The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-10

Wilson Neither he nor his constitu-
ents will pay any part of it."
kenner advocated the reimburse
ment as question of plain, every
day honesty"
Wilson's amendment was rejected.
Shepard did not want to antagonize
the bill, but he did not believe it
ought to pass. He did not believe the
commissioners would have any right
TO pay this money, even though the
bill pass, and they should not pay this
claim until lawful obligations were
paid.
The bill was then passed by a vote
of 40 to 2, Shepard and Wilson voting
Wilson changed his vote and gave
notice that he would today move tc re-
consider
Sloan moved that the reconsideration
take place at once, and the house suS-
pended the rules for this purpose.
Wilson cited previous ruling OF the
chair, mot As hours ago." that the
motion to reconsider could only be
made by the person giving such no
tice
The chair ruled that all rules had
been suspended.
The motion to reconsider was then
lost.
BALLOTING MACHINES.
House bill 12S, by Thoreson. author
izing the use of balloting machines,
was taken up, and Roylance, express
ing the belief that the people did not
want it, moved to strike out the en-
acting clause.
Thoreson defended the bill. 1t sim
ply authorized a county or city to
make a trial of these machines and
ascertain whether they were better or
cheaper than the present method. 1t
did not ask for a dollar, but simply
for authority to try the machines. His
speech was cut short by Sloan's motion
for the previous question, and the mo-
ton to strike out was then defeated.
FOOD COMMISSIONERS.
At this point Murdoch announced
that he was called home by illness and
asked immediate consideration of H.
B. IA, creating the office of state food
and dairy commissioner.
The rules were suspended and the
bill passed. 1t contains the same pro-
visions as the code title adopted last
week. and subsequently stricken out.
Consideration of the voting machine
bill was then resumed and Shepard
offered a substitute for the bill,
authorizing the use of any machine or
mechanical contrivance for voting, the
Application OIL the County COiIillISSIOii-
erS for permission to use machine to
be passed on by the state board of
examiners.
Kenner declared this substitute bill
was defective and moved that it be
rejected.
Shepard pointed out that the original
bill authorized the use of a machine OF
but one particular brand, and Thore-
son had informed the house that the
oh Of m 6ptPQr the QnDr-
nous election frauds that had been
perpetrated in Utah. 1t read a good
deal like one of Kenner's ingenious
bills. He did not know that the people
were demanding voting machines, and
if they were, they were not demanding
any particular machine. The substi-
tute was in the interest of no par
ticular machine, but permitted the use
of any machine.
Thoreson claimed that a specific law
was required for each machine and
cited the statutes of other states.
Shepard, he thought, might be re-
turning to his first love. for he pro-
posed to give three Republican Of
ficials power to select a machine that
would not record Democratic votes.
Dresser was opposed to any monopoly
bill Kenner defended the original bill
and Sloan supported the substitute.
A general discussion followed, in
the course of which Parry expressed
the belief that the Democratic party
ought to be satisfied with the machines
used last year.
The Shepard substitute was rejected,
and the bill was then defeated by
vote of Is to 25.
Sloan changed his vote and gave
notice of a motion to reconsider.
FISH AND GAME BILL.
Senate bill GA, the fish and game bill,
was the next special order measure.
Gibson offered an amendment, per-
hitting the use of SeineS in the Green,
Grand and Colorado rivers, which was
adopted Thoreson's amendment, max
ing the maintenance of fish screens in
irrigation bitches a county charge,
was also adopted.
Taylor wanted the protection re-
moved from hawks, but Cook of Box
Elder protested that the hawks pro-
tected the farmers, and no change was
made.
The house then relapsed into frolic
some and frisky mood and every propo-
sition seemed to strike the members
as being tremendously funny. Most of
them were literally Laughed out of
court
When Wilson offered an amendment,
prohibiting the expectation from the
state of amy fish, bird or animal men
toned in this act" the house thought
it was time to lay all jokes aside.
Roylance bounced upon the amend
ment with considerable vigor and de-
clared it was an infringement on the
rights of the people. The state could
protect the fish and game when it
was alive, but when it was dead 1t
belonged to the people. Expectation
of fish and game meant better prices
for poultry.
Wilson intimated that Utah county
was seeking to control the fish and
game legislation and remarked that
Roylance was a dealer in fish and
game himself. Prohibition of eXporta-
ton meant cheaper fish and game.
OBrien made a plea for cheap fish !
for his ogden constituents, and Ben
Mon declared himself for free trade
between the states. Kenner thought
and should be placed within the reach
of the poor.
The amendment was adopted by a
vote of 20 to 10 and the bill was then
passed by a vote of SO to 3, Roylance
giving notice of a motion to recon-
slider.
FORT DUGLAS IMPROVEMENT.
Senate joint memorial No. 7, asking
to appropriate 100000 for the
of Fort Douglas, was
passed.
The senate notified the house that it
had refused to concur in the new sec
ton added to the labor article of the
code by the conference committee and
asking for a further conference.
CLAIMS
The state board of examiners, re-