The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-16
WILL NOT STARE
AT THE INSANE
Senators Decide Not to GO in a Body
to Provo.
FARMERS BILL GETS AXE
STEP is TAKEN FOR NEW MA
TIoNAL GUARD ARMoRY.

Following a statement by Senator
Lawrence to the effect that he believed
a visit to the state mental hospital by
the legislature in body would do more
harm than good the senate yesterday,
| by unanimous vote, referred an invi-
tation from superintendent NJ H
Hardy to the committee on public in
/ stitutions
Dr. Hardy's communication suggest
ed that the senate join the house in
TRIP 10 the institution at Provo tomor-
row. hmm diately after the reading of
the communication Senator Lawrence
secured the floor and spoke briefly. He
had telt during the past two sessions,
he said, that visiting the state mental
hospital in body was not a good
thing.
Il do not believe the legislators Sc
cure as much information through
Wit IN a body as may be had through
VISIT OF one or two good committees, -
SAID he. And / believe that visits I'm
! a body do no good to the institution.
| but are especially detrimental to this
particular institution. The visit of 81
/ body of men and the necessary prepa-
rations for the reception of the visit
ors eNcites the patients and the parad-
! ing of their inirmties cannot fail TO
Z nave bad effect. I think, irrespective
of any action the house may take, it
| Is time for the senate to establish a
precedent in this matter by sending
committee to Provo instead OF going
! in a body
Senator Lawrence said he had learned
from officers of the institution that Wis
! its Of parties always had bad effect
on'the inmates and he therefore moved
TO ref the invitation to the committee
on .ublic institutions
I The motion was at once seconded by
Senator Bennion. and Senator Mckay
arose to endorse all that Lawrence had
said
The motion prevailed unanimously
Senator JOhnsOns amendment prOVid-
ing that suitable reply to the COM
mUnication be forwarded was accepted
by Senator Lawrence and included in
the motion.
AS the house has already decided to
go in body il is likely an effort will
be made to secure reconsideration by
the senate, but the prevailing opinion
| appears to be that the senate VIII de-
Cline to go in a body
House Bills Are Passed.
The senate made valiant effort TO
I put in a days work The table was
clear at 2:30. After a moments study
Lawrence, who appeared to have an
ingrowing case of industry yesterday,
moved a suspension of the rules to re-
vert to the reading of bills. The mo-
ton prevailed and a couple of house
bills were taken up and passed They
were house bill No. So by Kinney
amending section 1872. revised statutes.
| relating to proceedings supplementary
to execution. and house bill No. 40 by
McCrea. amending section 1854. revised
statutes, relating to revocation of wills
Both passed by unanimous vote Bam-
berger. Gardner. HollingswOrth. Larsen
and Lewis being absent when the vote
| on No IS was taken. Senator Larsen
appeared i'm time 10 vote for NO. 40.
Senator Williams, chairman of the
| committee on appropriations and
Nr.Ur. . se.resr -
visit the Branch Normal school at Ce-
dar City by saying the committee had
agreed that Senators Callister. Larsen,
Rasband and Williams be selected to
make the trip and asked that the mem
/ bers named be excused from attend
ance Friday so they might make the
journey The request was granted
Farmers Bill Is Killed.
House bill No % by simon. exempt
/ ing from license peddlers who sell the
products of their own ground was
Killed by the adoption of an adverse
| report of the judiciary committee. Sen
/ ator Lawrence. chairman of the COM
mittee. explained that the measure waa
| class legislation and therefore clearly
unconstitutional. The report was
adopted unanimously
House bill No. 40 by the committee
on judiciary. amending section 4334, re-
{ vised statutes. relating to burglary in
! lls uESl ana SttOiiQ QeSiteS- came III
with a favorable report, but final ac
ton was deferred because printed
copies of the bill had not reached the
! senate.
Senate bill No. ~ by Hollingsworth,
the new Portland fair bill carrying an
, | appropria ton of $50. coo. came up for
third reading, but was made a special
/ order for O'Clock Monday on motion
of Senator Williams. Senator Williams
explained that the bill carried a large
Il ] fl
time to ena bic the members of the ap-
preparations committee to look into it,
| Senator Bennion said he believed the
| senate should know more about the
| actual condition of the present Port
land commission. and sugg5 sted the ap-
pointmeut of a special committee to in
vestigate.
Lawrence explained that Senators
Hollingswoi IN and Hamburger, both of
! whom were absent could supply all
desired Information and believed that
putting the bill over until Monday
( would enable the senate to get all the
| Information il needed.
| Rasband said he was prepared to
J vote on thu bill Immediately. but Viii
liaInS motion prevailed and the bill
; will be put on final passage Monday.
; Senator Hollingsworth was unable to
leave ogden because of a subpoena
} which required his presence at the trial
of the iudgeship contest in Ogden In
!
/ that Senator HollingswOrth be given
the privilege on the first day of his re-
; appearance in the senate of presenting
his motion 10 reconsider the vote that
defeated senate joint resolution No >.
The motion carried unanimously
Move for an Armory.
Senate bill No. 50 by the committee
on military affairs. is another national
| guard measure and provides for the
creation of an armory board TO be pro-
Vided with an annual appropri-
alton Of $4,000 for the purpose
of leasing suitable buildings for armory
and arsenal purposes in the state The
board which is to consist of the COVER
, ! nor. secretary of state and brigadier
general commanding the First brigade,
is also empowered to take options on
buildings suitable for 4IInOry or ar
s nal purposes.
The bill was drafted by a sub-cOm-
mittee OF the joint committees on mill
tary affairs of both houses and is in
] tended 10 provide for the housing of
militiamen and their equipment as well
as may be without an appropriation for
| the construction of an armOry
II is possible that a bill calling for
! an appropriation for an armOry may
come in later. The matter hinges upon