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Show LEGIStATUXE PASSES TOTAL OF 159 LAWS ' OUT OF 527 MEASURES INTRODUCED The ailtk eetaiaa of tbe I'taa egit Fature broke all records for the intro, dnetina aid passage of hills with the exeeptioa of the first legislature. During tee ninth session there was a total of 527 hills having horn intra dnted ia both branches. Of this number num-ber tha senate bad L'Tft to its erexlit as apain.t ill in the right fM.inn. The hotiM members introduced 2W billa, mat eight mote than were introduced in that body two years ago. Of the bills in trodnced in the aeaate ainetv one paused and IM were either killed or withdrawn. (f the bills introduced in the hnue. sixty eight pameil and ISO werr either killed or witbdrawa. Senator Meaner X. Smith holds the senate record with a total of fifty bill introduced, of which hut ten passed The next high man in the aenate win Carl A. Badger, who introduced thirty two hills, of which eighteen failed of pasnage. The low man in the senate waa Olson, who introduced one biU. which waa killed. Haves holds the house record with a total of seventeen bill, ten of which were panned. Next comes the judiciary committee, with a total of fifteen bills, of which but two managed to pasa. Kus sell had twelve bills to his credit.- of which ten were either withdrawn or kilted. " Representatives Packard and While failed to introduce n aingle hill or resolution, during the entire sixty nine davs of the sesnion. The most imjiortant measures paased during the aeaaion were the following: j Regulation of liquor traffic, railing for election June 27. Prohibition of sale or exchange of cigarettes or cigarette papers. Prevention of employment of any child under 14 years of age. Nine hour law for working women. Law regarding health conditions in slate. Uiving first and second class cities commission form of government. Instigating proposed Denver Salt Lake short line railroad. ; l.r.t.,an a.f Mrm.iry for tha Utah m tioual guard. i hauges in insurance laws. Mam huilding at the University f Utah. Oymnasium at the agricultural col lego at l.ogun. - Relief fund for Injured or disabled firt'lnen. , Changes in banking laws. State highway and big fuud fur building roads in each county except Salt Lake. . Immigration and labor bureau under state tuperviaion. t |