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Show L AGRICULTURAL BILL PASSED HI HOUSE .. UNCHANGED I Effort to Reconsider Bill for Amending State Constitution Consti-tution Is Defeated . j Testerd&r afternoon In th house whm deToted almost en Lire! jr to the f pasalnc: of the agricultural bill re ceived from the senate. It creates a new department to consist of seven members expert In the lines to which they are asslroed. The bin was passed Just as It came from the sen-ate sen-ate and will now ro to the committee - on enrollment and ensTOsnmenL After the passage of the ajrrlcul-turml ajrrlcul-turml bill an- effort wsa mode by Kp- resentatlvs Imluy to obtain a suspension suspen-sion of the rules so that the vote by which house Joint resolution No. , by 8. W. Morrison Jr.. was killed on Mondsy night. The resolution proposed pro-posed an amendment to sections t and S. article IS of the constitution, relating to property subject to taxation taxa-tion and rates of tax. 4m There was a protracted debate over " a motion of Representative Morrison, author of the resolution, who contend- , ed that the measure was one of the most Important to come before the legislature, and that the rover nor some action of this character bei taken. The speaker and Representative Representa-tive Seeirmiller opposed the motion ! and finally It was put to the house J and was lost by a vote of 21 ayes and 12 nays, lack ins; the necessary two-thirds to suspend the rules. The measure of Senator Kinney, re. latins; to teachers' pensions In cities of the first and second class, was finally passed after efforts to load It down with amendments failed. The vote by which It was passed was 31 ayes, 7 nays and absent and not voting. Senator T ebbs' bill amending; the Insurance law was passed by a vote of 26 ayes, I nays and 17 absent and not voting. |