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Show Utah House Okehs Measure Creating. Relief Commission Bill Provides for U.uanco of Scrip to Unmployd of State Eliminating the prayer whlrh rilled en entire section of the bill, the lower house Monday peieed the Pope-Allen Pope-Allen emergency relief bill, which creates commiMloa to administer relief and authorises th lasuane of crip. Th bill In fad rover wide rang of activity, and while th vote was M to It. many of those voting (or It did so In the hope the eenate would malt th necessary amendment, amend-ment, asserting the bous hasn't .time. I Representatives Lane. Msw and Mem son war eacused from voting on th ground they did not understand the CilL Many members of th house felt that the Pone-Allen bill should be combined with the other emergency relief measures foe which joint committee com-mittee had been enpolnted. Bepceesntetive H. C. Pope of Salt 1 Lake, coauthor of the bill, explained ' that under the provision of the lew arrip would be issued to the unemployed, unem-ployed, and also public work would be created. Sis (Uke of the L. D. S. church, declared Representative M. D. Allen of Piute county, had Indorsed the bill. Some oblections were mode the! the bill would put the state in private! competitive business, but these were not pressed, as th house took the' lent that there was hardly any lime to go Into th measure la full detail. PBATEB DELETED 1 Th prayer which went along with the bill was deleted. 11 was: . The Icgisletur. In behalf of the sorely distressed people of Utah, reverently prays Cod to bless the commit com-mit ion and to continue to sen us rain and sunshine and to stay for us the blind fury of the destructive element ele-ment and to stay the even mar destructive de-structive force of human Ignorance and unenlightened selfishness; and to enable all the loyal people of Utah, regardlrse of political, religioua or social differences, to exercise Intelligent Intelli-gent and enlightened unselfishness and to rise to the full suture of united and devoted Christian citiieruhlp and brotherhood, and thereby help to e-tricato e-tricato ourselves from th poverty which through our Ignorance and fundamentally wrong concept of public finance I now beeetung us In th midst of plenty: "So, that by emulating the wlae and constructive policies of our first governor. gov-ernor. Brigham Young, and the devoted de-voted pioneer founders of our state, w jnav show conclusively that In IQsallssig se Pass rueruee- RELIEF BILL .. GIVEN OKEII WwSitaM4 ItVaS aM MaWt UUh wa ttni ranaldar that Ufa. lib-arty lib-arty and Um pursuit at human, happi-naaa happi-naaa ara Um Ood erdatnad human righta of all man in ganaral and af Amarkaa aiUaana bt particular, and that government af Um peoole. by tha people and for Um people baa not par lehed from 4 he earth " P-rpraaantaUva B. W. Mandanhall of tun Laka efceerved tha bill might ronfllct with ether measuree. TAUDITT TOVCRIO POP. Representative Pope declared na other measure could possibly raise tha amount weeded or provide the necessary relief. He answered obee-tione obee-tione that tea many aub)erta were roavrad la hia bill by declarmg the attorney general vouched for I la coa iititutionelity.' ReprsssntaUva W. D. Hammond from Orand county rant up a wall that, aa nothing has been dona aa tar la bring relief, ha favored the bllL "It'i lima to try aomelhing." ha added. Before tha bouse could run wild with discussion. Representative Chris Oreenhagea of Salt Lake moved the previous question, and tha rail was called. The house changed the rules and voted Itaelf aa extra day for consideration consider-ation of house bills. Um deadline having hav-ing been set for Monday nighL There will be a night seas inn every dsy until the close of Um session, probably at tha end at tha week. The house passed tha senate bill reorganising the lists tax commission whereby there will be two full -time and two per diem members, nonpartisan. nonparti-san. Then tha bill was amended, reducing re-ducing the salaries of full-time mem-ben mem-ben from MOM ta 13900 annually, and the bill went back to the senate. Reduction of state salaries, llhel laws and the question of whether the state baa a losing investment la Its power plsnt originally built to supply sup-ply the UUh 8 lata Agricultural college, col-lege, from Logan canyon, busted Um lata senete Monday morning. The senators did not spend tnurh time aa Senator John E. Booth's, bill, which hss to do with state hospital commitments and which creates a new board for tha hospital. However, How-ever, the author himself withdrew a companion measure which would have created a aula board af institutions insti-tutions with rather vague authority to do anything but InvesUgate. The commitments Bill Is new In the lap of the house, with unanimous Indorsement Indorse-ment of Um t senators present. SALARIES CAVSB DEBATE The new deal committee's bill call.) Ing for salary reductions, bewm-er,; caused much more debate and was the subject of three rollcailt before it was sent oa ta the bouse. The senators appeared gt to want reduction of salaries, but were by no means s unit as to Just how much, or where the reductions were to be made effective. The percentages of reduction reduc-tion were changed, so aa to be at least ' I per cent ea all salaries between 170 and IM a month, snd tha bill was made to bear leas heavily than originally orig-inally written on soma of Um other lower brackets of salaries. It has been made affective April I. nakt. Instead In-stead of July 1. and varloue other! changes were made tn the terms. The committee of nine waa divided on the bllL Senator Malcolm A. Key-1 ear being for II and Chairman Julian 1 M. Bamberger against it, while Sena-' tor George M. Miller voted for it with hesitation. The new deal committee sleo split. Sena tori John E. Booth and Georie Jefferson being lor the bill, and Ira A. Huggma, Dan B. Shields and John M. Wallace against It The bill finally passed with 11 votes' In its favor to seven egainet. with Sen-ator Sen-ator Mrs. B. W. Muster absent Senators Sena-tors P. J. Fenncll and President J.1 Francis Fowlsa voted "no" also, on the rollcalL BILL CALLED INVALID. The opposition declared the bill unconstitutional, un-constitutional, unconsidered and thought Um mailer of salsry reduction reduc-tion calls for more ecienlifte atudy than tha mere reduction of present salaries, which retains tha present inequities. Tha attempt of Senator Bamberger to amend the bill Into harmony with the recommendations of tha commit, we of nine failed. Thai would have left the atanderditation at sslartea up to the board of supplies snd purchase The Andersen bill, which would give the board of trustees of the Utah Suite Agricultural college more authority In fixing the rates to he charged by state institutions for the power from Um college, was found to be In poor shape at it ten Um house. The bill waa amended, and then debated at tome length. The aenate was not aatiafled with the explanation explana-tion of the bill made by Senator W. H. Griffin Jr. from Cache county, but Senator Mutter, who has been ana of Um trustees, wst able to put them on the right track. Finally, the bill was passed under suspension of the rules, and returned to the house, with the negative vote ol Senator Keytar, who said the plant puts tha state in the power business, hat no particular value and pays no taxes. Senator Hug gins' beer hilt, permitting permit-ting the manufacture of 1.1 per cent' beer for export from the state, was started oa its way for Um signatures of Um president and speaker and will reach the office of Governor Henry H. Blood lata Monday after-boon. after-boon. I Senator Hugging was not tn good Shyaicel trim, he aald, to defend hit ill to create a ttaet department of higher education. He asked that that measure he put over until Tues-, day. But he waa able to explain enough about hat bill amending the securities act so that the senators were willing to find It harmleas and possibly capable of doing tome good. 1 They passed It oa to the house unanimously. unan-imously. j |