The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-03
Important Measure Almost Slaugh
tered In the House.
MRS. HORNE'S HOBBY, ART
LOCAL OPTION LIQUOR Law PRO
POSED BY MIR. BENNIoN.
Two More Bills introduced TO Amend
the Mining Location Lava
Wholesale Pension Suggestion
Attorneys Must Be Perfect-A
Large Volume of Business.


and from Weber county were arrayeC
against the Salt Lake delegation. The
house took IN for consideration house
| bill No. As. by Hansen, to create &
state bureau of statistics and informa-
ton and appropriating $4,000 for the bu-
reau s expenses the ensuing two years
Representative Jackson championeo
the bill and pointed out the necessity
OF having accurate data gathered, com
piled ana published relating to Utah's
rlcn and varied sources, the product
iveness, the industries and the socia1
conditions of the state. Just such in
formation as is needed is daily sought
Tor by scores of people in the east. who
! are looking this way for investments
and for homes. and he believed the
expense is one such that the state can
well afford.
The representatives appeal fell on
deaf ears, apparently, for opposition
to the bill was at once an
nounced from several parts of the
house. Representative Johnson of We
Der led the charge against the measure
admitting that the purpose OF the bill
was in every way worthy, but claiming
that the state is too Impoverished 10
| appropriate the sum of $4,000 for the
bureaus work the ensuing two years.
When Mrs. Horne offered an amend
ment TO provide that data should be
gathered on the subject OF Fart" along
with agriculture, mining and CONNER
cial topics, the representatives from
Ogden regarded the lady members sUg-
! gestlon as rather Inappropriate For
that matter other members thought in
the same direction, and probably for
the success of the bill Mrs Horne S
amendment had better have been I'M
uttered, although in Difference to her
wishes, the art idea was accepted
and put into the bill.
Then Representative Cook of Rich
county moved to cut from $500 to 81, 200
the yearly salary of the bureaus chief,
| who is TO be appointed by the governor
and confirmed by the senate. The sal
ary-cutung proposition was, after a
brief debate, adopted by a vote of %
to Il, the members from Weber and the
remote counties voting, generally,
against the Salt Lake representatives
and their allies.
After Representative BIcQuarre had
made a speech against the bill on the
score of the states financial inability
10 stand the expense of the bureau
maintenance, although conceding the
beneficial results that would accrue to
all parts of Utah from the project, Mr..
Cook, flushed with his first triumph,
IlpfeU 10 SlTlhC out the endcllnS clause.
Representative Hansen, the author of
the bill, made a plea against any such
precipitate action, and portrayed the
many benefits that would accrue to all
the people of the entire state by the
enactment Of the measure. Mr.. Han
sen called attention to the very urgent
need of creating the bureau, as eX-
pressed in the governors message, and
also mentioned the fact that Utah's
had been the means Of disseminating
information about our resources and at
fractions. 1t was as bread cast upon
the water, and no complaint was ever
made about its cost nor of the good
effects of the bureaus work
On the suggestion of Mr. McQuarrie,
who intimated that he might feel more
favorable toward the measure if given
time to look deeper into its merits and
needs, further consideration of the bill
was postponed till Tuesday at p m,
when it will be the special order.
NINE MEASURES INTRODUCED.
House joint memorial Nc 4, by Muir
dock, pra ying congress TO pass the VOL
colt bill providing tor the creation OF
another judicial circuit of the United
states, to be known as the Tenth cir
cult, with jurisdiction over Utah, Colo
and providing for alternate sessions Of
the court in Salt Lake City. Referred
to the committee on memorials 20 con-
greSs.
The same memorial, the text of which
appears in another column, was intro
duced in the senate by Senator Kiesel.
House joint resolution No. 6, by Stew
art, by request, advising the senators
and the representative in congress from
Utah to favor a liberal service pension
bill, so that every Union soldier vet
eran of the civil war who is not now
pensioner, and is over the age of 81
years, regardless of any disability ac-
cruing from said service or since, may
receive a pension. Committee on meCn-
orials 10 congress.
House bill No. So, by Shepard, to
amend section / ,49S of the revised stat
utes, so that the locator of a mining
claim shall be required to perform,
within four months from date OF loca-
ton, at least $25 worth of work upon
the claim or claims located. Committee
on mines and mining.
House bill No. GO, by Bennion. provid-
ing Tor submitting the question of Ii
cense for the sale of intoxicating liquors
to the legal voters of counties, upon
petition therefor, and providing for rev.
ocation of licenses in certain cases.
Committee on judiciary.
The bill provides that if i petition
signed by at least one-third OF { legal
voters of any county, as shown ~ the
preceding general election, shall be
presented to the board of county com
missioners of any county, at least sixty
days before the general election in any
year, praying that the question of
licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors
be submitted to a vote in such county,
it shall be the duty of such board OF
county commissioners to order such
question to be submitted to a vote of
the qualified electors, the result of any
election to remain in force until
changed at some subsequent election.
AT all elections held under the provis-
ions of this bill the official ballot shall
contain the words for the sale and
against the sale" If a majority Of
the votes cast at such election be
against the SALE" it shall be unlawful
for the board of county commissioners
or any municipality or town organi-
cation in such county to grant license
for the sale OF intoxicating liquors
therein.
House bill No. 81. by Stewart, to re-
psal subdivision of section 23l of the
revised statutes. which requires city
auditors to publish in an annual re-
port a detailed list of warrants issued.
committee.
House bill No. So. by Stewart, by re-
quest, to amend sections S,675 and 1876
of the revised statutes. and to provide
a different method of commencing civil
actions in a Justices court The amend
ment conteTnplates that summons
may be issued within three months
from the filing of the complaint. Ju-
dietary committee.
House bill No. Sc, by Redd, to amend
the law relating to location of mining
claims, the recording of location notices
and the performance of location work
The bill makes only some slight