The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-20
Yesterdays session of the senate wa

Yesterdays session of the senate was
tedious one, although the result OBJ
tanned was gratifying, from one point
OF view-the question discussed cannot
the brought up agin.
The entire afternoon was devoted to
the discussion of senate bal No. 80, the
measure drafted by Warner, providing
that all county treasurers shall act as
district court commissioners and pay
the expenses of the same from moneys
drawn from the treasury of the state
and county for the purpose. The bill
was worded and amended by a mo-
jority of the committee ON judiciary so
that it provided practically that the
expenses of holding courts in the coun-
ties of the state should be borne by
the tn. and not the sub
division. This measure therefore re-
vived the old question which has bsen
SO long contended for by Chidester and
other members from the outside coun-
ties and the debate was prolonged and
as rule uninteresring.
Final action on the bill resulted in its
being indefinitely postponed, and to
make matters sure the vote was recon
sidered and another indefinite post
ponement voted. The bill is now as
dead as the proverbial door nail, and
will not come up again at this session,
unless, forsooth, the house members re-
vive it in some other form, pass it and
send it down to the senate.
The Office of coroner was abolished
yesterday, and at the close of the year
Mr. Offenbach will not be holding a
Job. Neither will anyone succeed him
in his melancholy position, and up to
the time his term expires he will draw
salary at the rate of $500 per year and
no more The senate was practically
a unit on the matter of aboliShing the
Office of coroner, although the provis-
ion has NIT been inserted in any bill
which will provide for the perform
ance of any of his duties by any other
officer. This will be done after a time.
AS a strict matter of fact, the Office
was not abolished yesterday by the
vote taken. The senate agreed that it
should be the sense of the body that
the Office should be abolished and such
will be the action later on.
YESTERDAYS WORK.
The action of the senate yesterday
VIII DS 1OuIlu III Tile
Rev. l.. B. Ridgley of st. PauPs cha
pei offered the opening prayer.
HOUSE MESSAGES
Messages from the house announced
the passage of house bill No. 81, pro-
viding for the location of lode and
placer mining claims, and the signing
by the speaker of house bill No. "A, the
bill; house bill No. 121,
providing for the Incorporation of
schools and colleges, and house bill No.
Sc relating to diseased meat, by the
speaker.
CANNOT AGREE.
Mr.. Warner of the conference COM
mittee on liens and judgments in Uni
Ted States courts. senate bill No. a.
that the house refused to re-
cede from its position in making the
limit five years instead Of ten as pro
posed by the senate.
SERI-CULTURE.
Senator Cannons bill on seri-culture
was reported back favorably by the
committee on appropriations and
claims and agriculture and irrigation.
NO sEMI-CENTENNIAL.
The committee on appropria lions and
claims made the following report:
Your committee on appropriations
and claims, to which was referred the
resolution of Councilman Callister of
the city council of Salt Lake City, in
relation to the appropriate for the
celebration and exposi-
ton in Salt Lake City in 1897, have had
the same under consideration, and
recommend that it be denied, for the
reasons:
First-The state is financially I'M
a BILE to undertake an intermountain ex-
position on a scale commensurate with
the dignity and importance of the
state.
Second-Omaha will have an exposi-
ton in 1898, to which all the. surround
ing states will contribute and to which
they are bending their energies.
Third-Dallas, Tex, will have an ex-
position in 1897, to which we and the
states are expected to con-
tribute.
Fourth-National aid is being asked
to assist these expositions, and they
will be held on so grand a scale as to
overshadow us completely.
Fifth-There is not time between
now and July "a, 1897, to prepare for
such an undertaking.
We do recommend that state fair
ana eApoSflIoH De Helu IN 1881, That
the sum of $4,000 be appropriated for
that purpose, to be expended under
he direction of the Deseret Agricul-
.ural and Manufacturing society.
Consideration was delayed for one
week.
TO ASSIST MERCCR.
Mr.. Warner introduced senate bill
II, an act which amends the law re-
ating to Incorporating cities and
owns.
The bill was presented in the inter-
st of the town of Mercur, the marvel
# Utah, which will hold an election |
9 decide the question of Incorporation |
md as none of the inhabitants are
registered, this bill gives them the |
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