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Show 50L0NS BEHIND IN LEGISLATIVE WORK FIRST TWO WEEKS OF SESSION MARKED BY SPARSE NUMBER OF MEASURES IN. , Thirty-three Bills Introduced in the House During Two Weeks of La-for, La-for, while Forty one Measures Appear in Senate. Salt Iake City At the end of the first two weeks of the twelfth session, ses-sion, January 20, the legislature was three days behind the record set by other legislatures. Ia the lower house the activity of the members during the two wreks had been curbed curb-ed on account of the senate caucus and the house members were being urged by the leaders to hold back bills until party measures were in. During the second week the statewide state-wide prohibition bill which was drawn by the Democratic steering committee, commit-tee, was reported out of committee and, as had been planned, was the the first bill on the calendar. But thirty-three bills had been introduced in the house during the two weeks of the session. This is said to be the smallest number of bills ever introduced in-troduced in the first twelve days of a house session. Seven house joint resolutions had teen Introduced, two house reboiutions and two house joint mpmnrinlq. One bill had been passed and one joint resolution adopted. The bill which passed is the McKinney amendment amend-ment to the garnishment laws of the state and the resolution was directed to the secretary of agriculture protesting protest-ing against the increase in the graz-l ing rates iu national forests. There were twelve bills on the calendar. During the first two weeks of the twelfth session, ending January 20, forty-one bills were introduced in the senate. Otherwise, however, things had not moved any too rapidly in the senate. Just .' two bills had been passed by the upper house. The number of bills introduced by each senator at the close of business on January 20, was as follows: Chez, 15; Dern, 6; Olson, 5; 'Wootton, 3; Evans, 3; Colton, 2; Bevan, 1; Bradley, Brad-ley, 1; Funk, 1; Parker, 1; Stevens, 1 Stringham, 1, and the committee on public affairs, 1. Reduction of the printing bills of the state is proposed by ,J. Alex Bevan Be-van of Tooel county in a bill introduced intro-duced in the house providing for the creation of a state board of printing and for a state printery. The bill carried car-ried with it a bond appropriation of $250,000 to be used by the state board of printing in the erection of a printing print-ing establishment. There was no session of the senate on January 20. On January 20 the house reconsidered reconsid-ered the action to make state-wide prohibition a special order for Monday Mon-day and read the bill. Refused to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution reso-lution by Mace of Sanpete calling upon up-on the governor to close schools on account of coal shortage. Appointed permanent committee for the correcting correct-ing of the journal. Salt Lake City. In a session lasting last-ing less than an hour the senate on January IS passed the first bill, one of its o'wn, to reach the calendar in regular order in either branch of the legislature and put through a small grist of routine business. The morning morn-ing hours were consumed in a caucus on proposed legislation relating to public utilities, liability of employers and the initiative and referendum. After a short debate and a tew minor amendments were agreed to Senator "vVootton's bill to limit the liability li-ability of hotel keepers for valuables deposited by guests was passed without with-out opposition. This measure proposes that hotel keepers and proprietors of boarding houses shall give notice by posting a copy of the act, if passed, in office and in the rooms notifying guests that liability for articles ue-posited ue-posited for safe keeping shall not exceed ex-ceed $250 unless the exact value Is stated and a receipt is taken therefor. Bills in the house will not be killed by adopting adverse reports of committees com-mittees until they are reached in their regular order on the calendar, it was decided on January 18 by the house, and as a result reports of committees will be received and read before the bills are called for third reading. Heretofore the rule has been that the committee report was acted upon as soon as sent to the house. A number of bills of minor importance import-ance amending certain parts of statutes stat-utes were reported out by the legislative legisla-tive reference committee and referred to the standing committees. Resolutions Resolu-tions and memorials which have been ;n the committee for some time, were reported favorably and it is expected the house will get to the considera-I considera-I 'ion of bills within a few days, since J he prohibition bill has been reported out. |