The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-04
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
FIFTY-FOURTH DAY.
COUNCIL.
FRIDAY, March 3, 1882.
2p.m.

cid p1dlu, Tile committee on r6Venu
reported back G. F. 80, providln
how appropriations shall be paiC
amended.
The committee OH revenue re
ported back the report of Specia
Commissioner John T. Game. will
a bill to regulate the issuing o
Jurors certificates. Leave was asked
to introduce the bill which, by
unanimous vote, was given. The
bill is designed to regulate how
jurors certificates shall be issued
making them legal papers and al
al eratiOns of them forgery.
The committee on railroads re
ported back II. F. %, with amend
ments.
The committee on Judiciary re-
ported back II. +. Us, amending Ger.
tain sections of tile Compiled Laws,
relating 10 estates of decedents, with
minor amendments.
The committee on judiciary re-
ported back II. F. 45, concerning the
Ut IN Reports, amended.
G. +. ~, concerning small debts,
was reported, enrolled and for
warded to the Governor.
The committee on municipal cor
poratiOBs reported hack the new
charter for Salt Lake City.
II. T. u, providing for a bureau
of statistics of the agricultural,
manufacturing and mining indus.
tries in the Territory of Utah, was
referred to the committee on rev.
enue.
H. F. 70, for the encouragement
of the manufacture of sugar, was
taken up and referred to the COM
mittee on agriculture.
G. F. 80, defining how territorial
appropriations exceeding $1,000
shall be paid, was read and passed.
c. F. 81, requiring clerks of dis
trict courts to keep, in all criminal
cases, an attendance roll of jury
men and witnesses, and giving GER
titicateS therefor. and for grand
juries to keep a record of witnesses
appearing before them, was read
and referred to the committee OH
judiciary.
II. F. IS, bill amending section
504 of the Compiled Laws, provid-
ing that no railroad corporation
shall consolidate, hold or lease the
franchise of any other company
owning a parallel or competing line.
The committee explained that al
most every other state and territory
had similar law. Bill passed.
II. F. A., providing for the pur-
chase and distribution of copies of
the Utah reports, was read. The
original bill provided for 100 copies;
the committee amended by making
the number twenty-five. The
amendment was adopted, and the
bill passed.
II. +. 6S, the bill to amend certain
sections of the Compiled Laws, re-
lating to estates of defendants, was
read and passed.
Councillor Cuff offered a motion
that $50 be placed in the appropri-
alton bill as additional cOmpensa-
ton for services Of Milo Andrus.
chaplain OF the Council. Carried.
G.. T. %, the new charter of Salt
Lake City was taken up and read.
Councillor Thurber inquired if the
committee to whom the petition Of
F. Schoenfeldt and others, was re-
ferred, had reported upon it.
Councillor E. Snow stated that the
committee had not acted upon the
petition yet as other petitions were
in hand concerning the southern
boundary. The boundary lines
were then left to a future time.
In the sixth section, the Tegula-
ii ms for the elections provided that
city elections should be conducted
and performed by the same officers
as are prescribed by law for Terri
tOrial and County elections.
Councillor Thurber wished this
changed so as to keep our elections
separate, as at the present time the
voters, especially the female portion
Of them, cannot get election matters
straight in their minds, and it is a
difficult matter to get people to I'M
derstand the different registrations
required for city elections and for
county elections as being distinct
and separate. He wished, especially
for the lady voters, to keep our cleo
ton laws simple and plain.
Councillor Game, on behalf Of the
ladies, denied the soft impeachment,
and said that the female voters in
Salt Lake City were the most wide
awake Of any, and appreciated the
value of the franchise and under
stood it the best of any.
Councillor Murdoch said that in
his experience the people want edu-
eating in politics, and he was fearful
that by getting our elections mixed
citizens would hardly know what
they were doing, and he favored
Councillor Thurber'S position.
Councillor Wells asked if two sep
arate lists county and city-would
not be required.
Councillor E. Snow thought it
would complicate the duty Of the
Judges to find out if person was
registered for the city and, perhaps,
not for the COUNTY, and 0ic5 UerSo.
Councillor Game explained that no
more difficulty would arise from
having the city nominees on the
election ticket than is now found
when officers of different precincts
were voted for on county and Terri