Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-03 | Page 3 | Intersection Paving Bill is Coming Up

IERSECTI! PAVING BILL lG UP Hearing Will Be Held on Measure in Senate Chamber Cham-ber Tonight Hearing will be held in the senate chamber tonight, beginning at 7:30 o'clock, on the proposed Intersection paving legislation. The hearing will be conducted by the senate committee on county and municipal corpora tions. of which Senator D. O. RIdeout is chairman. Members of the same committee from the house will be present, so the meeting will take on the appearance of a joint hearing. hear-ing. Moreover, it is extremely likely that the public will have only one bill 'to debate de-bate upon. Last week there was some confusion because some citizens were talking about the house bill and some about the senate bill. In the senate yesterday yes-terday Senator J. R. Edgheill. introducer of the original senate intersection bill, introduced another one. which is drawn after the house bill. The latter, by the same token, was drawn under the direction direc-tion of H. J. Dininny, city attorney of Salt Lake City. Probably the senate committee will adopt the latest senate intersection bill, which, as said, js the same as the house bill. This will simplify matters. Pensions Are Favored. Old-age pensions are provided for in a bill introduced in the house vestnrdav by Representative Thomas P. Page of &L'it Lake. The bill provides pensions of $2.50 vev week for all persons more than 70 years of age and for a burial allowance of ?35 for each aged person. Antipass Measure. The first antipass bill to be introduced in the house was presented yesterday by Representative P. P. Christensen of "Fait Lake. The Christensen bill wou'd prohibit pro-hibit the giving of free railway transportation trans-portation to any persons save those connected con-nected with the railroads or with charitable charita-ble institutions. Measure for Firemen. Cities of the first and second class will have two platoons of firemen if the bill introduced in the house yesterday bv Reirreseuiatlve mil S. Lund ot Salt Lake becomes a law. Under the terms 'f tho bill the day platoon will serve ten hoors and the night platoon fourteen hours, the service to alternate weekly.