The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-22
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hson (by requesD, is for IAN act to
/ provide free county intelligence offices
Tor youths (boys or girls, to restore
! trdant and tramping youths to their
homes, to imprison all youths apart
/ from old criminals and to protect chill
/ dren in dissipated and immoral homes.
/ Inc bill provides for the opening of
/ offices in each county for the purpose
I OF procuring homes and employment
! Tor minor children. The selectmen shall
keep register in which the names
! OF applicants shall be entered, the
/ county clerk or other county official to
be the custodian Of the register. They
! shall also inquire at least once in three
months as to the condition of boys
or girls who have secured employment
/ through them. The selectmen are also
empowered to secure a guardian for
such as have property.
/ City officials, police or others charged
with the arrest of minors, must turn
them over to the county board. 1t
shall be unlawful for any minor child
under the age of IA years to be found
on the streets Of any city, town or viii
lage after 8 o'clock at night, unless
accompanied by parents or guardians.
/ Offenders are liable to a fine of So to
| $40 for the first offence, and for a con-
tinued disregard of the law may be
sent to the reform school not to eX-
CCGu SIX IlOIlLS. THESE pTONISIOIS uOI
TO apply TO children necessarily absent
from home on business authorized by
their parents. Selectmen are to provide
separate places of confinement for mi
nors, and shall see that they
are not locked UP with old and hard
ened criminals. In counties where the
population exceeds 200 if the electors !
so decide at a regular election the Sc !
lectmen shall secure. suitable buildings
within limits in which RI
care for that portion of tramping or
rUant minor children who are without |
suitable home influence. this home to !
be of a strictly parental character. |
where they may be clothed, schooled. |
boarded and taught some useful Occu- /
patton until they can be placed in /
other homes. These county homes are
to be designated as branches of the /
Utah division Of the Boys and Girls (
National Home and Employment as |
ISOLATION. and shall be in charge of a |
superintendent with a wife for a |
matron; the appointment of superin- |
tendent and matron to be made by the /
selectmen. The studies taught in such |
homes shall be the branches taught /
in the common schools. There shall /
also be connected with the home an |
industrial department known as the !
agricultural. mechanical and scientific |
branches where the variety of talent /
of the children shall be tested and |
utilized
Where parents or guardians do not |
take proper care of children they may .
be arrested and fined from $25 to 500
and imprisoned from sixty days to six
months. The children may be taken
away from improper guardians or par
ents and turned over to the selectmeD
for care and custody, who must see
that they are placed in some good pri-
vate family or the county home. The
district judge can exercise his discre-
ton in &C Sc of vicious children and /
commit them to the reform school; the
expense to be borne by the county
where such children are residents.
BILLS DEFEATED
Senate bill Is, by Booth, for the APP
pointment of commissioners of deeds
in other states and foreign countries,
was then called UP and rejected.
Senate bill 6, for the providing Of
dockets for district courts by the sec
rotary of state. was also rejected, the
matter having been provided for in
Chidester's senate joint resolution
No g.
Sill %, for an act providing for ar
rests in civil actions. was on suspen-
sion of the rules passed and sent the
house.
WOMEN JURORS.
Chidester's bill exempting women
from jury duty came before the senate
with an adverse report from the COM
mittee on judiciary.
Chidester's pos ton was that women
have all the rights of men, but it
should be OPTIONAL with them to say
whether they viii accept or not
TO this Sutherland replied that jury
service was not right or privilege,
but a burden the same as military ser
vice. Women were not drafted in the
army and should not be compelled to
sit on juries. The law, in the opinion
of the judiciary committee, should
stand as at present.
The report was adopted, and women
will not sit on juries, the committee
having in preparation a bill to that eff
feet which will doubtless become a
law.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Senate bill 10, Allison's irrigation bill,
passed second reading.
Senate joint resolution No. 5, substi-
tute for furnishing dockets for district
courts and appropriating $1,000 for
such expense was read first time. Chi
dester offered a substitute for the sub
stitute in the shape Of an original bill.
This precipitated a debate, point
being made that it was not in order,
which the chair sustained.
Chidester then moved to strike out
part of the measure, striking out the
$4,000 part, which has the effect of
placing the expense on the state in
stead Of the county, as regards dis
trict courts, While counties can provide
for county and probate courts.
Booth in examining the reasons of
Senator Chidester" said the state might
as well furnish clerks, bailiffs and
court houses as dockets. The logic ad-
vanced was not good.
Sutherland advocated the adoption
Of the substitute.
Chidester's amendment was lost. The
senator gave notice that he would
move to reconsider the vote by which
Senate bill No. 6 was rejected
Senator Booth raised the point that
the resolution should have a title and
an enacting clause according to the
provisions of the constitution but failed
to make any motion and the resolution
passed.
The secretary then read the certifi-
cate Of election by the senate members I
IF Frank j. Cannon and Arthur Brown.
which will be spread upon the minutes.
Notice Of joint meetings of house and
senate committees on appropriations
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