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Show "COUNTRY press MEASURE FAILS Enacting Clause Struck Out After Lengthy Debate I j Country newspapers were the tar- ret aRainpt which the oratorical Rims of the house were leveled yesterday afternoon, with the result that the I Keneral in command of a. measure j that was sugRested by tho country press of the state was compelled to retreat and kill his measure by striking out the enacting; clause. The measure was known as house bill No. 84. and It provided for the print t intr of the proceeding of the com missioners' courts in the several counties of the state. It harl been debated before at length and laid upon the table. On the motion of I Representative Wllford Day it was I taken from the table, again debated II at lfnt?th. and was In thn end killed. nrwas-pointed but in the course of "the discussion that many thousands of dollars would be saved the people If publicity was given to the actions of the various boards. Jorgensen's measure providing, for the salo of lands in connection with the Piute project was passed, . one nay 1eing recorded against the bill. I Seegmiller's bill, which provided for I the assessing of property where the j business of a man is carried on, was ' withdrawn by the author, i Mrs. Senator Haywood's Joint reso- ! lution, which provides for the ap- 1 pointment of a commission to Inquire Into the feasibility of constructing a hall for the care of historical matters and relfca of the state, was passed. ' The house stood upon its dignity ' snd declined to recede from the j smendments made to senate bill No. 10, which rein ted to minimum and I maximum populations of cities of the ( second and third class, and a confer- ence committee will be appointed. Two efforts made by S. W. Morrison Mor-rison Jr. of Salt Lake to reconsider rlhe vote by which house bills Nos. 101 and 108 had been acted upon failed. The senate advised the house that ifsp resident had signed hotfse bills Nos. 14, 46, SO, 78 and 157, and also house Joint memorials Nos. 1 and 4. |