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Show BILL 10 SUPERVISE CHILD WELFARE IS ALTERED Senate Amendment! Mean Measure Practically Killed Th t'tah slate senate this morning practically killed" lhKInhy bill" for the establishment of a state commission commis-sion to exercise supervision over child welfare institutions. Amendments offered by Senator Southwick eliminating all private Institutions In-stitutions from the bill and striking out the provision for the examination of the books and records were adopted, adopt-ed, and, according to Senator Kinney, author of the measure, these were essential es-sential elements to Its practical and useful operation. MEASURE DEBATED. Bsweal newaterrf erguert ha he bill would Interfere with the operation of the church relief societies and create cre-ate bad feeling among charitable organisations, or-ganisations, as well as friction and duplication of charity work. Senator South wick, author of the anticigarette bill, held the measure to be superfluous superflu-ous legislation in that the work of the proposed commission was already looked after by the state board of health and other departments, Senator Jones declared the bill to be one of the most important before the legislature. lie saw In it opportunity oppor-tunity tb Investigate the effects of motion pictures on the minds of children chil-dren and to aid In the enforcement of the anticigarette bill, should It finally become a law. Other senators held that if this was the case, the bill was too Important for hasty consideration. Their arguments prevailed and final action on the measure was postponed follownig the adoption of the South-wick South-wick amendments. SERVICE OF SUMMONS. A new bill introduced by Senator Jensen amends Hie l.iw ii'IhiIiik lu tlie service of summons by publication. It provides that when the person to be served with a summon q resides out of the state, or conceals himself to avoid summons, or cannot, after due diligence dili-gence be found within the state, or when the defendant is a corporation having no officer within the . atate upon whom the summons can be served, the summons may be served by publication five times, once each week for five successive weeks. In a newspaper most likely to give notice to the defendant. When the address of the defendant Is known a copy of the summons and complaint must be deposited with postage prepaid In the postofflre, directed di-rected to the defendant. Service of the summons thus provided for is to be deemed complete on the thirtieth day sfter tl first publication. SCHOOL CENSUS. House bill No. 21. providing that a school census be taken between October Octo-ber 15 and il anil the names of all children between and 18 years of age residing in the nrecinct registered ivai placed on its third reading after an amendment adopted in the lower house had been snproved. The amid-ment amid-ment provides that nil children attending at-tending school In some district other than their own shall be registered from their home district. Ten house and senateTiTlis were passed bv the upper house. These Included In-cluded house bill No. 92. relating to the Americanization of schools snd senate hill No. !. relstlng to the state Industrial school. All the bills were passed without a dissenting vote. SHOWS CONFUSION. An amusing Incident of the senate's session was the reveiiling by Senator Peters of the fact that senate bill No. 9i. the Kinney welfare commission bill, had originally been referred to the committee on public affairs, but reported out favorably by the committee com-mittee on education. The matter was adjusted by the senate voting that the record be changed to show the bill as having been referred to the education educa-tion committee. The senate voted before recessing to adjourn until Monday st 1 p. m.. when the final adjournment for the day was taken. |