, 1888-03-08

Altering the law in relation to the APP
plication of property on execution and
exemption of wages in attachment pro.
ceedings.I
Providing for the more speedy and GER
tain collection of specified taxes, by Mr..
Patten.
Providing for the organization of the
legislative assembly, by Mr., Blake.
ON GAMBLING.
There was another matinee on the
amended gambling bill. The measure
came up for consideration in committee
of the whole house, Mr.. Scrivner in the
chair. Several amendments were offered
and rejected and a number of speeches
were made. The bill was reported upon
adversely by a vote of - to IL, the pre-
siding officer settling the tie. During
the seance Mr.. Summers declared that
the suppression of gambling in the West
was an impossibility, that the moral
burghs were, so far as his experience
went, commercial graveyards and the
towns where the sports were permitted to
ply their vocation, exaggerated beehives.
MIR. Grant was opposed to local option;
this question should not enter into poll
ties. Speaker Pease was willing to meet
the issue at the polls and desired the re-
peal of the section in the statutes for
bidding city authorities to interfere with
the gamblers. Mr.. Adams suggested an
amendment repeating the act licensing
gambling, but was ruled out of order.
Messrs. Sutherland and Blydenburgh and
several other members aired their views
on the subject.
SCHOOL LAW.
As intimated by THE LEADER yester.
day morning, the cumbersome revision OF
the school laws has been abandoned.
Quite lengthy amendments to the opera
tive law were introduced and referred to
the special joint committee which drafted
the original bill. So soon as this com
mittee reports there will be another ex-
change of views on school laws.
II FEE BILL.
During the evening session the commit.
tee of the whole. Mr.. Summers in the
chair, returned Mr.. Symons' county clerk
fee bill to the house without recommended
ton. Amendments to the bill will be
submitted. This measure provides that
clerks shall receive no compensation for
that portion of instruments printed in
record books.
A BIT OF COMEDY.
Mirth held high carnival when MI.
~Blydenburgh's bill making dogs taxable
the same as other live stock came up for
consideration.
Mr.. Roberts amendment making the
bill read leach dog shall wear a collar
over three months old" was adopted, as
was also Mr.. Lafrcntz's alteration provid-
ing that each canine should be ornamented
by the attachment of a tin can to its
caudal appendage. Speaker Pease elo-
quently supported all amendments, while
MIR. Adams grayely charged that the
amendments were not offered in good
faith and advanced the idea that perhaps
the governor would not approve the act.
On motion of Mr.. Blydenburgh the
bill was recommended for passage with
out the amendments suggested by the
wags.
The bill making railway companies,
ditch owners, etc. surety for contractors
and sub-contractors was the subject of not
a little discussion. The opinion that sew
eral of its provisions were illegal and
others quite Objectionable prevailed.
Further consideration of the measure was
indefinitely postponed.
INSANE ASYLUM.
The committee of the whole recon
mended favorable consideration of Mr..
Cartoons council file providing that the
territorial insane should be placed in the
Evanston asylum upon the opening of
that institution.
ECONOMICAL.
Further consideration of Mr.. Holidays
bill providing for the publication of
school. election and irrigation laws in
separate pamphlets was indefinitely post
poned. The money thus expended would
be wasted, was the plea made by the or
position. The vote on indefinite post
ponement was unanimous.
FAVORABLE.
The council memorial in relation to
school lands and Mr.. Viewers bill in re-
lation to the taxation of horses and cattle
on the open range were recommended for
passage. The latter was amended by max
ing sheep come within its provisions.
FISCAL AGENCY.
Mr.. Van Devanter's bill providing for a
territorial fiscal agency was discussed at
length and recommended for passage.
Territorial Council.
1900