The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
The Fire and Police Commission
Will Stay.
ANDERSON'S BILL REJECTED
SEVERAL IMPORTANT MEAS
URES INTRODUCED.
Tooele County Has a Claim For Re
moving the Lepers-Invited to
Hear Eugene Debs Lecture-Mis-
cellaneous Business.

Yesterdays session of the lower
house was brief and no business of i'm
portance was considered.
Mr. Shepard, from the judiciary COM
mittee. recommended that Taylors
resolution relating to the election of
United States senator be rejected The
report was adopted.
The same committee recommended
the passage OF Shepards bill relating
to conditional sales.
The same committee recommended
that Mrs. Anderson's BILL repeating
the fire and police commission law, be
rejected. The report was adopted and
the bill rejected.
The judiciary committee also report
ed Shepard's resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution leaving
the matter of appellate jurisdiction OF
the courts to be fixed by law, and rec
commended its passage.
The judiciary committee also report
ed a substitute for Mrs. La Barthes
theatre hat bill It provides that any
person attending a theatre, opera
house, or an indoor place OF amuse-
ment as a spectator,shall remove head
wear tending to obstTuct the view of
any other person. Every person vio-
lating the provisions of the act shall
be liable to a fine of not less than 81
hui AlOIG lGdH Hlu. MIS- Lid Dbl Tic
bill imposed upon the manager of the
theatre the penalty for violations of
the act
Mr.. Thoreson introduced House Bill
No. 4, to repeal Section Il, chapter SO,
of the session laws of the first legisla-
ture OF the state of Utah, abolishing
the maintenance of fish screens in
irrigation canals.
Mr. Hanson introduced House Bill
No fl, to provide for the payment of
moneys arising from forfeitures of
bail bonds, recognizances, or deposits
of money, before trial for the appear
ance of defendants into the county
treasury where such actions are pend
ing at the time of forfeiture.
Mr.. Hardy introduced, by request,
House Bill No. AZ, to provide that
banks shall give security for deposits.
1t requires that all banks or similar
institutions which receive money on
deposit shall be required to give good
and sufficient bond for the safe keep
ing and return of such deposits. The
bonds shall be in double the amount
of deposits on hand at one time, and
be approved by the state board of
bank examiners. The names of the
bondsmen are required to be pub
lished semi-annually. The officers of
a bank cannot be accepted as bonds
men for another bank, or for the bank
receiving deposits in excess of one
half of such bonds shall be guilty of a.
misdemeanor, and subject to a fine of
not less than $1,000 and Imprisonment
for not less than one year
House Bill No A. by Mr. Hopkins.
is for an act for the relief of Morgan
county in building roads and bridges.
1t appropriates 81, 600 to aid in build
ing roads between the coal fields of
Summit county and the consumers of
coal in Box Elder, Weber and Davis
counties, said hauling reaching an
average of so to 60 teams daily during
the fall of the year; also to assist in
building roads and bridges between
the winter herd ground of Utah and
the summer ranges of Rich and Sum
nit counties, and the ranges of west
ern Wyoming. 1t is represented that
the people of Morgan county derive no
benefit from the traffic over these
routes of travel
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. ;.
providing for the printing of 500 copies
of the opinions of the encouragement.
was passed and the house adjourned
until Monday.