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Show SIFTING COMMITTEE TO BEGIN ACTIVITIES A 1 bl Is In the house remaining In the hands of the standing: committees except the appropriations committee will be transferred to the s ftlng committee at the commencement of the session at 10 o clock this forenoon. The sift nft com mlttee will reign supreme from now on until th close of the session In the house The members of the committee, as announced b the speaker estrdaj are Wilford Day of Iron Charles R. Ma bey of Davis C I "Warnick of Utah George D Folkman of W eber M Griffin Jr of Cache J Louis Brown of Salt Lake and D H. Morris of IV ashing ton There are not many bills remaining in the committees of the house Most of them have already been reported and are either ki led or are on the remarkably long calendar that confronts the men bers The sifting committee wi 1 not only take upo its If all of the duties of the standing committees of the house, 8a e the appropriations committee but It will also have referred to It all bills v,n ch are passed by the senate and sent to tl e house The standing committees of the house will continue to exist, though shorn of most of their functions The committees, however may still Introduce bi Is ana resolutions and conduct investigations |