The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-12
BILL AIMED AT
PORTLAND SHOW
Une introduced in House Cuts
off Appropriation.
FOR NEW EXPERIMENT FARM
SEVEN MEASURES ARE INTRO
DUCED BY MEMBERS.

Seven bills. OF which at least three are
OF immsdiate Importance to the state of
Dtah, were offered at yesterday after
noon session of the house Of represen-
tatiVes, which was called to order by
speaker Hull shortly after o'clock. The
dis generally evinced a spirit on the
Part of their hackers to stand pat with
Governor Cutters expressed wish as to
an economical administration of state
affairs at the sixth session of the legls-
lature.
Yesterdays session consumed i'm the
nelshDorhood of forty minutes Follow
ing opening prayer by Chaplain David
hess Speaker Hull called for the min
utes of the previous meeting. These read,
corrections of the usual nature. from
protests, OF members that they were
Cii-trSad with absence when they distinct
iY remembered having been present 10
We're heard
To test the watchfulness of his Repub-
iican brothers and their ability in recog
nizing errors and reCtifying them. Repre-
sentative John +. Toiton of Beaver. one
OF the three Democrats in the lower
house. proposed that the word capitol"
meaning the city of Salt Lake with rela-
non TO Utah. be changed to read capt
listed.
The mistake" was corrected" no dis
senting voice being heard.
Following the process of English brush
ing. Speaker Hull called for the report
Of the committee on rules. Chairman
kinney stated that the committee had
rot completed its labors, but would be
ready to report at the Wednesday ses-
Presentation of bills was next in the
order of business.
Portland Exposition an Issue.
Representative Harry Joseph of Salt
! AXE introduced q hill proposing in eff
feet that chapter 96 of the session laws
OF 1903 creating a Lewis and Clark ex-
position commission be repealed
Representative Joseph's bill calls 20
mind the reception given Mr. Joseph,
Judge q. W. Powers and the Utah com
mission to the mining congress at Port
land last year. The Rose club. assisted
by the elOquence of LATE Pence. succeed
ed in snatching from Salt Lake City the
permanent seat of the congress.
Mr.. Joseph and Judge Powers at the
session addressed by Mr.. Pence bitterly
rebuked the latter for his defamation of
SanizatiOn working against the awarding
of the permanent scat TO Salt Lake TO
prove Pence's charges and repudiated
what he asserted was a libel on every
woman of this state
The feeling against Portland for the
part the Rose club took in last wears con-
trOversy somewhat cooled later in the
year when Utah's help to make the Lewis
and Clark enterprise success was so
hcited. but Mr.. Joseph's bill indicates
:hat the insult still ranl1les in his mind
The bill proposed by the Salt Laker
was referred by the speaker to the COM
mittee on ways and means.
Bill on Jurors Mileage.
Representative Alfred Luther offered a
bill amending section 80. revised statutes
of Utah. relating TO per diem and mile
age of jurors in justices court. The stat
ute now provides that every juror in a.
justice court or before an inquist who is
sworn TO try the cause or give evidence
shall be paid at the rate Of $50 per day
and allowed mileage at the rate Of 20
cents per mile going only.
Mr.. Luther proposes that every juror
summoned. whether he be sworn to try
the cause or not. be allowed expenses at
the same rate. The bill was referred to
the committee on salaries and fees.
If the bill proposed by Joseph goes
through the act providing for a depart
rnent OF agriculture will be repealed This
was the fourth bill introduced and was
referred 10 the committee on manufac-
lures
Bill five. also introduced by Joseph. pro-
vides that chapter % session laws of
1895. creating a state institute of art. be
repealed. Mr.. Joseph IS of the opinion
that the state is not justified in further
maintaining the institute, owing TO the
expense.
Bills seven and eight relate to the crea-
ton OF agricultural experiment stations.
10 be maintained at state expense and to