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Show KOMETHftl I BEFORE 111 1 rVBj -BBJ UTAH STATE 3tNAT0RHASB, I PAt TO FURTHER TAX P& OF THE STATE .Vould Have to Pay state Tttll J Pre-as Pre-as Federal TMeaf , Cha.noes Time of Annu M School Census, The Southwlck bill prnuain . v B V coiau tax was acted n by thel!B am Judiciary committee- on HlruaniB of1 uud wns reported nut at the nfteB "u seasloTi of tho statu sunute with B Le: ainuiuleiits. . m The amendments made b the to, B Bo cbimiilttce wero on thiee ilnes-SB c amount of Income cu-nipted By ' th( ducejl from tho present reading ctlB W' bill, provision wns Inserted thitufl general property tuxes may be dtdul tin ed from income tnxes, and the bin vH 3lf amended so thnt thhe state gueriiB flS fund may rotnin enough of the Jm to coeds of administering the lncometaB &t law to reimburse Itbelf for expend aB ! that connection before the romalniuM ot proceeds nro divided as per the n& ' of tho Southwlck bill. B tl Tho bill as It went to the commltt(,B tl carried tho snmo eainntlona n, nfl federal Inconio tax, $1000 for shftB tl: men, $'J000 for married men andhet&B d of families und $200 for each depot lD eat child. rl Tho sennto on February 28 puseB but ono bill down to the house, ul '' W'pod houso measure, chuiiglog ttiH T time of tho annual school census. iB d Nino, measures wcro finally acted upon In tho houso February 23. Seven S were passed and two wero reJetttiB ( At tho snmo time eight bills w ere add- B ( ed to tho calcndnr, leaving a net gala I ' of ono for tho calendar It matt I ' that ns fast ns two or throe bills rt ' pusscd, or rejected, the s-cnute would 1 transmit from five to seven that lai I Ki.'on passed In the upper house, thai H ' adding to the house' work B Sixteen senate measures and tnta- B ' ty-threo house measures had met wits B cxccutlvo approval on February '.& B The senate memorials wluli twi B been approved nre one providing ( B 11 messenger for tho governor; me B morlallzlng congress to Increase til duty on lend; mcmorlal'zlng congraBj to aid In cnrrylng put of tliu GreetBJ river project, nnd memorializing cwBj grcss to aid In irrigation by Increased B appropriations for Investigation, B Talk of adjournment Is already he- coming common. Membcri of the sen ate nro said to bo ready to ndjoura on tho sixtieth day, without tho coiutm of tho house. In tho house therejl I nlreudy talk of cither a- sifting committee, com-mittee, or else of having, tho house an us n sifting commltteo by keeping Importing Im-porting bills well up to- tho front ct tho calcndnr. Tho senato hns seer Jhc in'rodae-tion in'rodae-tion of 133 measures In nil, yet hsi passed all but sixty of those downtJ tho house. With less than two weeks remalnlaj of tho present session, only seventy bills nnd resolutions of tho approximately approxi-mately 250 introduced in tho house hnvo been passed by that body. The Southwlck untl-'lgurettu bill passed tho lower houso of the Utah legislature on February 21, It had previously neon approved by the senate, sen-ate, and will become a law ninety daji from tho dato the governor signs the bill. Tho bill passed Is one making It nn-Inwful nn-Inwful to sell cigarettes and cigarette papers; to advertise cigarettes and, cigarette papers; to- permit minors to smoke In certain, placer if business; for any person to. smoko In certain enclosed en-closed public places. Klvo bills. Including tho nntl-clgnr- J etto measure, passed tho heiif.0 February Feb-ruary 24. No new bills wero added to tho cnlendar. Ono memorial also passed und ono bill wns killed, roduc- ' Ing tho third rending cnlendar to that 1 extent. One udnltlonul measure was taken from tho calendar and reronv f milted. ' 1 Thirty-four rolcalls punehnfed the sessions of tho Utnh state Miinteon February 21. As a result It w.is found that tho sennto had taken final nation on fourteen bills nnd had passed twenty-two from tho second readme calendar to tho third. A measuro providing for n state bond Issue of 51,500,000 for Hie con- i structlon of stuto roads, p.i'-ed the j houso on'Fcbrunry 20. TK-- i U been presented by Repr miimU nay. ' : Companion measures t Hip l"1 : renting tho onc-ninn land brirl "ere pushed by tho houso under -n sponsion j of tho rules. An effort to drlny 1 Inurnment until tho key bill rt,atmf . the department of registration '' j unused, wns unsuccessful, nnd tlipw1"" minion hills must await ih t'M"' 1 inont of tho key measure. Tho Dorn workmen's compensation bill, n measure to enact into 1 5 chnngos recommended by the MdUJ- 1 trial commission In Its annual rcp?- I has appeared on tho senate calenuar. j Tho sennto on February 23 killed tM mensuro proposing to gh" tho pw j of Utah opportunity to say ,icl'' not thoy wanted n constitutional , ventlon. ., '' Senator KInnoy's bill to enable i governing authorities of tho in", slty of Utnh or tho Utah Acricultuw , college to ponslon suneranntca J" , fessors. wns killed. J |