The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-29
SENATE MEASURE
TO ABATE THE DOG

Dog has his day in the senate yes
terday. The only bin introduced. one
by Mr.. Barnes. BODIES i'll for tramp"
dogs, dogs with an inclination to kill
sheep and all dogs in fact that are not
provided with a license. If the measure
becomes a law every canine in the state
Of Utah that is not tagged and regis
tered in the Office of the county clerk
Of his respective county. viii be de-
clared u nuisance and may be killed
The bill, No. 30, provides that every
dog six months old or over must be
licensed. For male animals the license
is to cost 81 and for females. s.. BY
the first Monday in each year, the IL
censes must be taken out AID it will
be the duty of the county assessor to
ascertain the number of dogs in his
county and report them to the county
clerk by June 1. It is made lawful for
any person TO kill unlicensed animals
off the premises of the owner.
Protection for sheep owners who may
suffer damages from dogs is provided,
the fees from licenses going to a fund
from which the claims viii be paid. If
the fund is not sufficient to pay all
the damages il viii be divided among
the claimants and they may recover
for remainder of their loss from the
W AANAo % LAlG unity QOES- LUAS tagged
or not may be killed if caught killing
or chasing sheep, fowls or other domes-
tic animals and the bill also provides a
fine of so to S25 for officers of the law
failing to enforce the law III this re-
spect and provides that owners of dogs
duly registered, may recover full dam
ages for their pets if killed.
It was referred TO the judiciary COM
mittee.
Burial of Soldiers
Most Of the session was taken up by
a consideration of senate bill No. g by
Allison, providing for the burial of hon
Orably discharged soldiers, sailors and
marines who may die too poor to pay
for their interment and also TO exempt
the wars, veterans from paying war
taxes After several amendments were
offered and accepted, the bill was
turned over to the committee on mil
itary affairs again and viii be acted
upon today The amendments allow $40
instead of $50, as originally provided
for the purchase of coffin and cloth
ing in which to bury the dead vet
Grams and $50 instead of $50 for a head
stone.
Another amendment was proposed by
striking out a portion of the bill which
provides that the soldier and sailor
dead are not to be buried in those por-
! tions OF cemeteries set apart for pau
pers- This was defeated.
Senator Allison proposed an amend
ment so as to compel the father, bro
Their or son of the deceased to reimburse
the county in which the death occurs
for the amount of the burial expenses.
( If any such relatives are in a position
to pay
Objection was raised to this by Sen
ator Howell and it WiL be considered
today.
Three new anti-vaccinatiOn petitions
cropped up yesterday. Two Of them
were presented by Senator Smoot and
one by Senator Howell. Shoots OFFER
ings were the result Of a mass meeting
/ held at Provo Bench, at which a petit
( ton demonstrating against compulsory
/ vaccination was signed by john Hold
/ way and 210 others, ana another from
I residents of SantaqUin. The other was
| q set of resolutions adopted at a mass
meeting in Logan.
Mr.. SmOC offered concurrent resOlu-
/ ton No. memorializing congress to
/ pass the bill providing for the purchase
| of the Moore house and Temple farm at
! yorktown. Va. where the surrender 10
I Washington was made.
The senate formally endorsed the
/ metric system of weights and measures
( by adopting under d suspension If the
/ rules, a memorial to congress asking
/ that legislation making this system
/ the standard of the United States be
! PASSED. The memorial was prrsentei
/ by Mr.. kieSeI and passed on his mo-
4 ton