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Show PUIS Ifj ID DAY S II ON MUE5 House Judiciary Committee, Commit-tee, Without Quorum, Considers Bills. Despite the absence of a majority of the committee, four members of the judiciary committee of the house worked all day on the bills before the committee, discussing eight or ten measures and proposing amendments to them. The absence of several members mem-bers of tho committee prevented it from taking formal action on any of the bills, but it is likely that as a result re-sult of the work of the committee sov-oral sov-oral bills will be reported out of committee com-mittee tomorrow. Among those discussed at yesterday's yester-day's committee meeting were the Morris bill, prohibiting the furnishing of drugs or ''dope" by anyone to prisoners eithor in the state prison of convict road camps; the Burton anti-gambling anti-gambling bill and the Shields bill increasing in-creasing the membership of the supreme su-preme court. The members of the committee present pres-ent at yesterday's meeting were Chairman Chair-man D. H. Morris of Washington, Dan B. Shields and George F. Goodwin of Salt Lake, and B. D. JTcbeker of Uinta. Absent members of the Yoinmittee were P. P. Christensen of Sa.lt Lake, O. F. MeShane of Beaver,. C. E. ilabey of Davis, Joseph Fowles of Wetber, and Lawrence Blackett of Juab. Chairman Morris was somewhat put out at the absence of so many members of his committee and announced that he was going to take them to task on Monday tor their 'Absence. Several important apportionment bills are now before the judiciary committee. com-mittee. They will probably be taken up as a special order of business early this week. Several of the country members of the legislaturev are inclined to favor the Pope bill, giving each county in the state, without reference to size, one senator and to give to each county one representative, with an additional representative for each 7300 of population. This would reduce Salt Lake's membership in the senate from five to one and increase its representation rep-resentation in the house from ten to nineteen. . Some favor a combination of the Pope and Ennis bills, retaining Pope's idea about one senator for each county, and also the Ennis plan of dividing each county having more than one representative rep-resentative into representative districts. |