Show legislators now at work nearly all the senators and representatives for the legislature generally bring a varied assortment of concoctions concoct ions to be turned straightened squared X into fine legal t paragraphs and started toward a commit committee teu room among the most important matters which are sched scheduled aled 1 for legislative action are the proposed amendment to the united states constitution on tho the income tax the division of the state into two congressional distri districts cis according to the census oi of 1910 the reapportionment of the state into senatorial and representative districts according to the census of 1910 legis lotion lation under the constitutional amendment on education the adoption of a method of starting Dg the erection of a state capitol bul building liling proposed liquor measures the election of a united states senator an appropriation for the care of roads and bridges in the counties in the extreme southern ou thern part of the state and a change in the present system of poll tax TO AMEND PENAL CODE the alarming increase in in tho number of highway robberies in the state during the part two years is res responsible pon for the bove rily ity of a bill which which clarid Y russel member for salt luke lake county will introduce in the house the bill provides that the punishment for shall bo not less than three years or more than 14 years but if the robbery is committed with a dangerous weapon the penalty runs five to life the bill amenda section of the revis 0 O stat utes and reads sue see I 1 punishment ashment ish ment mout every person guilty of robbery except as hereinafter provided shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary y for a term of not less than throe years and not more then fourteen 04 every very person guilty of robbery if he is armed with a dangerous weapon with intent if resisted to kill or aim such perdon or boins baina so armed he strikes him ur or if ho be has any confederate present so armed to ade or abate such robbery he hall be imprisoned in the for any term of years not less than five years for life another bill which will bo be in produced trod in the senate will be ono one calling for a greater penalty for tho the carrying of concealed weapons in the co cose se of the foreigners who usually carry con coaled weapons the sheriffs of the various counties complained for a number of years and have end endeavored elvored to secure logi legislation that would prohibit the practice the proposed bill calls for an amendment of the present statute making the carrying of concealed weapons a miss demeanor punishable by not less than ia 30 days in jail and a fine of 25 and not to exceed a jail sentence of 90 lays days and a fine of ea 0 0 |