Show legislature TA E S UP COAL I 1 DRASTIC STEPS PROPOSED SED BY BS TO END FUEL FAMINE IN UTAH Reio resolution revolution lution would authorize governor to seize we th e railways railways of the state and operate lines tapping coal territory salt lake city members embers of the house and senate took cognizance OV ol the coal shortage in utah on monday Alon dayi january 15 and in both houses reso lations were introduced with a view 1 td to fixing the blame for the general famine of fuel and steps proposed to relieve conditions 1 in the house a resolution was intro deuced by charles it hecker authorizing the governor to seize the railways a Y of the state and operate thell the lines nes LI lapping P ping coal territory and use tile the utah national guard if necessary to make the measure effective II 11 E currle currie also introduced a resolution in the house calling on art me atie denver rio grande to submit to the legislature a statement of the number of cars of fuel originating in shipment in utah between december 1 1916 and january 15 1917 in the senate Sei senator lator dern offered a resolution calling for an investigation by a joint committee of the house and senate the committee to have power to call witnesses and examine the records of the railroads which enter coal territory governor bamberger when he learned of the resolutions said he favored an investigation into the coal situation he reiterated that he set sei 0 out u t in his message to the legislature 1 his i ls ideas in regard to an investigation three bills were introduced in the senate on january 15 while an even dozen bills and resolutions were presented in the house indorsement endorsement Indor toy by the state legislature 0 of f compulsory military iry training lor for young men and the abolishment of the state militia is asked in a senate joint memorial to the president and nd to congress introduced in the upper house by senator wootton governor simon bamberger reported that senate bill no 1 providing for an appropriation of to cover the expenses of the legislature had been signed by him and transmitted to the secretary of state II members embers of the committee on manufactures fac tures and commerce in charge of 0 the prohibition bill admit that the measure will have to be re drafted and the prohibition commissioner feature will have to be eliminated before the measure can get past the house but abut the committee declares that it will place the responsibility of altering the bill upon the house itself the senate rushed its open session program through at high speed on january 11 and immediately after adjournment journ ment went into caucus where the de detail taft of the corrupt practice bill were threshed out the measure la Is designed to purify elections according to its supporters and contains radical provisions relative to spending money and censorship of newspapers six bills were introduced in the senate on jl january andary 11 senator colton offered a measure to prohibit the traffie traffic in peyote and forbidding delivery of the drug to indians for a religious rite or for other purposes senator chez presented a bill t to 0 regulate the exhibition of motion pictures and to provide for a state board of censors senator bevan offered a bill to regulate the sale of narcotic drugs senator chez presented a bill providing that freight charges on carload lots of coal dell delivered Vered to any point in the state stal be based on weight of coal when it reaches destination Sei senator ator chez introduced a bill to define and prohibit trusts senator evans introduced a bill to provide tor for the settlement reg stra istra tion transfer and assurance of titles to land and to make mak e uniform biform the laws of the state in bissu issuing the same one bill and one resolution were introduced trod trad in the house on Jani january iary 11 the live stock men of the state caused a solution resolution to be introduced in the house protesting against the increase in the charges which the department part ment of agriculture has made for grazing live stock in the national forest reserves bazler of juab county had the honor of introducing the second bill of the session in the house the measure gives to cities of third class a justice of the peace to be elected by the people five bills and three resolutions introduced trod with one resolution passed is the sum total of legislative activities i in the house of representatives of the twelfth utah legislature during daring the first week of its ses session slon so tar far as legislation originating in the house is concerned A fight against the report of the rules committee developed in the house insurgents insurgents nis led by J Y R G jr of weber county objected to the 06 proposed legislative committee so strenuously that it was thought best to read the rules section by section and adopt ea each ch as it was read A cammi commissioner of prohibition to be appointed by the governor governor for two years at a salary of a year to to have full charge of the enforcing 0 abe 11 e act and is given the powers of the attorney general county attorneys J and sheriffs vf j t t 1 T li |