The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-27


Chicago & Northwestern railroad, was
read, thanking the members for having
thanked the company for favors in the
interest Of the propagation of fish.
SPEAKER SIGNED.
The speaker signed H. B. No. Isl, to
prevent the sale of liquor to Indians
No. lis, establishing farmers insti-
tutes; and No. III, to prevent the adul-
teration of candy.
BILLS RECEIVED.
The house received from the senate
S. B. No. 11S. to abolish the office OF
coroner, and S. B. No. ia, to provide
for bail commissioners.
Mr.. Beard presented H. B. No. 10,
to abolish the office of state sealer of
weights and measures.
DR.. Condor presented H. ]. r. No. 8.
1t is H. j. r. No. 3. providing for the
holding of a semi-centennial in celebra-
ton of Pioneer Day in 1897, and which
was killed in the senate The resolu-
ton has been changed just sufficiently
to admit of it's consideration again.
DEFERRED AGAIN.
The counties bill came up as the
special order, Mr.. Critchlow submitting
the mimeographing c,f the resolution
the bill went over till o'clock
The resolution reads:
Resolved, That it be the sense of this
house that H. B. No. rs be amended so
as to provide as follows, to-wit:
That each county shall, in the first in
stance. pay all mileage of all jurors and
all mileage of witnesses in criminal cases
and ali fees for per diem attendance of
witnesses
diem of all jurors; but of these the coun-
ty may recover from the state, upon a
sworn itemiZed statement made by the
county trea surer and county auditor to
the state auditor of all sums paid out for
attendance and mileage of witnesses and
jurors in criminal cases, and in civil
cases the litigants demanding a jury shall
keep on deposit each day the sum of SIG
TO cover jurors per diem.
That each county shall bear the entire
expense of summoning all jurors and all
witnesses in criminal cases in the dis
trict court. and all expense of prelimi-
nary hearings and of all witnesses sum-
moned before the grand juries.
That the county shall pay all expenses
connected with the apprehension and de-
tention of criminals UP to the time they
are brought to the state prison.
That the state shall pay to the county
one-half of the salaries of the county at
torney, of the treasurer or collector and
of the assessor.
That the state shall pay all stenograph-
ers' fees in criminal cases.
That each county shall receive and APP
propriate to its own use all fees collect
ed by clerks OF the district court and all
other county officers.
THIRD READING.
H. B. No. 167. providing for the re-
moval of the Reform school, came up
at the head of the bills on third read
ing, but certain portions being consid-
cred imperfect, the bill was allowed
to lay over.
CANAIGRE ROOT BOUNTY.
Cazier's bill giving a bounty for the
cultivation Of canaigre root and the
manufacture of leather. was next in
the regular order. Without incident
further than Mr.. Smoot rising to in
quire of the chairman of the Repub-
lican caucus if the bill had been made
a subject Of caucus, and being an
swered in the affirmative, the roll call
on final passage was ordered, Mr..
Lewis laughingly inviting the Demo-
Gratis to make the vote unanimous.
The bill passed by a party vote, as
follows:
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Considerat ton of the counties bill was
resumed at the beginning of the after
noon session, Mr.. Critchlow's resolution
having in the meantime been laid on
the members desks. The question was
upon the adoption of the resolution and
Mr.. Mansfield entered an objection to
its terms, causing Mr.. Critchlow to in
quire' how the gentleman proposed to
adjust matters any better if it was the
intention to show the larger counties
any consideration.
Mr.. Robinson at this juncture sub
mitted three proposed amendments,
two of which were subsidiary to the
first and asked to have them read
The reading disclosed the fact that the
amendment proposed to turn into the
state treasury the fees of county clerks
and sheriffs when collected for district
court business. The proposition to this
amendment operated like shaking the
red rag in the bulls face and brought
Mr.. Critchlow to his feet in a minute
Mr. Critchlow proclaimed war upon
the Alfalfa club" and arraigned the
country gentlemen comprising it in the
most scathing terms, closing with a
warning &c them to proceed with their
determination to saddle upon Salt Lake
county the burdens proposed, at the
peril of the bill. He said:
MR.. CRITCHLOW'S HOT TALK.
THE amendments of the gentleman
from Kane (Mr. ROBINSON as we are
to understand fully set forth in all
their beauty the salient points of the
financial scheme of that caucus or CO.
terie of individuals commonly known
as the country caucus or the Alfalfa
club.
I'VE have been given to understand
unofiicially but publicly that a minor
fty of the members of this side of the
house have allied forces with the solid
Democracy on the other side of the
house. They have abandoned their
party associates from Salt Lake and
Weber counties; they have appointed
the gentleman from Wayne, Mr. Mans
field, their vice regent to carry into eff
feet the DEGREES of the caucus and we
are now to sit here and enact them into
law. We have not been invited to at
tend. We have had no opportunity to
be heard. Under the lead of the De-
mocracy we, the Republicans, are to
abandon all just principles of legisla-
ton and to adopt this iniquitous, I'M
just and unconscionable system. But
want to say that in my judgment
many of those who have gone off into
this unholy, unnatural alliance will,
when they see the results of these
amendments, repent. My friend from
Summit county. when he has heard
from his constituents. will wonder what
madness has seized him that he should
favor the scheme. l think that even
now my friend from Tooele county has
reported and has begun to wonder why
his county should abandon all the rev.