Show UTAH legislature LEGISLA TUR E PARTY LEADERS LEADER SAT OV OVER ER RESULTS OF TWELFTH SESSION enact statewide state wide prohibition law I 1 approve public commas ion and campen atlon bation act and provide for road improvement salt lake city the twelfth I 1 am slon alon of the legislature of 0 utah passed out of exis existence tenca early morning march 11 but tho the journals journ alB alm will shora adjournment at midnight of hah ath tho the lawmakers working work ln on borrowed time in order to complete the pressing bu business slits before the legis legislature ture in the sonae senator dom moved that the senate adjourn sine alne die at 12 42 sunday morning its aa president dont funk signing a number of mils bills from the house on ea grossing committee in ili the house h ouse vr dr grace Stratton kirby mado made tile tho motion to adjourn slue sine die at it 1249 49 sunday coming with tile the adjournment of via the legislature a revenue measure having been passed a special session of the legislature was declared unnecessary by the cativo members of both bossos and by Db erger who was vas on the job until the two houses notified fied him ahat they were vere ready to quit the labors of tho seb sension sion governor bamberger Dam iberger la Is quoted ns as saying baying the legislature Is fortunate in hailing been able to do so eo much for use the benefit ot of tho the state the Demoa party and via the adminis tra tion have redeemed tho pledges they audo mudo to the have ft a state vide prohibition law which will bo be enforced by the ole governor W we havo have a publio public utilities commission a work mens compensation act abid wo we have guaranteed tor for the construction of roads the legislature has performed its fluty duty in uie the highest patriotic sense benso differences ot of opinion have air hairlson lson but in tho end the he legislature did that which la Is right tito tho majority ruled no one ona liaa has tiny any apologies to offer and I 1 bellevo believe every member con can go homo home B that ho he hoa has contributed something to use progress and development of utah J W funk president ot of the senate asonat to declared we bavo given everything the called tor for or the administration pledged tor for wo we have hav 0 enacted laws for tho the benefit of the people and wo ve have bave given tile the state slate a progressive legislation as a result ot which we vo hope tho the state will prosper wo we havo have nax been able to lo go into the details of the laws but wa ve havo gono gone far Other legislatures tire coming nod and I 1 hopp they will dom do M well 1 I will go homo home well fled for linow know wo we havo have our promises to tho the people ot of utah with regard to remedial and progressive legislation said speaker jj ji ia 11 tolton wo we went as far ar as we possibly could I 1 in 11 i tile the way of making good our pledges there was war a barrier lit in lw lie wily way that could not be entirely overcome and that barrier Is tile the constitution itself wo we have kept iho falth faith we gave ollir best thought to all measures and went fairly on record I 1 am proud of the honor that was mine in presiding over the house during tho the session of tho the le legislature gla lature which has haa just adjourned the important measures that received the lie final approval of 0 both houses during tho the twelfth session were statewide state wide prohibition bill efflo live august 1 1917 public commission bill carries appropriation appi hill bill of Work mens compensation hlll bill car rles iles appropriation of corrupt practices act limits cam campaign expenditures and law bond issue of for or building ot of good roads in outlying counties irrigation district bill to get federal aid in tho the development of 0 arid linda lands clayton antitrust anti trust law and bills affecting labor appropriation bill carrying appropriation of for ogden exposition in 1919 creation oga oa budget system for the state starting in 1919 occupation tax on mines collecting 1 for every employee excepting la borers and imposing a net production tax at three times the net proceeds of 0 mines for 1917 and thrice the not net proceeds thereafter increasing the state levies to tho the constitutional limit of 5 1 mills increasing the justices of the court from three to five giving powers to corrections board to oust state prison warden aitho t cause constitutional amendment for statewide prohibition constitutional amendment for tax ing mines at a multiple on a during tho the twelfth session the senate alte passed TO 7 measures and tho th bouse 06 the governor signed 34 that carpe front from tho the senate and 19 that originated lit in the iho house white while hoi het ba has s 34 senate and 19 house hills before him which lie ho wilt will either approve or veto governor babits erger won his fight against an income tax and fr a law lav taxing tho the mines of tho the state on a vidu aVon of three times their net proceeds eda the ro battle battlo was VW tile tho legislature on iiii eve of Its sine dlo die passed toy tar on in mines and mining claims I 1 S n R Th thurman for former trier democratic and valentino valentine gideon on one ot the tha foremost attorneys at tho the weber county bunty bar were appointed judg judeen besof of supreme court dourt on loth ii b y glovernor lo Jo vernor Baxa borger |