Show twelfth SES S 10 I 1 tomes TO CLOSE UTA UTAH LAWMAKERS OVER ivr ft TIME W WRESTLING R E STI nd WITH PROBLEMS OF INTEREST TO STATE I 1 91 penal act which checks off last lart of platform pledges but butone one la Is solute solution tl on of states St hies revenue problem salt ala lake ke cily after meriting about sixty hours overtime the clock having eving been figuratively stopped since midnight of march ath the twelfth utah legislature adjourned sine die at 12 1240 40 sunday morning march 11 the final act of the legislature was the adoption of the occupation tax as a solution ol of the state revenue problem inthe in uie senate senator dern moved that the mhd senate adjourn sine glad die at blelock Suh sunday day morning au aaa president runk dunki Clai finished shed signing a nura number berof of bills from the house engrossing committee in ithe ahe house dr grace stratton alrey made the motion t to 0 adjourn sine die at 18 0 49 sunday morning with the adjournment of the legislature a revenue measure having been passed a special session of the legislature was 1 declared feel ared ur unnecessary n ece sary by th e conier conservative fenbers of both houses and by governor dam bamberger berger who w was on oni the tae job until the two houses notified him that they were ready to quit the labors of the tha session governor Bam Bm iberger Is quoted as saying the legislature 6 Is fortunato fortunate in ila having been ibern able todo to do so much for the benefit ol of the state the damoc atac part yand and the administration have redeemed the ithe pledges they made to the people we have a statewide state wide vide prohibition law which will too ibo enforced by the governor we have a pullo public utilities commission a work mens compensation act and we leave nave guaranteed for the construction of roads I 1 the legislature has ber performed formed its duty in the highest patriotic sensed sense 1 differences of opinion have arisen but in the end the legislature did that which Is right the majority majora ty ruled I 1 no 40 one has any apologies to offer aln and d I 1 believe every member can go home satisfied that he has c contributed something to th the progress and development ot of utah 1 W funk president dent of the senate declared we have given everything the platform called for or the administration pledged itself for we have enacted I 1 laws aws bof for the benefit benefit of the people and we have given the state a progressive legislation as a a result ot which we hope the state stale will prosper we have not been able to go into the details of the laws but we have gon gone 0 far other legislatures are coming and chope they vili do as well 1 I will go home well satisfied for I 1 know we have fulfilled our promises to the of utah with regard to remedial and progress progressive fv legislation said speaker J F tolton dewent we went as far as we possibly could in the 1 way of making good our pledges there was a barrier in the way that c could not ie be entirely overcome and that barrier Is the constitution itself we have kept the faith we gave our best thought to all measures and went fairly on record I 1 am proud of the honor that was finein mine in ing over the house during the session of the legislature which has just adjourned the important measures that received the anal approval appi oval of both houses diering the twelfth session were statewide state wide prohibition bill effective august 1 1917 public util itea commission bill carries barries appropriation bill of Work mens compensation bill carries appropriation of corrupt practices act limits campaign expenditures Inita initiative tive and referendum law bond issue of for build indof ing of good roads in outlying counties irrigation district bill to get federal federa I aid d in the development of arid linds lands clayton antitrust anti trust law and bills at af dalbor appropriation bill carrying appropriation of for ogden exposition in 1919 r 4 1 creation bf ofa a budget system for the state starting in 1919 occupation tax on mines collecting 1 tor fo every employee excepting la ia borers and imposing a net inet production tax althree at three times athenet thenet the net proceeds of mines tor for 1917 and thrice the net ajo proceeds thereafter increasing the state levies to io the constitutional limit of aills 5 mills increasing the justices of the supreme court from three to five giving powers to corrections board io 0 oust state prison warden without cause constitutional amendment tor forstate statewide ide prohibition constitutional amendment for tax ing mines at a multi multiple pleon on anub a sub muli during the twelfth session the senate passed 76 measures and the house 66 the governor signed 34 bills that came from the senate and 19 11 that originated in the house while he has 34 senate and 19 house bills billa before him which he will either approve orveta orvet or veto 6 governor damberger bamberger won his fight against an income tax and ana for a law 19 w taxing the mines of the he state on a ivalu valuation atlon of three times ameir their net proceeds the governors battle was waa success successful fui whenn when the legislature on the eve of its sine die dia adjournment passed the occupation tax wn os minea and mining claims S it IL Th thurman inman former damoc Democrat HO lo state chairman and valentine gideon one of the foremost attorneys at the weber webe county bar were appointed judges of the th e supreme court on march by governor bamberger Dain berger |