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Show " VVER HOUSE TG HOLD 10 SMS DAILY Twenty New Measures Pile Up on Already Crowded Calendar. TOLTON ASKS SPEED One Hundred Bills Are Now in Hands of the Various Committees. Lj A flood of twenty new bills deluded the house of representatives yesterday and. with fourteen measures on the calendar and thirteen more added during the day, it was decided by the house to hold two ; Tions daily from now on. j Speaker Tolion called attention to the ; manner in which the work of the house is piling up and especially to the influx of j new bills as the time for introduction of measures draws to a close. . Under ! the rules of the house, bills may be in- i troduced to and including the forty-fifth day of the session, which gives just seven more days for introduction of new measures. There are about 100 measures now in the hands of committees and, with the introduction of new hills coming at the rate of yesterday, the speaker saw indications indica-tions of the house leing swamped, as is usual at the close of a session. He urged that the house eliminate all unnecessary proceedings, attend to business strictly mid try to rush business through. He raised strenuous objections to a tendency on the part of house members to call for reconsideration of action on adverse committee com-mittee reports and declared that in the future it would be out of order. Bounty Funds Bill. Representative Hammond of Grand introduced in-troduced a substitute for his H. B. No. 1", formerly withdrawn, which relates to bounty funds. Tne new bill provides an appropriation of $30,000 annually instead of $50,000 for I'Oimty purposes, and the bounty fund is ex tender! to cover jack rabbits, prairie dogs, ground squirrels and gophers. The bounty on jack rabbits is 5 cents each and on t he other animals enumerated 2 rents each. The bounty cn bears, mountain moun-tain lions, cougars and wolves is $25 each. The headless ballot bill, which was formerly for-merly introduced in the senate and killed in the house, was resurrected in amended form yesterday and introduced in the house by Representative C. M. Hecker of Salt Lake. The amendments make but slight changes from the provisions of 'the original bill. H. B. No. by Southwick, provides an increase in the maximum tax that may be levied by counties for relief of the indigent from to 1 mill on the dollar. Counties to Benefit. H. B. No. HO, by Southwick. amends the present-delinquent tax sale law to provide that penalties must be paid to the county treasurer by the purchaser and the money shall accrue to the benefit '"f the county. Kr. B. No. 141. by Allen, makes the op-etauon op-etauon of "confidence games" a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison from one to ten years. H. B. No. 142 by Berg, is a duplicate of the Southwick measure increasing the tax levy for indigents to 1 mill on the do'lar. H. B. No. 143. by McKay, provides a tax on dogs In districts outside of cities and towns in the same amounts as are charged in the cities. H. B. No. 144, by McKay, provides that every Saturday afternoon from May 1 to November 1 of each year shall be a legal holiday. H. B. No. 145. by Berg, exempts from taxation hospitals where the Indigent sick are treated, even though t they are required re-quired to pay their actual expenses of care, or are treated free. H. B. No. 14R, by Cardon. is an act authorizing au-thorizing the creation and operation of city planning commissions in all incorporated incor-porated cities of the state, these commissions com-missions to outline nlans for development and beautification of the towns and cities. School Property Insurance, H. B. No. 1 47, by Greenwood, creates a. state insurance district for the insurance insur-ance of the public school property of the state. The property is to be insured at f per cent of its value and the rates are to be determined by the board of education educa-tion in conjunction with the state insurance insur-ance commissioner. The school districts are to pay premiums to the state, which limnpv ivlll Ina in'outprl in scl inn! hnnHi; Tn case of fire loss, the insurance commissioner com-missioner will assess the damage and the slate treasurer will draw -a warrant on i the insurance fund to pay the loss. I H. B. No. 14S, by Argyle, is a duplicate dupli-cate of H. B. No. llf. by Southwick, mak- I ing the payment of penalties on delin- fluent tax sales to the treasurer to ac- erne to the county. H. B. No. 149. by McKay, is the personal pparch and seizure clause stricken out of the prohibit ton bill in the senate, incorporated incor-porated in n separate act and introduced. This bill provides for the search of persons per-sons and seizure of liquor, without war-ram war-ram of court. IN It. B. No. 150, by Cnrrte, provides for I e registration and licensing of moving r tenure machine operators. Tt creates a . board of examiners of three persons ap pointed by the governor. They are to receive re-ceive 54 a day for time actually spent in their work. The examining fee for operators op-erators is $5. ' x Vould Close Amusements. H. B. No. 151. bv Young, is designed to eliminate the defect in the present public , school teachers' retirement fund associa tion law which it is thought might render ren-der the old law invalid and cause it to t he declared so if it were tested in the j courts. Under the old law certain teach- ' crs were exempt from the deduction from ( their salaries which was required of oth- 1 crs to make up the retirement pension fund. The new law makes all teachers amenable to this deduction and thus the :il'eged unconstitutional point of the old law is eliminated. H. B. No. ir2. by McKay, is a new bill on Sunday closing, which places the ban on theaters, moving picture theaters, baseball parks and '"other places of -business. " Under this bill any person who keeps open "any place of business" on Sunday for the purpose of transacting business is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of from h to H. B. No. 15i3, by Berg, is a bill for a uniform law relating to extradition of an insane person. W. B. No. lf.4, by Greenwood, Is an act to authorize the University of Utah to conduct extension work throughout the state, make surveys, gather data showing show-ing the resources of the state bearing upon questions of public interest and to supply such information to persons, associations, as-sociations, public officials and others. The bill carries an appropriation of $50,000 to cover expenses of this work for the I blennium. Game Protection. H. B. No. 155, by Greenwood, is an act to promote co-operation between the University of Utah and the Agricultural college on the one hand and state officials offi-cials and departments on the other, to authorize these institutions to do work for the state departments in the line of experiment and research and to co-operate in other ways to develop the state, to Improve civic and social conditions and to gather and compile statistics of benefit bene-fit to the state. The act provides for a commission of public service and bureau of information and provides an appropriation of SIS. 000 for expenses. The commission of public service is to be composed of three members, mem-bers, one appointed by the governor and the other two by the two schools. The one named by the governor Ms to be known as the state commissioner of public pub-lic service and is to receive a salarv of $3000 a year. The other two are to be paid by the schools such salaries as the schools elect. The commission is to establish es-tablish and operate the bureau of information. infor-mation. H. B. No. 156, by the fish and game committee of the house, is a general act governing the protection of fish and game in the 'state. The bill is a recodification of the present fislvend game laws, providing pro-viding for designation of public hunting grounds, creation of bird sanctuaries and making regulations governing hunting and fishing in the state. The proposed act makes it unlawful to use "sneak boats" in the hunting of ducks. |