Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-27
IIorsE.
Feb. %.

H.-F. 80, Williams artesian well
bill, came up on third reading.
Russell offered an amendment 10
exempt wells which, when shO Tn
by experiment, would be damaged
by shutting of the flow.
Porter favored the amendment
and the bill. Kimban opposed both,
and thought the Assembly bad no
right to pass the bill. Ferrin laid q
number Of his constituents earnest
~ opposed the bill, fearing it would
destroy their wells. Bennion
. thought the subject should be ex-
perimented with.
Greer offered letter from one Of
his constituents. which was read.
urging the Iassage Of the Till.
Thurman said he had received
several letters from bis constituents
to the same effect, and none that
opposed the bill. He thought the
bill should pass. Water from driven
wells was often a nuisance. In
Provo, when a well was stopped
during the night and turned en- in
the morning il flowed with in
creased strength.
-Kimbsll argued in favor Of strik-
ing out the enacting clause. These
wells were private property, which
the law-msking power had no right
10 interfere with.
Porter favored the bin and thought
Il would make driven wells more
valuable.
Pierce said the bill applied to
wells only when the water was not
in use, and he thought there was no
point in what Kimball had said.
kimball's motion to strike out the
enacting clause was lost, and after
being further amended the bill
passed by vote Of l6 ayes, 5 noes,
> absent.
c. F. 81, relating to the govern
ment Of cities Of the first and second
class, went to the committee on
municipal corporations and towns.
The conference committee on G..
+. 25, the bill authorizing estates Of
decedents, minors, etc, TO be mort
gagged, was adopted, and the amend
ments TO the bill as therein recon-
mended were concufred in. The
bill passed.
Tie conference committees re-
port on G. +. 81, the forcible entry
aud detainer bill, was concurred in
and the bill passed.
II. +. 81, the sugar bounty bill,
came upon third reading.
Pierce asked If sugar could lie
manufactured in this Territory at
aprofit, after the plant is once estab-
lished. -
Porter replied that the matter
had not yet been practically and
fully demonstrated, but the men
who were putting up the money
for the plant, were sanguine of sue
cess. In answer to further ques-
tons, Porter said the plant would
cost about $500, 900, that is tons per
day couli be produced from such a
plant, and that 81 200, 900 worth of
sugar was consumed in Utah annu-
ally.
Porter made an argument in IA
vor Of the passage of the bill, citing
many reasons why the legislature
should encourage and foster so inn
portsnt an enterprise as the manu.
facture Of sugar
Allen said be would vote against
the bill for the sole reason that he
did not know where the money was
TO come from 10 pay the bounty.
Williams heartily supported the
bill, as did Thurman.
The bill passed by vote OF 16
ayes, 5 noes, . absent.
II. F. IS, the railway condemna-
ton bill, came up on third reading.
Reid moved 20 strike out the en-
acting clause. Carried by vote Of
12 to5.
Smith called for the ayes sand noes.
The roll call disclosed Is ayes 9
noes and absent. The bill was
lost.
III. +. 10, the live stock bill, was
amended to prevent the shipping Of
stock by rail Mt night, and passed
under a suspension Of the rules, by
a vote Of 19 ayes, noes, absent
C.F.3, relating to the destruction
of certain wild animals and birds.
came up on second reading.
Allen said the coyote was neces-
sary 10 keep down the jack rabbit,
which was very destructive Of crops,
nd that the skin Of the fox was as
sufficiept bounty. He opposed offer
ing bounty for those two animals,
but his amendment to strike them
mt WAS lcef