, 1890-03-15

mated.
There was serious question as to the
legality of amending the enrolled act be,
fore it was signed, This opinion was
given by eminent attorneys.
The governors course was to either
sign or veto the act, and let the legisla
ture e the law in either instance.
Governor Warren sent the election bill
back to the house, aud five amendments
offered by Mr. Hebard were adopted.
They were:
An election district along any railway
may include more than one precinct.
Cannot erase name of elector without
giving HIN an opportunity to be heard.
City and not county pays the expenses
Of municipal registration.
Absence from home not an excuse for
failure to register.
Act to take effect July | instead of
March 81. II this change was not made
it would stop several city and new county
elections.
The bill as amended was passed aud
sent to the council.
Mr.. Hebard nearly dropped dead when
the election bill came back with all the
amendments rejected except the one au-
thorized in the JOINT resolution, that
changing the date.
The astute father of the bill was dis
posed to be recalcitrant. but was brought
around and Mr.. Adams motion to recede
from the amendment, obieoted to by the
council, prevailed.
The bill was sent to the governor at
l.30, and in two hours notice of its APP
proval was received.
R~EPRIMANDING HoLDoUTs.
By vote the house called for its com
mittees to return the council file on the
insane asylum, and another relating to
the compensation of city officers. Mr..
Schnitger had the former and Mr.. KEEL
logg the latter.
s%cHNTTGER's PRODUCTIVE POCKET
Mr.. Thomas moved that the chairman
of the ways and means committee be in
structed to report on the Rock Springs
hospital bill. Mr.. Schnitger said he
would produce the bill if the motion was
withdrawn. He made an unfavorable
report on the bill. There was no com
ment this time. When the bill was
drawn from Mr.. Schnitger, Mr.. Evans
said there had never been a committee
meeting on it. MI. Jesurum said yes,
some time ago. 1t was shown by another
member that the bill was not with the
committee when the gentleman from Con-
verse said it was considered.
MINERS HOSPITAL.
After getting the original bill before the
house Mr.. Thomas introduced a substitute.
an omnibus institution bill. 1t provided
$40. 900 for hos pital. $40, 900 for peniten-
tiary, $3.50 for university, rents to capitol,
5000 for normal school. S., 200 for agri.
killed.
Mr.. Thomas demanded a vote on the
original bill and it was tabled by a vote OF
Is to 10.
REPUBLICAN STRANGERS.
A hunt for the bill making an appro.
p~riation for insane asylum support and
city officers salary bills disclosed the fact
that Mr.. Schnltger had pocketed the
former and that Mr.. Kellogg had the
latter. When instructed by the house
to return the bill Mr.. Schnitger unwilling
ly complied.
Mr.. Kellogg, who had the bill cutting
the city marshal's big salary down a
little, explained that he had submitted
the bill to Mr.. Hebard for hat gentle.
mans opinion and hat his legal adviser
had the bill at his office down town.
TIE ASYLUM.
When the asylum bill was finally
brought before the house earnest appeals
Snedden and Rex.
There would have been summary
slaughter of the measure but for the inter-
vention of Mr.. Burritt, who produced a
certified copy of the deed to the asylum of
land from the Union Pacific, in which it
was ~constructively stipulated that if the
asylum we're closed title to the land and
of necessity to the 500. 900 building would
revert to the corporation.
Mr.. Adams was indignant over the dis
covery. He declared that the deed could
be easily set aside; that no other recourse
presented itself, the commissioners could
be sued on their bonds.
Mr.. McCormick's motion to make the
bill a special order for IL o'clock was car
ried.
1t was twenty minutes past eleven
when there we're calls for the special or
der by friends of the asylum. They we're
declared out of order, having neglected to
call on the minnie, the bill thus losing
precedence. This was the first use of
this whip during the session.
The bill was brought up at 1915 and
killed by a vote of Is to 7.
THE HOUSE REFUSED.
On Mr.. Adams motion the house re-
fused to act with the other branch in the
matter of preparing an apportionment
bill.
CONCURRENCE.