The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-27

good time yesterday afternoon discus
sing dogs. Dogs were the theme for
several minutes.
CANNES were precipitated into the
debate by the reading of senate bill
No sc, introduced by Senator r. G..
Miller, and remodeled and revamped
by the committee on live stock. until
it made owners of dogs responsible for
damages done by dogs acting in con-
cert.
There was whole lot of talk on the
bill. The point was made that one
man might own ten dogs, and these
ten dogs might go to a house where
lived man With only one dog, and
coax the solitary canine to go and kill
sheep. In the light of such evidence,
ought not the man with the ten dogs
pay ten-elevenths of the damages and
the man with the one dog be held only
for one? This matter was jolted
around the chamber for some time, I'M
til Allison took the dictionary and at
ter a close perusal of the same several
consecutive minutes, announced that
the word Concert" meant q. musical
festival: a place where harmony pre-
vailed, where everything was tome col
or; where trills and andantes were
plentiful. etc. He did not believe dogs
could act in concert. Still one dog
might convey to another dog an idea
OF the location of meat on the hoof,
and the other dog might enter into a
partnership with him and go and
chase the gentle lambs and calves over
the green sWard until, weary of life,
the gentle quadrupeds gave up The
ghost; this might be construed as con-
hTT ri of on
jurisdiction.
Booth suggested that the bill be
amended. making it a felony for any
dogs to get together with sn idea of
celebrating on where a good, fat
lamb or veal could be found; prohibit
ing the conspiring together of dogs.
This would be applying the ounce of
prevention, which, it is said, is worth
more than a pound of cure.
The suggestion was laughed to
scorn.
Senator Mckay called attention to
the fact that the bill made q man who
"harbored' a dog liable. There are
plenty of good, charitable people in
Utah who might be placed at a disad-
vantage by the adoption of this. A
man and his dog might apply for lodg-
ings at a ranch; the man might leave,
but the dog, attracted by the improve
ment in victuals, might conclude to
stay. The ranchman might keep him
a few days awaiting THE return of the
owr,er, and while thus protecting the
purp from the chill and storm of the
bleak and cruel world, he, the purp,
might go on the range and swoop
down on the tender lambs with the
intent of making meal. The ranch
man who had harbOred the dog ought
not to be held liable.
The president of the senate thought
the rdnchman in this case would not be
held liable, and there that matter
rested.
The bill passed.
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
AS soon as the regular order was
completed yesterday, Senator Booth
moved that senate bill No. %, the
Australian ballot law, then on the cal
endar for consideration, be postponed
for one week. Mr.. Booth said, in sup
port of the motion, that at this time
the senate has no knowledge of the eX-
penses which will be entailed by the
enactment of the bill. He believed it
would cost the state many thousands
of dollars to place the law In opera
ton. He understood THE cast would be
in the neighborhood of $4,000. The
D.
000 While favoring the new system,
he did not want to saddle a debt on
Utah at this time. If it is going to be
a luxury which will add many thou
sands of dollars to the expenses of
the state. wait awhile. The law Is. in
force in Colorado, Nebraska and Mon
tana, all adjacent states, and it will
be easy to get a statement from them
before the time mentioned in the mo-
ton has expired.
Senator Miller did not want the
measure postponed for so long a time
as mentioned in the motion, but was
willing to allow the same to go over
until Friday.
Senator Allison, who is the father of
the bill, was very anxious to have it
considered right away. The bill has
been on the desks of the senators ever
since February 9, and still the gentle
men say they have not time ITO con-
slider it at this moment. Mr.. Booth did
not ask THAT his bill creating a state
board of health go over; ON the con-
trary, he wanted 1T passed at once.
That bill was simply a measure to
provide junkets at the expense of the
state to ascertain whether dead cats
and dogs had f1eas in their tails or
something of the kind. CAS- this was
a joke the Republican members, with
the exception of Booth, as in duty
bound, all laughed)
When the mirth had subsidized, Booth
called Allison's attention to the fact
that the expenses of the state board
Of health were limited by the law, but
in this case the amount was not even
He challenged Allison to
produce some figures.
The dignified answer of the senator
from Ogden was a roast on Booth and
the balance Of the ways and means
committee for allowing fifty days of
the session to elapse ere revenue bill
was reported, in which said roasting
the Ogden man was emphatic and Wig
orous in his statements
Continuing on the bill, Allison said