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Show iiiiisi CLOCK WILL STOP Mass of Unfinished Work Is Piled Up for Action I of Both Houses. I Willi but four more days left of the time allowed by law for tiie state lrgin-laturo lrgin-laturo to sit, aTvl a mass of unfinished lc?i.slat!on pending' before both houses, the question confronting the members of tlie tvnato and house now is. Will the i clot.-k ha.ve to be stopped? 1 j Present indications are that it -will. ! However, it is the opinion that if such I is the case it will not have to be mopped lonser than two days at the outside and I possibly only one. i The thirteenth session of the legislature ! began at the hour of noon on Monday, ! Januarv t.'ndcr the law it should end at' noon Thursday, March 1". It is almost certain that, tiie two houses will not be able to finish their business by the noon hour of next Thursday and that in consequence the clock will have to he s'oppod for the remainder of that day at least. Pay Stops With Clock. When the clock stops iho pay of the lf-piskuors stops arjd whatever work they do aftT thai time is without compensation. compensa-tion. Thoso who are in the city from tneir outside homes arc then on expense for which thev receive no compensation. The result is that no one is anxious to prolong the session with a slopped clock and e cry effort is being made in both houses to complete the business as near-Iv near-Iv on time as possible. " To this end tlie senate has named a sifting sift-ing committee which is already at work. This commitlee has already moved some important measures to the head of the calendar to assure their passage before the final slaughter in which those senate hills considered of secondary import will be summarily executed. The committee is s'ill at work and wil continue until the business Is disposed of. In the house no sifting committee has been named, but the house will be permitted per-mitted to slaughter the surplus measures mea-sures on the calendar direct. Thus tlie responsibility for the final slang-liter will he shifted from the shoulders of any committee com-mittee to the house in general. Two Important BiUs Pending. Two important measures are still pending pend-ing before both houses without final action ac-tion having been taken upon either. These include the mine tax bill and the workmen's work-men's compensation bill. The former measure is on the table of the senate, along with the report of the majority conference committee that the house amendment, eliminating Vnot to exceed" ex-ceed" from the tax basis section, be concurred con-curred in. The conference committee was at a deadlock on the lias is of taxation and a majority submitted its report the senate. sen-ate. The senate effectually rejected-the recommendation by tabling the report. This carried the bill with it to the table. This action places the bill where it cannot be acted upon except the senate consents to its being taken from the table. Efforts to remove it have proved unavailing thus far. The lower house is seeking to-pry the bill out of the senate back to tlie house, where the majority conference committee commit-tee report can be adopted, the bill passed as amended by the report and then the "buck" passed back to the senate, to either accept the bill with the house amendment or kill it. House Amendment Opposed. For the senate to kill the bill-and leave the state without legislation on this subject sub-ject would be to violate party pledges. Yet the majority of the senate is not willing to accept the house amendments. Ilence the deadlock. Tiie work men's compensation hill, over which there was such a stubborn fight in the senate, has been reported favorably by the house committee, with a few slight amendments, and the indications arc that tliis measure will be put through without with-out much further, delay. The appropriations bill is yet to come out of committee, where it is being gone over further in an effort to make a final trimming a nd reduction of expenses. Chairman Stringham of the committee promised the senate yesterday to use his best efforts to get tliis bill out today, in view of the fact that there are a number num-ber of bills carrying appropriations which cannot, be considered in either house., under un-der the budget law, until tlie appropriations appropria-tions bill has been passed. Rules Are Changed. Under the original rules the senate was limited to today as the last day upon which senate bills could be passed, but on Friday the senate suspended this rule and permitted the passage of bills to and including the fifty-eig'nth day. This gives the senate today and tomorrow to pass senate bills that have not been to the house, but the last two days of the session must be devoted to final action on house bills and on senate bills that may have been amended in the lower house. Tliis afternoon the members of the legislature leg-islature have an engagement to go to the University of Utah at 4 o'clock and have dinner in the new dining hall of tiie state institution in celebration of the opening and dedication of the hall. After the dinner there will be dancing and other entertainment in the evening. An tomo biles will meet tlie legislators at the capltol it 4 o'clock this afternoon and convey them to the university. |
