The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11
FLOOD OF BILLS
BEFORE LEGISLATURE
Nineteen New Measures introduced In
the Lower House at Mondays
Session, Breaking Record.

The record for new bills was
ruary s, when nineteen new measures
were introduced They provide laws
affecting educational boards and in
stitutions; mining and smelting one
touches on the penal code of the
state and another proposes to estab-
fish a public service commission for
the regulation of public service cor
porations. One Is combination bill
restricting the sale of liquor, prohib
ting II and providing local option:
one provides for the repeal of an ex-
listing law others affect the work of
county commissioners and fees and
Salaries of public officials are affect
ed. while numerous other subjects are
touched upon by the proposed legis
lation.
Bills were passed providing for the
creation of a good roads commission;
relating to construction of state
roads: relating to salaries of state
officers; relating to time of filing APP
plications for titles TO properties in
townsites
Six bills, five from the senate and
bne from the house, were passed In
the upper house Monday and four new
bills were introduced. Bills were
passed providing punishment for con
victs who assault prison guards; APP
propriating 81 800 to refurnish the of
fees of the governor and secretary of
state; appropriating $4,000 to the
widow of Deputy Sheriff Clark of We
Der county, who was murdered; max
Ing testimony of husband or wife
competent in abandonment cases;
making assault by convicts serving
life Imprisonment sentence punish
able by death; defining vagrancy and
providing punishment.
The members of the state leglsla-
ture, the governor and state officials,
we're guests of the Agricultural col
lege at Logan on Saturday, February
g. and as result there was no session
of the senate or house.
Three hundred and twenty-five per-
sons were in the party that left Salt
Lake on the special train. The party
included the state officials, the mem
bers of both houses of the Legislature,
the regents and faculty of the Univer-
sity of Utah, the directors of the Agri-
cultural college of Utah and their in.
vited guests.
Speechmaking, banquet and an in
spection of the college was the order
of the day. the visitors being royalty
entertained by the people of Logan
The legislators met with President
Widtsoe to consider the appropria
lions asked for. The agricultural
school asks for maintenance appro
priations of $159,000 and the expert
ment station for a publication fund OF
$4,000. The president pointed out the
need OF each department and the man
her for the apportionment of the APP
preparations to the various depart
ments.
Three bills were approved by tht
house on Tuesday, February 8, while
six measures of minor importance
were introduced. This was the las
day that new bills may be introduced
without consent.
The new measures passed were; II
B 81, defining powers of county com
missioners as to roads; appointing
county road commissioners and pro
by j. n. Henrie, by request: II. B. IS
IN act defining the powers of roat
commissioners relative to specia
road district tax; by j. n. Henrle, b.
request; II. b. 50, providing for al
annual vehicle tax and the name
Of levying, collecting and disposing o
same; by J. n. Henrie, by request.
In the senate eleven bills were In
troduced and two approved, the meas
TIRE creating a state library gymnas
jun commission and providing $500
for its maintenance for two years
and bill relating to appropriations TO
school funds and providing for count,
superintendent work.
Bounty laws are materially altere
in a new measure offered by BrinkeI
hoff, and the erection OF new half
million dollar high school building i
Salt Lake City and the erection G
other school buildings in the city
provided for in bill presented b
Williams.
Three bills were approved by tn
members of the house of represents
lives on Wednesday, February
while a large number of new meas
ures were introduced. One of the bill
passed is known as the Sunday clo
ing measure, and provides that o
Sunday no noisy amusements shall b
held in this state II prohibits hors
racing, circuses, gambling. the sal
of liquor, the operation of skatin
Kinks. vaudeville, farce. dramatic, an
pperatic performances The bill wa
passed, after II had beeen amende
by the insertion of the words pit
ture shows"
H. b. No. 2, presented by Bake
was passed by vote of Al to /. Thi
measure refers TO foreign corpors
lions. 1t confers upon them the sam
rights and privileges as are enjoye
by domestic corporations.
The other measure approved, an
which now goes before the senate, r,
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