Show lEGISLATURE TAKES HUES UP COAL PROBLEM DRASTIC STEPS PROPOSED BY LAWMAKERS TO END FUEL FAMINE IN UTAH Resolution Would Authorize Governor to Seize the Railways of the State and Operate Lines Tapping Coal Territory Salt Lake City Members 1 Members of ot tho house and senate took cognizance o othe of the coal shortage In Utah on Monday 1 January 15 and in both houses reso resolutions resolutions were Introduced with a a. view to fixing the blame Jiame for the general I famine of ot fuel and steps proposed to I relieve conditions In the house a a. resolution was Introduced introduced Intro intro- by Charles M. M Hecker authorizing authorizing authorizing author author- izing the governor to seize the railways rail ways of ot the state and operate the lines tapping coal territory and use the Utah national guard if necessary to tomake tomake tomake make the measure effective R. R E. E Currie also Introduced a resolution resolution reso reso- lution in the house calling on Denver Rio Grande to submit to the legislature a statement of the number of cars of fuel originating in shipment in Utah between December 1 1916 and January 15 1917 In the senate Senator Dern offered a resolution calling for an investigation tion Iy by a Joint con committee of the house and senate the committee to have power to call witnesses and examine examine examine ex ex- amine the records of the railroads which enter coal territory Governor Bamberger when he learned of the resolutions said he fa Ia- an investigation into the coal situation He reiterated that he lie setout set setout setout out in his message to the legislature his ideas in regard to an investigation Three bills were introduced in the senate on January 15 while an even dozen bills and resolutions were presented presented pre pre- seated in the house Indorsement by the state legislature of compulsory military training for young men and the abolishment of ot the state militia is asked in a senate joint memorial to the president and to congress introduced in the upper house by Senator Wootton Governor Simon Bamberger reported that senate bill No 1 providing for foran foran foran an appropriation of to cover the expenses of the legislature had been signed by him and transmitted to the secretary of otate Members of the committee on manu manu- and commerce in charge of the prohibition bill admit that the measure will have to be redrafted and the prohibition commissioner feature will have to be Ibe eliminated before the measure can get past the house but hut the committee declares that it will place the responsibility of 01 altering the bill bili upon the house itself The senate rushed its open session program through at high speed on January 11 and immediately after arter adjournment adjournment ad ad- went into caucus where the deta S' S of the corrupt practice bill were threshed out The measure is designed to purify elections according according accord accord- ing jag to its supporters and contains radical provisions relative to spending money and censorship of newspapers Six bills were introduced in the senate senate senate sen sen- ate on January 11 Senator Colton offered offered of of- ered a measure to prohibit the traffic traffic fic in peyote and forbidding delivery of the drug to Indians for a religious rite or for other purposes Senator Chez presented a bill to regulate the exhibition of motion pictures pic pictures pie pie- tures and to provide for a state board of censors Senator Bevan offered a bill bUl to regulate regulate reg reg- the sale of or narcotic drugs Senator Chez presented a bill providing providing providing pro pro- viding that freight charges on carload lots of 01 coal delivered to any point in inthe inthe inthe the state be based on weight of or coal when it reaches destination Senator Chez introduced a bill to define and prohibit trusts Senator Evans introduced a bill to provide for or the settlement registration registration registration tion transfer and assurance of 01 titles to land and to make uniform the laws of the state in issuing the same One bill and one resolution were introduced Introduced in In- in the house on January 11 The live stock men of the state caused a resolution to be introduced in the house protesting against the Increase in the charges which the department department de do of agriculture has made for grazing live stock in the national forest forest for for- est reserves Cazier of Juab county had the honor honor hon hone or of introducing the second bill bilI of the I session in the house The measure gives to cities of third class a Justice of oC the peace to be elected by the peo pee pIe Five bills and three resolutions Introduced In traduced with one resolution passed Is the sum total of legislative activities activities ties in tho house of representatives of the Twelfth T Utah legislature durIng during dur dur- ing lug the first week of ot its session so sotar sotar tar far as legislation originating in the house is concerned 4 A fight against the report of th the rules committee developed In the house bouse Insurgents led by J. J G. G Wid Wid- dison Jr of or Weber c county objected to the proposed legislative committee BO so strenuously that it was thought best to read the rules section by section sec see tion and adopt each as it was read A commissioner of prohibition to be appointed by the governor for two years at a salary of 1000 a a- a year to toto toto toto to have full charge of ot the enforcing of the act and find is given the powers of the attorney general county attorneys and sheriffs |