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Show FIRST (MB BILL PASSESJHE SENATE Upper House Names Special Spe-cial Committee on National Na-tional Guard Affairs. The first bill to appear on th? calendar calen-dar or' either branch of the twelfth legislative session was parsed yesterday yester-day afternoon by the upper house. The proposed measure was senate .bill No. G, by Senator J. If. Wootton, and fixes the liability of hotel and iun keepers for valuables lost by guests. The bill was passed by the upper house by a vote of sixteen ayes, two being absent and not voting, and transmitted to the lower house. President James W. Funk, actiojr upon a motion adopted Wednesday, named a special committee oo military affairs yesterday afternoon to confer with a like committee from the lower house for the purpose of investigating the status of trie national guard and presenting recommendations as to the future of the Utah organization. The committee selected se-lected comprised Senators William t?ecg-miller, t?ecg-miller, J. H. Wootton and Archibald Be van. On the house committee are J. H. Mace of Sanpete, 0. H. Berg of Utah, 1'. L. Boyle of Weber, John King of Garfield, Joseph By water of halt Lake ami Kuben Do Witt of Piute. There v:.s added to the committee by request of Chairman J. K. Mace, R. Vv. Young, Jr., of Salt Lake and J. L. Boy den of Summit. While the house was in session the members of the senate com nut tee called and asked for an immediate session. ses-sion. The house members were excused ex-cused and went into session with the sen a te committee at once. Senate joint memorial No. 1, by Senator Sen-ator Wootton, advocating compulsory military training and the abolishment of the national guard, was taken from the committee on public, affairs and referred re-ferred to the special committee on military mili-tary affairs. A letter from Mayor W. Mont Ferry was road which contained an invitation to the members of the upper house to attend at-tend a 'mass meeting to be held at the Auditorium on the "night of February VI for the purpose of discussing night schools for foreign-born adults. The communication was laid on the table. Senator Joseph Chez was the only member of the upper house yesterday who was prepared to contribute his share to the legislative hopper. The Og-den Og-den senator introduced two bills, one providing for an amendment to existing laws authorizing city councils to contract con-tract for the care and improvement of cemeteries and cemetery Jots, and the other an amendment relating to new trials and appeals from justice court, i The fe'uui-daily caucus which followed the regular session was of short duration, dura-tion, and adjournment was taken until ! next Monday. The details of the proposed pro-posed workmen 's compensation bill, with tho exception of the state insurance feature, fea-ture, were decided upon, as were the details de-tails of the proposed initiative and referendum ref-erendum measure. The final draft of the workmen's compensation com-pensation bill, which is to be sponsored by the majority delegation of the upper house, will be withheld until reports on the state insurance feature may be obtained ob-tained .by the committee from other states. The committee is composed of Senators George H. Dern, C. L. Olson and W. W. Armstrong. A committee was also delegated to draft the proposed initiative and referendum refer-endum measure. The committee is composed com-posed of Senators George H. Dern and Joseph Chez and Representative Thomas P. Page. The drafting of the public utilities bill is in the hands of a committee composed com-posed of Senators Frank Kvans, George! H. Dern and ('. L. Olson. It is expected that the new bill will be ready for nres-; eutation either today or tomorrow. When ; the draft is ready it will be turned over! to the judiciary committee, which will stand sponsor for the bill at its introduction. |