The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
WILL KILL BILLS
ALL THIS WEEK
Each House Has Measures Of
Other to Slaughter.
LAWRENCE HEADS A LIST
BATTERED NINETEEN MEAS
URES-MRs. COULTER FIVE.


The process of killing legislation viii
set in in earnest in the state legisla-
ture this week. Each house has been
more or less busy considering and in
Producing measures submitted by it's
of last weeks session each house
passed a batch of its own bills and
sent them to the other house for APP
prevail. Other large patches are on
the calendar for early action this week,
so that before the week is over each
branch will have under consideration
over a score of bills passed by the
other branch.
It is no exaggeration to say that a
bill passed by one house labors under
a disadvantage when il gets into the
other branch of the legislature. There
is a prejudice against it as having
been born and raised amid crude sur
roundings- Sometimes that prejudice
is satisfied with tinkering with a bill,
making minor technical corrections, at
firing 1t in clothes of a different pat
tern, or patching it up till it meets
the notion of the particular house as
to what a bill should look like. More
often, however, it is killed, and most
of the slaughter is done in committee
1t is this slaughter which viii be in
progress this week when the big grist
of once-passed bills is bounced upon
in the seolusion of committee rooms.
Much to Answer For.
Over half the bills which have
reached the house from the senate are
measures introduced by Senator George
N. Lawrence. In fact. Senator Law
renee, who is chairman of the senate
judiciary committee, is the father OF
more bills than is any other member OF
the faeriS1a heax RI
a score more bills introduced in the
senate than there have been in the
house, and as there are less than half
the members in the upper house than
there are in the lower branch. the pro-
portion of measures introduced by each
senator is far greater than is the case
with the representatives. Every sen
ator has Introduced one or more bills
mostly more-while fewer than half the
members of the house have assumed
the parentage of proposed laws.
Senator Lawrence has presented as
many as nineteen bills, which is exact
~ nineteen times as many as have beer
put in by Senator Bennion, who last
session held the same position Law
renee fills this year, the Craftsmanship
of the judiciary committee. Senator
Whitmore is a close second behind
Lawrence. having introduced fourteen
AiCdSuIGS, 04GNCn u WHICH, ICidNcQ u
the one subject of the proposed aboli-
ton of the office of district attorney.
Deal With Diverse Subjects.
Senator Bamberger is third on the
list, having put in eight measures, al
though on widely different subjects
The other senators trail along witt
from two to four each.
DR.. A. S. Condor heads the house lis
for productivity, having fathered seve'
hills. Mrs. Mary c.. Coulter has moth
cred five infant acts, while Charles
K-:nk has the parentage of four to &C
count for. None of the other repre-
sentatives has presented the world witt
more than three.
Street carmen viii make an assault
upon the senate today in behalf Of th'
nine-hour measure-that is, they vii
appear unless they are so thoroughly
sa isfied with their present lot unda
the reforms Instituted by the traction
company that they have no wish II
agitate for legislation. The senat
/ committee on private corporations viii
give them a hearing at 10 a. m.