Show UTAH MAY HAVE EXT EXTRA SESSION I GOVERNOR DERN ENDEAVORING TO SOLVE TANGLE IN LEGISLATION Land Commission And Appropriation Measures May Require Extra Session of Legislators Salt Lake Unless Unless some wa way can be found through mandamus proceedings proceedings proceedings proceed proceed- ings through the court or through legal legal le le- gal construction to unravel time the tangle tangle tan tan- gle In which the Sixt Sixteenth legislature loft left matters Governor George II H. Dern Bern may have to call a special session session ses ses- sion of or the legislature which it is believed most niost citizens in time the state will ill disapprove The Thc manner in which the appropriation tion bill hill and the land lund commission hills bills are written furnish a problem and possibly the time only solution willbe will willbe willbe be by way of new legislation and this would necessitate an extra session of ot the legislature which would cost a considerable sum Governor Dern is empowered under the constitution to convene the legislature legislature legislature leg leg- in extra session when an emergency arises and this is 18 done by lIy proclamation which sets forth just what the call Is for and no other business business bus hus- iness except what is stated in the call or which the time governor go may suggest suggest sug BUg gest can be he transacted except that the legislature may pass palS an appropriation measure providing for tor the expense of the special session There have haye been heen two extra sessions of or time the legislature One was called just after statehood when the date for the convening of the first legislature legislature legis legis- lature was omitted in the tho constitution constitution constitution tion and the other in 1919 when Governor Governor Gov Gov- Bamberger convened the legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature to meet in special session for fOl forthe the time purpose of acting on the proposed amendment to the time constitution of or the United States extending the right o of suffrage e to women The amendment was wag ratified in joint resolution No 1 1 which was passed October 2 approved I ed on October 3 1919 and in effect I Ion on that date The vote yote ratifying Ing the amendment was In the senate ayes 17 absent 1 1 In the time house ayes 40 10 absent C. C In all two twenty bills were passed and became laws which included an appropriation bill for contingent expenses expenses expenses ex ex- of an appropriation for erection of ot additional buildings at the time state mental hospital and providing for Cor a state securities bill the measure measure measure meas meas- ure supplanting the time law enacted at atthe atthe atthe the regular session previous In addition a proposed amendment to the constitution of the time state was passed relating to the time rights of oC action action ac ac- tion titan to recover damages for injurIes injuries injuries ies resulting In death and which was I submitted to the people at the time next general election the same to become I effective January 1 1 1921 also a senate senate senate sen sen- I ate joint memorial memorializing congress congress cori- cori con con- i gress to pass legislation necessary to quiet title to mineral lands Included I II I in the time sections of ot public lands granted grant grant- ed the state under the enabling act I i iI and a house joint memorial favoring I the ratification of the treaty treat of ot peace i I with Germany German the league leacue 0 of nations to enforce peace The special session convened on September 20 O 1919 and adjourned I site sino die October 6 1919 I |