The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-25

! elected Tor term OF years and Wnen
the people, who were the parties most
deeply interested, wanted a change,
they got it,
Booth declared in favor of permit
ting the chief to make appointments.
To will otherwise was to curtail his
power. If the senate wanted a bill
pass one which would give him this
right; if it did not then reject and
repeal the present law. The board
terminating the chief does. It cannot
tell whether a man is fitted for the
place as we'll as he can.
! Warner in closing his arguments de-
clared if the board was intended as a
non-partisan body, the amendment Of
fered by him should pass. Why place
all the authority in the hands of one
man? This bill in its present shape is
simply cover; a cloak for a one-man
power in the fire and police depart
ments. The chief Of police or the chief
OF the fire department should be con-
tent with the character and standing of
men who have passed the examination
and have been endorsed by a vote of
three members of the board. He has
the authority to suspend and discharge
and If man fails in doing his duty
he can relieve the situation by getting
rid of him. But the appointing power
should be abridged. By the provision
or this law, if the board fails to con-
1lrm one pet of the chief, he can select
another and keep on infinitum
Jones attacked the bill in this that
II tailed to state what constituted a
cause" One man might take one view
OF the cause and his companion an
/ other. But one thing was certain and
that is the political complexion of the
ponce force and fire departments, if
TINS Dill becomes a law, will be the
same as the political complexion of the
chiefs having the power to select the
members. The power of the autocrats
created under this law should be hedg-
ed around; if they have the power of
removal they should be deprived of
the power of appointment
Warmers amendment was lost.
sutherland offered an amendment
providing that after the section which
debars member of the city council
from being a member of the board
that no member of the city council
snail become a member of the board
either while in the council and for a.
year after his term expires This was
agreed to. Jones gave notice that on
Monday he would offer several amend
ments to the bill on its third reading.
BILLS PRESENTED.
Out Of the regular order by unani-
nous consent Sutherland introduced
senate bill 29. 1t provides that at the
next general election and every four
years thereafter there shall be elected
IN each county county engineer, who
shall hold Office for four years. The
duties of the engineer shall be tc per-
form the duties of county surveyor and
In addition thereto the duties now per-
! formed by road supervisors and sealer
OF weights and measures. He is given
power to administer oaths in the per-
Torrance of his duties. He shall make
a reSurvey of all county roads and es-
tablish uniform system Of construct
| ing county roads. He shall make the
lines of such roads by official survey,
and anyone disregarding the same may
be fined from $40 to S100. He shall
also perform the duties of sealer of
weights and measures, shall establish
standard of measurement for surveys
and perform all other duties heretofore
performed by the county surveyor road
supervisor and Sealer of weights and
measures. The salaries of county en-
gineer in the several counties are fixed
as follows: Salt Lake, 81, 800; Weber,
and Utah, $1,000; Summit, Tooele, San
pete, Cache, Box Elder, Iron, Davis
and Beaver, $1,000; all other counties,
$1,000. The bill abolishes the Offices of
and deputy sealer of weights and
measures.
AGAINST BLACKLISTING.
The committee on labor, acting
jointly with the house committee, in
troduced house bill 40, for IAN act pro-
hibiting blacklisting," which provides
that no company, corporation or indi-
vidual, shall blacklist or publish or
10 no
any employee, mechanic or Iaborer,
discharged or voluntarily leaving the
service of the same, and any officer or
agent being guilty of this offense shall
be deemed guilty of a felony and upon
conviction shall be fined not less than
$500 or imprisonment not less than 60
days. or both.
The rules were suspended and the bill
passed.
MISCELLANEOUS
The governor notified the senate Of
his approval of senate joint memorial
No. l, Allisons silver memorial and
senate joint memorial No. 2, by the
same senator. for the restoration of
the Mckinley tariff.
The house notified the senate of the
passage of senate bill No. IS, for the
mana gement of the state prison, with
suspended and the amendments con-
Cured in.
The following bills were reported as
having passed the house: House bill
No. 6, making the age of consent IS
years and providing for punishment
for felony of any male over the age of
Is years who violates it,
House bill Is, concerning notaries
public.
House bill 48. for the preventing of
the sale of stock under false pedigrees.
House bill %, concerning private cor
porations, which was signed by the
president, having passed both houses.
Senate bill No. 4, for incorporating
the state school for the deaf and dumb,
was read the first and second times
and laid over.
The act authorizing notaries public,
or county clerks, to acknowledge arti-
cles of Incorporation, was signed by
the president, it having passed both
houses.
Senate bill No. 10, for the protection
of female schol teachers against dis
elimination and providing for their re-
ceiving the same pay as male teachers
OF the same grade, also passed.
THE HOUSE.
At the opening of the house session
Monson presented a petition from resi-
dents of Cache county. signed by John
Mack and twenty-six others, asking for
favorable legislation with reference to
the contemplated land bill, under which
the lands of section 10, township IS
north, range east, will be sold. The
petitioners represent that the section
is occupied by settlers having small
tracts. which are in many instances