The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-11

4 reception at the Kenyon by Hon. A. w.
McCune, was followed by a brief 81
ience- Representative Fisher broke the
spell by asking: Does that include
the roll of dishonor published in this
mornings Herald2n
1t certainly does" responded Mr.
Jackson;. we are all gentlemen. and the
/ invitation says gentlemen
Does it carry The idea, if we accept
the invitation, that we are to attend
the reception" queried Mr.. Smith. IF
| it does, he continued, Il am opposed
to accepting, because we have not time
to Spare-not that | am opposed TO at
! tending MIR. McCune's reception TO US;
Certainly, if We indicate our accept
ance OF the invitation we are expected
to attend the function" was Speaker
4 Roylance's answer.
IF we receive similar invitations
from other gentlemen who have been
senatorial candidates. remarked Rep
resentative Lapish, the house Will
never get through with the business in
] hand"
There need be no apprehension, Mr..
Lapish,p said Mr.. Hansen, I'VE will not
be invited to any receptions by the
other gentlemen"
MIR. Johnson suggested that the house
! hold an evening session at and go to
the reception at 10, two hours after the
time named in the invitation. He
thought the later hour would be the
most fashionable.
Representative Smith was the only
negative vote on the motion to accept
the invitation.
In order to preserve the integrity of
the house journal, the invitation. on
Mr.. Mansfield's suggestion, YVES put on
| the record under date of March 8,
Thursday. the last day of the session.
This viii make the record show that
the reception was attended on Thurs
day evening instead of last evening, the
true date.
A GUBERNAToRIALo OPINION.
| Representative Hansen created a
mild sensation by announcing that the
governor, the attorney general and the
secretary of state were of the opinion
that house bill No. 1872 the measure
relative to the control of police and fire
departments in metropolitan cities, as
amended and repassed in accordance
with the executives suggestions, must
be passed as an entirely new BILL with
a new number. In other words, the
opinion was to the effect that the bill,
even when qualifiedly vetoed, became
a dead measure.
Mr.. Hansen declared that such con-
struction was contrary to established
precedent
Representative Shepard concurred in
Mr.. Hansen's views and went him one
better
A committee consisting of Shepard.
Hansen and Johnson was appointed to
confer with the governor on the point
in contention. Shortly the committee
reported the executive had agreed with
the committee that if the journal show
!
of March 8, in the form amended pur-
suant to the governors suggestions, it
would be all sufficient.
The engroSsed copy of the repasSed
fire and police bill was then signed by
the speaker and the chief clerk and
transmitted to the senate for sigma
lures.
a message from the governor an
nounced his approval of house bill No.
122, by Stewart, requiring railroad COM
panies to maintain protecting gates at
railroad crossings in cities, and en-
powering city councils to cause the re-
moval of unused or abandoned tracks.
TERROR TO DRINKS.
The assault on Robertson's bill, No.
153, was led by Jackson. The bill pro-
poses to make drunkenness in any pub
lie place or private house, or disturb
ance of the peace, a misdemeanor. A
motion to strike out the enacting clause
was lost. Then the opponents of the
bill wanted its consideration deferred
till tomorrow" but the motion was
ruled out, because tomorrow Will not
appear in the journal this session, no
matter how many days yet the legis
lature will run before all the business in
hand is wound up.
In speaking against the BILL Jackson
said he was opposed to legislating |
against personal habits. In his opin-
ion, drunkenness is a. disease and not |
crime. and in his case, he declared he
was afflicted with a recurrence of the |
Inalady the past few days.
johnson wanted the bill amended so !
he could go to his own barn and have |
drunken spree. Not only that but he
moved to insert the words or sober"
so a person would be punishable for |
raising a disturbance when in a condi- |
ton drunk or sober Farr. offered an |
other amendment to qualify the word |
drunk by the term dead, but all these
suggestions were ruled out.
Shepard took Jackson to task for |
ridiculing the bill
Robertson, the author of the meas
ure, declared the proposed law would |
have a salutary effect in the rural |
towns.
The bill passed by a vote of % to s.
|. Stewards house bill No. 159, to enti- |
cess from courts outside their respect |
i've counties, was passed by an almost |
unanimous vote.
The next bill passed was house bill |
No. 100, by Stewart, to provide that an |
information or indictment for grand |
larceny may contain a count for house
breaking.
House bill No. 165, bv Robinson, met |
with no opposition in its passage. 1t /
aims to prohibit the use of duplicate or |
similar corporation names calculated to !
be misleading.
TWO OUT OF FOUR PASS.
Shoots four senate bills, 81, 81, IS !
and Ga, were called up for considera- |
ton. The first, granting new powers of |
inspection, seizure and condemnation !
by the state dairy and food commits
sioners of impure and adulterated food |
products, was passed with only one dis !
senting vote out of thirty.
Bill No. G., relating to the sale of |
dairy products, was killed, the enacting (
clause being stricken out by vote of |
16 to y. Jackson pleaded for the law
that would encourage patronage of the
COW rather than the condensed milk
can and the pump, but it awaited moth
ing.
No. was also toyed with and slaugh-
tered 1t proposed to prohibit the feed |
ing of unwhoiesome food to dairy and |
other cattle. Smith a graduate of the |
-peddling profession, secured the
adoption of an amendment striking out
the words barley malt" but the vote
on the passage of the bill resulted in
II ayes to 16 noes, six short of the re-
ouired majority.
The last of Shoots bills, No. 81, to
prevent the sale of milk from diseased
cows, was passed by the same vote re-
corded for No. 81.
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