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Show THIS IS SIXTIETH MT OF LEGISLATURE At Noon the Eighth Assembly of the State fhould Adjourn Without Date. WILL NOT BE DONE, AS CLOCK WILL STOP Then Sauntering Will Begin; Final Adjournment May Not Occur Until Next Week. This is the sixtieth day of tho eighth legislature of Utah, tho dato when tho body should adjourn sino dio. Twelve oJclock, noon, is tho honr when the gavol should fall and tho announcement of final adjournment bo made. But thiB will not bo done. Instead, tho clock will stop in some mysterious manner just boforo noon and from that timo until un-til Saturday night, and it may bo until un-til next wock, thcro will bo saunters instead of recess or adjournment, for it will bo tho long day of tho Bession. Calendar Is Loaded. Meanwhile tho " tho calendar in the houso is loaded, whilo in tho sonato thoro aro a great many measures not yot acted upon. From and after 11:59 o'clock' today thoro will bo a constant light in order to got this or that mcasuro mcas-uro through. Tho sifting committees aro at work I and this morning they will havo sifted I tho chalf and gotten out tho bills that it is expected will pass. Tho latest j bill on the liquor question senato bill No. I-JS, which was introduced by tho committeo on manufactures and com-morco com-morco and which passed tho senate was received in tho houso on Wednesday Wednes-day evening. It was sent to tho sifting committee. That committeo will meet at 9 o'clock this morning and if it reports re-ports the bill it will go at tho foot of tho calendar, below tho Des Moines nlrm bill. No Extra Session. Lale Wednesday ovening thcro was talk that there ought to bo an extra session called, but the govornor, so it was said, absolutely refused to reconvene recon-vene tho legislature. At tho session Wednesday the capitol building bill passed tho house. Some slight amendments wore made to the senate measure, tho salary of the superintendent super-intendent being cut from $.1000 to $2400 per annum. There wero but two dissenting dis-senting votes to tho four measures, Davis and Nelson voting nay on tho first bill and Nelson voting nay on the last one. To Help Salt Lake. Tho bill giving Salt Lake City authority au-thority to make street and sidewalk side-walk and sewer improvements, tho intersections in-tersections of the streets to bo charged to tho property instead of to tho city nt large, was passed after it had been amondod in accord with an agreement with the Salt Lako delegation and the couucilmanic committee. Thcro was a long dobatc over tho bill which provided for a commission to caro for tho adult blind in tho state, several sev-eral members declaring that tho bill created and established another stato institution, but it was finally passed. When adjournment for the day wns taken it was until 9:30 o'clock Thurs-day Thurs-day morning. |