Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-06

As To EsTitANS,
The live stock committee reported
amendments to House bill ~, felauug
To estfays, and recommended tho ia.
cage Of the bill On motion Of MI
Msntfleld the report was adopted,
TO PROJECT sHEEr.
Tue same committee reported on
Senste bill ~, g. prevent the spread Vt
di'ease among sheep, Recommending
lie passage.
1uE DOC BILL.
The committee IN live stock recon.
meuded the passage Of Senate bill Sc
(-ubslitutU) providing tor tue recovery
" damages iOr Injuries by reason ui
Itespas. VI dogs.
POLICE AND FWE BILL.
The municipal corporations commit
tee presented moi iIity ana minority
reports, as we'll ~ an exception ty
Cuaifmau Nye, on Senate bin 3 uud
House bills ll3 and 81, relaiilg 10 fire
and police boards, Tue maj rty report
recommends tho rejection " House
bills ll8 ami ~ anu the passage Ul
Senate bill 5, with amendments pre-.
| scented.
Chairman Nye, Of the committee,
presented rers nal explanation, fay-
lug that while, o. chairman VI tue com.
miItee, he had sigueI tue report VI tn.
majority, ne was opposed 10 section Que
OF the bill as nmenaod.
SIR, CURTIS PROTESTS
A minority report from Mr. Cultis
was tua1 a. follows.
"a minority u yout committee on
municipal corporations respectfully
report that We do not concur with the
action Of the mslOrty NJ tue CON miltsu
/ Ia submitting 10 this Legislature such
yillsinOus measure AZ senate bill
/ No. 5, as amen Ird.'
"lnis bill takes away from the
reOple-the residents aud Taxpayers OF
cities VI II, 900 inhAbiialts anu over
what few rights they have had LETT
siuce the police and fiie law went into
effect, and places sli the power 10 ~.
point, when n Fart Of, Of least, should
belong to the peoples representative,
the mayor anu city COuuoil, into tue
hands VI but one man, the Governor.
"Ihe bill alsJ provides that the r..
spective chiefs OF tue fire aud police
departments shall have the power 10
fuo OF suspend any member thereof
- the discretion Of such Chlri-,' anu
also provides thut II will take three
members % the board 10 fu.ualatu a
member ~ tutpcuIud, 90 20 restore g.
him tue amount OF his nne, thereby
I giving 20 thetp Uuitfs nn absolute power
dangerous TO the rights OF free Amen.
d can rltEuUH
"NIw, Mt Speaker, with all due t..
spcci for our Governor, W. most posi-.
lively pronounce this creating tue
I one man power over the people vs. un.
/ American, vicious ami dangerous In
tue extreme, and such legislation
should never have a place on tue stat
ute buIks Of the 5lalc VI Uah.
"Wby should the people be Cum-
pellet to submit 70 such vllininuus
/ legislatiul2 Have they not a charter
ifUm the state cOuieffing municipal
matters on the Mayor aud city council,
uiilotp elected by the people ~ ttrv.
ants Of the municipality 10 o., then
T why should tntse Oillcsu be- dopryoI
VI voice In tnu appointing power OIL
he FIRE aud police commission, w. IN
the Judgment Of this Les allure, such
an organization SHOULD eAisl7
1--WE protest, and HppeaI 10 the mem.
befs OF this Legislature "a consider
well what their action shall be before
csstiug vote for such "A vicious aud
absolutely wicked piece VI legislation
as Sc ate bill No. s, as AMENDED
fSiyntul "CUR1Is.n
sQuABBLE OVER SPECIAL ORDER
Mr.. Cushing novel that the House,
at g:lO, 20 into committee Of the whole
/ on House bill 90, tho BOlithO lana bill,
| Mr.. Nye called the attention OF the
I House 10 tue TACT that consideration o
the report VI tue municipal corpora
tious, committee on Senate bill IS,
authorizing cities, towns sui municl'
palltirs 10 establish Tree pub 10 Libraries
and reading rooms was the special
order sot Tor O'Clock today, aud tue
speaker ruled that 81 was entitled 10
/ preference.
Tue committees report, recommend.
ing the passage VI the bill, was adopted.
Mir. Nyo now moved = suspension vi
the rules and thu passage " the bill,
but the proposition was Ieitatei.
EIuHT bills MUST WAIT.
The motion to 10 into committee Of
AhN "ANN wa WINK ~ " Wv RlNhh-
eT when Mt. Morrison called attention
10 the fact that there were eight bills,
House bills 1879, 1880, 90, 28aud 100, and
Senate bills ~ qua 81, ready for Ihitd
reading ana passage, aud no desited
to dispOse VI them 40 1hat they could be-
sent ~ the SruAtu Tor that bOiy's ac.
tiOu. lie conteuded that these bills In
the aggregate were a. important as the
land Dill, IL wouli not take long 20 die
pose oil them and time would bs saved.
Ihe vote GU the motion, how ever,
showed that majority Of tne membrIs
Gissonted rom Mi. MOrFison's opluiJn,
LAND BILL Considered.
Nit. harris resumed the chair In the
committee OF the whole and consider
alton NJ the land bill was TAX II up.
Amendments were Oh by Messfs,
Mansfield, MuTdOck anu BeTnhsistl
which received ouly their ow n Hfilrma-
tive votes,
Nit. Taylor moved that section a. be
stricken out The section provides
that lands sold uudet thr provisions of
the bill shali not be taxed until the
right tp deed shall have hrCIuo abs D.
FRAGRANT
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