The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-20
SOME IMPORTANT MEASURES.

Oohh lME M6ASOhbS.
Some important cnactmcnts. aside
from those mentioned in these columns
vest rday morning, were made by the
legislature which has Just adjourned.
There was a new banking law passed,
which appears to be satisfactory to the
banking interests. and will probably be
found TO work well.
Some sanitary and health measures
were passed, one extending quarantine,
and another requiring immediate re-
ports by physicians of contagious and
infectious diseases Sanitary inspec-
tion was better provided for, and the
terms of Office of members OF the
Board of Health in cities of the first
and second classes were extended from
two to five years.
A new irrigation code was enacted,
bringing the regulations more nearly
| up TO date
-Four acts in the interest Of the Utah
National Guard were passed. One pro-
vided for an $S5,000 armory on Cap
itol Hill, and the others provided pay
| for service, and other acts mean the
strengthening of the organization.
Bills prohibiting gambling, suppress
| ing the cigarette and dope traffic, and
furnishing various ofIenses more dras-
ticallv than heretofore were passed.
A good deal Of attention was given
to State and county roads. and it would
be reasonable to expect from their op-
Grafton much Improvement in the high
ways
The bills affecting corporations were
all beaten, mostly in committee.
| The jurisdiction Of the Juvenile
courts was enlarged, with a view of
making the work of these courts more
| eilicacious.
| a new insurance codifcatIon was
enacted, designed to put the insurance
business on a better footing An i'm
portant matter was left out of this
codification, perhaps mainly for lack of
suggestion. That is, that the reports
of money received by the companies on
premiums and fire losses paid were not
required to be segregated as to first
and second.class cities in the gen
eral report from the receipts and pay
ments Of the State at large. AS the
reports are made now, and as they
will be made under this law, very lit
lie car be made out of them The
reports are a good deal as a report
would be that showed the averag,
wages paid to employees, where one
class would receive $500 per month,
and the other class So per day, in
which any attempt to average the wage
payments would be a gross distortion
on both sides. And so it is on this mat
ter of fire insurance reports. Those
from the chief cities should be in
cluded in the total for the State, but
should be segregated in detail.
A number of new State Boards were
created. through which special inter.
ests are to be cared for,
A bill of n good deal of Importance
to Salt Lake is the one establishing
a Park Commission, applicable alone to
Salt Lake City. 1t is a measure that
Will be largely beneficial to this city,
and everybody here was in favor Of it.
OF the 279 bills introduced in the
Senate, bpt 81 passed, being almost ex-
actly one third OF the 24S bills in
troduced in the House, only 6S passed,
this being but little more than one
fourth, a smaller proportion than in
the Senate, Up to Saturday evening.
of the 100 bills passed, there were yet
in the Governor S hands l02 to act up
on. and yesterday was the last of the
ten days time which the Governor is
allowed to act upon measures passed
by the legislature, after its adjourn
ment,