The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-13
IN CONTINUOUS SESSION.
House "Sauntered" Before Midnight
Until This Morning.

mouse oduuLctcl BEFORE MlunlB 4t
Until This Morning.
AT 1885 O'Clock last night Sergeant
at-Arms Rowberry climbed on desk
and stopped the hands of the house
clock. Then Morris suggested that the
members "saunter" a little while. and
gather again at o'clock this morning.
30 formal adjournment was taken.
Thus the fiction OF continuous session
was preserved.
The house rushed business so fast
last evening that many bills were acted
upon with scant consideration.
Senate bill l97. by the committee on
education. which prevents the furnish
ing OF free text books 10 high school
pupils In cities. was almost passed be-
fore it was discovered what the meas
ure meant IT was placed on its unal
passage without being referred TO a
committee. Just before the result or
The vote was announced Done dlscOV-
cred the purpOrt of the measure. w hen
% was explained that this meant the
stopping of free text books for high
school pupils in Salt Lake. several
changed their votes 20 the negative.
The RON was called over again and the
bin was overwhelmingly defeated.
The following bills were passed at the
evening session:
Senate bin l66. by II. s. Larsen, pro-
viding that county superintendent cf
schools shall be elected I'm November
al the time of the general lection.
Senate bin l59, by Barber by request,
providing for the appointment of spe-
cial guardians 90 dispose of the In
choate interests of insane wives.
Senate bill 1893. by Barnes, permitting
railroads % condemn rOundhOuse sites.
Senate bin III. by Gardner. apprO-
priaung $4,000 for the selection of re-
servOir sites.
Senate bin 12S. by Bennion, prescrib-
ing method for anneXing part of one
county 90 another.
Senate bill l42. by C.. y. Larsen. pro-
yiding for a test OF quality Of petr0-
leum
Senate bin 20. by Gardner. making
railroads liable for damages sustained
by killing stock through negligence IN
maintaining fences.
Senate bin 13S. by Love. by request
relating 90 maps and records Of county
surveyors and recorders.
on recommendation of the Sitting
committee. the house last evening killed
the following:
House bin ILL., by Mrs. Coulter. APP
pr0priating $4,000 Tor a domestic
science building at the university.
house bin ID. by Mrs Coulter, a dupli-
cate Of Senator Bamberger's kinder
gdrten BILL which was passed; house
bin 1853 by Child. by request, compel
ling railroad companies TO furnish cars
tc transport coal; house bin 134. by
Done. providing for a pension fund for
teachers.
After "a slight sQuabbie, the report
of the sitting committee against eleven
claims was adopted, and the claims dis
allowed Those losing by this action
are District Attorneys A. @. Hatch.
A. B. Hayes. r. X Nebeker and
Joshua Greenwood. who nut I'm bills
for office expenses. James Briggs.
James Johnston. W. S. Peacock and
Iron county. The claim OF Lee Baker
of Willard county was also In the list.
He gave "a flask of whisky 20 an In
dian who represented IL was needed
for a sick squaW- For this he was
hned $50. The fine was held illegal
because of the flaw i'm the district att
tOruey act but the claim to have il
refunded was nevertheless disallOwed.
Governor Wells sent word that he
had approved house bin 139. providing
for rotation i'm office of trustees Of the
school for the deaf, dumb and blind.
and house joint resolution .. asking
the secretary of the interior to restore
to the public domain lands needlessly
Withdrawn for forest reserves; house
bin 129. by Morris. defining estrays,
and house joint resolution 9. by Stew
art. favaring election of senators by
popular vote.
The house COnCurred IN the senate
amendments to house bin 145. by Spry.
raising the salaries of supreme court
justices. and house bill 115. by Nc
KilnOn. ordering district attorneys TO
assist iu civil cases involving counties.
The auti-cigarette bill, amended by
the senate, was sent go the conference
committee.
Done and Morris We're appointed 90
act with Chief Clerk Cummings in the
final revision of the journal. For some
unexplained reason Minute Clerk /. J..
ClaWsou, who wrote the minutes. was
not put on the committee.