The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
TEMPERANCE BILLS KILLED
IDAHO SENATE STANDS BY THE
SALOONS.
Sunday Closing Measure and Prohib-
ition Amendment Resolution. Were
Slaughtered.
(snecial to The Herald.l

Boise, Ida, Feb. 24-The senate gull
lotine was operated with great vigor to-
day. its blade being particularly active
III topping on the heads of anti-saloon
measure was killed by vote of 15 to 5.
tins detailed vote being as follows:
Cor the 6ill-Budge. Brigham. Eason.
F1gg, Muiliner, McMurrin, Price, Stacy
Against the Bil--Bailey, Church, Carey,
Gooding, Hays, Hegstead. Lippincott
( Mcdonald, Smith, Wright. Watts-12.
The resolution proposing a prohibition
amendment to the constitution also met
death. the vote being IL against for.
Those voting for the bill were Bulge.
Brigham, MulIiner. Price, McMurrin ana
Easton.
The Bulge fee bill. a copy of the Law
declared unconstitutional by the supreme
court in an opinion that upset the laws
OF the state. was indefinitely postponed.
after u brief debate. and the county OIL
GERS salary bill, which makes provisions
TO take the place OF the fee system. was
advanced by almost an unanimous vote
TO tllrd reading.
The state examiner bill was indefinitely
postponed by a vote of y 10 Z.
II committee of the whole the following
measures we're recommended for passage:
Amending the law regulating the rights of
aliens; giving the right of appeal 10 the
district court from orders OF the school
hoard or city council; amending a section
concerning the distribution of the waters
lowed by decree of the court. and provid-
ing for the payment of watermasters.
and TO provide for the district court to
supplement such decree by ad1udlcating
rights not incl ded in the original decree /;
proposed constitutional amendment max
ing each county of the state a separate
judicial district and abolishing the office
of probate judge; house bill prescribing
the time and manner of payment of state
moneys by county treasurers; house bill
authorizing social and benevolent corpora
Il III 49, hnrr Nrsfn
from the district court; house bill allow
ing both husband and wife to be consid-
cred a head of a family in order TO be en-
titled to vote at school elections; house
bill making the county treasurer liable
on his official bond for losses by payment
of interest after the date any call should
have been made.
IN THE HOUSE.
The house, byS vote of IS to 81. killed
the Atlanta road bill. which carried an
appropriation of $4,000.
The bill to appropriate $1,000 to pur-
chase the Ketchum-Challis toll road was
defeated by tie vote. p to q. Notice of
reconsideration was given. This will he
ruled out of order, however, under rule
a. which prohibits reconsideration on the
following day during the last six days of
the session.
Enemies of the bill. fearing that it's
friends might remember the rule and at
tempt Immediate consideration, forced an
adjournment when the programme was to
hold night session.
In accordance with his notice of the pre-
vious day. Valentine moved reconsider
alton of the vote by which the house
passed the senate bill for a state reporter
and for Publishing of the supreme court
reports which prevailed. and by vote of
il to %. the bill was indefinitely post
poned.
House bills were passed as follows: Civ
ing the state board authority to work
convic.s in the construction of an irri-
cation canal for the prison; repeating sec
ton 1919 of the revised statutes; provid-
ing for the election of a city assessor by
cities of the second class; authorizing a
form of deeds; requiring railroads to pay
damages for stock Killed. regardless of
carlessness of the owner.
The bill appropriatinG 5000 to repair
the state wagon road in Custer county
and the senate bill to restrict the killing
of game on private lands were killed.