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Show mm mm m mm mmmi mm DUOGET HES : imopiii Money Bill Finally Acted , On a Agreed Upon in Joint Committee; Minor . Change in Act Is Made TIB senate today receded from its action of yesterday in wiping out tbe appropriation for the maintenance of th national guard of Utah and paased the biennial budget bill In practically prac-tically the aame condition as It cam from tha Joint appropriation' commit? Ir. The upper house resolved Itself Inia a committee of tha whole and listened to Colonel W. (1. Williams, adjutant jeneral of tha atata. Colonel William told the eenatore they ahould either allow the full appropriation asked for or deatroy the national iruard organisation organi-sation completely. He declared It was tha only force In the suite upon which the slate might draw In caae of riot er Insurrection. He declared that If tha guard appropriation In the budget wax , killed, the state would have to appropriate appro-priate from ttt.OOO to 140.000 with which to return equipment and supplier sup-plier to the federal government. Preaton D. Thatcher, chairman of tha atata induatrlal commission, alao ad dreeaed the senators and urged a miner change In the budget appropriation for the commission. His recommendation was adopted In tha final pasaage of tba bill. Henator Peters of Borelder county cast hla vote In the affirmative under protest, stating that he could ae no reason why the budget allowed per capita for students In atate high schools, when an appropriation of 1 10 ' per capita was adequate for county high achools. Henator Jenkins of Bait Lake mads several unsuccessful! efforts to amend the budget bill. |