The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-06
POWDER BILL
GOES THROUGH
Senate Passes House Measure
Allowing 24-hour Storage.
MIDNIGHT CLOSING LAW
JOHNSON INTRODUCES MEAS
URE AMENDING SALOON ACT.

What amounts to almost the last
step toward making the Barrett pow
der storage bin law, was taken by
the state senate yesterday when it
passed the measure unanimously. The
bill goes back to the house with the
few amendments made in it by the
state senate committee, and as those
are of purely a technical character, it
is expected the house viii concur. Thus
the agitation which stirred the public
after the disastrous Daly-West ex-
plOsiOn of last summer has borne fruit
in a stringent enactment which pro-
hibits the underground storage of any
more powder than is needed for day
work.
As the measure passed the senate, it
was a big victory for Senator A B.
| Lewis OF Beaver county, who, a week
ago today, stood alone in the upper
house contending for the twenty-four-
/ hour limit. The senate had changed
| the bill to allow forty eight hours
worth of powder to be stored, but
Lewis blocked action and made its
passage impossible. Yesterday the SEN
| timent had so changed that the meas
ure went through without debate and
| without a dissenting vote.
Two other measures were passed by
! the senate yesterday as follows. both
unanimously:
Harmony For City Hail.
Senate bill No. 81, by Lawrence
Authorizing city councils to concur
with recommendations made in may
ors' veto messages and to lay such
messages over for week
Senate bill No. 5S-Enforeing a thir-
ty-day limit against sidewalk personal
| injury claims and a years limit against
| other personal injury claims brought
against a city.
'This bill is intended to enable the
mayor and the city council to agree,
said Senator Lawrence in explaining
No. 81.
Anything which would have that eff
feet in Salt Lake ought to be supported
by every good citizen" said Senator
Love facetiously, and brought hearty
laugh from the solons.
| The senate referred to its public in
situations committee an invitation from
President Kingsbury to visit the stat'
university
Senate bill No. 10, which passed the
house Wednesday with slight amend
ments, was brought up and the amend
ments concurred in. This is the first
time this has happened during this
session of the legislature. The bill
amends the bounty law so as to avoid
duplication of rewards on mountain
lion, bear and other big game.
See an "Agriculturist-"
When the mines and minerals COM
mittee met after the senate session It's
members were somewhat surprised tC
see Senator Barnes, author of the anti
smelter-fume bill, usher in Isadol
Morris, a well known man about town
as the expected "agricuIturist'' whC
was to tell of the direful effects upoI
: vegetation of the sulphurous smeltel
fumes.
You two senators know how t.
| remedy this" said Morris, addressing
Bamberger and Loose, but you won
tell, because it hits your poeketbooks
OF course it costs the lives Of horses
and critters and pigs and human be
ings, but that don't weigh agains
your pOcketbooks. Several hundred
tons of sulphur are pulled out of tn
Utah shelters every day and becom
part of the atmosphere, poisoning ev
erything. 1t used to be we could Sc
Fort Douglas from town on a clea
J day, but now we can't, the sulphu
) fog is so thick"
| Morris was dismissed and the com
! mittee promptly reported against tn
Barnes bill
: Senator Bambergers bill for regu
t lating the practice of osteopathy wa
/ reported upon favorably by the com
mittee on public health
S. b. Il, by Love, revising the pun
food law, was reported in its origins
form by the committe on manufacture
and commerce, save that its requirs
: ments as to the branding of package
: were stricken out. The amended meas
: ure cOntemplates that enforcement {
the law shall rest simply upon the ne
lysis made by the food commissions
and not upon the labelling or the ingre
dents.
: Senator Lawrence had his resolutio
: passed forbidding the introduction {
Q new bills after two weeks from mel
e Monday without the consent of a tive
thirds majority.
Close Saloons at IL p. m.
Three new bills were introduced
the senate yesterday. as follows:
S. B. 81, by Johnson-Amending SCI
: ton 1850 of the revised statutes so as
make it a miSdemeanOr for any saloC
to keep open or sell liquor between NIL
night and a. m, under penalty of
: fine of $500 or less or six months in
2 prisonment. or both fine and imprisol
. ment.
] S. B. 50. by MISUNDERSTANDING II
: statute creating the Office of bail con
: missioner, enabling the mayor to a.
point bail commissioners without Il
> consent of the city council, and autho
I izing the commissioners to receive fin
/ when the judge Of the city court is n
I in session.
> S. B. SO. by Lawrence-Autncrizin
o change of venue from a city court Vi
( der similar conditions such as may
+ obtained from a district court, and al
\ authorizing litigants to submit cases I
agreement to a city court judge p
: tempore, who must be a lawyer admi
ted to the bar, said judge pro tempo
10 be entitled to fee of $40 a day, sa
when otherwise stipulated, the same
be assessed as costs against the losil
litigant.
II The senate adjourned over to Mo
y day, so as to permit the legislators
IS attend the Reed Smoot reception
e Provo today.