The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-07
Code Commissions Report En-
crosses Their Entire
Attention.
THE PROSPECT FOR WORKING
OVERTIME is GOOD.
What the Legislators Have Done So
Far-Bills Passed in Both Houses
Measures in the Hands of Com
mittees-The Type Writer De-
manded.

While the legislators have, after so
much tribulation, disposed of the SEN
atorship, the report of the code COM
mission they have always with them.
1t follows them from the legislative
halls, pursues them to their homes and
haunts them in their dreams. The more
they contemplate the magnitude of the
task, the more appalling does it grow
except to some few members, who be-
lieve that the less the lawmakers have
to do with the laws the better it will
be for the state. The regular and or
binary sessions of the legislature are
usually fully occupied by the consid
GRAFTON of such special and necessary
measures as the interests of the public
seem to demand at the time, but it
will be the duty of the present body to
examine and pass upon a revision of
all of the laws enacted by its prede-
cesSors, from the earliest days of ter
ritorial existence down to the present
day, and but "a days and nights re-
main, for the performance of this duty.
The revision and cOdification were per-
formed by what is known as the code
commission, and the commissions re-
port fills two large volumes, aggregat-
ing nearly 1,2O0 pages. The legislators
have first-rate prospect for working
overtime
The report of the commission has
been introduced in each house in the
form of a BILL and in this form will
be considered and passed. Not only
has the commission revised and cod
flied all of the old laws, but many of
them have been amended, and much
important new legislation has been
added Statutes that have been amend
ed by subsequent legislation have been
changed to conform to the amend
ments, and laws that have been held
to be unconstitutional have been re-
vised in accordance with court de-
cisions. AS far as practicable, all i'm
portant measures introduced and
passed during the pending session will
also be Incorporated in the code.
The judiciary committees of the two
houses have been consolidated into a
joint committee for consideration of
the code report, and this joint commit
tee has divided up the report and dis
tributed the various subjects of legis-
lation among different joint commit
tees of the two houses, each joint COM
mittee being composed of the members
of the committee on that subject in
each house. Each committee, after
passing upon the subject assigned to
it, reports back TO the joint judiciary
committee, which in turn reports to
the two houses. In this manner the
harmony and unity of the whole will
be preserved.
The chapter containing the revenue
act has already been passed upon by
the ways and means committee and
will be reported to the two houses to-
day by the judiciary committee. But
one slight change was made in the
code report. The judiciary committee
also adopted some miscellaneous por-
tons yesterday, which may be re-
ported today. 1t is expected that the
reports will be made and acted upon
by each house from day to day until
the whole work has been completed on
the installment plan.
The members of the judiciary COM
mittee give high praise to the code
for the excellence of the
work, which, they say, has been most
thorough and satisfactory, thus great
ly tightening the labors of the legis-
latOrS.