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Show SENATE WILL PRESS IW HEMES Night Sessions May Be Utilized to Clear Long Calendar of Sills. A determined attack on the mass of hills in the legislature will be instituted institut-ed by the senate today in an effort to complete the work outlined within the last two weeks of the session. Tho public pub-lic affairs committee will hold its third hearing at 10 o'clock this morning on the workmen 's compensation bills and at the regular session of the senate this afternoon an effort will be made to clear the calendar to tho initiative and referendum measure. Probably not more than two more hearings will be held on tho workmen's compensation bills, today and tomorrow, and it is expected that tho measures will be reported back to the senate Mou- i day for discussion by the upper house as a committee of tiie whole. It has been intimated that those parts most favored fa-vored would be taken from both the Col-ton Col-ton and tho Olson bills and revamped into a new bill. The initiative and referendum bill stands eiht times down on today's calendar cal-endar and inasmuch as the intersection bill is nearer the top of the list the chances are that action on the former measure- will not be taken today. However, How-ever, night sessions have begun to loom above the horizon ami Senator Wesley K. Walton has been hinting for several days to make the night meetings a regular regu-lar thing during the last two weeks of the session. Another measure to come up today that will probably consume considerable time is senate bill No. 9. by Dern, which proposes to give city councils jurisdiction over the watersheds of the city water supplies. In a preliminary discussion of the measure earlier in the week the senators from tho outside districts dis-tricts offered strenuous opposition to the bill. They assorted that such provisions pro-visions might be all right in Weber and Salt Lake counties, but took the position posi-tion that they might work a hardship on many communities if such powers were 1 extended to all towns in the state. I Ho far this week the senate has made I good progress in disposing of bills. Twenty were disposed of in one day by holding a night session, and from four to six at regular sessions on other days. In an effort to hurry things along Senator Evans had the ruins amended at Wednesdav's session limiting discussion of amendments to bills to five minutes for eajh senator and ten minutes on the merits of any bill. Senator Olson declared that the amendment was aimed directly at him and that it was the intent to stifle discussion dis-cussion of the workmen's compensation bills. He also served notice of a motion mo-tion for reconsideration of the amend- 1 inent at today's session. I To date there has been introduced in ' thp senate 154 'bills and fifty-two have been received from the lower house. Fifty-four senate bills have been passed bv the unner house and twenty have been killed in various manners. Of the house bills presented in the upper house thirteen have been passed and two have ben relegated to the discard. AM told, there are now 112 bills in the senate yet , to be considered, and of this number ! twentv-eight appear; on today's calendar. |