Show utah legislature now I 1 in nineteenth session the utah legislature la its nineteenth session has moved in a dellb crate fashion and at the aud of the second w cek of the session still hid delved but lightly into its program the subject of new amendments to the constitution has been considered to some extent four questions have been under consideration these are affecting trial by jury schools in the five cities of the first and second classee clas qualifications for membership in the legislature and prohibition the assortment of subjects Is interesting but none of them has much to do with taxation two taxation bills appeared in ehg legislature one has been introduced in both houses it Is the state tax commissions perome pero ml income tax measure the commission forwarded kor warded it to the legislature artl day january ac it appeared for I 1 the first time la the bill files of the legislators in printed form monday january ag another bill from the asame commission was submitted to bithe legislature monday it it does i not make better progress than the first it will not be in the bill flies until some time in I 1 february there I 1 are at least five more bills to come before the state tax commission the other taxation bill Is a measure dealing with penalties tor false or incomplete reports of property assessed it was introduced by senator paul II 11 hunt of keetley Keet lcy it has been printed but so far has not received much attention from the committee so far as announced monday was the fifteenth day of a session of sixty days so that at I 1 the close of the day one fourth of arthe present session was passed so far the legislative mill has aground out and completed one sen late resolution which provides a messenger for the governor one house biu and a house memorial to congress the house bill spends f 50 of the states money for the of the legislature the memorial favors the jones matern alty and child aid bill which the national senate passed without the urge from the utah legislature and Is now before the g al house this memorial awaits the signature of governor dern the first quarter of the session finds twenty six bills and resolutions introduced in the house it past experience is a guide the total number will be about ten times that i number in the senate there are bills and resolutions also a small part of what may be expected of the eighteen one as noted liaa can disposed of the remainder are ill alive and two have reached the senate second reading calendar they must be debated two times in i the diate and run the g of the entire house process before ihly become lawa r the house at lus posa 1 aslon of no senate bill the sen ate has one house measure and mother is on its way to the senite having been passed by the house but not yet appearing on the senate floor eight senate balla have not et been ordered printed and are in committee house committees still have seventeen of the tw enty six measures presented to that body of the seventeen falve are resolutions or memorials and twelve are bills of the six remaining one as noted la on its way to the senate one Is la the senate one has been sent to the governor one signed while two are already dead of the two one was withdrawn by the author while the committee drew a substitute for the other of special interest Is the joint resolution introduced in the senate by knox batterson rat terson of moab which would submit to the voters of utah the question of whither they desire to repeal the section which writes prohibition into alio constitution of utah the section the moab senator would repeal was approved by the people in the general election of november 5 1518 and became effective january 1 1919 utah however had state wide prohibition before that time having passed the law practically in ita present form in the legislature 0 1917 prohibition was effective statewide state wide in utah before the famous eighteenth amendment maa adopted senator patterson does not propose to alter the present prohibition laws of utah the resolution would take prohibition out of the basic law of the state this the senator from moab points out leaves the entirely in the bands of the legislature those persons he said who supported the constitutional amend menta of last november which relieved the legislature of limitations covering taxation and watt claimed that the legislature could and should ba trusted with its enlarged powers should rally to the support of this resolution it simp ly hakea the constitution more flexible and permits the legislature to enact a law in keeping with tho needs of the occasion it places the control in the hands of the legislature |