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Show SUFFRAGE RATIFIED BY HOUSE, NOW GOES TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE ! Representatives Pass Joint Resolution Urging I Speedy Ratification of Peace Treaty by ' United States Senate. E, n. ra ukU-h o er methods of procedure, whether bills shoubJ ue printed or typewritten, whether the legislature has authority to . anthori-e the payment of its own I expenses, who has tiie i-ls'U to determine what the state constitution says and does not say, and a score of other questions so occupied the attention of Utah's lawmakers law-makers yesterday thai the second day of ; the special session in ihc lower bouse pnss-ed with little actually accomplished. Consideration of two measures to make more drastic the punishment of automobile automo-bile thieves took up most, of the time of the senate during the day, and the upper house adjourned without havins taken final action on any of the measures before be-fore tt. The outstanding feature of the day was the ratification of the woman's suf fracte amendment to the national constitution by the house, following its ratificaion in the senate. Speaker John E. Ileppler called Mrs. Anna T. Piercey of Salt Lake to the chair when the amendment was taken up for consideration, and to Mrs. Piercey fell the honor of presiding during the passage of the ratifying resolution. The other two women memherH of the : house, Mrs. Delora W. Blakely and Dr. I Orace Stratton Airey. both made brief addresses, ad-dresses, expressing their satisfaction that they had an opportunity to vote for the national enfranchisement of women, I ported in from tiie joint legislative committee com-mittee v hb 1) took up the bids reom-mendd reom-mendd by tiie governor for passage. Tills bill makes dynamiting iiiegai as a means , of catch i ng r:sh in the strea ms of the j sta f e. Th is provision was Inadvertently I omitted from the fish and game law i parsed at the last session. The bill was I parsed by the lower house, 41 to 3. I Another snag was struck when house bill Na ,1 was reached. It proposes to Increase In-crease the powers of the state loan commissioners com-missioners so as to permit them to purchase pur-chase a tract of lard adjacent to the capitol grounds. Some of the members of the house became worried over the constitutionality and form of the bill, j because' Representative Morris said his committee had not had time to examine the measure. The fact that the bill came from the stale board of loan commissioners, commission-ers, which had the advice of the attorney general, seemed to have had no effect. Consequently, after extended debate the bill was referred to the corporations committee, com-mittee, of which Mr. Morris is chairman, and ordered printed. House bill No. 4, amending the public utilities law to allow a higher charge in certain instances for shorter railroad hauls, was referred also to Mr. Morris's committee. Bill to Be Printed. House bill Xo. o was the new "blue sky law," and was introduced by Representative Repre-sentative J. K. Cardon. On motion of Republican Re-publican Leader Croft, the house voted to have seventy copies of each bill typewritten type-written instead of the usual 250 copies printed. Then It was discovered that this new rule ln the case of the securities bill would require 910 pages of typewriting, as the bill was thirteen pages long. After more debate the house agreed to have 150 conies printed. Asks to Be Excused. Representative William O'Neil of Duchesne, Du-chesne, an ardent advocate of woman's suffrage, asked to he excused from vot- ing. on the grounds that some question had arisen as to his eligibility to sit In tiie house, and that he desired nothing to !Sjr the legality of the resolution. Arthur "VWNina, the other member whose eligibility eligi-bility is under investigation, voted in favor fa-vor of the amendment, saving that in case he was declared ineligible he hoped the house would expunge his vote from the records in order to leave them clear. Utah, when Governor Bamberger signs the hill, will be the sixteenth state of the union to ratify the woman's suffrage suf-frage amendment.. During the roll call for the ratification of the suffrage resolution Representative I. H. Masters contributed generously to the day's aeries of delays by insisting upon reading the "reservation speech" which was delivered in the senate Monday by Senator Dern. He was called to order hv Representative William O'Neil. who said it was not necessary to have the speech read, since it appeared in The Tribune, hut Masters refused to desist. Mrs. Piercey instructed the chief clerk to take the speech and read it. and later, when that failed, directed the sergeant-at-arms to stop Mr. Masters. By the time the sergeant-at-arms was located and arrived ar-rived in the chamber Masters had finished fin-ished his interruption of the day's business. busi-ness. Resolution Introduced. A battle between Republican and Democratic Demo-cratic members of the house was precipitated precipi-tated when Representative D. D. McKay of Weber county introduced a joint resolution reso-lution indorsing the league of nations and urging that it be adopted, along with the peace treaty, without reservations. Representative Rep-resentative Charles M. Croft of Morgan opposed the introduction of the resolution, resolu-tion, contending that the legislators could consider nothing except such matters as were officially, brought to their attention by the governor. The reply of Representative Represen-tative McKay was that the constitution specifically stated that special sessions could consider only such "legislative business" busi-ness" as was brought to their attention by the governor, but that nothing wa8 said about resolutions and memorials, which, he contended, were only expressions expres-sions of opinion and not legislative business. busi-ness. After a more careful study of the house rules the matter was brought to a vote. The memorial was passed, the vote being be-ing 30 to 14. with two members absent. Explaining his vote, Representative William Wil-liam W. Seegmiller said he favored the treaty and the league covenant, although he was a Republican, but that he could not vote for a memorial which favored the league of nations without any reservations. reser-vations. Speaker Hepplcr. Representatives Kelly of Tooele. Ouinn of Bingham. Xalder of Lavton and Xielson of San Juan county. coun-ty. Democrats, voted with the Republicans Republi-cans against the memorial, which now goes to the senate for. action. Speaker Heppler said he voted against the memorial me-morial because he doubted the right of the solons to consider It. Text of Memorial. The resolution reads as follows: Whereas, The president of the L'nited States presented to the senate of the United States the treaty of peace .with inclndine the league of nations Just before adjournment Representative Arthur Welling announced that he desired a report from the special Investigating committee on his eligibility to sit in the , session. He said he had refrained from entering actively into the deliberations of the session pending -a report from that committee but he served notice that unless un-less a report was forthcoming tomorrow and the question settled, he would proceed to take an active part In the session. The house reconvenes at 10 o'clock this morning. Consideration of bills designed to curb automobile thieves consumed the greater part of the time of the senate during the two sessions held yesterday morning and afternoon. A delegation from the Utah Automobile association, District Attorney Frank S. Richards and others appeared before the senate to urge the adoption of the measures. Two bills, one that 'would make the stealing of an automobile a felony, and one designed to give the juvenile court authority to deal with delinquents under 18 yer-t of age, were given to a special commiQee for revision and recommendation recommenda-tion to the senate as a whole. Resolving itself into a committee of the whole, following the suggestion made in his message by Governor Bamberger, the senate began yesterday to deal with the legislative program outlined for it by the governor and presented by the joint steering steer-ing committee. Six Measures Read. Six bills in all were read to the senate yesterday morning. These included, in addition to the two atftomoile measures, the $10,000 appropriation 'asked for by the attorney general for investigating of the high cost of living, an amendment to the banking law regarding the payment of fees, another amendment to the banking law regarding the filing of quarterly reports re-ports by banks, and the bill authorizing counties to make appropriations for the ! gathering of data regarding water storage matters. ; Senators Sanford, McKinney and Knight j comprise the committee which will prepare tiie automobile laws in form for presentation presenta-tion to the senate. It is thought that final fi-nal action will be taken this morning on the proposed laws by the upper house. The laws are similar to those introduced at the last session of the legislature by Senator Chez, which were killed in the senate judiciary committee because the members could not agree on the term of "felony," which the law sought to have applied to automobile thefts. The same question came up today and was the occasion of considerable debate. Senator McKinney was strong in his opposition op-position to allowing the law to convict a minor on the charge of a felony. Speaking in behalf of the measure. Bishop David A. Smith, vice president of the Utah State Automobile association, stated that under existing statutes it is impossible to impose a greater penalty than a fine of $25. or a sentence in the reform school for juvenile breakers of the law. He said that Utah has the highest percentage of stolen automobiles of any state in the United States and that last year there were more cars stolen in Utah than in California, with ten times as many automobiles. W. D. Rishel of the Automobile association associ-ation called attention to a bill recently passed by the United States house of representatives, which makes the stealing of automobiles and the taking of them into other states a felony punishable bv one to five years' imprisonment, whether the offender be adult or juvenile. Mr. Rishel said that because of the prevalance of such thefts in Utah the insurance in-surance rate on automobiles in this state is higher than in any other state. F. C. Schramm, also speaking for the association, said that while the automobile automo-bile owners do not wish to insist on the measures presented, that they most sincerely sin-cerely desire the Jegislature to pass legislation legis-lation that will make it possible to cope with the situation. He said that one of the difficulties of the problem is the inability to deal with minors, and that a majority of the "joy I riding" thefts are committed by boys under un-der IS years of age, many of whom are of prominent families. District Attorney Frank S. Richards asked tiie senate to consider the measures favorably, urging that to make the charge a felony would help greatly to solve the problem. As to the imposition of too stringent sentences on minors he stated that the courts would have ample jurisdiction. juris-diction. Walter G. Moyle, now a candidate for admission to the Utah bar, graduate of. Harvard and of the University of Chicago. , and son of James PI. Moyle, assistant sec- : retary of the treasury, is the new docket clerk" in the Utah senate. replacing: Charles J. Hart, who resigned to become chief clerk of the house. While Mr. Moyle's appointment is not yet on the records, he was performing the duties of the office today. covenant,' on July of the present year; and . Whereas. The committee on ioreign relations re-lations of the United States senate has had under consideration the treaty and league of nations covenant for more than 1 two months; and , Whereas. It has now been reported from the committee to the senate, and there is a demand from all parts of the United States that the senate act promptly upon : the same; and Whereas, The delay in its ratification 1 has created and is creating a spirit of j dissatisfaction and unrest among the peo- j pie of the United States, which grows ! more apparent with each passing day of uncertaintv; now therefore, be it Resolved. That the legislature of the state of Utah, in special session assembled, assem-bled, favors the ratification of the said treaty and covenant without reservations, and, believing that such ratification would promote the best interests of the United ! States and promote the liberty and prog- j ress of orderly development of world af- I fairs, and that without such ratification the victory won by our gallant sons who have served the cause of humanity in the late war amidst such carnage and sacri-i sacri-i fice as has at no time in history over-i over-i taken mankind, would have been achieved in vain, and believing that the speedy adoption of the covenant and league will at least minimize the possibility of future wars: therefore, be it Resolved. That your me mora lists respectfully re-spectfully recommend and urge the speedy ratification by the United States senate of the peace covenant and league aforesaid, afore-said, and that certified copies of this nfemorial be sent by the secretary of state j to the president of the United States senate and each of the l'nited States I senators from the state of Utah. j Expense Bill Discussed. The second major argument of the afternoon in the house came when a bill was introduced appropriating 37300 for the expenses of the special session. Republican Re-publican Ueader Croft challenged the right of the legislature to make appropriations when the revenues of the state, he said, j had previously been appropriated past i their limit. He endeavored to have the bill, which the legislators were for passing pass-ing at once, sent to the appropriations committee with instructions to the committee com-mittee to get an opinion from the attorney attor-ney general as to whether the legislature ' could make appropriations. A sharp reprimand rep-rimand was given thoise who had been Hhowing tendencies to block matters with technicalities by Representative F. K. Morrip, but in the end the bill was sent to committee, and the .suggestion made by Representative Johnson and others that unlch.H more speed was shown -57500 would not be enough. Hon He bill No. 'I was ta ken up for immediate im-mediate consideration when it. was re- |