The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-05

hailed with joy by Salt Lake City,
which is the only city to which it ap-
plies. 1t gives the park commission
abundant authority to beautlfy the city
and, it IS believed, will meet with gen
eral approval.
Two other bills passed within the past
week mean much to the public health.
One extends the quarantine regulation
to q number of diseases not hereto
fore included. and the other provides
for an immediate report in cases where
infants are born with inflamed eyes.
Both measures were supported by the
state board of health.
The women of the state almost unani-
mously approve of the action of the
house in passing the bill, which limits
the hours of labor of females to nine
hours a day, or fiftyfour hours week.
Exceptions are made in cases Of tele-
phone and telegraph companies, can
ming factories and confectlonerles,
where material is likely to spoil.
The Banking Bill.
The banking bill is another measure
which has been passed IN the house,
in response to a general demand 1t
is claimed that this bill puts banks
and banking on a sounder basis than
heretofore. 1T provides for bank
commissioner anu DduN nv
will keep Informed as TO the condition
Of the banks Of the state,
Much legislation also has been had
with regard to insurance companies and
the insurance laws now more nearly
conform to the laws of other progress
i've states than heretofore, and the pup
lie is correspondiugly protected.
Bills in relation TO the betterment
of state and county roads have been
passed and it is provided that con-
victs may be worked upon these roads
under the supervision OF the state ROAD
commission and the board of correc'
tions,
A bill demanded by hotel men and
others has passed the house making 1t
a felony for any person to pass bad
check, with intent to defraud. The
punishment is fixed at from one to
fourteen years in the state prison.
Cigarettes and Drugs
Bills also have been passed IN the
house relative to cigarettes and drugs.
Ono prohibits the sale of cigarettes or
cigarette paper and the other ls very
stringent with regard TO the sale OF
drugs,
Another bin passed by the house
creates state board of veterinary med
ical examiners and provides for the
issuance of licenses TO veterinarians
who are eligible.
Speaker Robinson bill appropriat'
ing $4,000 for gymnasium at the AS
ricultural college IS a measure that is
believed to mean much to students.
Further along the line of the public
health a bill has passed the house ex-
tending the terms of office of mem
bers of the board of health and health
Officers in cities of the first and Sec
ond class from two to five years.
A bill asked for by purchasers of
state lands has been passed, extending
payments for n period of three years,
at s per cent interest. :,
Hydrocarbon mines, as we'll as all
coal mines are required TO report to
the mine inspector, under the ,proVis-
ions of another bill passed by the
house. Heretofore the hydrocarbon
mines and certain classes OF coal mines
were not required to report.
Safeguard Public Health.
The public health is still further
safepuarded by bill passed in rela-
ton to sanitation in creamerles, can
ming factories, etc. The bill puts INTO
law and extends TO some extent the
rules heretofore made by the pure food
bureau.
Another act of benefit to country
schools which has been passed by the
house appropriates $4,000 to be appor-
toned among schools where the revenue
is insufficient to permit them TO run
the required time.
Senate Bills Pass House.
OF the senate bills passed by the
house, the most important is the liquor
measure, which passed Saturday, 9th
er measures of more than ordinary mo-
ment are as follows;
Making the spreading Of derogatory
stories concerning banks and similar
institutions a felony.
Permitting county commissioners to