The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-14
Lawmakers Unable to Agree
on Hours of Work for
Women.
DRY GOODS MERCHANTS
DISCUSS THE MEASURE
They Contend That 1t Is Unfair
to Working People and
Public.

Parliamentary procedure became sadly
| twisted Monday I'm the process OF deal
| ing with the bill providing for nine
hour day for women. The consideration
| Of ,hc measure ended Monday afternoon
wlth merry game of tag with the bill
by both the senate and the house dur
| ing which rules OF parliamentary prac-
| ticc were disrcsardcd.
| The measure, introduced originally AT
| the request of the club women OF tnc
state. was bunetcd about from commit
! tee TO house, from house TO senate, from
senate back 10 house, from house 10
| conference committee. from committee
| To house, from house To senate ana now
| from senate back TO the house, The
| final result Is that the bill is now back
| in the house with the house amendment
] TO IL rejected and disoWncd by The "luD
women who had previously worked Tor H.
As the bin originally passed the house
| il applied principally To mercantile es-
Establishments and did not apply TO teie-
phone and telegraph companies or hos
pitals. The senate passed the bill after
placing telegraph and telephone com
panics and hospitals In the bill. The
house refused 10 concur in these amend
| mcnts and d conference committee was
| appointed.
Rule Is Disregardod.
Under the rules OF parliamentary pro-
ccdurc there Is only one OF three courses
| open after u bill goes To the conference
committee. Ono of these is the adop-
| tlon OF the report and the passage oil
the bill as amended by the conference
committee. Another Is either the adop-
| tiou or rejection Of the report and the
| rejection OF the bill. The third is the
rejection of the report and the appoint
| ment OF a new conference committee.
The house did none of these three
| things. The conference committee re-
ported to each body the recommendation
| that the senate amendments with fur
| ihgT Slight amendments bC gnnCugrcU IN,
| The principal amendment made permits
women To work longer than nine hours
] I'm case OF cmcTecncy.' The word "cmcT-
ecncy" is not defined and il is held by
many 10 nullify the intent of the bill
The house adopted the report OF the
conference committee and notwithstand-
ing the rules to tho contrary tho bin was
declared open for further amendment
| The 'hi,y-four hours a week clause was
changed Ia read sixty three hours" and
| the bill passed.
Proceedings i'll Senate.
| The conference committee report came
up in the senate before the amended
| bill was received from the house. SEN
ator Badger supported tho report Of the
adoption. Senator Kucher took the po-
| sition that the us" Of the word ''emer
sency" without defining IL made the bin
| worthless. Senator Badger admitted that
the use of this word was broad. bu,
thought that a judicial construction Of
| II would show that il was not as broad
IL
was great deal better than nothing.
The vote on the adoption OF the re-
| port of the conference committee follows
| Ayes-Badger. Booth. Burton. llorsley
| Stookev, Smith. Williams. Wilson. Presi-
dent Gardncr-li.
Noes Funk, Hyde Lunt-3.
Absent-clSon.
Trouble Piles Up.
Before the senate could vote on the
| final lSSaCe of The measure, "A Communi-
cation was received from the house an
| nouncing the passage of the bill amend,
clause. This was followed by the fol-
| lowing communication from the women
interested in the passage of the bill:
president Gardner and Members of
The senate-Feeling that house bin No
| So has been so amended that ii does not
| AT all meet The object originally intended
| by the women of the state. we therefore
withdraw our Endorsement OF house bill
| No. 81 amended.
'Thanking YOU and all the members
| most cordially for the lime and interest
YOU have given TO help us in our efforts.
, remain,
THE COMMITTEE OF THE WOMEN
OF THE STATE"
Senator Iiuchler moved that in view of
| the request OF the women that the en-
acting clause of the bill be stricken out
! Senator Badger moved that the sixty
| three he changed TO fftyfour In the bill
az il was received from the house. This
| amendment was considered remark
| able as n parliamentary precedent II
| the house had any right To amend the
| bin after adopting the report OF the con-
! ference committee. IL was stll certain
! that The senate had no right to re-amcnd
| the house amendment.
Again Amended.
The question. IL was declared. was on
| whether or not the senate would concur
! in the house amendment, If it did not
| do So the course was either another
q moo 70 ~ of
| the bill, Instead of doing either the
senate did not concur In the house
amendment. but passed the Badger re-
amendment. The bin was then ordered
back To the house for the second time
With the Badger amendment incor-
porated in tho revised bill the vote on
Ayes-Badger. Booth, Burton. Horsley
lverson. Kelly. Marks. Sevy, Smith. Will
| liams. Wilson. President Gardner-l2.
| Noes-Funk. Hyde. Kuchler. Lunt
Stookcy-5.
| Absent-Olson.
The biz is now in tho, house. but II
would take clever parliamcntarian to
| discover It's status, " 1t has any,
| Action Taken in House.
Tho bill had first come up in the
| house where II had been taken from
the senate, which had amended il after
! 1t had originally been amended and
back To the house with the agreement of
conference committee that II be passed
as amended by the senate. but this did
not suit tho house members.
No sooner had 10 been taken up In
| the house than Crapo moved that the
limit OF fifty -four hours a week, in which
a female might work be increased to
| sixty three hours.
| Peterson interposcd motion that the
enactine clause be stricken out. but the
motion was not seconded. and Mr.. Crapo's 5
motion carried, Is 10 IA
| Dahquist wanted the bill amended I'm
such manner that Il would include women
who do general h6usework, adding that
| in many families women thus employed
/ were compelled TO work from twelve 10
! fourteen hours a day. He moved an
amendmegt TO this effect, but the mo-
| tion lost.