The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-21
MEETS TODAY ON
ST. LOUIS FAIR
House Committee Will Hear Testi-
mony on Commissions Finances.
BILL ON ARID LANDS PUT IN
MILLER WANTS LAND BOARD TO
DO RECLAMATION WORK.


Sitting as a court of inquiry. tn, re-
centlyappointed house Investigating
committee VIII hold its first hearing for
the purpose of taking testimony on the
expenditures of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition commission at 10 o'clock
| this morning The committee. consist
/ ing OF Kinney, Stookey Miller Joseph.
! kuchler, Peterson and Gundry, came
/ to this decision with regards to the
first sitting at an executive session
held yesterday after the house had adj
! jOurned.
| The committee will hold the meeting
/ in Judge Morse's court room, 353 joint
! Guiding. over a score of witnesses, il
was stated by member of the COM
| mittee last evening, are expected to an
| sWer the Subpoenas which Sergeant-at-
Arms Herman Snow has been busy
/ distributing for the past week
| whether or not testimony Will be ac-
| tualiy taken this morning and who viii
| give such testimony, the same commit
tee member said. cannot positively be
| stated. 1t is likely that some schedule
will be adopted today regarding the
/ order in which witnesses win be heard.
! Members of the house investigating
! committee reaffirmed at yesterdays
| executive meeting their opinion that
all hearings should be open to the
press, and this has been decided on.
|
Without going into detail. Joseph
| yesterday withdrew house bill No. $50,
raising the appropriation for the Lewis
and Clark centennial exposition from
| $lO,OOO to $4,000, and creating a board
OF directors to look out for the states
! interests p
Yesterdays session in the lower
house was notably listless. Only two
bllls were Introduced and there was not
a debate on any question that came up
! for consideration
Petitions Are Presented.
Petitions were received in the house
yesterday and acted on as follows:
! From residents of Sanpete county,
asking for anti-gambling legislation
and commencing vinous products meas
| IRE, signed by Thomas Brady and 9TH
/ ers Referred to the committee on
manufactures and commerce
FROM residents OF Juab county ask
| ing Tor the enactment of initiative and
referendum bill. signed by A L. Por-
ter ana others Referred to the COM
mittee on Judiciary.
From Indian war veterans of Utah,
| asking for medallions and compensation
| Tor thirty days actual service against
| indians between years of 1852 and 1870
| referred to the committee on military
affairs.
Three Bills Passed.
lows:
Senate bill No. 40 (by HoIlingsworth).
liking the fiscal year of the state and
| providing when reports shall be COM
| piled and filed. Ayes. 20; nays II
House bin No. So (by Tolton), pro-
WONG that no stenographer's fees
shall be allowed in probate matters I'M
less the same be contested.
Senate bill No. SO Cby senate commit
| tee on military affairs ceding to the
! federal government exclusive jurisdic-
ton over the Fort Douglas and Fort
Duchesne reservations --s'.t
! Rouse Joint memorial No. CIV Aus
! TIM. asking congress that the state be
/ granted Strawberry valley. Uintah
| reservation, for park purposes. came
| up for third reading and was passed.
senate bill No. 40 (by Clegg), provid-
ing Tor a state board Of sheep commits
sloners, came up for third reading. On
| motion OF Painter, it was referred TO the
| house committee on live stock
House bill No. s. (by Roberts).
amending the statute relating to fees
OF county clerks. came up for third
reading On motion of McCrea, it was
referred To the committee on judiciary.
The bill has been favora bly, recon-
mended by the committee on salaries
and fees Roberts consented to yester-
days reference.
Committees Make Reports.
Committee reports were received and
adopted in the house yesterday, as fol-
lows:
Industrial school: Reporting de-
| cision by Attorney General Breeder
that parents of inmates of Industrial
school should pay for keeping Re
ferred to the committee on ways and
means.
Industrial School: Recommending
that one Of the three trustees of the
state ri "a
a county other than Weber.
Industrial School: Recommending
That biennial appropriations called for
be granted.
judiciary: H B. No. 1874. by Marks.
Cby request). providing for adverse
possession Of rights-of- way. Recon-
mended for passage.
Wants information on Deficits.
Joseph made his time-honored nIea
yesterday for a report from the public
funds committee on state deficits. as
provided for in his resolution made the
ninth day Of the session. Chairman
Marks stated that the committee was
at work on the Carbon county affair."
Marks stated that certain necessary
papers and data We're to be placed in
possession Of the committee TODAY and
that active work would then begin.
Conference committees on house
bills rejected by the senate were an
B. No. 3. by Joseph-Joseph, Merrill
and McCrea.
On H. B. No. It, by Curtin-Curtfn.
Gundry and Marks.
Joseph's bill abolishes the Utah
state art institute.
House bin No. is relates to the use
OF explosives in INTERROGATION mines
New Bills Presented.
Following is a list of new bills.
H. b. No. Ill. by Hawley-An act in /
relation to the making of false repre- |
sensations in writing by person of |
his assets or financial responsibiIffv /
for the purpose of obtaining credit |
thereon. Judiciary.
H. 3. No. 172, by Mil1er-An act to /
abolish the arid land reclamation fund 4
commission, and to further define the
duties of the state board of land com |
missioners, and to repeal chapter n /
laws of Utah. 1903. The bill provides I
that the duties at present delegated TO /
the arid land reclamation fund com /
mission shall be assumed by the state
board of land commissioners. without /