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Show Vffll-W MEASURE APFFlOVEDY HOUSE . Page's Graduated Income Tax Bill Passes Lower Branch. ERROR IS CORRECTED Injunctions in Strikes Law Is Found to Have Word "Not" Omitted. After brief discussion tlio house yes-ti'rdny yes-ti'rdny morning passed the Fisher antitrust anti-trust bill, designed to give the public untilities commission authority to prevent pre-vent combinations of industrial corporations! corpor-ations! to control prices and supply of jcommodities, and Page's graduated in-'Jr' in-'Jr' come tax bill. f The anti-trust measure, known as H. B. No. 219, was introduced a few days ago pursuant to an agreement in the utilities committee of the house when it lad under consideration the senate public utilities bill. Half of the committee com-mittee insisted upon reinserting the trust clause in the utilities bill, after it bad been eliminated by the senate. Xo agreement on the bill could be reached, and to prevent the bill being indefinitely held up it was agreed that the utilities bill should be reported out favorably with the understanding that a separate bill would be introduced covering cov-ering the industrial corporations and providing for the enforcement of the anti-trust law through the medium of the public utilities commission. For the Common People. A bill was drafted and introduced by "Representative Fisher making the public pub-lic utilities commission ex-officio the trades commission of I'tah and vesting it with all the authority in relation to regulation of industrial corporations that the utilities commission has in regu- luting the operation of public utilities. Mr. Fisher explained to the house yes- r tenlay that the committee felt that the common people were probably more affected af-fected and more deeply interested in the regulation of prices of sugar, cement, flour and the like than the freight rate on coal, hence the anti- trust bill was designed to give the utili-I utili-I ties commission authority to regulate 1 the corporations handling the commodi-! commodi-! ties that constitute, the necessities of life. He advised that the measure was a party pledge and should be supported. f Approves Graduated Tax. Cazier of Juab declared that he had f heard so much of party pledges that . the very mention of it made him sick and he opposed the bill. The bill passed Ltlie house bv a vote of 2b' to 8. 'Page's graduated income tax bill was passed after au amendment had been inserted in-serted to conform to the amendment to the present law passed under special or-lor or-lor bv both houses of the legislature a few days ago, providing that the value of legacies exempt from taxation shall be figured in computing the market value of the entire estate. The vote on the bill was 33 to 5. This bill, as explained by Mr. Page, divides inheritances into four classes those descending to the line of husband hus-band or wife, son and daughter, uncle and aunt and strangers in blood. A 'rji'lti.-iti'il seale of tax is proviilr.i fur each class of inheritances nniniii from I per cent to l'i per cent mi more than .fM.nUiV'OO. Mr. explaino.l that this sen In wouhl mojtn an increase (if thousands thou-sands of ilollars in revoauo to the .state from inheritance, taxes. Refuses lo Reconsider. . Representative Hecker of S:ilt Lake fought to have tho house roitHblcr H. H. No. Ki(5,' tho headless ballot hill, again, but the house took the slnnd that tho same thing in the form of i?. K. No. IS li.id been thoroughly discussed and kilted previously, hence it could not sec any necessity for reconsidering the measure mea-sure at this time. A motion to kill it by laying it on the table carried and ; the bill was finally disposed of. j Bevan 's If. li. No. 0, relating to ex- emptions from execution under garnish- ; meats, was discussed at some length and killed by lack of constitutional majori- ; ty vote. Tho bill was designed to make ; an exemption of jKUi a month to tho ; head of a family and $5 a mouth fori each minor child and for each dependent j person of the garnishee's family. There was strong argument against ! tho bill on the ground that it would in- jure the credit of the laboring man, and i it was even argued that it would abol- ish his credit. Taking the stand that the measure would harm rather than aid the laboring man, the house killed tho bill. Injunction Bill Recalled. lrpou discovery yesterday afternoon that an error had been made in engrossing engross-ing H. B. No. 10, by Currie, relating to injunctions in strikes, the bill was recalled from the governor for amendment. amend-ment. It was found that in the first line of the first section the word ''not" had been omitted, making the bill read that it should be unlawful for working men and women to organize for their betterment bet-terment and protection, instead of reading read-ing that it should ''not be unlawful' 7 for them to so organize, as the bill was passed. Hecker of Salt Lake called attention of the house to the error and declared that some one had certainly been guilty of gross negligence to permit the bill to get by in that form. He moved that the measure be recalled for amendment, and i tho house recalled it. The bill was cor- j reeted and repassed. S. J. M. No. 9, by Olson, proposing ! a conference between the federal gov- I eminent and tlie state governments with a view to bringing about a uniform system sys-tem of taxation and eliminating duplication dupli-cation in taxation by the federal and state governments, was passed. Three Pass in Bunch. Olson's senate bill providing for the official printing and distribution of information in-formation relating- to proposed constitutional constitu-tional amendments was passed by the house. The bill is designed to secure dissemination of reliable information in relation to the meaning and effect ot constitutional amendments, that the people peo-ple may vote intelligently upon them. The house passed three of Page's pet ! measures in one bunch. It first passed 1 II. B. No. 170, which relates to- aeduc- tions in valuation on bank stocks and amends it to cover corporation and as- j sociation stocks and provides for the re- i duetion in proportion to the real prop- erty value as compared with the stock j value. ' H. B. No. 171, which was passed, pro- I vides for the payment of taxes on cor- ' porate stocks out of the dividends due 1 upon the stocks or any other funds of ! the stockholder which the corporation J may have at the time. Tax on Stocks of Trust. ! IT. B. No. 172, which was passed also, ; amends the present law relating to as- sessment of stocks by making the tax ; apply to stocks of trust, loan or guar- ; antec associations and all other corpora- . tione whose stocks are subject to tax- ation under section 2, article 13, of the ; constitution of the state. These three ! bills were introduced at the behest of : the county assessor of Salt Lake to facilitate the work of assessing aud col- '. lecting corporation taxes. Cardon's bill providing for the appointment ap-pointment of civic planning commissions in cities where it is desired to have the beautifieation of the city wrought out along a definite plan -was passed by the house with little discussion. Cotton's senate bill, providing that counties shall pay the premium on the official bonds of their treasurers, was passed by the house. Telephone Bill Passes. Hecker 's bill prohibiting telephone companies ftom requiring the installation instal-lation of nickel-in-the-slot phones and prohibiting patrons of the company from permitting1 the use of their (ifree" phones by outsiders was passed by the house after the author had explained the purpose of the bill. The vote on it was 26 to 6. Decker's bill defining the boundary line between Iron and Washington counties was passed, as was Wootton's senate bill amending an act passed earlier ear-lier in tho session providing for a recodification re-codification and compilation of the laws of Utah. The amendment provides that the 1017 laws shall be included in the compilation. The senate bill providing for use of federal nionev for vocational training in tho schools of the state was passed. Senator Chez's bill placing Ogdentin the first class of cities of the state was passed. The senate bill providing that the supreme su-preme court shall furnish its decisions to district judges free of cost was passed. The senate joint memorial to congress con-gress asking that Little Zion canyon be sot aside as a national park or monument monu-ment was passed. |