The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1911-01-21
UTAH LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP
Happenings in Both Branches of
Ninth General Assembly.

| L ne lGdluIS vi lut sSSolOu VI JHt
house on Saturday, the IA, was the
introduction by William l.. Hayes Of
| Utah county of the local option bill,
In accordance with the promise Of
the Republicans at ,ne late election.
Under the provisions of this meas
ure, the sale of intoxicating liquors
outside the corporate limits of cities
will be prohibited except for medical,
mechanical or scientific uses. In cities
of the first, second and third classes
the sale and manufacture OF alcoholic
liquors will be settled by local OPP
ton. To determine whether or not
intoxicating beverages shall be sold
in cities of the second and third class
es, an election is called for Tuesday,
May 8, 1911, when all voters eligible
at the last preceding election, or reg.
istered since that time, will be eligible
to vote. In all cities where prohibition
is lost, or where no elections are
held in cities of the first class, the
city councils shall have the power to
license and regulate all places where
liquor is sold. 1t is provided, how
ever in the measure, that there shall
not be more than one saloon, grog
shop or other such place to each 1000
inhabitants.
Eighteen new bills were introduced.
making a total to date Of thirty-two,
while three bills were passed.
To encourage the destruction of
squirrels, ground squirrels. rabbits,
gophers, chipmunks and other farm
ers' pests, Jacob II. Langston, rep
resentative from Willard county, has
introduced in the lower house of the
state legislature bill to appropriate
So 700 as an annual bounty to the diy
ided amongst the twenty-seven coul-
ties of the state.
Senate bills 16 to IS were intro
duced on Friday, the 18th, while
house bills to IA were presented.
The house passed Senate bill 2, pro
viding that bills passing the legisla-
ture may be engrossed by typewriter.
An attempt to have the house adjourn
from Friday until Monday was frus-
trated.
Governor Spry sent a communica-
ton to the senate, asking permission
to cede certain lanos near Fort Doug
las to the government.
Senator Stookey introduced a meas
ure making appointees rejected by
senate ineligible as recess appointees.
A bill making pool selling, book
| making and other forms of gambling
felony was introduced in the house.
A divorce bill has been introduced
by Senator Kuchler, which permits
final decree to be entered by the court
instead of an interlocutory decree, in
case the parties to the divorce action
have lived separate and apart for
more than one year prior to the issu-
ance of the decree.
To provide for the sheriff's inspec-
| ton and record of livestock to be
driven or shipped from this state to
another is the object of house bill No.
| IL, introduced by Mr.. Sanderson of
Sanpete on Friday.
Two bills introduced by Represent.
alive Page OF Piute county provide for
the increase of witness fees In justice
and district courts and before grand
juries.
The committee on irrigation in the
house Friday introduced a bill amend
| ing the present irrigation law to Tx
the purchase price of lands selected
by the state for use as reservoir lands
at $3.50 per acre.
The Texas antitrust law Is incor-
porated in an antitrust bill introduced
in the senate on Thursday, January
| IL, by Senator Badger Of Salt Lake.
The bill provides for the repeal of six
sections of the present Utah anri-
trust law and the substitution Of the
drastic provisions of the Texas law.
Senator Carl A. Badger of Salt Lake
on Thursday introduced a joint reso-
luton providing for the ratification
| by the legislature of Utah OF the pro-
posed amendment to the constitution
of the United States authorizing an
income tax.
| Eight hours are to constitute days
labor in all retail stores and other
places of business where goods are
sold at retail to the public, if a bill
introduced in the senate by Rudolph
Kuchler of Ogden becomes law.
The house was in session but thirty
minutes on Thursday, January II, 1t
met at o'clock in the afternoon and
adjourned at $3.50. The early adjourn
ment was taken out of respect to
President Gardner, whose mother died
on Wednesday.
The adoption of senate bills l and
2, the former providing for the regu-
lar and contingent expenses of the