Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-02-12
MOTHERS TO HAVE
LARGER PENSION
UTAH LEGISLATURE COMES TO
AID OF WIDOWS AND IN.
cREASES FUND.
Amount Asked by Exposition Com.
mission for Exposition Expenses
Shaved Down From $4,000
to $4,000.


busy day on February s, following
the weekend holiday. Four bills were
passed, one killed and twenty-one new
measures introduced.
Mothers pensions and the appro-
priation for Utah exhibits at the Cal
ifornia expositions were taken care of
in two of the bills passed. A third is
aimed to save the water department
OF Salt Lake City $4,000 year by
enabling 1t to collect water rentals
from dead BEATS" and the fourth
makes merchants and others who put
out untrue advertisements guilty of a
misdemeanor.
The bill killed was Hansen's meas
ure allowing damages for trespass by
cattle only when the ravaged land is
surrounded by fencing.
The mothers pension bill passed is
OF interest to Salt Lake county only.
1t amends the present mothers pen
sion law by permitting counties
Boosting of 100000 population or more
to appropriate $4,000 annually for
this purpose.
Amid considerable debate, the
amount asked by the exposition COM
mission for Utah's participation at
the San Francisco and San Diego
fairs was shaved from $4,000 to
$500
The house passed house bills So, So,
81, So, SO and 80 on February 8, in
less than twenty minutes. The only
debate on the bills took place when
Ii. b. No. Sc was before the house.
The seven bills were introduced by
the judiciary committee and place
building and loan associations, loan,
trust and guaranty companies under
the supervision of the state bank com
missioner and prescribe penalties for
foreign corporations to fail to comply
with Utah laws when doing business
in the state.
Thirteen new bills were introduced
in the house on February 8, six passed
and one killed.
The shortest bill of this session
Df the legislature is the universal
eight-hour law bill introduced by j..
Alex. Bevan of Tooele county. It
contains exactly 100 words, including
the caption and the body of the bill.
IL 1t should become law, no person
will be required or permitted to work
more than eight hours a day, except
in case of food, fire or damage to life
or property.
Senator Don B. Cotton proposes to
make IL a misdemeanor for a coal
dealer to sell coal from one mine
when another brand was ordered. His
bill was referred to the committee on
manufactures and commerce.
President W. Mont Ferry introduced
bill in the senate which provides
for the consolidation of banks and
trust companies, either by joining OF
forming corporation to take over
both properties. The bill was held up
pending revision to make II conform
TO the senate rule that amendments
must have the new matter indicated.
Radical changes In the states live
stock industry are proposed in a bin
introduced in the upper house on Feb.
ruary by Senator j. W. Thornley, of
Davis county. The bill proposes to
abolish the board of sheep commits
ssioners and the live stock board and
combine their functions in a newly
created state board OF animal indus.
try.
BY this combination" said the in.
PRODUCER of the bill, 1.-The state will
save something like $1,000. Two
years ago the sheep commission re-
ceived an appropriation OF about $22,.
900 and the live stock board an apprc.
priation OF about $4,000. In this bill
for the combined board we ask an
appropriation of only $4,000.
When IL had been considerably
amended following debate on the floor
the senate passed Eckerlsleys bin
amending present laws regulating the
practice OF optometry. Principal
changes in the present laws relate to
the handling of funds by the exam.
ming board in optometry.
The senate on February 4 passed
Senate Bill No. Is, by Dern, an act
compelling employers to report indus.
trial accidents to the commissioners
of labor and statistics within one
week.
Two measures were approved by
the house on February a. House
Joint memorial No. /, by Bevan, a me,
mortal to congress asking for the con-
struction of a railroad from Denver
10 Salt Lake through the Uinta basin;
and house joint memorial No. 3. by
0'Neil, a memorial to congress asking
that certain Indian grazing lands In
Wasatch, Duchesne and Uinta coun-
ties be included within the borders OF
the Ashley national forest.
One bill was killed, one sent back
TO the committee and third passed
At the session of the Utah state SEN
ate on February 2.
The bill extinguished was Senator
Charles Cottrell's humane measure
prohibiting the public from fooling
with airguns and toy pistols But this
is mere pleasantry-the real aim of
the bill was to prevent firearms from
falling into the hands of unskilled
and foolish youths.
Practically all the data required by
the retail merchants in their fight
against trading stamps has been re-
ceived, according to an announcement
by the attorney in charge of the work,
and the drafting OF the bill for presen-
Iation TO the Legislature will be begun
at once.
Incomes of persons living in Utah
and persons who. though residents of
other states, derive their incomes from