Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-02
One Week From Thursday Last
Their Allotted Sixty Days
viii Have Expired,
STRICT CHILD LABOR BILL.
Legislature May Pass Law That VIII
Effcctually Check This Crow
ing EVIL,
srecial Corresrondence.


n oIsE. Ida, Feb, 2s.--The law
makers of Idaho are now entering
- their last week. one week from
today their allotted 60 days will have
expired and 1t is believed that by that
time tha legislators will have COM
pletcd their work At any rate. a
Joint resolution has passed the senate
and Is now before the house, tho pro-
visions of which are that the legis-
lature shall adjourn AT / , o'clock mid
night on the siXtieth day of the ses-
sion which will bo Thursday, March
:. The introduction OF new bills ceas-
ed on Monday last, the min is, thcre-
fore loaded, the receiving door IS clos
ed and the grind" is fast going on
within. But II can be seen that more
measures are going to tho Junk pile
than to the statutes. and this Is UNI
doubtedly wise, for numerous meas
ures OF but very little OF no imports
ance have found their way into the
legislative channel.
ANTG-PASS ELL,
On Monday a now anti-pass bill was
introduced i'll the senate TO take the
place of the house bill of similar I'M
port, which was defeated This meas
NE Is. however. not SO drastic as the
ether 1t is more IN conformity With
the international law. Whether life
or death is IN store for it, NO one
seems willing to prophecy
The test oath bill. which was passed
by the senate and amended by the
house and for the consideration Of
which conference committee from
both houses was appointed, Is still un-
der cover. 1t may and it may not
pass. Most of the members think that
it viii. however
The big question for over week
has been The two mile limit law"
This is the law already upon the stat
ptes OF this state. which prohibits
herders from grazing their sheep
within two miles OF a homestead.
-fhe bill affecting this. which is now
before the legislature, reduces the
limit TO one-half mile. These limits
are too far apart. In either case
one Is all right for the stocltman but
al wrong for the sheep mon.
The house passed the biz the other
day. but amended 1t so rs TO make the
limit one straight nile. The upper
house has not yet acted upon the
measure, but it IL believed that II will
pass 1t as thus amended.
Senator McCutcheon, the father of
the test oath bill. has introduced
bill this week which is awakening con-
siderable comment. IT Is an act pro-
hibiting inhabitants or visitors of
houses of ill-famc from voting.
CHILD LABOR BILL.
The child labor bill is coming up
under many tribulations--as the child
laborerS themselves. II II ever reaches
the statute book. it can be well said
OF IL; well done thou good and
faithful servant" 1t was among the
first bills in evidence in the house
and 1t has gotten along no further
than the committee OF the whole,
which body 1t succeeded IN working
through yesterday. Three great steps
are yet before g. only the first and
last of which viii be comparatively
easy. These are To psss the house,
PASS the senate and be signed by the
governor.
H.. J NJ, No. 4. by Abbott. was
passed yesterday asking Congress TO
pass bill allowing settlers on re-