, 1905-01-30
MEASURE MEETING WITH STIFF
OPPOSITION IN COMMITTEE
OF THE WHOLE AND
LOSES FEATURES.
Intended to Provide School Week Of
Five Days and School Month Of
Five School Weeks, but That
ture'Eliminated-Annual Meet
ings to Be Held on Second Monday
in June-Proceedings in Detail.



Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 30.-The house
and senate were in session this morn.
ing, following the recess from Friday
afternoon. The senate was presided
session not longer than half an hour.
The house did more business thar that.
Speaker Cooper was confined to his
room with an attack of la grippe II
Speaker Pro Ten Atherly was o at
the hall, so that the house chose Mr..
Black to preside. House bill No. 81
was under discussion when the noon
in the house was taken, the body
meing in committee of the whole, and
noon 1t is the school bill, and was
pretty well mutiliated during the fore.
noon session. One provision cut out
vas that the school week should con-
sist of five days and the school month
four school weeks. Another provision
that met the approval of the committee
of the whole was that the annuol school
meetings shall be held on the second
Monday in ! = instead of on the first
Monday in May, as at present. This
me the opposition of Mr.. King Of Al,
bany county, who contended that the
latter date would be very i%nconveni.
ent for the farmers and ranchmen, who
are busiest about that time, but he
was outclassed and the provision will
be recommended by the committee
and likely be retained in the bill.
The following bills were read the
second time in the house: House bills
Nos. 16, 40, "a, 36, 4S and senate file
No. 4. Mr.. Hayden moved that the
rules be suspended and the bills placed
on third reading and final passage, but
the motion was killed.
Mr.. Hoge asked that House bill No.
Sc be referred back to the committee,
and such reference was made. This
is the water right transfer bill, and the
discovery was mace that while the
owner of a water right could sell it to
be applied to another piece of land, he
could not himself transfer it from one
piece owned by him to another, and the
committee will seek to remedy this
fatal defect.
House bill No. II was passed, al
though meeting with the opposition on
final vote of Messrs, Baldwin, Bell,
Hinckley, fitzpatrick, Morton, Sleeper
Uhler and Wood. 1t relates to the fees
to be paid for abstracts of title.
The following bills were introduced:
BY Mr.. Snively-House bill No. 81
providing for the creation of loan ant
realty corporations.
BY Mr.. Collett-House bill No. 80
to secure the purity of school elections
1t provides hat before a citizen be al
lowed to vote at a school election he
must show a tax receipt.
BY Mr.. " att-House bill No. SO, re
lating to the terms Of mayor and coun
Gilman in Cheyenne and cities of tina
class.
BY. Mr.. Carley-House bill No. "a
defining assault and fixing the penalty
By Mr.. Carley-House bill No. S5
designating the officers empowered t.
administer oaths.
BY Mr.. Carley-House bill No. Sc
designating before whom deeds ma!
be acknowledged.
BY. Mr.. Wilson-House bill No. 81
prohibiting the throwing Of sawdust
tanbark dynamite or other matter int
streams calculated to injure the fisl
threin.
The house took recess until 2 O'Clock