Show t t Senate Closes Session After r I f mr k r rK P Passing Bill R Restricting o. o U Use se o 0 of f K Schools for Religious Purposes es I it v- v p. r Sharp Sharp Debate Marks Reconsideration a and d df if- if f P Ame Amendment dment of of Sharp Measure Man Many Y Z t Bill Bills Get F Favorable e Action in to toa tort j a 1 rt 1 i l. l J Concluding C one 1 u d. d H Hours ours v rr i v i K it y PREDATED DELAYED FLAYED by de debate ate on the Sharp bill prohibiting the use useL L- L Lof of public c sch schoolhouses l o for fot commercial al or religious p purposes es v and by the amenities incident to a closing day of a J ve r assembly the state senate was una unable lc to conclude its F at midnight Thursday The clock was stopped and Y the the solons proceeded to plow Hf through the long Ions 1st list of ot house hous hills ls k i I remaining on their calendar while while both hands on the senate timepiece pointed rigidly skyward Midnight of ot the sixtieth day was officially rl nt continued until o'clock Friday Fri Fri- rs rY day morning when having killed k t what bills bUls it did not care to further t f consider the Sixteenth legislative r r assembly was declared adjourned tJ The Sharp bill as amended and passed was was- wasa a compromise between 11 J the original Intention to shut out outu u f commercial and religious uses of ot schools and the attitude of ot another I. t group determined to use the schoolhouses schoolhouses school- school st houses as places places' of ot such assembly m n f a The amendment reads And pros pros' provided pro pro- s' s vided further that no public s schoolhouse schoolhouse school school- hool- hool t l house erected by school funds shall shalli i r i be used for any religious purpose V r whatsoever except funeral services 8 I. I i until thirty minutes after arter school I ft shall have closed on any day on ono o sue which school is In session In such T 1 schoolhouse e i i. i LOSES BY ONE VOTE g J The bill killed during the afternoon after atter- s 1 1 iP noon was liS brought up for tor recon- recon J during durins the even evening ins and o did not win through to passage untIl until until un un- til nearly midnight When the moo motion mo mo- o irI tion to reconsider was first put It lost by the lack of or one vote of ot the thep p s r. r necessary two President a 41 Irvine was absent from the chamra cham cham- ra ti ber r Apprised of ot the failure because 1 it of ot his absence President Irvine yielded l ed the gavel to Senator Calr Cal- Cal r ty lister llster and himself renewed the mo mo- ii 1 tion The action was vas the signal r t for attack with Senator Dixon and andt t Senator Ryan Ran leading the 1 i a tion 5 r. r In answering arguments against S reconsideration reconsideration- President Irvine said l a I 1 have been very much surprised t at th ome of ot th the senators senators sena- sena Dt tors who spoke e here tonight They r re have consI considered ered the bill as an an ati attack at- at I i J tack on th the dominant church or on I e r religion classes classeS' Their Imagination I 1 4 is working Overtime v I have spent to te perhaps time as any member member mem- mem I id ber In this chamber In defense ense of ot the Mormon church I want to to say sayas sayas I as a member of ot the the dominant church that I am ashamed when that church has to be defended be-defended d tended inthe In Inthe inthe the manner adopted here POINTS TO BENEFITS The bill requires a a thirty minute intermission between the school exercises ex exorcises exorcises ex- ex ex- ex I and the religion classes The schoolroom air has been foul and the children need the exercise They would need it and It would be advisable advisable ad ad- were they only to their regular studies It would be a benefit to any child anywhere A half hour is asked before the pupils are reconvened and I ask you OU to mark that that- word which as as' as used by one of or the senators senator l tonight In the religion clas classes es That word expresses a very thought that hurts and that rankles the tore sore daily until It festers and w works harm to the tho state I The same teachers tea hers the room and the same samis classes are used i I without any Int intermission There ought ht to be a line Une of demarcation I I 1 and and we ought to yield that n uch n.-uch I Imd and md be glad have them meet us j If H that Is an attack on religion classes let us abolish the religion I cl classes ses or let them them meet on Satur Satur- days satur-j satur ABSENT ON BU BUSINESS I ESS The dominant dominant church church needs no I defense defense In this cha chamber ha The religion re religion re- re ligion class needs no defense In t this is chamber There has been talk 1 abo about t tactics and and- underground Ii work I was called out of ot the chamber for a half hour and was I told on my return that my abs absence nce had lost the reconsideration For that reason and not because of ot any lobby or of pressure or peculiar methods methods methods meth meth- I felt that In justice to the proponents of the bill blU I should make a motion to reconsider The great majority of ot the people people peo- peo pIe In this state ought to be fair enough to concede a half halt hour asked II in this bill 9 On final passage the vote was Just sufficient to carry Senators II IL S. S Auerbach W D. D I Candland Ca Candland dla d E. E E. E R R. Callister Charles Cottrell Jr David Hirschl Hirschi David I J J J. J S. S Lewis D D. D H II Robinson C. C F F. Westphal M. M S S. S Winder and President Irvine supported the tho bill and Sena Senators Senators rs LeRoy Dixon J. J T. T VC C. C L L. Funk O. O W W. McConkie McConkle Mc- Mc Mci i Conkie Conkle T. T W. W ODonnell O'Donnell J J. J V. W PeI Peters Peters Pe Pe- teis tei's G G. G F F. Ryan H. H W. W Stable Stahle and I W. W W. W Warnick voted against it It STARK BILL AMENDED Among the measures passed at atthe atthe atthe the closing session of the senate the he Stark Stark bill aimed at eliminating deficits was amended in the senate to require consent of any three ot f four the president president-of or orthe the senate speaker of t t the e house and chairmen of ot the appropriation committees es of ot the two houses The Dunyon bill aimed at cre creation tion of ot anew a anew anew new county in In Western Utah and the Graham bur bill designed to protect the beauty parlor business were among the measures measures passed House bill No by Mr Ml Fowles crest creating nga a civil service commission for c cities ties of ot the second class passed the senate after opposition led by Senator Lewis The rhe bill provides that the board of or city commissioners commission commission- ers or city council sh shall ll act as such s uch commission The senate passed a number of ot the McCullough bills bills- relating to le legal legal legat le- le gal gat procedure House bill taxes costs and fe fees s for Jor tor filing new papers In connection with a change of venue in certain cases against the party comm commencing the action Minor made corrections ions made by the house In t the e measure by McCullough McCullough McCullough lough relating to time for filing in- in forn atlon and rind contempt In criminal cases were confirmed by the senate Other McCullough bills bUls that were passed were house bill bUI No that all aU appeals In criminal cases must bo be taken within thirty days after entry of ot Judgment appealed from No 70 that all aU persons who conceal conceal conceal con con- ceal knowledge of ot a felony committed committed commit commit- ted are are- are accessories and No 72 that thata a defendant who vho i has been in Jail thirty days without trial has a aright aright aright right to immediate trial if court Is in s session or the first day of the succeeding term of cou court t. t INTEREST PAID H House use bill No by Sharp appropriating appropriating appropriating ap ap- from the state treasury to reimburse the National Copper bank for commissions paid to a New York bank for paying Utah bonds and coupons in 1923 and 1924 was passed The Stone bill No requiring manufacturers of dairy products to report annually to the state board of r agriculture and governing the purchase of ot milk milk- find and cream was passed I i I Two irrigation measures of ot Dyreng Dyreng Dyreng Dy- Dy reng dealing with waters were were passed They both I tend to r restrain strain hasty restoration to entry by requiring publication for fora a given time in in the newspapers Thc They are house bills and The Woodruff measure measure requiring public owned automobiles to bear amark a amark amark mark Identifying them as such excePt except except ex ex- ex- ex for tor that of ot the governor and certain peace officers was passed Violation will be a misdemeanor The Goggin house bill No a request of ot the larger counties passed It permits the county clerk cleric to keep his office open between 7 and 9 o'clock on certain nights in October to allow workmen tp re rESister register Sis regis ister is- is ter for voting for voting A ACTS ON FEES House bill bUI No 85 by the c committee com com- m- m on appropriations requiring the commissioner of ot agriculture and the tho s secretary of ot the state board of I agriculture to pay all fees collected during the preceding month Into the state treasury passed House Souse bill following the Cali Calf California California fornia truck license law and ot other er erI registration features and Increasing increasing increasing I ing licenses was passed Later the senate receded from ItS us own amendments and the tho bill bUI stands as It passed the house The senate struck the en enacting clause in house bill which provided provided provided pro pro- vided for adding to a drainage district district dis dis- lands and canal rights of or way where seepage waters from them I contribute to wat of lands in the d In the already district dIScussion discussion discussion dis dIS- several regarded the measure measure measure meas meas- I ure as far reaching and dangerous It was pointed out by Senator Dixon that It 11 resembled a senate bill already killed by that body Governor George II H. Dern extended ex extended ex- ex tended tended his his hi congratulations to the senate on that body's finishing Its labors w when len he was waited upon by bya a committee consisting of Senators Peters Au Auerbach rb ch and Dixon The appreciation forthe for forthe forthe the the courtesies sh shown wn by the tho senate sen sen- ate x SENATORS S P PRAISE AISE PRESS The Usual general vote of or appreciation appreciation appreciation to the president of the senates senates senates sen sen- ates the and to the press was extended by y the senators on I motion of ot Senator Winder Final list of appointments was submitted by Governor George H H. Dern and confirmed by the senate senat about midnight When the name of Oscar W. W McConkie 1 of Monticello I who is the state senator from SanJuan San SanJuan SanJuan Juan cou county ty was read the senators I applauded and immediately confirmed confirmed con con- firmed the appointment before hearing the tho others Senator McConkie McConkle Mc- Mc Conkle Conkie was named as a member of ot the state board of ot education for the next six years Six nominations were submitted for for- membership on the Utah water st storage rage commission for a period of ot two years each The appointments toll follow ow A A. F F Doremus of ot Tooele J. J R. R Murdock of or Heber City S. S M. M Nielsen of or Mt 1 Pleasant W. W V. V R. R Ballard Ballard Ballard Bal- Bal lard of r Logan Karl I. I F. F Keeler o of Provo and R R. R R. R Lyman of ot Salt Lake Mr Doremus Mr Murdock and Mr Lyman are reappointed During the afternoon the senate In a body called upon Governor George H H. Dern to pay their re respects respects respects re- re and to assure him of ot their eagerness to cooperate in the up- up up up- building of ot the state Another break in the deliberations came cam when Senators Peters rising on a point of or personal privilege pr pre pre- s President Irvine with with a I handsome gold watch in behalf of his associates and colleagues |