, 1886-02-06

no license issued for a less period. The
penalty for selling without license IS
limited to 81, 900. or six months imprison-
ment. Saloons must close from 10 a. m.
to > p. IN. ON Sundays and from 6 a. III.
to 7 p. m. on election days. Violation of
these provision is a misdemeanor. That
portion of the law relating to county
licenses is repealed,
SECOND READING.
ii. b. No. 3S-Regulating the use Of
water for irrigation and other purposes,
and providing for settling the priority of
rights thereto, was referred TO the com
mittee on agriculture and manufactures
and made the special in committee of the
whole for ? O'Clock p. M. next Tuesday.
II. b. Nos. 80, 10 and a were read by
title and referred to their appropriate
committees.
c. f. No. 3-For a court house at
%Sundance, Crook county, was read a
third time and passed. Ayes "a; nays o.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The first business of the afternoon was
the consideration of Fish Commissioner
Gramm's invitation to the Legislature to
visit the hatchery. The invitation was
accepted and after considerable debate,
Monday the Sth was fixed for making the
trip, and a special committee were ap-
pointed to confer with Assistant General
Superintendent Dickinson as to a special
train, it being understood hat he had
made a tender of such a train.
Mr.. O'Brien called up the house joint
resolution relating to investigation Of the
Rock Springs riot and the Almy disaster.
The resolution calls for a committee of
five to investigate the causes of each.
Mr.. O'Brien offered n number of amend
ments which changed the tenor of the
resolution so that it should not reflect
upon the Union Pacific and the govern
ment commissioners.
Mr.. Whitehouse said that he hardly
thought now that it was necessary to
make the investigation as it would involve
much expense, the resolution had been
delayed for a long time unnecessarily, and
he doubted if a committee of five could be
selected from the members Of the legis-
lature who would fairly conduct the in
v~estigation, which the resolutions con-
templated. Therefore, being the intro
Queer of the resolution, he believed that
he had the right to withdraw it and he
therefore moved that it be indefinitely
postponed.
To this Mr.. O'Bricn objected. alleging
that the resolution had been introduced
for buncombe and hat it reflected on
Governor Warren. He demanded that
the resolution be brought to a vote and
that every member OF the house be put
on record.
Mr.. Downcy introduced AS an amend
ment 10 Mr., W~hitehouse's motion, with
the consent of the latter, a substitute re
port of the committee of the whole lin
which the house was sitting and argued
in behalf of his substitute that the inyes-
LEGATION should not proceed, II it might
be a result of such investigation that the
territory and S~weetwater county would be
laid open to a liability for damages, The
substitute, in substance, stated that as it
was n matter of notoriety that the grand
jury in Sweetwater county had inyesti-
gated the Rock Springs riot and had re-
ported, acquitting the men charged with
crime at that time of blame, and also dis
posing OF the responsibility for the occur
FENCES of the 2nd of September, another
investigation by the legislature would be
an assumption of power, and possibly
construed as a rebuke to the grand jury,
and it would be a dangerous precedent to
in any way attempt to impeach or ques'
ton the action of a sworn tribunal; and
the committee therefore recommended
that the resolution be Indefinitely post
poned.
The motion to so postpone was carried,
Mr.. O'Brien alone voting in the mega
tive.
When the committee rose the report of
the committee OF the whole wa adopted,
and the resolution was indefinitely post
poned.
The house again went into committee OF
the whole, and the bill relating to cxten-
sion of jurisdiction ofjustices of the peace
was favorably acted upon and the bill re-
lating to the sale of liquor ON Sundays was
acted upon uniavorably and subsequently
was indefinitely postponed.
Both houses adjourned until 10 a m.
to-day.