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Show House Work Unfinished; Delay in Adjournment of Session of Legislature Lower Chamber at Eleventh Hour Amends Bill ' Creating Department of Agriculture and Takes Other Steps That Prevents Conclusions! Business at i Appointed Hour TUB fourteenth session of the legislature of Utah Is "sauntering- At 11:6S o'clock this morning, the mechanism which works the hands of the clock over the speaker'a stand had a monkey wrench thrown Into It, so thai the hands of the timepiece refused to move. Had not this happened, an adjournment of the house without data would have occurred at 11 o'clock noon. Aa It Is. the mechanism cannot be repaired until timioi row. and It enay he eas; . With an Implied promise made several sev-eral daya aga that there would be no stopping of ths clock at noun today by either house, but that adjournment of the fourteenth legislature would take place at noon today, the senate yesterday afternoon cleared its decks and arranged for Ita adjournment without date. But the house kicked over the traces, and would not stay hitched, tying up everything by appropriation bill read yesterday afternoon, aft-ernoon, the bill being presented Just prior to adjournment. The bill, which provldea for the expense ex-pense of the state for the next blen-nlum. blen-nlum. wss reported thla morning as the unfinished business. It waa read a first time and then, under a suspension sus-pension of the rules. It waa read a second snd third time and paaaed by the unanlmoua vote of the members present. ROAD COMMISSION. fjeegmlller's measure providing for the creation of a road commission of three, waa reported back by the senate sen-ate with amendments, the effect of which. Representative Reegmlller declared, de-clared, would be to upset the commission commis-sion with every Incoming administration. administra-tion. Seegmlller moved that the amendments be not concurred In, which waa agreed to, and the senate waa notified, with the result that the bill waa sent to conference. Four bills were signed by the spesker and will be transmitted ts the governor. They were the measure pertaining to the theft of automobilea. making the giving of falae ordera to employment agencies for worklngmen a misdemeanor, defining the boundaries bounda-ries of Cedar City, and relating to teaohers pensions In citlss of the first and eecond claaa. . Unanimous consent was given Representative Rep-resentative Day to Introduce a bill which provides 12.37s, lit 60 for the support of the state government and an additional aum for echool purposes which will equsl 2S for each person of school age In the state, aa shown hy the last school census. amending the bill creating a department depart-ment of agriculture so that It hsd to be sent to a conference committee, which further delayed the ongross-ing ongross-ing and enrolling of the bill, as the measure, which contains sixty pages of matter, could not poealhly be engrossed en-grossed In time for the adjournment without date at noon today. ANOTHER COMPLICATION. Added to thla complication was the amending by the house of the Peters apportionment bill which struck out the first section of the bill and substituted sub-stituted a new section, which the senate sen-ate declined to sccept, thus making the stay of the leglslsture that much longer. Finally, and most Important, thr hnutir f tiled to have the general |