The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-03
TAKES LESSON
ON LIVESTOCK
Senator Law >nce Adds to His Store
Information on Shoats.
BRANDING BILL is PASSED
CHICKEN COMMISSION MEASURE
FAILS TO GET THROUGH.

FAILS TO GET 7 II ROOGHs
When Senator Lawrence's graDdchil-
dren gather about his knee some forty
years hence and beg for story. he
VIII be able to tell them that his service
in the Sixth legislature of the great
state Of Utah was not in vain. because
he acquired much useful information.
House bill No. ia. by Hawley, was
responsible for the acquisition of Sen
ator Lawrence's new knowledge The
bill provides dire penalties for the mis-
creant who alters or defaces any brand
or mark on amy horse, mule,
steer, COW hog, shoat, 81
etc.
When the bill came up for final pas
sage yesterday Lawrence, with his
usual nice discrimination arose TO cor
rect what he took to be a typographical
error.
Mr.. President, would like to offer
A small amendment" ne begun. Il no.
tice in the bill the word s-h-o-a-t. 1t is
evidently q misprint. and I move that
il be stricken out and the proper word.
goat. inserted"
Alfalfa Members Aghast.
A silence that could be felt settled
down on the senate, while the alfalfa
members gazed in horror and amaze
ment at the senator from Salt Lake.
CaIHster, Mckay, Larsen, Clegg, wal
ton and the other stock raisers looked
hxedly at Lawrence He. all uncon-
sciouR. repeated his notion The gaze
Of the elfalfas changed from astonish-
rnent to bitter contempt.
He is really in earnest" the looks
said. Great hivinsi He means it!
And this is the twentieth century,
The silence was broken by a raucOus
whisper from Park: GEORGE OH
a rio A. oh Z,
little pigl"
The incident closed here, but If Law
renee imagines he retains any infiu-
ence among the alfalfas his magma
ton is in need of repair.
johnson took a whack at the bill. He
moved to strike out the words hog
shoat or pig"
Its a matter of sentiment with me"
he explained 4 hate pig! Instead
of punishment there ought TO be
premium for every man who steals a
pig and takes IL out of the country
His motion lost and the bill was
passed, HollingswOrth. Johnson and
Lewis voting against it.
Chicken Bill Finds Friends.
Those leading agriculturalists. Law
renee and Bamberger, took opposite
sides on house bill No. 81, by Dean.
creating a state board of poultry COM
missioners. Lawrence moved to strike
out the enacting clause on the ground
that the creation OF the commission
would establish a bad precedent
Walton rushed to the defense of the
bill, explaining he had raised cattle
horses. sheep, chickens. in fact, he had
raised everything since he came to
Utah
Did you ever raise --?'' injected an
irreverent member from across the
room.
Walton scorned a reply.
Farmer Bamberger next rushed To
the defense Of the humble hen AS he
pictured the glories of this gentle fowl
a smile passed around.
''Oh, st may be a laughing matter to
some of these young men who do not
keep house. but when they get to house
keeping they'll wish they had a fresh
egg" said Bamberger. He expressed
a. desire to have less music and French
and more attention given TO stbe
things for which It was established"
Al the Agricultural college. although he.
expressly said he did not wish to he
understood as criticising the institution
Mckay read a report of the AgriclII-
tural college showing that the entire
civilized world had been benefited bv
the poultry experiments conducted at
Logan.
Il think the bill should pass. so that
some Of us who love the hen, as well
as her product, can help the Agricul-
tura1 college improve poultry condi-
lions. ne SAID In conclusion.
The motion to strike out the enact
ing clause failed, and the bill was then
defeated by the following tie vote:
Ayes-Bamberger Barber, Callister
Clegg, Hollingsworth, Larsen, Mckay,
walton, Love.
y Nays-Bennion, Gardner, johnson.
, Lawrence, Lewis, Loose, Park, Ras-
band. Williams.
The house later named Dean, Wilson
and Stringham to confer on the meas
-
he would move a reconsideration.
New Bounty Bill in.
A partial report from the joint COM
mlttee to investigate bounties and
bounty frauds came to the senate in
the form of new bounty bill. The
measure is officially known as senate
bin No. 80, by she joint committee on
bounties.
1t repeaIs all existing laws on wild
animal bounties. and abolishes boun-
ties on all except coyotes and wild
cats. The bounty on these animals is
fixed at one dollar, but the county
commissioners are authorized to pay
an additional bounty, not to exceed one
dollar.
The law follows the lines Of the law
Of 1901 in requiring an applicant to
swear that he killed the animal with
in sixty days. in the county where the
application is MADE. In addition to
the applicants affidavit. a corrobo-
rative affidavit, sworn to by at least
one reputable citizen and taxpayer of
the county, personally known to the
county clerk and setting out that the
applicant is a reputable person, must
be filed. The entire skins of the ami
mails, with ears and tails entire and
connected. must De presented. The clerk
must, in the presence of some other Of
ficer Of the county. cut off the entire
scalp, including the ears, and, after
HIS accounts have been audited
destroy the same.
An annual appropriation OF $4,000 for
the payment Of bounties is provided