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

state among the executive and jul
dicial officers, state institutions, etc.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
The same committee recommended
an appropriation of s49,750 for the
State School for the Deaf, Mute and
Blind for the ensuing two years and
$50, 900 for the Agricultural college.
The house then took a recess until
1880.
EVENING SESSION.
Dufin presided at the evening ses-
sion.
The house concurred in the senate
amendments to house bill No "a, by
Greer, creating the office of state en-
gineer, and the bill was passed.
The house concurred in the senate
amendments to house bill No A, Ben
MONS horticultural bill, and it was
passed.
Calls sought unanimous consent to
introduce two bills, one providing for
the erection of a hospital at Park
City and the other relating to salary of
recorders in counties of the eighth
class, but objection was made.
A. p. Sorensen also wanted to in
troduce bill and Parry had reso-
luton, but objections were fired in
from all sides.
The governor returned the house
memorial to congress asking the re-
lection of the anti-scalper's bill, with
the information that congress had adj
journed without passing the bill.
REFUSED TO RECEDE.
The senate notified the house that
it had passed senate bill No. II (the
code) with all the amendments recon-
mended by the conference committee,
except the new section added to the
labor article, relating to injuries to en-
ployees.
Wilson moved that the house do not
recede from it's action in adopting
this new section. Two senate confer
ence committees had recommended the
adoption of this section, and it had
been adopted and the bill again
passed by. the house on the preceding
day.
The point was raised that the bill
was in possession of the senate when
the above action was taken, and the
passage of the bill on the preceding
day was therefore irregular.
Shepard attacked the course of the
senate and warmly denounced the ac-
ton of that body. 1t was trying to
force its desires down the throat of
the house. Hardly a house bill had
been sent to the senate that had not
come back without some trivial
l.
house sho lid stand on its dignity, even
though the code bill should never go
through
O'Brien did not believe the house
could afford to go back on it's action.
The report had gone out oyer the
state that the senate was doing all
the work of the session, and the SEN
ators, by their silence, had helped to
strengthen this erroneous IMPRESSION
Sloan admitted that he had not
been in favor of this new section rec
commended by the conference commit
tee. but now. after two senate confer
ence committees had agreed to it, he
was unwilling that the house. should
yield. 1T is unfair he declared, Ito
ask the As men of the house to bow
down and worship nine men because
they are senator's" Bill after bill had
been sent down by the house and re-
jected by the senate. He was not
willing to do anything that would in
jure the state, but he was not willing
to admit that As members could be
continually wrong and that IS were al
ways right. He desired to move that
the house now send the code back to
the senate, with the new section in
serted. The senate had appointed no
new conference committee, because it
dare not meet another house commit
tee on this subject.
Roylance raised the point that the
conference committee had no author
ity to recommend this new amend
ment, and it should not have been
adopted.
AMENDMENT EXPLAINED.
Shepard explained the nature of the
new amendment. 1t contained no new
proposition. 1t was the law of two
thirds of the states of the Union, and
Shepard made ar impassioned and elo-
quent plea for protection for railroad
employees, and denounced and ridi-
culed the position taken by Roylance.
1t was not a question of policy, but a
question of right.
Romney supported the amendment
and Kenner opposed it, and Sloan
closed the debate with fiery speech.
denouncing the arrogance of the SEN
ate and demanding that the house
stand on its dignity.
Roll was called on SlOan'S motion
inserting the amendment to the labor
article referred to, and it was adopted
by a vote of sc to 3, those voting no
being Greer, Kenner, Lund, Roylance
and Wheeler.
The bill was then passed by a vote
of SO to l, Kenner casting the negative
vote.
Sloan sarcastically moved that the
clerk be instructed to forward the
code to the senate with our profound
compliments and most respectful salu-
tation.'
FOR STREET CARS.
Senate bill No. %, by Whitaker,
for vestibules for street |
motormen, was taken up and !.
Sloan offered an amendment, provid-
ing that the street railway companies
should not be liable to damages to any
person injured through compliance I
with the provisions of the act. These |
vestibules, it was claimed, would in
crease the danger of operation, AMI |
the companies should not be held re-
sponsible for such increased risk.
Mangan, Perkins and O'Brien op-
posed the amendment and Greer op
posed the bill, claiming that the mo-
tormen themselves did not want it,
Romney did not believe the propo-
sition was practicable in this city
Sloan'S amendment was rejected and |
Greer then moved to strike out the
clause but withdrew his mo-
ton that the bill might be killed in a
more respectable manner. Roll was
then called on the passage of the BILL
and it was rejected by a vote of to
10, the following members voting aye:
Dresser, O'Brien, Wilson, Perkins,
Mangan and Sloan.
Kimball of Cache asked unanimous
that he might give notice of
q motion to reconsider the vote by
was passed, but objection was raised.
House bill No. 120, by Dresser, pro-
viding for the publication of legal no
tees and fixing the fees for the same