The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-20

from state land funds below Z per
cent; withdrawn; subject included in
senate bill No. Sc, which passed both
houses.
No. 149, by Fisher. to exempt county
, auditors from the requirement of max,
ing detailed lists of warrants issued as
a part of annual financial reports;
killed in the senate, and senate bill No.
81 on the same topic killed in the
house.
No. $50, by Parry, to reimburse citi-
zens of Cedar City to the amount of
$1,000 for money advanced to complete
the Southern Branch Normal school
building; incorporated in the general
appropriation bill.
No. ISL, by N. J. Harris, to make
more stringent the law relating to the
disposal Of dead animals and offal, and
prohibiting the feeding of such to
swine; rejected.
| No. 1853, by Robertson, to make
drunkenness or disturbance of the
/ peace in any public or private place
punishable as a misdemeanor; killed in
the senate.
| No. 154, by Bennion, to appropriate
$4,000 to the Salt Palace project; re-
! jected, and later included in the gem
I eral appropriation bill
! No. 155, by Bywater, to allow per
diem and mileage to persons sum-
moned to serve on jury in Justices
/ court and subsequently excused from
serving; rejected.
No. 156, by Cummings, declaring that
labor of any kind 'on public property
shall be deemed public work. passed
both houses, but engrossed bill never
signed and transmitted to the COVER
nor.
No 1913, by Fisher, the same in pur-
port. as house bill No. 81, relating to
limit of bank loans; also rejected.
! No. ISL, by Lloyd, to amend section
| 225 of the city charter act so that an
| appointive city official shall not be en-
| titled to salary until after his appoint
ment shall have been duly confirmed by
the city council; killed in the senate.
| No. 1853, by Callister, to increase the
salaries of state and judicial officers;
substitute for this and No. 172 failed
to pass.
No. 1914, by committee on manufac-
lures and commerce, to appropriate
$4,000 for the state fairs in 1899 and
| 1900 included in general appropriation
bill.
No. 1855, by Stewart, to extend from
ten to thirty days the time in which a
defendant personally served with a
summons outside the state may an
swer; substituted by senate bill No. IA,
which died in the conference commit
| tees hands
No. 16S, by Parry, to modify the law
relating to the befouling of streams of
water by sheep and cattle; rejected,
reconsidered and allowed to slumber.
No. 1863, by Jackson, to provide for
the decent interment at county expense
of any honorably . discharged Union
veteran soldier, sailor or marine, dying
in poverty and without relatives or
friends; rejected, the federal statutes
covering the subject.
No. III, by Jackson, to appropriate
$2S02.50 to the Utah Federation of La
Dor in reimbursement for expenses in
CURED in defending the constitutional
ity of the eight-hour law; rejected.
No. 172, by Jackson, to increase the
salaries of state and judicial officers;
substitute for this and No. 1853 failed
in passage.
No. III, by Bennion, relating to the
recording of marks and brands on
livestock; killed in the senate.
No. 49, by Murdoch. to appropriate
$4,000 for half the cost of revising
county assessors maps and plats; in
Guided in the general appropriation
bill
No. 179, by Johnson, to authorize dis
trict judges to contract for the en-
ployment of district court stenograph-
ers; substituted by senate bill No. 81,
Which passed both houses.
No. ISL, by Jackson, same in purport
as No. rs, relating to mortgages on
the real estate of mining corporations;
| also rejected.
No. 1S2, by Fisher, to appropriate
81, 500 for the maintenance of the state
mineral exhibit in the Hall of Relics
the ensuing two years; rejected.
No. 1873, by Stewart, relatfng to the
performance of labor In payment of
polltaX; rejected.
MEMORIALS REJECTED.
House joint memorial No. 1, by Jack
son, praying the United States senate to
not pass the anti-railroad ticket brokers
law; withdrawn by the introducer
Memorial No. G, by Robinson, praying
congress to cede to Utah that part of
Arizona territory lying west and north
of the impossible Colorado river smoth-
cred in the senate.
Memorial No. Z, by Ivers, praying con-
gress for legislation that will enable the
inhabitants of the mountain states to Sc
cure title by longtime purchase con-
tracts or favorable leases to the mountain
grazing lands; failed in passage.
RESOLUTIONS DEFEATED.
The following. resolutions proposing
amendments to the state constitution and
for other purposes were lost:
House joint resolution No. l, by Soren-
son, to amend section of article Is of
the constitution so as to permit the abate-
ment OF taxes of INDECENT poor persons;
rejected in the senate because senate
joint resolution No. ! covered the sub
ject, the latter resolution being defeated
in the house. but later senate joint reso-
luton passed both houses.
Resolution No. a. by Sorenson, to amend
section 2 of article of the constitution
to change the date of converting the legis-
lature TO the third Monday in January in
the odd-numbered years; failed in pass
age.
Resolution No. g. by Stewart, request
ing Utah's representatives in congress to
favor the passage of a liberal service
pension law; defeated on passage.
Resolution No. Z, by Shepard, to amend
section 8 of article 10 of the constitution,
to permit the enactment of a law granting
appeals from any decree or judgment rem
dered in the district courts; defeated ON
passage.
Resolution No s, by Mansfield, to amend
section 8 of article II of the constitution
to permit the enactment of special laws
relating to changing of county boundary
lines killed in the senate.
Resolution No. 8, by Forman, request
ing Utah'S representatives in congress to
favor the passage of the bill proposing
eight hours for days work on all gov
eminent works; rejected.
Resolution No. 10, by Lapish to amend
section 3 OF article 10 of the constitution
by empowering the legislature to provide
by law for the exemption from taxation
of mortgages and trust deeds owned by
resident citizens of Utah; rejected.
Resolution No. II, by Lloyd, condemn
the public press of the exerting of ecclesi-
astical influence upon the citizens of Utah
and their consequent breaking of faith
with the nation in connection with the
nomination and election of Brigham II.
Roberts as congressman from this state;
rejected recommendation of the house
sitting committee.
Other resolutions introduced and re-
jected were:
House concurrent resolution, by Robert
son, proposing a constitutional amend
On hat ant M 70 rnia cd
house joint resolution No. 1 covering the
subject.