| Show IGI GARETTE BILL BY HOUSE rhe COFFIN NAIL TO HAVE SAME STANDING AS BOOZE IN STATE OF UTAH measure makes it unlawful to sell or advertise cigarettes or cigarette papers or to smoke in public places the southwick anti cigarette bill passed the lower house of the utah legislature on february 24 4 it had previously been approved by the senate and will become it a law ninety days from the lie date the governor signs the bill adjournment followed the passage of the bill for so many wen members ibers left the hall of the house for a smoke that a quorum was lacking the bill passed Is one making it unlawful to sell cigarettes and cigarette te papers to advertise cigarettes and cigarette papers to permit minors to smoke ke in certain places ot of business tor for any person to smoke in certain enclosed public places five bills including the antl anti bigar ette measure passed the house february 24 no new bills were added to the calendar one memorial also passed and one bill was killed reducing the third reading calendar to that extent one measure was taken from the calendar and decow bitted thirty four rol calls punctuated the sessi sessions ont of the utah state senate on february 21 24 2 1 As a result it u was as found that the senate had taken final action on fourteen bills and had passed twenty two from the second reading calendar to the third representative parker of 0 cache county introduced a bill in the lower house of the utah legislature on february 23 which should it become a law would prevent amusements ot of any kind within the state on sunday the bill is designed to prohibit any manner of entertainment exhibition or amusement on sundays find and to prevent at all times the showing ot of any motion picture in which there Is cigarette sm smoking oking under it its provisions sunday baseball and all other exhibitions and amusements are arc prohibited the blue sunday feature of the bill is the most sweeping and drastic ot of the kind ever proposed in the state theatre owners find and other amusement officials declare that it if the measure Is adopted it will result in the closing ot of all motion picture and vaudeville theartres theatres the atres in the state as well its as the ruin of owners of baseball franchises tan avalanche of last minute ball s descended upon the house ot of representatives senta tives on february 23 the last day of the session for introduction of measures except by unanimous consent or suspension of the rules forty eight bills and one memorial were introduced trod the latter passing both the house and senate under suspension of the rules the memorial asks that cam congress gress take out of the amended transportation act the provisions threatening threaten ipg control by the states of intrastate rates of public uti utilities litle the e senate passed the teachers pension bill after much debate and explanation taxation of oil produced in the state of utah is provided for in a bill introduced in the house ot of representatives february 23 by james D thorne of utah county for expenses of the international soil products exposition to be held in salt lake this year representative day has bas introduced a bill p providing for an appropriation of representative proposed income tax bill was introduced february 23 and with it a companion measure designed to repeal any possible conflicting statutes the thorne bill provides that in addition to the normal property tax there shall be levied a normal tax of 2 per cent upon the net income of every person in the state the house passed two bills february u 23 nos and both by douglas the first provides for punishment for unlawful and the second provides for compensation for attorneys appointed by the court to defend in impecunious cases anses figures would seem to indicate that the utah state senate is rather closer up to its work ot of the present session than Is tte tt e house of representatives but with the flood ot of bills that I 1 has as been introduced in both houses in the last two weeks there Is now every indication di that either the legislative clock will stop or else there will be a wholesale hole sale use of the guillotine about march 10 of the measures senate bills and thirteen senate resolutions resolution or memorials introduced prior to february 23 the senate has taken taken final action on sixty three the lower house of the utah legislature ou february 21 passed passa the alie measure increasing motor car licenses fees and limiting vehicle loads on the paved highways of the state the author of the measure representative Seeg mil ler said that hat it was anticipated that it would increase the motor vehicle license receipts to some extent this I 1 year but nothing in comparison to what the increase would be next year when every ve car owner would b be required to pay the higher fees K if was expected lie he said to add approximately gwoon COO to the annual revenues |
