, 1901-01-24
WARREN ELECTED


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ferred to committee on county officers
and ordered printed.
II. B. No. 10. by Mr.. Bugas, a bill for
an act providing a penalty for unlaw-
fully moving Goa or cars of coal at any
coal mine. etc. Read first time, refer
red to committee on coal mines and Or
dered printed.
II. B. No. ~, by Mr.. Wyman, a bill for
IN act relating to a board of arbitra-
ton in dispute in regard to wages or
other disagreements between employ
es. Read first time. referred to the
committee on arbitration and ordered
printed.
The reports of various standing COM
mittees we're then presented and read
by the chief clerk.
In these reports H. B. No. 81 report
ed favorably, and by a vote of the
house was referred to committee on
judiciary.
MI. NllSoU iShtu II Nv Jul WILL
draw bill No. 90 and made quite a
speech. in which he read from the La
Dor Motto and concluded by asking
unanimous consent that the bill be re-
ported back to the house.
A discussion arose and was partici.
pater in by Wilson, Butler. Breckons
and others, and eventually a motion
was made and carried that bill No 90
be called from the committee on labor
and referred to some other committee.
The house then resolved 'tselc into
c. mmittee of the whole for the FUR.
pJse of considering bills or the gener
al file. NJ. Condit in the chair.
II. B. No. IS, introduced by Mr.. Gray
was considered, the action being adj
verse.
H. B. No. II was also considered and
acted upon. This is a bill %appropriat.
ing $25 900 for the Pan-American expo.
sition and providing for a commission,
In regard to this bill Mr.. Atherly yoke
at some length and said that if the
Wyoming Legislature does not see fit
to authorize the expenditure of some
amount at this exposition, which g to
be held at Buffalo, N. Y, then there
were other measures which are to come
before the present session, especially
the provision for the creation o. tho
Office Of state geologist, which will I'M
d%oubtedly share the same fate as the
under consideration. A discussion fol,
lowed.
On motion of Mr.. Fishback, it was
decided that the bill should be re-re.
ferred to a special committee, with
| Speaker Atherly as chairman
The house went into committee of
the whole for the consideration of bills
on the general file, with Mr.. Reid of
Albany county In the chair.
H. B. No. IS, Fl. B. No. 81, H. B. No.
%, H. B. No. 81, (passed on the eener.
al file), H. B. No. 33, H. B. No. "A H. B,
No. 43, and various other bills were
fully considered by the committee,
| which at 4 o'clock rose and reported.
The report Of the committee was
adopted.
During the consideration of the bill
in reference to void marriages a gen.
eral discussion ensued.
The bill provides hat in certain cas-
es marriages shall be void without any
decree of a court. One of these cases
is where one or the other of the con.
tracing parties has a husband Or wife
living, and another provision of the bill
aplies to all cases where one of the
| parties is a colored man or woman OF
| Japanese or Chinese nationality, and
it is also applied to Indians. One OF
the contentious yesterday afternoon
was against the proposition to include
Indians In the list Of prohibited marri'
ages. The bill was reported on favor
ably after some amendments, and the
word Indian" had been stricken from
the bill