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Show It Dies Hard. The last day of the present eession of the Utah legislature is still on and the prospects now fire that adjournment adjourn-ment will not be taken until midnight. Bills by the wholesale are being passed or elaughtered, but the appropriation bill still holds all attention, and its final provisions are looked for with a great deal of interest by educators and all others who would be aflected. The question of the union of tbe university and agricultural college and the removal re-moval of the reform school and of the school for the deaf are among the most important unfiniphed business. Considerable discussion was caused in the council yesterday morning by the claim of Sheriff McQueen for ap; prebending the republicans on ths memorial hegira of January 17th. The committee on claims furnished a majority ma-jority report rejecting the claim. The vote Btood five for, and six againBt the ' allowance of the claim. This august upper body passed the revenue bill switching one half mill from the school tax to the general tax. The bill for an act providing for boards of education in cities of the first and second classes assessing school taxes, was passed without division. |