Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-09
HOUSE KILLS
CROMAR' BILL.
r,,, for a State Inspection Of
Rollers Goes to Predeter'
mined Fate.
MEASURE AMENDED TO DEATH.
,., ac,ed as States Attorney
VI Merrill Makes Speech Of the Day
New Billa

n.,.,. than appear wantonly cruel
S.smbers Of the house spent some
Wv w. ,ko two hours yesterday AFTER
u @ discussing and amending H. b.
y" On Nv Cromsr before voting to con"
w. 4 10 the silent tomb, The bill had
,s re object the inspection of steam
s.r.,s and the appointment Of a state
,..noe,or at salary OF S,oVO
ysar II also had self
'o,,ortIng clause by which own
s,sot boilers would be required to pay
,to snm OF IS for each inspection, which
,norsv would be covered into the state
,,s,sury. This feature Of tho measure
y. c,omar pushed hard, but few OF his
,,,l.aues could see the point, mas
,.ncb as the bill carried with II an APP
TTEe author opened the debate. He
III no rad introduced the bill at the
.oiIrltatlon OF people In all parts OF the
s,ate who felt that such measure
wfs needed for the protection or both
,6s ana property. lie said there were
bstwsen 900 and 1000 boilers In the
sqn which, II the bill passed. would
he rIecled about once a year, thus
rendering them reasonably safe. The
records Of the state OF Colorado he
sail showed that IN two years such a
law instead Of being an expense TO
the state, had netted the sum OF $239'
EXAMINED by JOSEPH.
olhe attorney for the state" Mr., Jo-
srh then took the witness for cross
examination. He wanted TO know
whether Park City, Eureka, Bingham
ard other Ike towns could not appoint
ttelr own boiler inspectors under the
provisions Of the law passed the day
before The witness said he supposed
they could n they chose, but that his
Bill, expressly exempted cities which
had boiler inspectors OF their own Mr..
Joseph then went on 10 state that II was
physical impOssbiity FOR one lnspec-
Tor to examine all the boilers in the
state IN one year, while II was ridicu.
lous 10 suppose that Salt Lake city
would appoint such an Inspector II the
state had a man expressly for this
work
Toton pleaded FOR economy, He
feared the measure would not
be self-supporting and there
fore he was opposed to its
passage al this time Gundry said he
was opposed 70 the measure on princi-
pie as 1t did not give the desired pro.
lection to life and property. The In
urance companies, he said, would not
recognize Il,
MERRILL AGAINST IT.
The speech Of the day was made by
Merrill, who figured II out that Il would
axe the Inspector M least three years
% inspect all the boilers in the state.
he thought the bill was Unnecessary
ana uncalled for There seemed 20 be n
craze for inspectors and Il would not
surprise him IT IN the near future there
was a cry for a stomach Inspector"
whose duty u would be to keep people
ron ovcrclting as seemed 10 be the
case with the legislators only a few
days ago. Mr.. Merrill pleaded for
economy Already he said, the appro-
pfauons called for win amount 10
nearly two and a half millions, while
me revenues Of the state will not ex.
coed 100000.
AZ this point Roberts moved an
amendment, making the inspectors sal
sry EL5l) rather than $1,000. He did
mis- he said, 70 give the bin a better
ehance, as he believed $1,000 was too
much merrill moved an amendment
10 strike out the mileage clause, but
ms was lost AMI the motion by Rob
erts carried.
TRIED TO KILL IT.
So amended, Tolton moved to strike
out the enactng clause but this also
was lost, the vote being as follows:
.Ayes--Allen' Carroll Christensen,
y,oltam Curtin, Gundry, Johnson,
Lllher Lyman, Merrill Miller. Pace,
PETERSON, Richards. Slmons. Spencer,
stewart sulnsham, Thompson, Tolton
Noes-Anderson, A. "; Cromar. Dai-
wy Dean, Edward, Flshburn, Hawley,
none. Hopes Jones, Joseph, Kinney,
h1chler Vaughan, Marks, McCrea Pam
SssSe' Roberts Stookey Wilson, Hull.
huchler IN support of the bill grew
eoquehty dramatic. Il hope and
pray said he, that we viii never hear
yl any such disasters In the state OF
vAn as this bill seeks to prevent. |
avn VI layor OF the measure because
many or my constituents want IT,"
thompson opposed the bill, principally
because u failed to designate the quail
n os, OF The Inspector, save In gem
ua way. Hone favored the bill, He
sala ne had fye boilers IN operation,
,Whlch he would willingly
ipy % each per year for lnspec-
uon, Pancake recalled the explosion
Nv Nv I Vi Clly year ago, at which time
~ IVes We're lost because the miners
were IN shift He favored the measure
oecause owners - boilers were not able
70 pay competent men to handle them.
wilson cited the explosion of n saw
mll boiler at which time one or two
persons were killed. He favored the
measure at risk OF being charged with
paying to the labor sentiment. Edward
was Also IN favor OF the bill.
AMENDED TO DEATH.
,,Ine discussion had gone on for como
",ne When Joseph offered a number OF
eosn,eNaments among them that no boil
operator should be under 2i wears OF
wv. una mat he should nav the sum
,snt lor examination. which, MIR. To-
.SSnmo "suIed, would give tho state about
MIN per year Christensen said that
s mm ne amendments he was more
Ioni9 The measure than ever. as n
s ySuu work a hardship on the farmers
bopo,uo VI "hom entrusted the care of
tap. 10 THEIR wives. A motion 10
cbsr , we amendments was lost, ana the
bopt 'seS went through with good sup-
vbs, ''I . few questions by Merrill ON
Cro, r constituted hydrostatio pressure
read az made the closing speech. lie
spsc,a t1m me report OF the boiler in
largo ~ Colorado TO show that a very
- peIeentage Of danRerona hnilnrn