Show UTAH legislature ENDS EMS ITS ITS MS LABORS adjournment TAKEN BEFORE GOVERNOR HAD REPORTED 0 ON prohibition BILL in last three days daya of session bills were S nt to the governor who had already signed twenty seven salt lake city the eleventh sos ses slon sion ot of the utah legislature adjourned sine alne die friday night march 12 the house adjourned at 9 and the senate at 1020 the constitutional sixty days was up at noon neon thursday when the clocks were stopped and legislation continued tor for thirty four hours governor spry had tailed failed to either sign or disapprove the statewide state wide prohibition hibi tion bill before the adjournment of the legislature and whether or not the wootton woollen measure will become a law depends upon the action 0 of the chief executive should lie he veto the bill utah will remain a wet state up to the closing days of the session practically no legislation of general and statewide state wide interest had bad been bee L 1 passed or enacted into law by th the e signature of the governor and there were predictions that the eleventh session would be called a do nothing not lift a atair then came a rush of billj on the last three days that ended with a total of being placed in the hands of the governor who had already approved twenty seven and vetoed one As to checking over the bills now in the hands of the governor and which lie he has until midnight march 21 to consider it la is estimated that by working on oil them ten tea hours a day and giving only two days to the consideration of the appropriations bill lie he would have twenty minutes time to each measure the only bill vetoed by the govern or during the session was one introduced by senator joseph eckersley of wayne county calling for an appropriation of tor for certain rural schools to bo be paid from the general fund this was vetoed on account of its un unconstitutionality constitutionality and another bill which was declared by legislators to be equally at variance with the co constitution ution but which provided that tile the money come from the fund was wag passed and has been signed among the twenty odd new laws al ready made there are most of the administration measures which re quire that the various state boards turn over monthly all their fees and receipts to the state treasurer and al also alo o a 11 6 series of bills relative to the land hand ling of of prisoners in road camps designed to prevent their receiving drugs and explosives and making escape or 01 attempted escape a felony the ap already made and signed include tor for the exposition exhibits in california and appropriations for the orphans home and day nursery be ry k free ee kindergarten and neighborhood i the bills known as aa administration ale measures a most pt which were recommended om in the governors message to the legislature r hl Z were ere practically all passed with t the of one providing that the terms of county assessors and county treasurers treasur ers should be four years one series of bills provides that the state board of land commissioners may invest certain funds in warrants issued by the board there are now about of oc these warrants outstanding ing and they bear interest at 5 per cent these bills provide means whereby the land board can pay the damage claims on oil account of the breaking of the hatchtown Hatch town dam and also provide a way whereby the land board can rebuild the dam with out a bond issue the amendment of the corporation tax law graduating the fees for filing articles of incorporation is estimated to bring in about to a year while the new motor vehicle tax law it signed by the goer governor nor will add to the state road fund about a year this amount will be in addition to rhe a year appropriated for state roads to be spent on condition that the various counties put up sums ranging from equal mounts amounts to one third of the state funds used in the respective counties other tax laws in ili the hands of the governor include those thosa extending the time for paying taxes and providing tor for a pen pea alty ally of 3 per cent on delinquent taxes while another prospective law will validate vAIl date tax sales moat of the big legislation of at the eleventh session of oc the legislature originated inthe senate measures which were characterized as revolutionary nary and freak came from the upper body of the legislature and the house devot sd ed itself largely to legislation desired by the various state departments but for every bill styled as aa revolutionary tio nary introduced in the senate a similar bill was introduced in tho the house the enacting clauses ot of all such house bills were stricken out on the last day ot of the session dan B shields ot of salt lake county holds the record as regards num number ber of bills introduced by an individual in the last legislature while IV L van wagoner of wasatch did not father a single bill mr air shields int introduced ro twenty nine and had eight bills passed at the beginning of the session s mr van wagoner announced lie ha would not introduce intro duca a bill in the house as he ha had come to the legislature to kin kill and not to pass bills billa |