Show UTAH legislature FINISHES ITS IRK MEMBERS WORK OVERTIME TO COMPLETE THE BUSINESS BEFORE THEM session continued four days ten hours and forty eight minutes 0 over ver the time by law for legislative sessions salt lake anke city the thirteenth biennial session of the lie utah legislature carne to a close at 1018 1048 10 18 monday night march 17 at which time tile the and hau house e adjourned sine dle die by actual time the thirteenth session which began on oil the of january wid officially ended on the of march larch continued 1 with stopped clocks just four days daya ton tell hours find and forty eight minutes over the time allotted by law tor for the legislative ses chons tut hut so far as like records of tile legislature show adjournment came on march 13 among the mot most important measures that received the approval of both houses were the house hill providing fur foil a bond issue of for state high highways a s and for state operation cooperation co with the federal government in the construction of permanently improved roads in the state with tills this Is the senate bill de signaling the state system of state highways and providing for the expenditure of state arid and other funds on road improvements other prominent measures were the bills providing for state coop co op aeration with the hie federal government in soldier settlement work to provide farms and hotnes homes tor for returned soldiers these measures provide for a bond issue of to carry on this work in utah there Is an amendment to the work mens compensation net act raising the ahe weekly benefits for tel temporary d disability 11 1 q 1 from 12 to ag and it a mine tax measure provides for ane assessment of mines on a basis of three tirres tinis tin is their net proceeds one of til tb most important bills to the state is the dern coal lands leasing act which retains in tile the state title to t all mineral deposits in state lands arid and provides fur for tile leasing ot of such lands for operations on a royalty bais bas 1 to the state in the lie line of education Is an act providing for the establishment ot of health education throughout the state with a superintendent of this education arid and the lie placing of school nurses in every public school of the state to guard the health of children and bull build up their physical bodies this legislature enacted what is known as the hie americanization act designed to compel coill attendance 21 ten dance upon school of foreigners and providing schools in which foreigners way may be educated into real american another act Is iq one that pro provides for part tinie time schools for the benefit tene fit of those unable to attend the regular schools mid arid ruining the age of compulsory attendance to IS S years probably the he most important piece of 1 educational leg legislation illation Is iri I 1 the lie I 1 ill education net act enabling the lie state to cooperate with and receive federal funds fun ls and benefits Iene fits in this new departure in lines of education in a health line the legislature pro tided tin an act to enable tile lie state to secure federal aid in control arid and elimination of social diseases provided fur for free clinics throughout the state and another act establishes a home tor for the alie rehabilitation of 0 fallen women the legislature also adopted an eight hour day for working women enacted a blue sky law for the control of stock promotion to eliminate wild matting catt log and it enacted tin an important bill on water rights providing for a general survey and adjudication of the involved and complicated question of writer nater rights throughout the commonwealth an important law to guard cuard against criminal syndicalism and sabotage was also enacted along with a law directed against the progress of bolshevism and other anarchistic tendencies in the form of art an net act preventing the display of tiny any flag of disloyalty the legislators stopped work with the feeling that session which began on the and officially ended on tile the of the month was not at an unlucky session for the state ate in any sense users of ei garets were given rather a kliick on march 14 N when lien both houses passed the southwick lck binti bill the lie measure being sent back to the house for ratification of minor amendments ments where it was killed by a vote of 23 ayes to 34 14 nays 10 in members embers being absent but one vote was lacking to secure adoption smokers may breathe more freely as it was at first reported that the matsuro me tsuro had passed whether the governor signed the bill ls Is problematical the report of the sifting committee submitted to the house just before the recess sunday evening left but four bills on the calendar one of which was a house bill which proposes to giva tile the public comm ishlon greater pou poi er when the sifting committee reported the house went into tin an uproar those who had bills on the list for killing wanted to move inove amendments after the motion had bad been put to adopt the sifting committees Men emendation dation the debate wound up in a free for all with all ail rules suspended sur su r |