The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-11

on the CdpllDi Tin site
The primary election law bill which was
summarized in The Herald yesterday
morning. was introduced by Ashton in the
house yesterday The bill carries the
number 13i.
Representative L. l. Baker Of Tooele
occupied the chair yesterday for a time.
Bill No. 1ss in the house asks for $500
/ for roads in Iron county.
The committee on the school of the deaf
and blind will meet in room 503 of the
city and county building this morning. The
educational committee is requested TO
meet at 8 O'Clock in the house chamber
to discuss various important matters be-
fore It.
A number Of the members of the legis-
lature have been asked to participate in
the Lincoln anniversary exercises in the
schools today. and some of them have
promised to deliver addresses. If IL should
happen that the prohibition question is
not ''acutely" raised, which seems TO be
the best bet now, the school children may
have the opportunity Of seeing and hear
ing some of the lawmakers.
A bill introduced in the house yesterday
By Mr. Russell Of Salt Lake amends the
! existing law regarding the location OF
pesthouses. The bill provides that place
wherein smallpox patients are Isolated
shall not be within twenty rods OF any
public road. or within a quarter of mile
of any canal. ditch, aqueduct or flume
conveying water, uncovered, to be used
for domestic purposes. This bill. il ii be-
comes a law. will have a bearing on the
proposed isolation hospital TO be erected
by the county. Another bill by Mr.. Rus
sell provides that Il shall be a INSIDE
meanoT 90 keep = smallpox isolation es-
Enlistment within the limits of any city
town or village.
Twenty-Five hundred dollars is asked for
the improvement of roads in Rich county
/ in q bill introduced In the house yester-
day by Mr.. Hodges.
Six thousand dollars for a bridge across
/ the san Juan river is asked in a bill by
! Mr.. Nelson. The bridge is to be con-
/ structed at the point known as the Mar
! rows.
House bills 81. as and 50, by Representa-
| tive Henrie. which were passed by the
/ house on Tuesday. reached the senate
| yesterday and were referred to the COM
mittee on highways and bridges. These
bills embody the ideas Endorsed at the
good roads convention held in Salt Lake
/ recently.
The committee on labor yesterday re-
i ported favorabiy on senate bill No %,
/ by Sena<5r Badger, providing for the
| strict regulation of employment offices.
| The bill will come up for final passage
today.
| On the recommendation of the commit
| tee on appropriations and claims senate
| bill No. 9, by Senator Kuchler, was re
| feTred 20 the committee on salaries. The
bill contains many Of the features of Sen
/ ate bill No. IS. by Senator kuchieT. The
| first has TO do with salaries and expenses
/ of judges of the district court who are
engaged in settling disputes in water cases
1 srax inc nd Twin
expenses of judges holding court in coun-
ties other than that in which they reside
| The committee on ways and means re-
ported favorably yesterday on senate joint
resolution No. 2. by Senator Miller. which
| provides for the submission of proposed
amendment to the constitution of the
state. increasing the revenue and extend
ing state aid to high schools. The reso-
luton will come up for final passage to-
day.
House bin No. Is. by Mr.. Morris. in
| creasing the salary and efficiency Of
school teachers in rural districts was rec
commended for passage yesterday by the
committee on education.
Senate bill No 10. providing for the sal
ary of the secretary OF state. which has
passed both houses. was signed by the
president Of the senate and speaker OF the
house yesterday and transmitted to the
governor.
Senator Hyde yesterday introduced two
| bills defining more sccurat ely the bound
, aries of Sanpete aud Juab counties. The
, bills went to the committee on county and
! municipal corporations
BY a bill introduced yesterday by seua-
= tor Marks q state board Of optometry is
created. to regulate and license practicins
, / optometrists. The bill went TO the judi
ciary committee.
4 bill introduced by Representative
, Clegg in the house yesterday is designed
| further to protect motormen and con-
| ductors in cold and inclen,ent weather.
| and requires that headlights of not less
than eighty candle power be provided
The house bill referring to the use of
| convict labor on state and county roads,
/ after a long discussion in the house yes
| terday, was referred to the committee on
| labor. This is the last of the series OF
good roads bills. the results Of the con-
| Nention recently held in Salt Lake. The
| chief opposition seemed TO be on the
| ground that the law might bring convict
| labor into competition with free men, and
/ the smaller counties objected on the
ground that they had burden enough with
| their own highways. let alone paying half
| the expense Of bringing force of con-
/ Victs TO their counties, IL ever they were
/ brought.
Ten days are allowed I'm addition to the
time allowed under the present rule for
| the Introduction of bills. The time limit
| for the Introduction Of bills expired Tues
| day under rule 81 but Mr.. Morris pointed
| out that the members Of the judiciary
/ committee had been so busy that they had
/ no time 10 prepare or consider bills af-
| fectinK their own constituencies that they
/ would suffer IL the present rule were en-
| forced. After the fortisth cay two
1 thirds vote Of those present will be re-
| quired for consent to introduce measures.
III House bill No. IS. providing for the
/ / creating of irrigation districts wherever
| they are demanded by the land owners.
i was nv in the house yesterday. The bill
| contains thirty-three printed pages. AZ
/ ter its reading and the reading OF amend
! ments, II was made a special order for