The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-18
INSURANCE BUREAU
FOR STATE OF UTAH
Bill Passes Legislature Creating Blu.
reau Which viii Cost State
$4,000 Per Year.

l was passed by the house on Tuesday
| March 16. after prolonged debate
! Should the senate concur in the
\ amendments adopted by the house
\ the state of Utah will have an insur
ance bureau which will cost the PEG
| pie $4,000 per year.
Senate bill No. 1856, making 1t posi-
BILE for the state to build It's new ar
mory on the capitol grounds, passed
| the house as did the bill relating to
| the powers and duties of the state
board of pharmacy
| Senate bill No. SIS, relating to in.
vestment of land grant funds, was ap
proved by the house. 1t gives the
power to extend loans on improved
farms to their full assessed value as
security, instead of two-thirds, as at
present. Irrigation projects, approved
are also made acceptable securities.
| In the senate McMillan's Sunday
! closing bill was amended to death.
| The final passage of the Marks rip
per bill. the object of which is to
take from Salt Lake City its fire and
police departments and place 1t in
| the hands of the politicians, was eff
| fected by the concurrence by the sen,
ate in the house amendments to the
bill.
Under suspension of the rules the
senate on Tuesday unanimously
passed senate joint memorial No. 2,
| memorializing congress to retain the
~ n l.. =
Other bills passed were,
S. B. 142, Marks, making the use OF
defective devices for testing milk a
misderr osnor.
s. II Z. kuchler, appropriating $500
to the secretary, docket clerk and
minute clerk, for the revision of the
permanent journal of the senate.
S. B. 1853, Seeley, creating conser-
walton commission.
H. b. POS, McRae, exempting from
taxation pumping plants, where they
are used to irrigate lands owned by
the persons reclaiming. them.
S. B. IL, Bullen making a uniform
entrance fee FOR the agricultural col
lege of $40.
s. .. 8, Kuchler, providing for the
paying of the travelling expenses of
district judges in settling controver-
sizes over water rights
The senate on Monday, March Is,
with but two dissenting votes, passed
the omnibus appropriation bill.
The bill as 1t passed the senate car
ries a total appropriation of s2.332.-
O11.65, which is $91 900 more than was
approved by the committee on appro.
ri ~ -
This is in addition to special appro-
priations in specific bills pending be.
fore the legislature, amounting TO SAL,
800. The main additions to the bill
Monday were appropriations for the
Improvement of roads in the different
counties of the state. Almost every
senator asked for road appropriations
and got them
The debate of the different items oc.
cupied the attention of the senate all
day long.
The Marks ripper bill, the fire and
ponce commission measure, which
many OF its opponents declare will
prove to be unconstitutional, even If
IL gets upon the statutes. passed the
house after sharp struggle.
Senate bill No. SO passed the house
without opposition. This bill provides
for state aid in building storage res.
erVolrs in that the state may extend
loans.
Senate bill No. 1865, reducing the
number of the board of control of the
art institute from seven to three mem.
bers, was passed in the house. The ap.
preparation was increased by the new
a an
are to be two years.
Without discussion and without OBJ.
position, the house passed senate hill
NO. l4b, relating to garnishments The
bill, in effect, is that garnishments
may issue from courts of justices of
the peace instead of courts of record
as now provided
Other bills to receive the approval
or the house were, S. r. No. III. relat:
ing to the distribution of state funds:
measure providing for the creation
OF the office of state bacteriologist;
relating to the creation and mainte-
nance Of the state board of land com
missicners. and fixing the schedule of
fees that may be charged by county
recorders for filing papers and for
certifying copies.
me senate on saturday passed nine
teen bills, while four measures were
killed. Important among those passed
were four good roads bills. the irriga,
ton district bill, and a bill aupro,
priating $4,000 for a Utah exhibit at
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS exposition at
Seattle next summer.
House joint resolution No. IL. ask.
ing that the congress do not permit
the cancellation of surface entries On
lands which may contain coal be with
held, was passed
The Thornley, automobile bill, which
provides for the registration and
license of all automobiles and chauf
feurs, passed the senate.
Schooner lowed Into Port.