Show CORRUPT CO ARU PT PRACTICES a BILL SIDETRACKED s t I SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE FOR I DISMEMBERMENT AFTER PROLONGED DEBATE Chiropractic Measure Goes Down to Defeat in Lower House of Utah Legislature the Vote BeIng Be Being Being Be Be- ing Close Salt Lake City The The corrupt practices tires tices bill and the chiropractic measure encountered a stormy reception In Inthe Inthe inthe the house on February 16 The first named bill was sent back Into Committee com Com- committee om- om for practical dismemberment while the measure upon which the chiropractors had bad pinned their hopes was cast into the discard It took five hours of heated conversation to accomplish accomplish ac ac- accomplish this result One measure empowering cities to purchase gas water and for resale was passed by the house on February 26 Twelve new measures made their appearance making the total for the session To Tho senate on February 26 considered considered consid consid- ered amendments by Iby the public utilities utilIties utilities ties bill Refused to strike out maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum freight rates on coal but Increased increased increased in In- creased them Defeated proposition to increase salaries o of commissioners from to and to Defeated amendment limiting number number number num num- ber of oars cars in trains in this state to fifty All mines in the state of Utah are areto areto areto to be assessed at three times their net proceeds if the the b bill ll introduced in inthe inthe the senate by the educational committee commit commit- tee becomes a law With many expressions of regret and reluctance and frank acknowledgment that hundreds of marvelous cures have been effected in Utah by spinal adjustments ments the lower house on February February February Feb Feb- 26 killed the bill which permitted permitted permitted per per- chiropractors to practice In Utah by a vote of 20 ayes to 23 nays Representative King has presented a measure asking for an appropriation tion of 2000 for the construction of ofa ofa a bridge over be e Escalante river in Garfield county five lve miles west of Escalante The committee on highways and bridges Introduced three measures for the furtherance of the good roads movement in Utah on February 26 The new motor license bill prepared by the secretary of ot states state's office dividing dividing dividing di di- viding the license year into semi-annual semi periods has been introduced introduced intro intro- in the senate Salt Lake City City Just Just how tightly the Sunday closing lid should be benall nall nailed d down on e drug stores of Utah was discussed the house of representatives QI on orf February 13 The debate resulted in IIi the measure being referred re-referred to committee f for r further consideration and redrafting The druggist contingent in the house was opposed to the measure from the start as an endeavor on the part of the retail merchants to deprive the drug stores of Sunday business yet to require them to keep open for forthe forthe forthe the dispensing of drugs rugs The chiropractic bill was reported from the committee with a majority adverse to it and a minority report recommending that it be placed on the calendar for consid consid- oration It finally was given a place on the calendar Acting f upon a communication from the governor the house appointed a special committee to investigate and andreport andreport andreport report method of correcting error In record of the Young prohibition bill by which a final vote on its passage after it was recalled from governor for Cor consideration amendment was overlooked The Torrens land bill was passed by the house on February 13 The long promised public utility bill the tho of the administrative measures made its official appearance In the senate on on February 13 13 and at atthe atthe atthe the same time lobbyists were given notice that their presence on the floor of the se senate ate was not not desired during discussion of the measure Verbal notice that he was getting tired of delays and the recommitting of bills and the reconstruction of bills was served on the members of the senate by Senator William of ot the minority Utah will pay the expenses ot or the public utilities commission and the cost of the operation of the proposed commission commission com mission will not be assessed as a tax against the public utilities of the st state te which are are to come under its su suo Only those corpor corporations which are commonly known as public service e corporations are to be supervised s super supervised per per- by the commission and the proposition that the commission be given supervision over the sugar factories fac rac tories lories coal mines and all other corporations corporations cor In the state which have either a natural or artificial 1 monopoly has been eliminated from the bill The creation a department of agriculture agriculture agriculture ag ag- and the consolidation under one ne head of fourteen offices commissions commis commissions and departments departments' are provided in a bill introduced in the senate by bythe bythe bythe the committee on agriculture Appropriation for tor the Branch Agricultural Agricultural Agri Agri- cultural cultural l was cut by th the joint appropriations committee of ot the legislature leg from asked to McKays McKay's bill placing court steno stena on a salary basis barIs was killer on on an unfavorable committee but notice of on ot or o t tl lh action was given |