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Show DRY COMMITTEE TO HOLD lii TODAY Young Bill Nears the Final Touches Before Appearance Appear-ance in Senate. MORE PRUNING DUE Coal Investigation Is Scheduled Sched-uled to Get Started Tonight. What probably will be the final hearing hear-ing on the Young prohibition bill before be-fore it is presented to the senate for action will be held this morning at the capitol by the commerce and industries indus-tries committee of the upper house. The committee considered the various provisions of the .bill at au executive session last Friday afternoon and several sev-eral changes were decided upon and other proposed changes were not made pending the result of the hearing today. to-day. The committee will make an effort to have its report ready for presentation presenta-tion this afternoon, but it is possible another meeting will be necessary after the regular senate session this afternoon. after-noon. Chairman H. T. Reynolds of the committee is confident, however, that the bill will be reported back to the senate not later than Tuesday and "will be on the eaJendar for the regular seu-a.te seu-a.te session either Tuesdav or Wednesday. Wednes-day. Real Grind Is On. Other committees, too. have settled down to business and tbe real grind of the session. The judiciary committee commit-tee plans to begin its hearings on the public utilities bill 'and probably the workmen's compensation bill this week. The committee on public affairs has in view the corrupt practices bill and the bill providing for a reapportionment of the representatives and senatorial districts dis-tricts of tbe state. The other committees are fairly well up on their work, the labors of the legislative reference committee de-depending de-depending upon the activity of the various senators in preparing bills for introduction. After the next ten -days the work of the legislative reference committee should be comparatively light if the rules adopted by the upper house are lived up to. The rules provide that no bill shall ,be introduced except through committee after the first thirty days of the session. When the senate convenes con-venes this afternoon it will have" just ten days left in which to introduce bills, except through committees. More Bills to Come. During the first twenty days sixty-five sixty-five bills were introduced and it is probable that as many more will be crowded into the final ten days. Practically Prac-tically all the administration measures scheduled to be introduced in the upper up-per house have made their appearance, the initiative an;d referendum being the only one outstanding. Action on tho measures, however, has been comparatively slow. Not one has been reported back ,bv a standing committee com-mittee as yet. The Young prohibition bill, which' was introduced in the lower, house, probably will be the' first of the : administration measures to come up for action unless the corrupt practices j bill should be reported back this afternoon. after-noon. Two workmen's compensation bills a re in committee, as Is the proposed public I utilities measure. The Clayton anti- I trust bill also is in committee, as well a.y the Woo t ton prohibition bill. j The coal Investigation committee also will start on Us work today. The first region r meeting is scheduled for tonight at' the Hotel Utah. The committee has organized with Senator George H. Deru as rhalrman and Representative J. G. Widdison as secretary. Witnesses are to be summoned with a view to holding h.earings every night this week. An attempt at-tempt will be made to complete the Investigation In-vestigation by the end of the week. Will Lose a Day. The week's work will be cut short at least one day if the programme . is carried car-ried out as outlined. Koth the senate and the lower house dispense with Saturday Sat-urday sessions as much as possible, but this week each house has promised to go to Tosran next Friday as the guests of the t'tah Agricultural college. Jt is hardly hard-ly probable that there will be a session on Saturday. With the exception of one day when the prohibition bill was under fire in the lower house there have been no morning sfssiohs of the legislature. Night sessions, ses-sions, so. far. are. unknown to the session. Unless more speed is apparent than has been shown during" the past three weeks it is. probable that morning and possibly night sessions will be in order about next week. There have been a few committee commit-tee meetings at nigit, but the nm.iority of the extra hours' meetings so far have been held in the. forenoon. Night committee com-mittee meetings also should be in regular reg-ular order within Hie course of the next ten days if the work outlined by the legislature leg-islature is to be completed within the re-nuired re-nuired sixty days and done in the shape it should be. Senate Is Active. Pnrlng the past week, since the daily caucus has been dispensed with, the senate sen-ate has displayed some of the activity expected. The standing committees unloaded un-loaded a. few bills on to the calendar almost every day and left four over to start on at today's session. The bills on today's senate -a.lendar are: Senate bill No. .11. by Dcrn, repealing laws authorizing cities of the first class to acquire, establish and maintain public parks, playgrounds, etc., and creating a park commission. Senate bill No. 40, by Bradley, relating to bounty on predatory animals. Senate "bill No. 41. by Dern. relating to bonds and oaths of city officers. Sna to bill N'o. 43. by Col ton, relating to t ime expressed in notice to creditors on probate matters. |