Show UTAH legislative GOSSIP happenings in iloth both branches of 0 ninth G general enral assembly with only six members of the sen ate favoring the measures the public utilities and antipass anti pass bills were killed in the senate on saturday the public utilities bill provided for the creation of a commission which would have been given great latti tude in the control of railroads power telegraph and telephone companies e etc te the senate on saturday passed I 1 the marks bill creating a relief fund for disabled fl firemen remen thirteen measures met their death in the senate on saturday while three were given belr qu quietus in the house after having been killed on the floor ot of the lower house friday afternoon 11 II D B no authorizing a special tax levy on curbs and borders tor for beautifying the city was taken up tor for reconsideration saturday and passed by the house without a dissenting vote after one of the most animated discussions cus cuss lons of the present session the senate liquor bill passed the house on saturday the vote being 23 25 to 16 with three members unsent ausent those who voted against the measure were allison cole ekman harshbarger lines II holman olman jones madsen morris peterson rus itus sell welling woolley and zelmer holman changed ills his vote before tho the result of p the vote wis was announced in order thit that lie he move tor for reconsideration of the measure anich my may be come a law following the approval app rovil of the governor the liquor bill as passed provides that counties outside incorporated cities and towns are dry territory and will not vote at the first elec lion alon later they way may vote upon pett tion of twenty five per cent of legal voters local option elections must be held june 27 1911 all over state except in county dry territory elec eions may bo be held eich each two years thereafter upon proper cioper petition each sit town or county outside of city or town shall constitute a separate unit and shall vote separately and independently street regulations for the conduct of saloons are provided and penalties fixed tor for violation of the law there was plenty doing in the senate friday afternoon twelve bills being passed and five killed hilled the house passed two bills and killed six while two new measures were introduced three liquor bills were slaughtered in the senate on friday by adverse committee reports the measures were by james W funk democrat who wanted statewide prohibition a bill by president henry glenry gardner which was a copy of the ilayev bill and one by senator carl A badger which was used largely as a basla basa for the he committee bill that was passed by the he senate on thursday by a vote of fourteen to three sen ator J A hyde secured the passage of ills his bill on friday providing for the and disposal of bonds in the sum of or for each county excepting salt lake for the building of roads and bridges in the state and the apportionment of the money to the various counties in the state after having remained in the hands of the house judiciary committee for a month H 11 11 no creating a state racing commission and le legalizing galiz ng gambling once A 41 year was reported unfavorably friday afternoon and killed by the adoption of the report the house on friday killed the harshberger bill which prohibits the use of political party emblems emblem s on election ballots by adopting an enfa report of the committee on a sections lons at present the party to which a candidate belongs is signi fled bed by an eagle rooster or flag the house committee on irrigation on friday introduced a bill which pro vides that any appropriated water may be turned into the channel of any tia natural tural stream or into a reservoir constructed across the bed of any na tural stream and commingled with its waters and then taken out either above or below the point where emptied into the chinnel channel president gardner has put the ban on the lobbyist and all who are en in lobbying are requested to keep away from the senate chambers with but one dissenting vote the senate on thursday passed tho the liquor bill presented by the special commit tee senator L al olson democratic member of the senate from sanpete county cast the only vote against the bill senator J W funk of cache the other democratic member of the senate voted for the bill tile the six teen republican members voted for the measure seven bills were approved by the senate cenate on thursday and tour four by the house three new measures were in produced trod in each branch making the total in the senate and in the house the senate thursday pissed passed by a vote of 13 to 3 the badger bill providing tor for a commission on revenue and taxation to investigate and re port to the next state legislature on tho the revenue laws now in force and to recommend alian chances es so as to provide for increased revenue for foi the state and a more just and equitable assessment of taxation senator george J kelly of weber in introduced two measures in the legis lature on thursday providing tor for the ti commission form of tot toi cities of the tha second class |