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Show Utah Legislature How In Nineteenth Session The Utah legislature in its nineteenth nine-teenth session lias moved in a delib erate fashion and at the end of the second week of the session still had delved but lightly into its program. The subject of new amendments to the constitution has been considered consid-ered to some extent. Four questions ques-tions have been under consideration. These are: Affecting trial by jury, schools in the five cities of the first and second classes, qualifications for membership in the legislature, and prohibition. The assortment of subjects is interesting, but none of them has much to do with taxation. Two taxation bills have appeared in the legislature. One has been introduced in both houses. It is the state tax commission's personal income in-come tax measure. The commission forwarded it to the legislature Friday. Fri-day. January 10. It appeared for the first time in the bill Hies of the legislators in printed form Monday, January 20. Another bill from the same commission was submitted to the legislature Monday. If it does not make better progress than the first, it will not be in the bill files until some time in February. There are at least five more bills to come before the state tax commission. The other taxation bill is a measure mea-sure dealing with penalties for false or incomplete reports of property prop-erty assessed. It was introduced by Senator Paul II. Hunt of Keetley. It has been printed, but so far has not received much attention from the committee so far as announced. Monday was the fifteenth day of a session of sixty days, so that at the clcse of the day one-fourth of the present session was passed. So far the legislative mill has ground out and completed one senate sen-ate resolution, which provides a messenger for the governor ; one house bill nnd a house memorial to congress. The house bill spends .$50,000 of the state's money for the expenses of the legislature; the memorial favors the Jones matern-.ity matern-.ity and thild. aid-'bill, which the national senate passed without the urge from ihe Utah legislature, and which is now before the national nation-al house. This memorial awaits the signature of Governor Deru. The first quarter of the session finds twenty-six bills and resolutions resolu-tions introduced in the house If past experience is a guide the total number will be about ten times that number. In the senate there are eighleeeu bills and resolutions also a small patt of what may be expected. ex-pected. Of the eighteen, one, as noted, has been disposed of; the remainder are all alive, and two have reached the senate second reading calendar. They must be debated two times in the senate and run the gauntlet of the entire house process before they become laws. The house, at present, has possession poss-ession of no senate bill. The sen ate has one house measure, and another is on its way to the senate, sen-ate, having been passed by the house, but not yet appearing on the senate lloor. Eight senate bills have not yet been ordered printed, and seven are in committee. House committees still Lave seventeen sev-enteen of the twenty-six measures presented to that body. Of the seventeen, liive are resolutions or memorials and twelve are bills. Of the six remaining, one, as noted, is on its way to the senate, one is in the senate, one has been sent to the governor, one signed, while two are already dead. Of the two one was withdrawn by the author, while the committee drew a substitute for the other. Of special interest is the Joint resolution introduced in the senate sen-ate by Knox l'atierson of Moab which would submit to the voters of Utah the question of wbelher they desire to repeal the sectkni which writes prohibition into the constitution of t'tah. The section the Moab senator would rciK'al was approved by the peopie in the general election of November 5, VJ1S, and became effective ef-fective January 1, lUl'J. Utah, however, had state-wide prohibition before that time, having hav-ing passed the law practically in its present form in the legislature of 1017. Prohibition was effective state-wide in Utah before the famous fa-mous eighteenth amendment was adopted. Senator 1'atiersou does not propose pro-pose to alter the present prohibition prohib-ition laws of Utah. The resolution Would simply take prohibition out of the basic Jaw of the state. This ihe senator from Moab points out, leaves the qusctiou entirely en-tirely iu the hauls of the legisla ture. |