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Show ,IE MEASURES IE PASSED DV HOUSE Considerable Work Done, De-: De-: spite Loitering at Open- ing of Session '. While the end of the - session ap proaches -the Jower house of the Utah legislature lost a great deal of time this morning tn fruitless calls and waited for the members to come In. There whs not quorum present when the rail was made at th opening of the session. During the morning the house passed five bills. iHid three on the table, which practically kills them, and sent one to conference, this being the 8eeg-mlller 8eeg-mlller bill pertaining to and prescribing prescrib-ing the fees for automobiles and the kind of load that motor vehicles may 1 carry over the highways of the state. 2 The senate added several amendments ito the bill and In these the house refused re-fused to concur. Representative Day's bill, which i makes the Blue Hpruce tree the state j tree of Utah, was passed after con- elderable discussion, the twenty-seven S roll was called. A petition waa presented from the j Bait Lake real estate board, urging j the house to pass ths bill of Senator i Jenkins, which provides for scientific city planning, because the problems concern health, happiness and protec- tion. aa property values are often de I predated and destroyed by the erection of unsightly, unsanitary and noisy ; factories in residential sections. : . Three bills of Representative Welch of 13a.lt Lake county, which deal with I budget systems for the disbursing of funds In country school districts and ! in cities of the first and second class, were laid upon the table. Two measures by Sod er berg of I Weber, one providing for the election of school boards and the other relat- lng to ths nomination of candidates ' for election, were passed. Representative Clawaon's measure. which provides for the branding of goods manufactured In Utah and which ' would thus protect the Industries of ' the state, went through by the unanimous unani-mous vote of ths thtrty-one members presen, the absentees numbering 1. The bill of Mrs. May Belle T. Davis, which provides for the establishing of apeclai schools and classes for delinquents, delin-quents, wss also paaaed by a vote of SI ayes, with It absent and not voting. Tha sifting commutes reported four . bills to ths house and they were placed on the calendar. They are: Douglas' measure, which provides for the taxation taxa-tion of merchandising and defining What constitutes a merchant; Swen-sen'a Swen-sen'a bill, relating to tha salaries of county offloers; Canister's measure, relating; to oorporatlona, and Qulnney's meaaure, pertaining to fraud in secur- U.OS. in order that tha house get through with all Its work so that ths matter of final adjournment may not be delayed de-layed there was talk of holding a ses-aion ses-aion tonight and tomorrow night, but it had not materialised enough to make It definite up to the adjournment adjourn-ment at noon. |