Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-02-22 | Page 16 | Upper House Votes $2,000,000 for Roads

UPPER HOUSE VOTES K,0UO FDR ROADS j Senate Approves $50,000 Appropriation for Indian War Veterans. . The colons of the upper hou.-e ;-esteriJay boosted the prupobed Jl,u'iJ.u'ni i.ond issue for coed T-oads to S.OOrt.nno, appi-oe-I a , $5''i.fiiii'i npiiropi'iation fen- tin- Indian war! 't".eriiris and proposed to h piroprj,i te an- ! other 1"'"'.0I,U to tiie fo'dt-n jubik-e t-ele- j hration planned to be held a t Oaden in i 'I'bcy approved Representative Young's resolution to nail do ti pmhibit Ion in I'tali by a constitutional amendment and to apnrove a memorial to conreFS ask-ip'-,' tor a relriilnirsc-rnent of iv'K the amount distributed among Vo Indian wir veterans during tlie p-nst four years. K' it th proliit.ition am"-n.1uieiit did not cei through without a fw blue pencil nijirks. l-'irpr. tbf senators (iisovercd 1 that Representative Tonus, in bis anxiety anx-iety to make tiic state forever dry, bad tn ngled h.is words so t hat lie prolubi tod only in tox ir-a ling liq uors of one - half of 1 per centum of alcohol or lf-s. The, remedy was quickly app'ied ail an at-1 tempt was mad to eliminate, malt and brewed beveratrs from the proposed j mntiment. T-.e proposition was voted down. When it '-amp to iriving Hty counU" power to do m nni 1 1 a 1 hiiprovf-n-.enr and refiair work' o'her tiian hy contia'-t. however, how-ever, ti'f senators t iqhttn-d up n lit tb-on tb-on the purse strittL-s. They derided that work involving not rnorer. hnn S-f' would be all right for cities of the third c'ass, because such cities seldom have contractors con-tractors to uniertaUe tlie work. R'tt they balked on leaving f.vrin v;orth of work entirelv in tiie hands of city councils coun-cils of citks of tlie second class and reduced re-duced the maximum to $f'iu. An a t -tempt to lower Jiie maximum of Hts nf the first class from Ji'UK'O to $4"00 failed, but Senator Armstrong offered an amendment amend-ment to make the amount J.'itViri, and when that failed he tried J'v'iCtO and gained his point. Sonata hill No. 44, relating to motor vebi-do equipment, was amended to allow al-low the present statute to Maud, which grants a non-resident the privilege of operating an automobile under a nonresident non-resident license for a period of thirty days. Represent a t ive fazler's bill extending the time for perfecting titles to town-sltcs town-sltcs five ypu rs also was approved and returned to the lower lions". Tlie (senatorial skv be (.'an to cloud-when the hiil a ppropria t ing .$".0,00f to Indian war veterans appe.ared on the calendar. Most of those who opposed the S100,nftn a ppropria' Ion for a monument to the Mormon battalion did not look favorably upon the bill, but the most luirprising feature was that somo of the supporit-rs of the monument bill oppose, i the a p-propiiatlon p-propiiatlon for the war wtmns. The latter took the stand that It was a do' t v.'hJch s'-iould be set fled by the federal government and not the stnt. I'reci'lenr ink and Senator Pergmlllr 'opposed the fi ppropria.ticm and voted ! ayalnst the hill. Senators C ibnn and Pfpsndller mixed in ! a sort of roimii and tumble bv way of the riM'atp rout when the Salt T.ake Fenafor n,-ked poinii'dlv whv hi colleague was so anxious onlv two dnvs before to obtain a. s 1 Ct. i mi a a f i propria t ion for a mom i men t v.--r.m half the jtmotmt conlrln't be ep;ired from f he si a te t reasnry fur I lie rc-ii'ii of the livinT. The next s'-slon of tho n.iio wdlt be hfpl at 2 o'lo' k tonmrrnw arienioon. At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning the public affairs e om m i 1 1 ee hn, iinotlu r liejn- ing on the workmen's compensation lull.