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Show HEAD OF A CHURCH MAY SELL PROPERTY aaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaS Sill to This End Passes the Senate With Only Two Members Opposing-. "With only, Senators Whltmore and H. S. Larsen opposing It, the bill providing pro-viding that the head of a church organisation organ-isation may dispose of church property without the consent of his church members mem-bers won an easy victory in the Senate yesterday. The guide post bill was another that fell by the wayside in the Senate yesterday. yes-terday. It provided for a guide post at every road intersection in the State pointing the way and telling the distance dis-tance to the nearest town. Senator Murdock murdered the bill -with a little computation. He estimated that it would require 100 posts for each of the twenty-seven counties at a cost of $10 each, or $27,000 for the lot. He said the people in his counties knew enough to get to town without a sign post; and people who did not know that much he thought didn't care which way they went. The vote on the bill was 5 for and 9 against and the cadaver was carted to the morgue. Senator Lewis was the author of the bill. If the House and Gov. Wells concur In yesterday's action of the Senate on Senate bill 166 the superintendents of schools of the various counties will henceforth be elected at the regular fall elections instead of at special elections in July. Strange as it may seem, the political phase of the bill was not mentioned men-tioned In the Senate. No one made a plea for keeping the schools out of politics poli-tics and the bill went through by a vote of 15 to L Murdock" s was the only vote cast In the negative.. |