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Show FLOOD OF BILLS IN UTAH LEGISLATURE .IN THIRTY-FOUR DAYS 194 MEASURES MEAS-URES HAD BEEN PRESENTED IN THE HOUSE. Initiative and Referendum Likely to Cause Extended Debate, While Prohibition Measure is Causing Discussion. There was barely a quorum present when the roll was called in the house on February 13, and but a short session ses-sion was held, most of the representatives represent-atives having taken a day off in order to visit their homes. While there was not much business done there were many little caucuses on the floor of the house in w hich the Democrats tried to convert the Repu'o-iicans Repu'o-iicans to their view on the initiative .and referendum. This bill will cause one of the longest debates during the session, unless the house sets a time limit on'the speakers. There are several sev-eral ramifications to the bill which will le brought out and discussed on the floor. The Wootton prohibition bill is attracting at-tracting much attention in the house. The passing of the bill by the senate :iias caused the manufacturers and commerce committees of the house, before be-fore which are pending several regulatory regula-tory and prohibition measures, to prepare pre-pare to receive the bill when it conies .from the senate. , The house has broken the record of :the tenth session, as it has introduced 194 bills in thirty-four days. The tenth session introduced 201 bills in sixty .days and more than seventy-five of .these came from committees. February J 5. was the last day for the introduction of bills in the house. Two measures introduced by members mem-bers of the legislature from Salt Lake were considered by the public utilities utili-ties committee of the house on February Feb-ruary 12, and an unfavorable report .thereon returned. H. B. No. 4, by T. T. Burton, providing pro-viding that there shall not be more than nine cars in any passenger train -operated in Utah was considered at length by the committee. Arguments made by the trainmen and by the railroads rail-roads were reviewed by the committee commit-tee and more than two-thirds of the committee voted that the bill should be reported unfavorably. The second bill to be reported unfavorably un-favorably by the committee is H. B. No. 29, by Dan B. Shields of Salt Xake. This bill provides that cabooses ca-booses on freight trains shall be of a .standard size. Although it was a legislative holi-.day holi-.day on February 12 (Lincoln's birthday) birth-day) the senate and house committees which , have charge of work pertaining pertain-ing to the state mental hospital went to Provo. As soon as the party arrived in the city the visitors were taken to the hospital, where they made a very thorough investigation and found the institution to be in the best of condition. condi-tion. A sumptuous dinner was served at the institution and members of the legislature received a great deal of information about the way the hospital hos-pital is being conducted. The party returned to Salt Lake late in the afternoon. af-ternoon. The senate adjourned from Thursday Thurs-day until Monday, after passing the Wootton prohibition bill. Petitions were read from Provo, Og-clen Og-clen and Nephi organizations of the M. I. A. asking the legislature to pass the state-wide prohibition bill. There were also a number of petitions from Hurricane and Beaver asking for the prohibition bill to be passed. Scientific aid in fighting the smoke nuisance through a state appropriation appropria-tion of $5,000 to the engineering experiment ex-periment station of the University ot "Utah is proposed in a bill introduced tiy Senator George Dern of Salt Lake. The bill provides that the state aid shall depend on Salt Lake's giving at least an equal amount. Unless there is a quantity of unappropriated un-appropriated waters at the source of a stream, the state engineer will not lie permitted to receive or file an application ap-plication for water under the provisions provi-sions of a bill introduced by A. A. Hinckley of Millard county in the 2iouse. The Utah state senate had quite a "busy day on February 8, following the week-end holiday. Four bills were .passed, one killed and twenty-one new measures introduced. Mothers' pensions and the appropriation appro-priation for Utah exhibits at the California Cal-ifornia expositions were taken care of in two of the bills passed. A third is aimed to save the water department of Salt Lake City $0,000 a year by enabling it to collect water rentals irom "dead beats," and the fourth makes merchants and others who put out untrue advertisements guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill killed was Hansen's measure meas-ure allowing damages for trespass by cattle only when the ravaged land is surrounded by fencing. Osteopaths of Utah have joined the regular physicians in opposing the passage of the bill to license chiro-jractics chiro-jractics and the like now before the senate, on the ground that the osteopaths osteo-paths are educated in every branch of rmedical science and under the present law have licenses from the state medical medi-cal board to practice medicine and surgery. |