Show UTAH legislature ENDS ITS MS adjournment TAKEN 0 BEFORE F FOR GOVERNOR RN 0 R H HAD AD REPORTED ON prohibition DILL BILL in last three days of se session s slon dills were sent to th the 6 governor who had already signed twenty seven salt lake city the eleventh session of tile tho utah legislature adjourned sine dlo die friday night march 12 tile the house adjourned at 9 and tho the senate at 1020 tile the constitutional sixty days was up tip at noon thursday when tile tho clocks were stopped and legislation continued for thirty four hours Co governor vernor spry had failed to either cither sign or disapprove the statewide state wide prohibition hibi tion bill before the adjournment of tile tho legislature and whether or not tho the wootton measure will become it a law depends upon tile the action of tile tho chief executive should lie he veto the hill bill utah will remain a wet state up to tile tho closing days of the session practically no legislation of general and state interest had been passed or enacted into law by the signature of the governor and there were predictions that the eleventh session would be called a do nothing affair then came it a rush of bills on oil the last t three lays days that ended with a total of being placed in the hands of the governor who had already approved twenty seven and vetoed one As to checking over the bills now in the hands of tho the go governor vornor and which lie ho has until midnight march larch 21 to consider it is estimated that by working on oil them ten hours houra a day and giving only two days to the consideration of tho the appropriations bill lie he would have twenty minutes time to each men measure aure the only bill vetoed by the governor during durina the session was waa one introduced by senator joseph lic kersley of wayno wayne county calling for an all appropriation at I 1 on of for certain rural rura ischo schools olo to be paid from the general fund this was vetoed on account of its unconstitutionality and another bill which was declared by legislators to be equally ut at variance with tile the constitution ution but which provided that the money come from the sendol fund was passed and has been signed among the twenty odd new laws already made there are most of the administration measures which require quire that the various state boards turn over monthly all their fees and receipts to the state treasurer and also a series of bills relative to the handling of prisoners in road camps designed to prevent their receiving drugs and explosives and making escape or attempted escape a felony the appropriations already made and signed include for the exposition exhibits in california and appropriations tor for the orphans home and day nursery and the free kindergarten and neighborhood house association the bills known as administration measures most of which were recommended om oni mended in the governors message to the legisla legislature turl were practically all passed with the exception of one providing that the terms of county assessors iss essora and county tr treasur ers should be jo four years one series of bills provides that the state board of land commissioners may invest certain funds in warrants issued by tile the board there are now about of these warrants outstanding and they bear in terest erest at 5 per cent these bills provide means whereby the land board can pay the damage claims on account of df the breaking of tile the hatchtown Hatch town dam and also provide a way whereby the land and board can rebuild the dam daill without a bond issue the amendment of the corporation tax law graduating the fees for filing articles of incorporation to is estimated to bring in about to a year while the new motor vehicle tax law it if signed by the governor will add to the state road fund about a year this amount will be in addition to the a year appropriated for state roads to be spent on condition that the various counties put up tip sums ranging from equal amounts to one third of the state funds used in the respective counties other tax laws in the hands of the governor include those extending the time for paying taxes ano an providing tor for a penalty of 3 per cent on delinquent taxes while another prospective law will validate tax sales most of the big legislation of 0 the eleventh session of the legislature originated in the senate measures which were characterized as revolutionary and freak came from the upper body of the legislature and the house devot ed itself largely to legislation desired by the various state departments but for every bill styled as ire revolutionary v alu tio nary introduced in the senate a similar bill was introduced in the house bouse the enacting clauses of all such house bills were stricken out on the last day of the session dan B D shields of salt lake county holds the record as regards number of bills introduced by an individual in the last legislature while W L 1 van wagoner of wasatch did not father a single bill mr shields introduced twenty nine and had eight bills passed at the beginning of the session mr van wagoner announced he would not introduce a bill in the house as he had come to the legislature to kill and not to pass bills |