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Show it came back to the houFC. Tt was a proposition entirely unlike anything previously presented to the Utah legislature, legis-lature, or to any other legislative body as far as we can learn. It was passed by a docile senate majority on the assertion as-sertion that it had the administrative approval, although several senators were sufficiently awake or conscientious to vote against it. It was then hurried over to the house, where it w-as promptly prompt-ly killed in accordance with the pleasant practice followed by the house in the latter part of the session to kill everything every-thing originating in the senate, because the senate would not pass the house income in-come tax bill. The amendment was resurrected by a house member a few minutes later and passed, with only two votes to spare, amid the confusion as the members collected their official and private effects preparatory to going home. The whole business was completed in less than two hours and in another hour the legislature finally adjourned. There was not even the pretense of a discussion discus-sion of the measure, on its merits, to say nothing of a public hearing. In fact, it was never heard of outside the capitol and very little inside until after it had been passed. Public business was never more privately transacted in the history of the state. The legislative record of the amendment amend-ment alone is sufficient to condemn it. And the legislators who thus displayed such indifference towards the state's organic law are not likely to point to this portion of their record as justification justifica-tion for further opportunity to manifest mani-fest their statesmanlike qualities. HURRIED THROUGH, Dcfendorfs of the mine tax a mend -mont very gravely nwnrc us that tho measure was passed by a vote of "more than two thirds of the legislature. ' ' As it eoiild not have boon vuomittld unless supported by nt least two-thirds of both liouses, its presence In our midst is incontrovertible proof that our talented tal-ented constitutional repairmen nro -iv-iriK correct in forma t ion on this point. It is not necessary to review the amendment's legislative history for their benefit. They know al about it. Tbiy wore rij(hf. on the job, as usual, to ,,,f' that this or some other kind of an amendment was pained. Tint it is well to toll the story briefly to refresh the publie recollection of Unit bight for it all ha ppc nod in one night, tho last nifafht ol the session. Th- amendment wan prepared outside the rank'i of the legislators arid sent to the senate a little after (I o'clock as a rabttitutfl tot d reiblutlon lifted? ptineed b V the home, t wfti WO d it ferent from the bonus resolution that the loth)! of the orij(i nal men sure re fused to vote for the substitute when |