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Show CISOllTIl BILL IS KILLED!! HOUSE Measure for New Department Depart-ment Dies by Striking Out Enacting Clause. CIGARETTES TO STAY Compulsory Military Training Train-ing Is Approved by Representatives. Rep-resentatives. Sensing the threatened storm that hoded destruction to the measure, Representative. Rep-resentative. Alma Greenwood of Utah county yesterday sought to withdraw hia H. H. No. lilt, providing for a new consolidated con-solidated health department, but the house refused to lot him do this and wielded the ax itself that killed the bill by striking out ita enacting clause. The measure was presumed to be an administration consolidation measure and was worked out at great length and volume. The education committee worked over the bill a long time, incorporating incor-porating into the health department about half of the departments of the state and placing them under the direction di-rection of the commissioner of health. In addition the health department was given authority, under the proposed law, to regnlat.o " everything from rabies among dogs to the air a person should breathe in a public building. Governor Is Opposed. The governor let it be known that he was not satisfied with this sort of concentration of power into the hands of a commissioner who would have more authority than the governor himself, and the sontiment in the house against the bill grew strong. Mr. Greenwood asked to withdraw the measure, stating that the governor desired two years time to study the matter before putting through any radical consolidation measure. mea-sure. Be asked, however, to make H. B. No. 147, relating to school insurance districts, a special order in its place on the calendar. There was objection to this and the request of the author was denied. The health bill was then opened for consideration and on motion of N alder of Davis the enacting clause was stricken. Creates Purchasing Board. House bill No. 167, by Raleigh, changing chang-ing the personnel of the state road commission, com-mission, by eliminating the two representatives repre-sentatives from the Agricultural college and University of Utah and substituting the attorney general and the state audi-tor, audi-tor, was passed. Rust of Kane gave notice of reconsideration recon-sideration of this bill today. Borden's bill providing for a state board of control to act ns a central purchasing pur-chasing board for all state institutions was passed with little discussion. The board is to consist of three members to be appointed by the governor, at a salary sal-ary of $-1000 a year each. Military Bill Passes. "Representative J. W. McKinney of Salt Lake discovered yesterday that his H. J. M.-No. 2, calling upon congress to submit to the people of the United States a constitutional amendment for direct election of president of the United States, had been lost among the papers of the appropriation committee and was unearthed yesterday morning. He represented re-presented it to the nouse and asked that it be forwarded to the senate at once. This was done. Southwick'sj bill fixing the rates of school taxes that may be levied in cities of various classes was taken up for discussion dis-cussion yesterday, but it was laid over for consideration further ata later time. After considerable discussion in which the labor contingent sought to have sticken from the bill all reference to compulsory military training, S. B. No. ir7, by the joint military affairs committee, com-mittee, providing for compulsory military mili-tary training in Utah between the ages of 'IS and 45 years, was passed bv the house yesterdav afternoon on a vote of H6 to 3. This measure is an amendment to the old national guard law designed to bring the guard of Utah up to the standard of enlistment and efficiency required under the terms of the uational defense act, which makes the state militia a part of the reserve force of tho national army. Currie of Salt Lake sought to have the bill amended so as to eliminate compulsory com-pulsory training. He failed, but the term of compulsory training was reduced re-duced from eix to three years. There was some discussion of Arm-' strong's bill for a state publicity bureau bu-reau of nine members to serve without pay and to advertise the state's development devel-opment and resources. Some thought it was a duplication of the Commercial club's idea already in existence, but the majority of the house thought the proposition prop-osition a good- one and passed the bill. Cigarette Bill Dies. Raleigh's house bill No. 188, authorizing author-izing the state highway commission to co-operate w-ith the federal government in the matter of good road construction construc-tion and in the use of federal money on state highways, was passed. On reconsideration yesterdav morning the house killed H. B. No. 1 SO, by Representative Rep-resentative Edward Southwick of Utah county, prohibiting the sale of cigarettes cigar-ettes in the state of Utah. The bill was recalled from the senate and in a jiffy its enacting clause was stricken. On Thursday of last week the bill was passed by a vote of 2.5 to 11 with ten members absent. The follow-ing day Representative Daisy C. Allen of Salt Lake gave notice that she would call for a reconsideration on the following day. Tobacco Bill Killed. Saturday she sought to get a reconsideration," recon-sideration," but the house was in such a belligerent humor over the educational code bill that she was shut out from offering of-fering her motion. Yesterday morning she made the motion, mo-tion, and though, under the rules; she was barred by lapse of time, she insisted upon being permitted to make her motion mo-tion and the house gave consent. She had no sooner offered the motion to reconsider and it had been carried by a good -majority when Representative C. M. Hecker of Salt Lake moved to strike the enacting clause. Tho motion carried and the speaker declared the bill killed. The local option tobacco bill, designed to give incorporated towns the right to prohibit the sale of tobacco by ordinance, ordi-nance, has been killed in committee. |
