The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-03-27
UTAH LEGISLATURE
FINALLY AOJOURNS
Members Of Eighth Assembly Worked
Eight Days Overtime In Consid-
Grafton Of Proposed New Laws.

Salt Lake City-The Eighth legis-
lative assembly of Utah adjourned
Saturday, March 20, after session
lasting sixty-eight days, or just eight
| days longer than the legislators are
supposed to be In session. their la
bors for the last eight days being
performed without compensation.
Thus the last day of the session was
227 hours and AZ minutes long. The
house adjourned at 1881 p. m, and
the senate just eleven minutes later.
| dust before adjournment commit
tee was appoined to wait upon the
governor and inform him that the
Eighth legislative assembly was reSdy
to adjourn. A communication was
sent to both houses by the governor,
declaring he had no further communi.
cations to lay before the legislature
and congratulating both houses upon
the completion of their labors.
One of the last acts of the senate
was to reject six of the appointments
made by the governor, as follows:
Fred w. Chambers of Ogden, state
fish and game commissioner. w. ID.
Candland, Mount Pleasant, state land
commissioner. w. II. THAN of Lo,
gam state land commissioner. r. f.
Alexander, Salt Lake, member OPTIC
metry board. II. o. Jensen, Salt
Lake, member optometry board. John
Walsh, Pennington, trustee state In
dustrial school:
At the time of adjournment the
governor had made no appointments
to fill the vacancies caused by the
failure of the senate to coincide with
him, and 1t is barely possible that all
of the rejected appointees may serve
until the next session of the legisla
ture.
One of the last acts of the legis
lature was to pass the Badger liquor
bill, measure providing for local
option and strict regulation of the
liquor traffic. The opinion is hello
that Governor Spry will veto this
measure, and thus the liquor laws OF
the state of Utah viii remain as al
present.
As to the work of the session just
closed, the governor has approved 81
of the measures passed, and has GA
now in his hands, which he may OF
may not approve. These were not all
of the bills introduced by any means
rs a veritable flood of measures were
side-tracked, killed outright, or with
drawn.
The last bill signed by the presi
dent of the senate was the appropria
ton bill, making appropriations for the
support of the state government for
two years.
One of the important acts OF the
! legislature was the decision reached
to build state capitol. The capitol
when completed, Is to cost $4,000, 900
Both houses of the Legislature
passed the Des Moines plan Of gov
: eminent bills for cities of the frs
class The bills are in the hands Of
the governor.
, The bills, in brief, place the mum
! | cipal government of Salt Lake under
the control OF board of five mem
bers, all of whom are to be elected a
large. One of these is to be designat
ed as mayor. The nominations are t.
be me ,e at primary elections, ant
) thus, It is the hope of those who ad
vocated the bills, politics will be elm
mated from city government to
: great degree. The board member
: are to be paid $4,000 year.
, A measure of more than ordinar,
) Importance is the insurance depart
ment bill, This measure provides TO
!, the creation of a department OF In
= surance. This department is to b.
run by commissioner. whose salar,
9 is to be $4,000, and whose Office ex
4 penses are to be $4,000.
r Advocates of good roads canno
help but be pleased with the actio
of the legislature in providing for
state commission which is expecte
| IN hot M
are improved.
The irrigation district bill was ais
most important measure to be al
Q proved by the legislature. Under tn
t old law, a farmer could not back hi
It irrigation project with anything NOR
>, than the water filings and canal syi
/ tens; but under this district law, tn
n irrigation system of any communit
:. can be backed by all of the real pro-
!. erty of the irrigated territory. Thu
"a farmer Is enabled to float bon
!. that is just as sound and salable a
, any municipal or school bond.
e A most important measure to tn
n mining industry of the state, and @
Is pecially to the western part of Sa
Q, Lake county and Tooele county, is th
Is eminent domain bill, which wa
passed over the veto of the governo
"a The law provides that smelters sha
>. enjoy the right to exercise the rigl
= of eminent domain within radil
OF four miles of the reduction work
o. so be II that they have already a
10 qiured by purchase or otherwise II
IN title to rs per cent of the propert
within that area.
The Utah National Guard was ali
the recipient of favorable Legislation
I three bills relating to mining anal
being passed. The most important
the three bills is an act creating
state armory board and authorizing
10 to borrow from the state land boa
at $4,000 to be used in the erection
to an armory and arsenal In Salt La
er city.
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