The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-08
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
FIFTY-EIGHT DAY.
COUNCIL.
TUESDAY, 10 am.

AAIcI IOl1 Call ana prayer, I'd
committee on elections repcrte
back the petition of Sidney Hudson
and others, asking that the voter
IN the elective districts, OF wards
OF Salt Lake City, be required t.
vote for aldermen and councillors il
the several districts, independent 0
the votes of the other districts o.
wards. The committee found by
the charter of Salt Lake City tina
the mayor and city council art
authorized to take any such step:
in the premises they may deem lie
cessary and proper, and considered
1t unnecessary to legislate farther
upon the subjects. Report adopted
The committee on agriculture re-
ported on H. F. 30, to protect resi-,
dent stockmen and ranchmen, and
provide for recording marks and
brands; also H. f. 66, in relation to
barbed and other wire fences, and
recommended that they be rejected.
Report adop, ed.
The committee on revenue, re-
ported on II. f. 63, in relation to
caucelling warrants, without
amendments, and recommended its
passage.
The committee Oil agriculture re-
ported OH II. F. 70. to encourage the
manufacture Of su gar, with amend
ments, and recommended its pas
sage.
The committee on Judiciary, re-
ported on G. T. 80. designating GER
tain holidays, containing the Cover
nors suggestions, and recommended
its passage.
The committee on education re-
ported on G. +. %, providing reve-
nue. for district schools, and recon-
mended a substitute bill licensing
certain vocations and professions in
the several counties, making it IN
lawful for persons, firms or incor-
poratiOns doing business as mer-
chants, peddlers, hawkers, drum
mers, telegraph companies, express
agents, sewing machine agents,
agents for the sale Of agricultural
implements, agents for the sale of
musical instruments, surgeons, den
fists or physicians TO do business
without paying a prescribed license
to the county collectors, three
fourths of which shall be paid into
the school fund of the county.
The committee on railroads re-
ported back H. F. %, amending sec
lions 4S0 and 4S9, with amendments.
II. F. II, extending the right of
suffrage, was read as reported from
the House, with the amendment of
the Council committee that every
woman born in the United States
or naturaliZed, of the age of 81; or
who is the vile or daughter of any
born or naturalized citizen and II
years Of age, shall be entitled to
vote. A motion was carried to make
this amendment separate bill. Re-
ferred back to the committee.
II. f. 80, providing for fees of
Jurors in civil cases, was read.
Councillor E. Snow moved to refer
the bill to the committee on
judiciary from the fact that the
bill fails to cover the whole ground
brought to view in our judicial
business, and is defective in remov-
ing the evils we are suffering. Lit
giants in civil C tSeS should pay their
own expenses and the expenses of
the jurors. Before the passage of
the Poland bill the. practice was to
require litigants to pay all expenses
in civil cases and the counties to
pay the expenses III criminal cases,
but since then the practice has been
to leave jurors at the mercy OF llti-
giants, and for the territory to pay
criminal expenses and the mileage
grand and petit jurors and witnesses
in both civil and criminal cases.
The law requires 200 names to be
drawn each year, and if the panel is
exhausted to draw other names;
the number of jurors so drawn
would not fall short of 1000 each
year, and the territory is paying
the mileage of all these persons so
drawn. The Councillor read some
certificates, of witnesses and jurors
in the second judicial district, from
which was deduced the fact that
the charges for mileage were about
three-fourths of the expenses Of our
jury system. He wished the bill
referred to the committee. to see if
any system could be adopted to
make the civil business bear its
proportion OF the mileage as well as
the per diem. The bill was referred.
Fl. F. u, bill to enforce the
civil rights of the territory, was
read and passed.
II. f. 70, a kill concerning the
duties of county clerks, was read
and passed.
Councillor E. Snow suggested that
the reports of the county clerks be
handed in during the first week of
the session of the Legislature, so
that they might be understood and
nsed by the members. Carried.
Councillor Thurber moved that
the reports be sent to the Council
as well as the House Of Representa-
tives. Carried.
Councillor Barton moved that the
clerks be required to mike their re-
ports during the June term of the
county court. Carried.
II. T. 81, to amend section 1S1 of
the Compiled Laws of Utah, was
read and passed.
II. F. 65, for Furnishing cruelty to
animals. was read and referred to