Show t I un r I 9 ne eti lien In Cot a mt I O. O i ag t. t l By the time these words have become printers printer's ink the Twenty- Twenty second Utah State Legislature will likely have ended its lawmaking lawmaking ing deliberations or indulged inthe in inthe inthe the liberty of setting back the clock in order to continue them the tha th allotted day GO-day beyond period per per- iod Legislative experts were predicting predIcting predicting pre pre- Monday that the senate would end its work worle by bJ Thursday but that the lower house might have to continue an extra day before before before be be- fore saying sine die The last available statistics statistics- complete to Saturday night last last last- show that Governor Henry H. H Blood has affixed his signature to 36 measures bills resolutions and memorials enacted by both legislative legislative leg leg- legislative branches or by bJ one where only one is necessary Almost as many more are either in his hands handsor or on the way having had the necessary senate and house approval approval ap ap- but as yet to be engrossed or signed by the secretary of state or the proper senate and house officials Thirty odd measures have died quick or lingering deaths at the hands of solons or representatives tives either cither by de death dealing votes or the tabling route Twenty three have passed into oblivion through the withdrawal method The so so- called liquor bill which leaves liquor li li- li liquor quor control just about as it has been for the past two years is in conference committee with of early approval The Thc I bill transferring county roads to tc toI I the state road system is also in conference The senate has passed another 29 9 measures These are now either on on the house calendar for early action or in the house sifting committee for dubious disposal The lower house has passed 24 measures which are arc as as' as yet to be acted upon by the upper house These 52 are practically certain to be finally disposed of before adjournment No matter how hard or long the legislators work worle during the few remaining days of the current se session ion many measures are certain certain tain to die in senate and house sifting committees or in the regular regular regular reg reg- ular committees who have not reported re ie- ported them out The senate by working Sunday disposed of a number of their own bills but the house had only Monday to take action on their own That the solons' solons extra labors would avail them much was doubtful due to the inability of the house to reach their bills before adjourn adjourn- ment mente Unless all signs fail labor willbe will willbe willbe be able to boast of more legislation legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion procured during the current session than any other single branch of endeavor the strictly called so-called labor bills exceeding in number those of any other group At the close clos e of Saturdays Saturday's session session ses ses- sion eleven labor bills bulls had been enacted into law by the legisla legisla- ture Governor Blood had signed eight of these Three oth others rs were on the way for his approval or disapproval Enacted measures sought by organized organized or or- gal zed labor include the im all amendments amendments to the workmen's workmen's workmen's work work- mens men's compensation law basing compensation on a of days a year ear and adding five per e cent nt to the compensation award award award a- a ward for each minor child up to five children A bill to bring occupational occupational oc oc- oc diseases under the act was defeated in the senate as an amendment to the enacted meas meas- n I ure amending the law but was wa held for reconsideration Further action is deemed doubtful Other enacted labor measures measure now laws through being signed bIthe by bI bythe bythe the governor include those preventing preventing preventing pre pre- venting the deputizing of striking strike requiring during a e requiring ing workers accepting employment employment employment employ employ- ment during a strike e to register with the state slate industrial commission commission commission commis commis- sion and giving the industrial industria commission power of subpoena in it arbitration of labor disputes House and senate approved labor bills awaiting action by the governor governor gov include the hour 8 collar collar- to-collar to day for miners and the legalizing of peaceful picketing Another prescribes the time and method of paying wages Bills to kill the and law and to re require require require re- re quire cessation of all plant operations op- op operations operations op op- whenever the militia was called out at time of strikes were I killed in the senate after niter being passed by the lower house hous The direct primary bill one of the several measures affecting the state as a whole has passed both legislative branches and now awaits the governors governor's signature to become a law That he will sign it is deemed certain The homestead tax exemption bill was made a special order of business in the senate for Tuesday morning morning morning morn morn- ing together with its developed companion measure the old age pension bill later to become theold the theold theold old age assistance bill bUl What happens happens happens hap hap- pens to the exemption was largely dependent on the fate of the assistance assistance as Has measure The final decision on the repeal of the ton- ton mile tax and the providing of higher license fees for motor vehicles vehicles vehicles ve ve- rests with the conference committee In any event the theton ton ton- mile tax ta is dead and in its place will come higher fees Looks as though a lot of sought for appropriations appropriations ap ap- ap for tl tills this s that and the other thing are going by the board death board death in committees of one sort and another These include a n appropriation for the just established Junior College in Carbon county The house passed the so called so-called called little Wagner Warrner bill guaranteeing Utah workingmen the right of collective bargaining It follows Senator Robert Wagners Wagner's senate bill almost in toto It will vill reach the upper house this week but to procure action is quite another matter Utah had the proffer proffer prof prof- fer of another building gift last week week the the Salt Lake chamber of commerce commerce edifice It requires an appropriation to cover expenses involved in assumption of building build build- building ing debts and issuance of bonds under the bill empowering th the secretary of state to accept the gift The senate held a Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day session by the simple procedure ure of just calling it Saturday Almost all of the time was taken up in procuring a quorum Six non-controversial non bills were passed passed pass pass- ed and four advanced to the third reading calendar The lower lowerhouse house passed a n house resolution approving President Roosevelt's proposal to reorganize the United States supreme court but similar action is held up in the senate by bythe bythe bythe the judiciary committee |