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Show STATE FAIR OPENING IS MARKEBBY RECORD ATTENDANCE: BOYCOTTING PROHIBITED BY PURE Special Session Ends After Seven Days of Lawmaking; Governor Signs Blue Sky Act. Public Utilities Commission Commis-sion Empowered to Issue Is-sue Convenience Certificates Cer-tificates to Railroads. If Governor Bamberger gives his approval ap-proval to tlie bill passed by both houses of the legislature in the closing hours of the special session yesterday, picketing, picket-ing, such as has been practiced upon the streets of Salt Lake during recent re-cent months, will become unlawful and the pickets subject to fine or imprisonment. impris-onment. A bill introduced by Kep-resentative Kep-resentative E. R. Miles of Smithfield, in the lower, house yesterday afternoon, after weathering a hard struggle, j passed the house by an overwhelming majority, and last night passed the senate sen-ate by a bare constitutional majority. Declaring picketing a misdemeanor, the bill as transmitted to the governor defines picketing as follows: "Picketing iB hereby defined to be the guarding or patrolling by any person per-son or persons whomsoever, for the purpose pur-pose of intercepting or persuading any person or persons whomsoever from patronizing any duly and regularly licensed li-censed business vitjiin the state of Utah." MODIFICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED BY HOUSE. The bill as originally introduced by Mr. Miles was even more stringent, but was modified by the senate, and the senate modifications were accepted at a late hour last night by the house, :i short time before adjournment sino die was taken. The original bill, in addition addi-tion to prohibiting "intercepting or lorsuading" added "or otherwise urging." It also provided against " intercepting or persuading or otherwise other-wise urging any person or persons whomsoever against taking a particular particu-lar job.'' The words "against taking a particular job ' ' were eliminated by the senate. The amendments were presented by Senator Allan T. Sanford, and supported sup-ported by Senator C. L. Olson and Sen- (Continued on Page 11, Column 1.) tors and the lcKislatnre employes yester-diiy, yester-diiy, and checks were distributed for nrilonee and per diem salary. Amonir those who received checks for mileage and salary were. Representatives Arthur Wellinp, William O'Neil and 1. N. Pierce, wlio.se rinlit to their seats had linen questioned, and who withdrew from active participation. The fact that, these menihers have been paid, it is predicted, may further complicate the question of tl-cir membership if the matter is taken into the courts. Many members of the legislature Intend In-tend to remain in Salt Lake a day or two to visit the state fair, though others were on their way home on the late trains last niMht. When the senate and house, through a joint committee, notified Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger that they were ready to adjourn, he addressed a brief message in which he thanked them for courtesies shown him, and also congratulated them on the constructive measures which he said they had passed. vis, K. K. Curric, Dclora W. Isl.-ikclov, anson, P. 1). IcKay, William Ixclly mid Anna T. I'iercey. In the senate t he vote was ten to two in favor of the bill, Senators Olson ami Sanfonl voting agahist, t ho measure, Willi six absentees. NEW POWER GRANTED TO COMMISSION. The other outstanding feature of the last day of tho spoi'iul session was the victory of the supporters of Governor' ISiuuberger in his requosl for :uit limit v urantin I ho public utilities commission commis-sion the riht to issue ceriil'ieates of eonv?ni"iiee and necessity to railroads, so that :i railroad building into a new territory may Ik eniitled to opernto exclusively in J. hat- terirtory as kui as its servico is i-atisfacitu-y. Tim governor gov-ernor :'sked this V';islat i ve encouragement encour-agement for 'it:1 projccU'd railroad into I'intah basin, to end the competition which for years lias bloeked the building build-ing of a railroad into that territ ory ! through a rivalry of roads desiring the basin's riches. Xot until nearly 11 oVloek last niht did the house finally approve of the measure, after a bitter fiiiht was waued by members who char-ai-i prized it as special legislation and intimated broadly that tiovenior P-am-beror l;ad called t lie special session for no other purpose The final vote in the hou;;o was thirty-one to five in favor of the bill, while the senate endorsed en-dorsed it unanimously. ! The bill passed the house last week by a bare constitutional majority, but it was necessary for the senate to an ond the bill to insert one word. This brought the measure back before the house, with several members absent ab-sent who previously had voted for it. Action was deferred by a number of parliamentary moves until last night, wh?;i sufficient sentiment was swung in its favor in the lower house to repass re-pass it as amended. The passage of this bill, its supporters declare, will do much toward making it possible to finance and build the Uintah basin railroad to connect with the Moffat road at Craitr, Colo. A final attempt was made yesterday afternoon by Representative William Kelly of Tooele to get through some legislation in favor of Imitinsr profits. Mr. Kelly introduced a bill proposing to limit profits on cloth ins? and foodstuffs to 50 per cent, and giving the attorney general gen-eral sio.000 to enforce the aet. Representatives Repre-sentatives Currie and Morris and a few others rallied to Mr. Kelly's support, but the majority of the house rejected the measure, the final vote standing- 14 to IS, its proponents lacking ten vott-s of a constitutional con-stitutional majority. Thus the special session passed in to history without enacting en-acting a single piece of legislation affecting- the hisrh cost of living, it being contended con-tended that, legislation would onlv complicate com-plicate matters with business and other conditions in a serious state of unrest and uncertainty. . An eleventh -hour attempt was made last night by Senator Olson to have recalled re-called and defeated Senator Knight's joint memorial to congress, asking that the federal lawmakers settle the question ques-tion of ownership of minerals in school lands of this state. Senator Olson said information had come to him that caused him to believe it was in favor of certain persons and against others. James H. Wolfe, assistant attorney general, was summoned before the senators and explained ex-plained why it was deemed advisable to have the question settled by congress, and the obxm resolution was lost. Bill Awaits Signature. The two bouses met for the final day of t lie special session at 2 o'eloek yesterday yes-terday afternoon. With the exception of a few mutters, practically all business had been completed Saturday, and the two bouses reron vened today to sit in open session while the president of the senate and the speaker of the house signed the engrossed bills passed la te Saturday. However, during the afternoon the pk keting question, which had died in the senate lust week, and the profiteering prof-iteering question, which had also failed in tin1 upper house, bobbed up in the lower house, and. with the exception of an hour off for dinner, kept t lie senators at work until ll o'clock last night. The attempt to resurrect the profiteering question tailed, but the advocates of an amipieketing law fared better, with the j result that all now remaining' is the approval ap-proval of the governor to prevent the activities of pickets. ; Solemn warnings were given the member's mem-ber's in both houses t hat the passage of antipicketing legislation would be a dan- geious affront to the laboring men at this time. Representative Morris in the ! lower house made an extended plea to tlu legislators to support the conserva- fives among the labor unions, who were I doing all they could to prevent rash ac- tion being taken. A similar plea was ! ma de in the senate hv Senator Olson, , who went further and 'declared that in denying the striker the right to use the publr- streets to inform the public of his grievance against employers the senators would, deny the working man the same right they would expect L. P. S. missionaries mis-sionaries to bae in foreign countries and other states in preaching religion. The answer, u tiered by a largo number num-ber of members in the house and by Senators J. W. Knight and Quince Kim-j Kim-j bull in the upper house, was that picketing picket-ing as it has been practiced was objectionable, objec-tionable, and had hurt the cause of the conservative laboring man more than It had heljied. The supporters of the anti-j anti-j picketing bill declared that they were not opposed to the union man, nor his ' r:ght to organize, but that they did ob-! ob-! jeVt to his making a common nuisance of propaganda, and attempts to destroy legitimately established business. A score or more of measures passed through the hands of the engrossing committees com-mittees of both houses, were properly engrossed, signed in open session during lulls in the debates upon the certificate of necessity, the profiteering and the antlpieketing bills, and were transmitted to Governor Bamberger. During the day, Governor Bamberger advised the legislators legisla-tors that lie had givn his approval to a numbr of measures, among which was house bill No. 5, by Representative J. 10. Cardon, re -enacting and making im-medin im-medin tely effective the "blue sky" law. The lawmakers heard with interest that earlier in the day Judge P. C. Evans in the Third district court had declared the law passed at the regular session invalid. in-valid. In view of the fact that the new law carries a 'clause validating every act of the securities commission, created under the law now declared Invalid, the commission is amply protected, in the opinion of the legislators and the attorney attor-ney general. Governor Bamberger also submitted his recess appointments to state offices in a message to the senate yesterday afternoon, after-noon, and they were ratified by that body. The unapproved bills passed by the leg- islature and which still remain in the hands of the governor will be passed upon within the next ten days, the executive being allowed that length of time after ' adjournment to give his approval or disapproval. dis-approval. The bills remaining include several of the most important measures passed by the special session, und most of which it is believed the governor will sign, because they were brought to the attention of the legislators in special messages mes-sages in which the governor in a number num-ber of in st ances recommended action along the lines that were taken. Payday was in order with the legisla- BOYCaniNG BANNED BY HOUSE MEASURE (Continued From Page One.) ,lur George H. Hern, who asked seniors sen-iors not to prohibit strikers from urg-d- fellow craf isn:..')) against becoming trike-breakers. Senator Olson also utile a lengthy speech against the ntire bill, anil' Krpr.-scntatives F. E. lorris und K. K. Currie spoke at length gainst the measure in the lower house, 'he Morris address approached the pro-or;ions pro-or;ions of a filibuster during the af-ernoon, af-ernoon, when n umbers of . both houses tire eager to adjourn, but after much u'ricatc parliamentary play a vote was cn'.rcd and the bill sent or. to the mate. The final vote in the house ras 31 to 7, with six absentees. Those rite, voted against the bill in the louse wen? Representatives F. E. ilor- |