The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-28
Fifty-first Day in House Commences
This Morning.
URGENCY OF MINUTE RULE
FIRE AND POLICE BILL PASSED
WITHOUT OPPOSITION.
Senate Bill No. 1 and House Bill No.
6S Passed--One House Bill Killed
Proposition to Promote Annual
State Fairs-Bill to Increase State
Officers Salaries.

Approaching the fact that there ar
only nine more working days for thi
session of the legislature, the house o
representatives yesterday adopted res
olutions for the enforcement of tn,
minute rule, requiring the holding o
three meetings daily and for a steer
ing committee to get all bills in shape
for speedy action. This course was
rendered necessary by the rush o.
business and the urgent demand tC
make up for lost time.
The resolutions offered by Represen-
tative Shepard and adopted are as fol
| lows:
Resolved, That after Feb. %, the in
PRODUCER of any bill shall have five
minutes to open debate on the same
and two minutes to close, and that the
| chairman of the committee from which
any bill is reported shall have the same
time for debate as the introducer
other members of the house being linn
| tied to two minutes for discussion of
any bill or other proposition.
Resolved, That, commencing with
Feb. %, the house of representatives
shall hold three sessions daily, at 10
a m, p. m, and p. m, until other
wise ordered by a majority vote.
By another resolution offered by Mr..
Shepard and adopted, the speaker ap-
pointed Representative c. q. Harris and
Fisher to serve with the author of the
resolution as a special committee to
ascertain and report to the house the
status of any and all house bills pend
ing for action in either branch of the
legislature.
FIRE AND POLICE BILL PASSED.
On behalf of the special joint COM
mittee, to which had been referred the
several bills for a law giving cities of
the class to which Salt Lake and Ogden
belong, the right to reorganize the fire
and police departments on the consist
ent basis desired by the taxpayers,
Representative Lloyd reported a sub
stitute known as house bill No. 162, and
recommended its passage under suspen-
sion of the rules. Mr. Lloyd explained
that the principal change from the last
bill favorably reported is the clause
making the law effective on the first
Monday in January, 1900, and the in
sertion of d section relating to remov-
ais and suspensions of the heads of de-
partmentS or subordinateS, the new
section having been drawn with a view
toward meeting the exceptions to the
present law as laid down by the deci-
SionS of the supreme court in the sew
eral cases involving illegal removals.
With this explanation the rules were
suspended and the bill was passed by
an affirmative vote of Sc ayes. The only
negative vote was announced by Rep
resentative IverS.
House bill No. 6S, by Stewart, by
request, which failed to pass last Tues
day, was reconsidered and passcI by a
vote of q ayes to l no, Representative
Johnson voting in the negative. The
bill proposes an amendment to section
1400 of the revised statutes so as to al
low the recovery of an attorneys fee
by the successful party in the fore
closure of a mechanics lien. However,
before the bill passed, Representative
Smith secured the adoption of an
fixing the limit of recover
able attorneys fee at S25.
Senate bill No. 1, by Mrs. Cannon, to
appropriate $500 for the erection of a
hospital building in connection with the
state school for the deaf, dumb and
blind, was passed by unanimous vote.
When the bill was considered last week
the house committee recommended the
sum of 81 ,000 but more authentic infor-
nation as to the institutions needs
prompted the representatives yesterday
to vote for the larger sum.
TAXATION AMENDMENT.
Consideration of senate joint resolu-
to the state constitution re-
lating to taxation and exemptions, |
served to renew the hackneyed argu- |
ments for and against taxation of |
In brief, the resolution |
aimed to amend the constitution so
that the taxes of INDECENT poor per- !
sons may be RENTED, and to exempt |
irrigation reservoirs from taxation.
Representative Bennlon secured the |
adoption of an amendment making |
water pipes laid also exempt from tax
alton.
Mr.. Lapish offered an amendment, !
that the legislature shall |
nave authority to enact laws prescrib-
ng in what cases mortgages and trust
leeds owned by residents of Utah may
De exempt from taxation.
The Lapish amendment was opposed
1y Mr.. Shepard, who, in the course of
lis argument, declared the resolution
vas being SO loaded down with incon-
;istencies that the measure would be
'ure TO meet defeat at the hands of
he voters.
However, the amendment was adopt
d by a vote of 20 TO II.
The resolution was then put on its
passage, but it failed to pass, receiving
,nly q affirmative votes, two less than
he required safe majority. Represent
tive Bennion gave notice of intention
o move for reconsideration.
House bill No. 125. by O'Neil, to ap-
,ropriate $35, 900 for construction and
epair of roads and bridges in the sev-
raj counties outside of Weber. Salt
AXE and Utah, came up for passage.
,ut the bill was referred to the com
nittee on revenues and appropriations.
One amendment after another was
made, until the gross amount was
welled to about $4,000, almost double