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Show MOTOR VEHICLE TAX BILL ISJFPflED FIXES MINIMUM AGE LIMIT FOR RUNNING AUTOMOBILES AND MOTORCYCLES. Congress Asked to Appropriate Three Hundred Thousand Dollars for Eradication of Wild and Predatory Preda-tory Animals. The house passed three bills and killed eight at the session on February Febru-ary 20. The greater part of the time was taken up with reading of committee commit-tee reports and introduction of new bills. The bill by Ir. R. Browning, which provides for an annual license tax to be paid the state by owners of automobiles auto-mobiles and the licensing of chauffeurs, chauf-feurs, was passed after being amended amend-ed so that no one under 16 years of age may run an automobile or a motorcycle. mo-torcycle. Chauffeurs must be 18 years of age. The bill provides that all machines under forty horsepower shall pay $10 a year license and that all macntnes of more than forty horsepower shall pay $20 a year license. Motor trucks and other motor vehicles are taxed at $15 a year. Motorcycles pay $5 a year. The number plates must be obtained from the secretary of state and til is official also issues chauffeurs' licenses. The house suspended the rules and passed S. J.'M. No. 5, by Senator John W Thornley, which asks congress to appropriate $u00,000 for -the eradication eradica-tion of wild and predatory animals. The discussion on 3. B. No. 53 took up the greater part of the afternoon and resulted in the enacting clause being stricken out, which effectually effectual-ly killed the bill. The bill provided that an assistant librarian be appointed appoint-ed to aid the justices of the supreme court. Parley P. Christensen was the only lawyer in the house to vote against the bill. S. B. No. 5 by W. Mont Ferry, appropriating ap-propriating $6,000 for the orphans' home, passed without a dissenting vote or without debate. Legislators have now had their last excuse for adjourning early in the day taken from them. On Friday there was moved into a room next to the house chamber a miniature restaurant res-taurant and only a small part of the legislators went downtown for lunch. Five bills were passed by the senate sen-ate on February 26, after the morning session which was taken up with the killing of the bill providing for the making of public improvements without with-out letting contracts. One bill permitting the district attorney at-torney to incur necessary expenses in criminal nrosecutions was passed as was another permitting district attorneys at-torneys to appear in misdemeanor cases and preliminary hearings when he so desires. Senator Charles Cottrell's bill abolishing abol-ishing the state board of examiners of barbers was passed. This bill I makes the regulations of barbers ! about the same as heretofore, but it I provides that the examining and issuing is-suing of certificates shall be done by county hoards of health and that the fees shall go to the general funds of the various counties. The firemen's pension bill introduced intro-duced by Senator L. B. Wight was passed without opposition and the bill by Senator Joseph Chez providing for a police pension fund was reported favorably. Seven bills were passed by the senate sen-ate at its first morning session on February Feb-ruary 24, and then came the Rideout bill for rural co-operative savings banks, ending the work for the day. The bills passed included those recommended recom-mended by the governor to require state boards and institutions to pay their receipts monthly to the state treasurer. The bills were all brought out and generally placed back in their original form and passed without opposition. op-position. Opponents of the co-operative bank plan sought to "amend the bill to death," but only a few changes had been made when a call was made for roll call on final passage and the senate sen-ate adjourned before the vote was taken. Two bills were introduced, one providing pro-viding for the biennial roads appropriation appro-priation and the state road commission commis-sion and the other providing for a range of two or more paving materials when advertising for paving bids. Two bills were killed and fifteen more were placed on the calendar. Of the bills reported favorably, one by Senator Evans provides for the application ap-plication of the Torrens land system to Utah whereby the state may guarantee guar-antee titles. Both of the bills intended to legalize legal-ize the practice of drugless healing were reported unfavorably. There was an hour's debate in the house on February 24 on Goodwin's bill to' appropriate $1,000 for a commission com-mission to select a site for a monument monu-ment to the Mormon battalion, but the bill was finally approved. H. B, No. 126, by Mrs. Elizabeth Hayward, prohibiting children under the age of 16 from working In any gainful occupation more than . nine hours a day, also created extended argument. ar-gument. Exceptions to the law are domestic employment, farming and packing of fruits and vegetables. The bill was passed. |