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Show ECKERSLEY OFFERS SUBSTITUTE BILL Bills touehiuc upon education encountered encoun-tered rough weather in the senate j-es-terdav. .Senator Joseph Kckersicy brought up, as a special ordtr. his substitute sub-stitute for senate bill Xo. a, vetoed by the governor. This bill appropriated l."i,000 from tho general fuud to aid schools in districts dis-tricts where the reveuuo is insuflicient. The governor objected to this appropriation appropria-tion from the general fund, llembers of the senate questioned the coustitu-tionalitv coustitu-tionalitv of such au appropriation and declared that the attorney general was of similar mind. Tho substitute bill makes the appropriation appro-priation from the state school fund instead in-stead of the general fund. The author said tho governor would sign it in this form. Senator L. B. Wight brought up the constitutionality of this. Senator William Seegmiller' interpolated a bit of levity by remarking that both houses of this legislature interpreted the constitution con-stitution to suit their own fancy, so whv not pass the bill! The senate was not satisned, though, so the bill was sent to the education committee with the hint that the appropriation be cut in half. Eckersloy's bill providing for a state supervisor of elementary grades, to work under direction of the state board of education at a salarv to bo fixed by that board, was killed, by a vote of 11 to 7. Cottrell's senate bill No. 147, enlarging enlarg-ing the extension work of the Univer-sitv Univer-sitv of Utah and making an appropriation appropria-tion for it, was killed on tho author's owq motion. The bill had been so sharplv 6haved as to appropriation in committee that Senator Cottrell deemed it worthless. |