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Show TAXATION DEADLOCK i GAUSESJOTS OF TALK ! Situation Resulting From Failure to Agree on Mines Sunday's Theme. Strife Over Peace League Resolution Looms on the Horizon of House. Members of the legislature ppent considerable! con-siderable! time yesterday in thp various hotel lobbies of the city discussing the situation created during the past week through the deadlock which has developed over the Bevan-Farker mine taxation measure. The senate lias refused to concur con-cur in the house amendments to the measure, mea-sure, incorporated features of the Olson bill which had been defeated in the upper chamber, nnd the house has -declined to accede to the majority of the senate. The joint conference committee did not come together on the matter, and it is almost a certainty that no agreement will be reached by the committee, since the advocates ad-vocates of the senate bill are "standing pat" on their measure just as immovably as the supporters of the Olson measure are maintaining their stand. Through the action of Speaker C. C. Richards in refusing to .recognize the ml- j nority element in the house, which favors ! the Bevan-Parker bill aa passed by the , senate, the joint committee will have a 1 majority in favor of tho house amend- ! monts. Consequently it is expected that i a majority and a minority report will be submitted' to both houses by the confer-I ence committee, and both branches will be just where they were before the con- : ference. committee was appointed. , Threats to use the administration i l.udret hill as a club to secure passage cf th a hone amendment s, as were predicted pre-dicted in The Tribune of yesterday, increased in-creased in number yesterday, and a number num-ber of hous; members opcnlv declared trial they would i.lock the budget bill if the senate did not 'ai;rcc to the house amend-in amend-in pit Is to the mine taxation bill. Such a deadlock presents interesting possibilities, possibili-ties, as pointed cut by veteran legislators. legisla-tors. ! If the budget hill is tabled In the house. 1 the senate majority can quickly put them- selves on record by passing the budget , in the senate, and thus putting the isbiic squarely up to the house. The budget bill, in identical form to the house measure, mea-sure, is already before the Ptnate. which, under a joint agreement, has been waiting for the house to cor sider the biennial appropriations ap-propriations first. Meml ers of the house, it is pointed out. have many minor appropriation bills, calling1 call-ing1 for sums from two to fifty thousand dollars, designed to benefit particularly their own constituencies. Under the rules, these bills for special appropriations cannot can-not be considered ard passed until the budget bill is disposed of. Consequently, by blocking the passage of the budget bill, members of the house will also indefinitely delay and probably defeat appropriations which they are ardently seeking for -ihoir own particular pet projects. It is certain that the senate, majority will dfc.line positively posi-tively to consider such appropriations until un-til after the biennial budget bill is disposed dis-posed of. May Call Special Session. The possibility of the legislature's adjourning ad-journing without passing tho budget bill, providing for the maintenance of the various va-rious state departmental activities for the .ensuing two years, has also been discussed, i in case the deadlock cannot be broken. Here again the old-time members nave ! called attention to the fact that the gov-i gov-i ernor could, in such an event, call i spe-j spe-j cial session of the legislature, and desig-! desig-! nate as the business of that session the matter of passing the budget bill. In that event the legislature, under the constitution, constitu-tion, would not be permitted to take up any other matter, and wouid be forced to. stay in session until action was taken upon the budget. This would mean that three score or more members of the legislature, legis-lature, the gTeat majority c-f whom have pressing private business matters to attend at-tend to in their own communities, would be forced to sit around in the legislative halls at the small stipend of $4 per day until they reached an agreement and passed the budget bill. Split Is Likely. Action is expected this morntng when the house reconvenes on rhe resolution introduced Saturday by Representative I. H. Masters of Frovo, approving the league of nations constitution adopted by the Paris conference, and indorsing President Presi-dent Wilson's and former President T.ift's efforts to have it indorsed by the United States. Opposition to this resolution was offered by the Republican minority, through Representative William W. Se:g-milfer Se:g-milfer of Kanab as spokesman. Mr. Seegmiller requested on behalf of the minority mi-nority that action or. the resolution be deferred until today, because the Republicans Republi-cans had not had an opportunity to study it. "We Republicans have gone on record here as being In favor of a league of nations." na-tions." said Mr. Seegmiller in the house Saturday afternoon. "And we do not now desire to vote against this resolution unless un-less we are compelled to, because we have stated that we are in favor of a league. But we are Republicans, and we do not feel that we can subscribe to everything I that cnninir.rd in the resolutions pre-I pre-I Mailed." Mr. Si--p:.'inH1cr and the other Republican? Republi-can? a r' i w-r ted to advise the hr-us I today thai th-y will vote with the :ii:i.it-lifv- in fnvrr of a I'-.i'Mion to be m to the president and Mr. T:tft, Inriorjir-T I figain the liacii id. a. but climin: i in:,-jnnv in:,-jnnv vote of confidence in the actions of I the president in what he may do aitei i he returns to Ktirop- Two irnpt''tt 1 ills are now upon the I house calendar. vr:-v for consideration ! t arlv th!- we.-dt. One is house bill No. 'lis. "by the joint ncheultui-al committee, providing fnr the organization and gov-ernnu-i.t of irriiratio-i di.-tricts. This is the bi'l d-'fted bv the state water rights commission, and has a. vital b.-arinir on the future development of irrigation projects proj-ects in the slate. The other bill i r the one by Representative D. XX McKay of Ocden. proposing to create a state department depart-ment of agriculture, which would absorb several exis'. iucr state departments under a :-tate commis-ioinT of agriculture. Oip of the first bill's upon the ca-endar for the ho;:se to consider this morning is hoi?e. nil! No. by Representative K. W. Quinn. proposing to make Columbus day. Oetober 12, a legal holiday. A btrong sentiment in favor of this bill has been developed around the state, part iculariv amon? those of Italian descent, and among I the members of the Kniuhts of Columbus j in the weM. with the sncle exception of I rtnh. A favoiable repoi t on the bill bis i been presenter! by the majority oi the j judiciary com mi tie. |