The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-23
THE HOUSE.

At the opening of the regular session
Of the house yesterday afternoon
message from the governor was re-
ceived submitting copies of the alb
stract of the eleventh United States
census and the annual report of the
last territorial treasurer. The latter,
upon motion, was referred to the COM
mittee on ways and means
H. c. NJ. 10 was introduced by Mans
field. 1t is in favor of ]. H. Curfew,
assessor and collector of Wayne
county, and is for $3.50 reimburse
ment for uncollected taxes.
Bolitho, chairman of the special joint
committee appointed to secure offices
for the officers of the state, reported
verbally that fifteen rooms, the number
required, could be had in the joint
building for So, 500 a year rental. On
further time for the committee to
further investigate which was granted
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
On motion of Raddatz the house
went into committee Of the whole for
the consideration of the three commit
tee reports which had been laid over
from the day previous under such an
agreement. H. B. No AZ which is
amendatory of the present revenue
law to authorize and enable assessors
to levy taxes upon transitory herds,
was first considered, the committee re-
porting recommending its passage
upon arising.
a REPUBLICAN MOVE.
The rules committees report on Con-
don's motion to amend rule 20 with
reference to motions to adjourn was
next taken up. DR.. Condon's motion
was to amend the rule to make it read:
"a motion to adjourn shall always be
in order Except when another motion
is pending or vote is being taken).
The committee reported adversely to
the amendment. Taylor, chairman of
the rules committee, brought the ques
ton before the committee of the whole
by moving the adoption of the report.
This brought on a discussion of the
question the Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike taking sides against the
motion to amend. Condor seeing his
motion was likely to fail was eventu-
ally compelled to state, lest his motion
lose, that he thought the rule making
a motion to adjourn always in order.
gave the minority too much power. He
had deity tried to conceal the true OBJ
ject of his motion Once it was appar-
emit the majority promptly reconstruct
ed the motion and passed it making the
rule read: "a motion to adjourn shall
always be in order Except when a
member has the floor for any other
purpose or when a vote is being
taken]."
This conformed with Roberts rules
and met the approval of DR.. Condor
and was recommended for adoption
when the committee should arise.
Nye's motion to amend rule So was
next considered. 1t provided for
printing bills with spaces between the
lines for convenience In interlining
amendments. The rules committee re-
ported adversely to the motion for the
reason that its adoption would in
crease the expense by one-half Critch-
low offered an amendment making it
discretionary with the printing COM
mittee to decide when bills should be
printed solid or with spaces. He
thought short bills could be printed
with spaces and long ones solid and not
materially increase the expense. The
amendment was lost and the COM
mittee report adopted.
STATE PENAL INSTITUTES.
S. B. No. 1S by Miller of Salt Lake
relating to the management of state
penal institutions was next taken up.
It's consideration was postponed until
the members could be provided with