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Show IMPORTANT BILLS j 1 II CLOSE RACE! Prohibition and Appropria-1 tion Measures Jockeying ' for First Position. The proposed prohibition bill is likely to meet with ju?t a little opposition for the honor of being bill No. 1 on tho calendar of the 1917 Utah legislature. To this honored position the bill making; mak-ing; an appropriation for the expenses of the legislature has laid claim for many sessions past. The prohibition question, i he majority ma-jority of the legislators are willing to i concede, was all but settled at the polls in November, but the. question of salaries also is of vital moment and of more or less concern. If it is the will of the party leaders, however, and the prohibition bill is ready as No. 3, that honor will be conceded to it but the appropriation bill will follow close on its heels. When the prohibition committee made its report to the general legislative legisla-tive committee last Saturday, the draft of the bill had not bfcen' completed. Some work was done on it yesterday, and, inasmuch as no bills will be presented pre-sented today and probably none tomorrow, to-morrow, the prohibition measure should be ready for introduction as bill No. 1 when business really begins. After the organization of both houses today the question of committees probably prob-ably will be the most important item while awaiting the pleasure of the governor gov-ernor to present his message to the legislature. leg-islature. The message will be delivered deliv-ered bv the governor tomorrow noon. In the senate, according to the plan outlined, the president will be permitted permit-ted to name all the committees. In the lower house, however, this important impor-tant problem is .bei ng handled by a committee on committees which was appointed ap-pointed at a caucus Saturday morning. The house committees have been- reduced re-duced from forty-three to thirty, exclusive ex-clusive of the proposed legislative reference ref-erence committee, by .the rules committee commit-tee appointed by the caucus. The standing stand-ing committees recommended for the twelfth session include agriculture, appropriations, ap-propriations, education and art, banking, bank-ing, claims and public accounts, counties, coun-ties, resolutions and memorials to congress, con-gress, fish and game, highways and bridges, industrial school, irrigation and reservoirs, insurance, judiciary, taxa-tton taxa-tton and revenue, labor, manufactures and commerce. legislative reference, military affairs, mines and smelting, corporations, penitentiary and prisons, public buildings and grounds, public health, public lands, public printing, public utilities, rules, salaries and fees, school for deaf and blind, state mental hospital and engrossing and enrolling. Some of these committees have been tentatively selected, but the selections have not been made public. Tt is understood, un-derstood, however, that Joseph E. Car-don Car-don of Cache county is slated for the chairmanship of the appropriations committee of the lower house. D. D. McKay of Ogden for the chairmanship of the committee on agriculture, and Richard W. Young, Jr.. of Salt Lake for the chairmanship of the judiciary committee. No committees will be named by the president of the senate until therul'i for that body have been adopted. |