The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-15


of the house yesterday afternoon, and
much of the session was consumed by
the reading of the proposed laws. Eight
bills were introduced, including two
warmed-over measures, presented as
legacy from the late unlamented legis-
lature The bills are of various degrees
of Importance, and one OF them VIII
be viewed with interest, if not alarm,
by certain state officials, whose salaries
it proposes to reduce about % per cent.
Another abolishes the roll tax, and
another proposes q system of silver
bullion storage.
Speaker Perkins announced the COM
mittee assignments, and the machinery
of the house is now in full working or
der The appointments apparently gave
entire satisfaction and the speaker is
complimented upon his wise selections
for the important chairmanships. The
Populist and the Republican minOrities
admit that they have been given very
generous representation.
The house. during the course of the
afternoon, abandoned the position as
sumed by it the previous day. that the
first reading of all bills must be at
length, and its action in thus reversing
itself is rightly regarded By the
speaker as a VindicatiOn of the chair.
After the journal had been read
the two Sorensons, the two Cooks and
the two Kimballs protested against
the manner in which they had been
mixed, and requested that more salts
factory methods be adopted for their
Identification. The speaker directed
that they should hereafter be desig
mated by counties.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
The following bills were introduced,
read and filed:
H. B. No. 6, by Dresser, providing for
the appointment OF state inspector of
mines, other than coal mines.
II. Is. No. I, by Taylor. regulating
the fees of the secretary of state.
H. s. No. s, by Kenner, providing for
the storage and use of silver bullion by
the state.
H B. No. 9, by Stewart. fixing the
maximum of salaries to be paid county
officers.
H B. No. 10, by Duffin, reducing the
salaries of certain state officers.
II. B. No. Ii, by Kenner, abolishing
the poll tax.
H. B. No. II, by Robertson, classify
ing freights and fixing the maximum
of transportation rates.
H. 5. No. -. by Robertson, provid-
ing for a state insurance department.
The presentation of Kenner's poll tax
bill was greeted with considerable
REVERSED ITSELF.
While the reading of the bills was in
progress, the house, upon motion of
Thoreson, suspended the rules and or
dered the remainder of the bills read
by title, a proceeding that it had, upon
the preceding day, decided to be I'M
constitutional.
ThOreson, in attempting to reconcile
the two positions explained that while
the constitution required that all bills
should be read three times. il did not
specify how they should be read or
designate what reading should be at
length.
The speaker contemplated this action
with extreme satisfaction, as it justi-
fed his ruling of the previous day,
which had been reversed by the house.
COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
The speaker then announced the
assignments, as follows:
Ways and means-Wilson. Greer,
Thomson.
Municipal corporations - O. Brien.
Calls. Dresser, Kimball of
Garfield.
Private porations-Romney, Lem
mon, W. C. Sorenson, Sloan, Taylor.
Asylum for insane-Creer. Hanson,
Maxfeld, Parry, La Barthe.
udiciary-Shepard, O'Brien, Thore-
son, Roylance, Kenner, Murdoch, Will
son.
Claims and public accounts-Stewart,