The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-29

al the opening of the session OF the
senate yesterday, the chair announces
+be continued illness of Senator Barnes
but said he was improving somewhat
and would soon be at his post AGAIN
Senator Evans was absent from yes
terday's session.
Rut one bill was introduced yester-
day, it being presented by Senator
Warner. having for an object the pro
Section of railway employees IN the
discharge of their duties The bill was
introduced by request and is the pro-
duct Of several railroad mems efforts.
The house amendments TO senate Din
IA were concurred in ard the bill mas
been sent to the governor for ms sig
nature There were some important
changes made in the matter OF the diS-
DOsition Of the fees collected by the
clerk and the changing OF the reauihS
which provided that % per cent. Oh the
same should go to the credit Oh the law
library fund. this latter DelnS slIlcheh
out.
Snow and Chidester made a fight on
the bill creating a state board OF
health. the latter going so far IN MS
work against the measure as to move
To strike out the enacting clause. inns
was defeated Booth made sclen-
tific address in favor Of the plh' Whlch
charmed all the members, with the eX-
ception of Candland. who implied that
if Booth did not cease. and that soon,
he would vote against the bill me
dissertation on bacciIli, animalculae,
germs. virus and other topics stopped
at once.
Senate bill u. for the prevention of
diseases in sheep, passed second read
ing and was referred to the committee
on judiciary for an opinion as to the
merits of the measure from legal
standpoint
The bill authorizing the governor to
appoint nOtarieS public was passed and
sent to the house for concurrence in
necessary amendments.
The routine proceedings of the senate
will be found in the report appended:
The house had somewhat of a deluge
Of new bills yesterday when the order
of first reading was reached. There
were eleven in all and among them
some that are destined to occupy much
of the time of the house and which
viii be among the most important con-
sidered during the session. The most
important of these, perhaps, is one by
Bolitho creating a new form of govern
ment, or management of the affairs
Of the various counties of the state.
The bill is very voluminous. cover
ing eighty-nine pages Of typewriter
manuscript and is apparently very
complete in its provisions.
a summary of its salient features is
given in the detailed account of the
house proceedings
Another important bill is the insur-
ance measure introduced the previous
day in the senate and another is Bo-
1itho's bill to prohibit pooling of cor
porations, companies or individuals TO
control prices on commodities of any
kind
Governor Wells was given his first
set back by the legislature in an action
taken by the house during the day. His
veto of H. B. No. 5, in relation to the
collection Of fees by state and county
officers, which was referred to the ju-
dietary committee was returned by the
committee TO the house with the recon-
mendation that the bill be passed over
the veto. The repOI was rather an eX-
1austive affair and contained some
very elaborate reasons for snubbing
his excellency. among which it
was set down that the executive was
not reasonable in his position and fur
Their was usurping something Of the
prerogatives of the legislature in say
ing what did or did not cover the OBJ
ject ground Of a measure. There was
q spirited debate on the question which.
when put to vote, resulted in the pas
sage Of the bill over the veto
The house also passed the judiciary
committees substitute for H. s. No. IA
prescribing the manner of transferring
cases in district courts