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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE DOWN KRESS FIRST WEEK OF FOURTEENTH SESSION DEVOTED TO PREP- ARATION FOR FUTURE WORK. Senate Will Urge Congress to Pass I Fordney Emergency BillMem- bers Pay Annual Visit to ' Agricultural College. Salt Lake Clty.-Tho I'tal. mto legislature, now In ltH kccoikI ..,.);. is getting down to Imslne, tu. fir.st week of the session being devoted to organization. Tho main events of the first week wero the governor's message, select Inn of committee' and omplojees In both houses, and the approval of the appropriation ap-propriation to cover the expenses of the fourteenlh session. Senator Jen-son's Jen-son's measure, appropriating $.Ti.ouo ! for legislative expenses was signed by ! the governor on January 14. After a lengthy debate on high tar- ! Iffs In general, and tho Fordney emer- i gency tariff bill, now before the na- ( tlonal congress, in particular, the Utah , senate on January 14, decided by n , vote of 1 to 1 to ask congress to pass the Fordney measure. The absentees i were the live senators who made the t trip to Logan to Inspect the Utah Agrl- I cultural college. j Of the three bills Introduced In the I Utah senate on January 17, two add to the functions, powers and duties of c existing state commissions, while the t third Is the Dem measure, providing i n separate and "headless" ballot for election of candidates for Judgeships t or for the offico of state superintendent superinten-dent of public Instruction. Mrs. Elizabeth Hayward, senator from Salt Lake, introduced n bill pro- ' vldlng that the Industrial commission ' shall also he a minimum wage com- ' mission, having for Its object the pro- l tectlon of the health, morals and wel- l fare of women nnd minors employed l In Industry In Utah. I Senator Harrison E. Jenkins an- ' other Salt Laker, brought In n measuro ' creating a state real estate depart- meat of the securities commission, ' nnd providing that all real estate c brokers and salesmen shall take out licenses, under strict regulation, bo- c fore they may operate In Utah. s The regular business of the senate : on January 17, besides the Introduction Introduc-tion of bills, was comparatively brief, hut was featured by the speedy dls- posal of the houso concurrent resold- . tlon providing for an Investigation ftf the slaughter of bison on Antelope Island. Six bills nnd ono memorial were In- troduced In the house on January 17. t Houe concurrent resolution No. 1, j memorializing congress to pass the ( Fordney emergency tnrlff bill as j amended by the senate, was read In i the house and concurrence In the amendment voted unanimously. ( Iteprescntntlve Iverson, lloxehler, ( offered a iiicniorlnl relative to pro- hlbltlng ownership of laud In Utah by ( orientals and It was referred to tho commltteo on Judiciary, The memorial ' contains the resolution recently ( adopted by the American Legion post In Salt Lake and Is to bo followed, It i Is understood, by a bill prohibiting j such alien ownership of land. I Members of tho Utah legislature on January 14 paid their biennial visit '. to the Utah Agricultural college to ( make a survey of the needs of tho In- stltutlon and Inspect buildings and i grounds, as well as observe the work being done by the school. The vlhlt- I ors comprised five senators and flf- ' teen representatives, appointed by the I two bodies. ' Tho report of the Mormon Ilattnllnii commission has been filed with the senate and houso In compliance with tho law creating the commission, com-mission, that It shall report Its pro- , ccedlngs during tho first week of , each biennial legislature. The com- j mission now has on hnnd n total of , $72,357.02 toward the goal of $100,000 , It must secure before tho $100,000 np- , preprinted by tho legislature Is avail- , able for tho erection of tho monu- ment. " I Senate bill No. 0, Introduced by Sen- ator .1. W. refers, would amend tho t compiled laws of Utah, 1017, so ns i to provide for u redisricting of tho r county school districts every ten years. l Only twenty-six members of tno e houso wero In uttendunco nt Friday's session, two moro than tho required I quorum, Sixteen wcro In Logan on n trip of Inspection of the Utah Agrl- cultural collego, and five were excused becnuso of Illness or business. Relief to the agricultural portion of tho states population, nnd particularly J to tho livestock Interests, Is tho nvowed aim of a bill Introduced In j the state senato on January 13 by Sen- j ntor Oeorgo II. Dern. Senntor John W. Peters of the First J district, Including Boxolder nnd Tooolo rountles, was named Republican floor i -r t by n voto of tho Itepubllcnn ( , In caucus on January IX ( t ore also la the oidy senntor , w i. man of two standing com- ( mlt -ic on education nnd public ( nffa Jui . 'rips throughout Idaho will be i- ' far between, nnd out side tho etnfo they will bo extremely limited under tho provisions of a bill , being prepared by the fctnte affairs . commltteo of tho house. |