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Show RETURNS AFTER . . ' ' s ATTENDING LEGISLATURE r r L. A. Thorley returned to Cedar City Wednesday after and absence of more than a month in attendance at the session of the Wyoming legislature, as a r ep-resentative ep-resentative from Big Horn county. , - Mr. Thorley says the Wyoming legislature accomplished virtually virtual-ly nothing other than the -passing of the necessary appropriation appropria-tion bills for the support of ,the, state institutions. " The session opened with a personal encounter between members of the rival faction's, which were equally divided, and throughout the remaining 'days the session was one bitter -fight between the two'factions. ' - .u In Utah we pay our legislators .$4 a day (and. some thyik tliat too much) anjLthe members usually us-ually serve from ten W fifteen days beyond the required sixty cays without pay. In Wyom" ing the legislators are paid $8 per day for a forty day session-and session-and they refuse to do anything after the expiration of the forty days, regardless of the urgency, of the business that may be pending, As a result of this policy more than a hundred bills were thrown out the last day of the session, or rather, abandoned abandon-ed wifehont oaiderfttio. r |