The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-20
consistent with the above are hereby
repealed.
COUNTIES BILL CONTINUED.


of Mr. Mansfield to certain portions of
the bill relating to the treasury to
which certain fees should be paid, were
at the suggestion of Mr. Critchlow,
laid over to await action of the senate
on the same proposition.
Mr.. Nye moved to reinsert in the bill.
the Office of county surveyor which had
been abolished by the adoption of a
previous amendment. The motion was
opposed by Mr. Harris who had secured
the adoption of the other amendment
and a wrangle ensued which lasted
till the noon hour, over the point as to
whether the motion to reinsert could
be entertained without a motion to
reconsider. 1t was at length decided
by the speaker that the motion was in
order. Mr.. Harris appealed from the
decision but got no second and the mo-
ton to reinsert was put and on divi-
sion was carried, after which the house
took a recess till 2 o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
When the house convened in the
afternoon the consideration OF the
counties bill was continued.
Mr.. Nebeker of Salt Lake, proposed
the same amendment offered at
previous time by Mr.. Morrison and
voted down, relating to funding out
standing indebtedness and providing
that before the commissioners may is
sue bonds for such funding. they must
first submit the proposition TO a vote
of the people.
The point was made that the same
amendment having been once defeated,
could not be again considered without
a reconsideration of the vote by which
it had been rejected. This was the
point on which the wrangle of the
morning hinged and it was renewed at
this time.
To obviate the difficulty, Mr.. Smoot
moved that the rules be suspended in
favor of the consideration of the
amendment
The motion to suspend was lost and
its failure brought on again the old
contention as to the proper course of
procedure. About half of the mem
bers maintained that the speaker in
his ruling in the morning had estab-
lished a ruling which should be adj
hered to in all cases of like nature.
arguing that the present motion was
exactly the same motion on which the
speaker had ruled in the morning,
while Speaker Denny, backed by the
other half, maintained the motions
We're in no manner similar.
The gentlemen on the opposite side
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with him, made a strong point Of the
fact that Mr.. Harris had questioned
the correctness of first ruling and had
appealed from the decision but the
speaker had been sustained to the
point that Mr.. Harris got no second
to his appeal They insisted that the
two motions be treated alike. Mean
while nearly every member on the floor
took a hand in the disorderly jangle
The speaker at length to put an end
to the chaos, by putting the motion
TO reconsider although it was clearly
out of order. 1t prevailed and after
more discussion on the question to
adopt, the amendment was inserted.
On motion of Mr.. Smoot the number
of inhabitants a county must have be-
fore it's officers are required to keep
their offices at the county seat was
changed from 10000 to 5000.
Mr.. Harris offered an amendment
which was adopted abolishing the Of
flee of auditor in all counties of the
ment providing that in all counties
having an assessed valuation less than
$15,000,000 the duties of the auditor
shall be combined with those of clerk.
Mr.. Critchlow gave notice that he
would move to reconsider.
on motion of Mr.. Critchlow the bill
went over till this morning, an effort
being made at the same time to lay
it over till Monday.
INTERVENING BUSINESS.
The house was apprised by commu-
nication from the secretary of state
that the board of examiners Cad APP
proved the claims of J. W. Coons,
sheriff of Sewer county, for s54; of
Utah county for $237.97; of o. H. Berg
for $50.
a. J. Worthington for $3.50; Valentine
Gideon for $3.50.
The speaker signed Mr.. Ferguson's
eight-hour bill.
Mr. Critchlow took occasion to enter
an objection to H. B. No. Sc being
transmitted to the governor by the en-
crossing committee. on the grounds
that the bill had not been read three
times, as provided in the constitution.
He desired to have his objection re-
corded. The bill was originally intro
duced as an amendment to the meat
inspection law, but before it got
through both houses it was so changed
as to repeal all statutes on the subject
of meat inspection.
WAS KILLED.
The senate bill comforting majority
rights on minors, was at the head of
the calendar on third reading when
that order was reached, notwithstand-
ing that an adverse committee report
had been adopted. Mr.. Smoot thought
the bill good one and was given con-
sent to reconsider the report and have
the bill placed on third reading. Some
little debate followed when the roll call
was ordered, the bill being killed.
Ayes, Z; nays, 99; absent, 5.
THE REST A FARCE.
The counties committees substitute
for Mr. Boards bill offering a bounty
for the killing of predatory animals,
was taken up after S. B. No. 10 had
been laid over for one day. It's con-
occupied the rest of the day
and the proceedings were very much
more like farce than the actions of a
parliamentary body. disorder being the
only order from the beginning until
the bill was passed.
The bill was not printed, and the
members consequently had nothing to
follow, fact which made a great
many opposed to acting on it and
which added to the confusion.
Mr.. Beard was very anxious to have |
the bill go through for the benefit of !
Summit county, where ground squirrels |
give the farmers much annoyance and |
destroy a great deal of grain, and it |
was largely out of Difference to him
that half a dozen motions to adjourn |
were voted down and a vote reached, |
which was done after many amend |
ments were adopted or rejected, and |
after a motion to strike out the enact |
ing clause had been defeated. The |
vote on the bill was: Ayes, IS; nays, |
IL; absent, 6.