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Show LAND BOARD BILL PASSEDBY SENATE MEASURE BACKED BY THE ADMINISTRATION AD-MINISTRATION NOW GOES TO THE LOWER HOUSE. Joint Resolution Calling for Amendment Amend-ment to Constitution Increasing Wage of Utah Lawmakers Meets tproval of Senate. Tlic niii'-inan land board hill, tlio nrt-iiiiiiisiratiii nrt-iiiiiiisiratiii nirasui'L' introduced in Uie slate senate liy Senator Harrison E. JenUins of Salt Lake, was approved ly llie senate. February 0, by a close margin, and now goes to the house. The I tern joint resolution, culling for an amendment to the stale constitution consti-tution to allow legislators l?S a day instead in-stead of .4 was passed under suspension suspen-sion of the fules. Speaker Callister took the floor of the lioti.e.on February 10 in behalf of Senate hill No. HO, by l'eters, pilot- ing the measure to passage without opposition. op-position. The measure is the key bill to the series of measures for the or-L'aniz;' or-L'aniz;' I i.:i of a state department of finance ai;d purchase. The house members put in one of the busiest days of the present session ses-sion on February 10, nearly disposing of the third reading calendar they faced when the session began, but when adjournment was taken a larger calendar was in front of them for the next day's session. The Utah state legislature on February Feb-ruary 11 had a total of eighty-one hills, in addition to possibly a dozen resolutions, resolu-tions, introduced in the senate this term. Eight bills, seven of which were administration ad-ministration measures, passed the house on February 11. A bill introduced by Representative Swansou would amend the existing statutes affecting control of state lands and would, if passed, permit I lie sale of lands lying below the water's edge of any lake or stream when the owners of riparian lauds had made valuable improvements on contiguous lands lying below the water's edge at a cash price not to exceed ex-ceed $2.50 an acre, but coal and mineral rights would be reserved to the state in qise of such sales. The Utah senate spent less than an hour on February 9 in debating house bill No. 30, by Seegmiller, which puts into effect the constitutional amendment amend-ment No. 2, passed by the people at the last general election. This bill provides pro-vides that the state hoard of equalization equaliza-tion may raise $25 per capita of school population for the support of schools. There were but two votes against the nieasuie. (inly four bills and one joint resolution resolu-tion were introduced in the house during the session of February 9. The resolution proposes an amendment to the state constitution, relating to the taxation of mines, and would eliminate mines or mining claims, the principal produ-ct gf which is iron. It would assess all other mining claims upon , their value in money, and not on ores or as personal property. inly the absence of Senator V. T. I.amph. Democrat, saved the Jenkins bill to reduce the state board of land commissioners to a single member from sudden death. As it was, it is the i claim of the Democrats of the senate that President Thomas E. McKay es-i es-i tablished a new precedent when he placed the bill on . the third reading calendar; but the president had the ! support of the majority of the senate in so doing. The Utah state senate on February 8 passed the legislative reapportionment reapportion-ment bill over the lone opposing vote of Senator II. C. Tebbs of the Tenth district. Should the measure become law, the senate will have twenty instead in-stead of fifteen members, and the house membership will be increased to fifty-five. The senate committee on public affairs af-fairs on February 8 reported out the group of 'administration measures" having to do with the establishment of a department of registration, which is to take over and supervise the duties du-ties and activities of various examining exam-ining boSrds for trades, professions and occupations in the state. Mrs. Elizabeth Hay ward, state senator sen-ator from Salt Lake county, on February Feb-ruary 7 introduced in the state sejiate a bill to raise the minimum wages paid to women and children in Utah. Senator Sen-ator Hayward's bill would make the minimum wage for minors under the age of IS years not less than ?1 per day. instead of the 75 cents carried In the present law. For adult learners and apprentices not less than $1.50 a y day, instead of the present 90 cents. McShane's bill, giving the governor power to terminate the tcure of office of members of the public utilities commission, com-mission, passed tiie house Tuesday, , ayes 42 against 5. Senator Southwiek's anti-cigaret and txibacco regulation bill, senate bill No. 12, was accorded both lavish praise and severe condemnation at the public hearing before the house committee on manufactures Wednesday night in the ha'iirooin of the Hotel Utah. Approximately Ap-proximately 250 persons were in attendance. at-tendance. Ann lope island, in the (Treat Salt lake, is an ideal game refuge and should be preserved as such, according to members of the joint house anil senate committee appointed to investigate the slaughter of bison on the island. |