The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-23

J seems TO nave Dttll St-Nt0 - 2
/ ton of two acts relating 10 the case Oh
49, delinquent children
| t...;I. oo,,r+s The bills which sur
vived of a number
/ Are Established that were intro
duced on the sub
| ject provide for the appointment ioI
/ first and second-class cities OF 9uFelliiS
/ Judges by a commission CONSISTING VI
| the governor, attorney general ana
state superintendent of public instruc-
/ ton Judges are to receive a salary
/ not to exceed 81. 900 a year, and the hrSt
Judge is to be appointed within thlrtS
davs after the law takes effect. Terms
are TO be for two years. In counties
where there are no juvenile courts the
district court shall nave supervision OF
/ deIinuuents Each county is to have
! a chief probation officer. whose salary
ranges from 81, 900 in cities of the first
! class TO $500 in outside counties De-
Dutv Drobation officers are to receive
I 81 a dav while actually on duty. Juve-
nil. courts are made courts OF record
/ ana appeals from their Judgment may
/ be taken directly to the supreme court
/ II is generally believed that the new
I la viii nut a stop to the trouble that
/ had encomDassed the Juvenile court IN
/ salt Lake CITY. because that court is
! IepisIato5 out of existence as well as
the board that had partial supervision
/ over it.
After q struggle that may be classed
as remarkable, lie act extending the
companies was sue
Right of Domain cessful.. Originaliy
the eminent domain
FInslIy SESH'eH' measure was SELL
ate bill No. s.. 1t
/ was amended by the house SO as to re-
strict the area of condemnation 10
radius of four miles from the reduc-
| ton plant The house also excepted
! from its operation counties of greater
/ population than 10000. The senate di(
4 not accept those amendments, and con
/ ference committees were appointed.
/ The house conference committee re-
ported that Il had TeCeded from all
/ house amendments, and recommended
/ the original senate bill for passage.
/ The house adopted this report, but
when the vote on the bill itself was
taken the measure was defeated, a
[ unique proceeding, to say the least On
Monday g brand new bill was intro
duced in the house bearing the number
3G7 This bill restricted the zone Of do
/ main right to four miles. provided spe-
officially that the opera ton of the bill
shall not extend beyond.
/ Regulation Of transportation lines IS
provided for in senate bill No %. which
passed both houses. The original SEN
ate bill contained a
/ Regulation Of slause giving the
Transportation. , 1l,, O''u and pr" "nsrato
coal mines, but
/ that provision was stricken out before
| the measure went to the house Other
/ features held TO be Objectionable were
also eliminated. As passed the meas
/ urs authorizes general supervision and
prohibits the Daralieling of lines and
/ the like.
I State, county and city treasurers are
I to care too the public money in their
keeping as they see fit, depOsiting the
funds in banks not
designated by law.
DePostaTy ACT Two bills requiring
Fails to Pass, designation Of de-
/ positaries for state
and city funds were
killed in The house with little ceremo-
ny The friends Of the measures MAIN
.aincd that the interest accruinG to the
state and to cities as a result Of the
proposed system would reach an i'm
menso total each year. Opposition TO
the plan seemed to lie in the fact that
/ the office Of treasurer would be robbed
Of the functions for which it is created.
In the house debate on these measures.
MIR. Clesg. the author of the bills, stat
/ ed that thev had been suggested by o.
]. Salisbury. the chairman of the Re
publican party. This remark created
no small amount of comment
The CORPORATION license tax bill
passed both houses, after conference
agreement. As it prevailed corpora
tons are required
corporatjon Tax to pay an annual
Is Required, Fron3 q 70 s50 The
tax is based on the
amount of the authorized capital stock
of the corporations. 1t is expected that
this tax will become "A source of rev
enue whose total will amount high into
the tens of thousands each year.
Ez%
/ A measure of general interest is Ped
ersen's bill regulating marriage. This
act defines marriage between persons
related in the fifth
Qualifications degree of cOnsan-
3d. m,r; guinity as incest
w nous, and forbids
the matrimonial
union of persons subject to epileptic or
chronic fits, between negroes ard
NiiiltS. anu ana whites.
Marriages are Illegal when the husband
or wife has a mate living from whom
a divoce has not been secured. The
minimum age is fixed at sixteen years
for males and fourteen for females.
::
The session was unspeakably sadden-
ed by the tragic deaths of Representa-
tive Seth Taft of Wayne. county. and
Clint B. Leigh of
Saddened by The Herald staff
lItntiroeIv 1.,.b the result of a
shocking accident
on the evening uf
friday, FEBRUARY %, at Bingham
Both Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Leigh were
sreatiy belc- sd by those among whom
they labored. The sad occurrence cast
a gloom over the house which could not
be dispelled TO the last The draped
chairs were ever present as mute re-
minedrs of the sad occasion. Appro-
pirate action was taken by bott
houses and a joint committee was ap-
pointmed to escort the body of Mr.
Taft 10 his hOnna 81