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Show SIX- MEASURES ARE PiSSy SENATE State Aid for Public Schools Is Embraced in One of the Bills. Six bills were passed in the senate yesterday. Eckersley 's bill giving state aidio schools, a substitute for senate bill No. 2, which was vetoed by the governor, was passed by a vote of 13 to 5. The governor vetoed the first bill because the appropriation was on the general fund. The substitute bill draws, the appropriation from the state schoo; fund, as suggested by the governor. Hansen's bill enlarging the scope oi the farmers' co-operative insurance law. I was passed unanimously. The present law restricts the companies to one county, while the Hansen bill, designed j to aid the less populous counties, pro- I vides for districts of more than one ! county up to a certain population. Thornley 's bill compelling corpora- , tions to give the attorney general no- i tice of transfer of stock or intentions of transfer, was passed without opposi- J tion. It is designed to prevent evasions of the inheritance tax law. A second bill of Eckersley 's to pass was one creating a commission to codify the educational laws of the state and making an appropriation of $500 to defray de-fray expenses of the investigation. Ii provides that the commission submit revisions of the school laws to the next legislature. Chez's senate bill No. 106, designed to prevent the burden of paying labor and for material from falling on own- I ers 'and investors when contractors de-! fault, was passed without opposition. The senate also passed Hideout's senate sen-ate bill No. 120, to give deeds to holders hold-ers of territorial lands under the congressional con-gressional act of 1S07. Many of these holders have never received absolute title to their lands. There was no opposition op-position to the bill on its final passage. Bevan 's house memorial asking congress con-gress to build a government railroad through the Uinta basin of Utah, as it did in Alaska, was laid on the table by a vote of 11 to 6. This, in effect, kills the memorial. |