ing for the imposing of a tax upon dogs outside of incorporated cities and providing for the collection of the same and the killing of animals upon which no tax is collected. A 45 per cent reduction in assessed valuation of live stock, increase of the bounty on coyotes from -S2.50 to $5 a head, and a bounty tax of not more than 5 mills nor les- than mills were favored at a mootim: of stockmen and members of the state live stock boanl held at Salt Lake. |