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Show CORRUPfPRACTiCES BILLISMIEO HOUSE APPROVES MEASURE AFT. ER THREE SECTIONS H AO BEEN REMOVED. Members of the Senate Evidently Had Not. Recovered from Holiday Celebration Cel-ebration as a Number of Measures Are Killed. v Salt Lake City. If the corrupt prac-' j tice bill as it passed the house- 'on February 23 is approved by the sen-ate, sen-ate, candidates and electors in Utah will still retain a reasonable amount f freedom of action during campaigns cam-paigns and election day. Sections 28, ' 34 and 35 of the original draft, which would have hampered the conduct of candidates to such an extent" that they would have been dependent entirely en-tirely on personal beauty and psychic influence in forwarding' their political aspirations, were eliminated by almost al-most unanimous vote. Obliterating its former action, in recalling re-calling the prohibition bill frVii the governor after it had - passed Uie house and senate, the house on February 23 placed the measure where its supporters believe it above the lash of the highest liquor -wave when there was expunged from the journal all reference to Governor Bamberger's suggestion of an amendment amend-ment and the action in returning ..he bill to the executive office without the alteration of a lucter or punclua' tion mark. The house also pasned the corrupt practices measures vtith material amendments that remove it from the category of the impossible. It was execution day in the upper house of the legislature on February 23, and the senate killed every measure- which was presented to amend the laws of the state. The only measures meas-ures which passed the upper branch were resolutions and memorials which ' do not affect the compiled laws of Utah. Effort was made on February 23 to override the first veto of a bill by GoVernor Bamberger when he returned re-turned Senate bill No. 50, by Stevens, to the senate with his disapproval, but those who were determined to pass the bill over his veto failed to carry their point. Salt Lake City. Twenty-nine bills appeared in the house on February 21, the last day of the present session for introduction of bills without unanimous unani-mous consent. The measures related to various subjects, from road construction con-struction to abatement of smelter fumes. In addition to the bills, there wis one joint memorial calling for government gov-ernment aid in the education of children chil-dren of persons living on the Uinta Indian reservation lands, . and on.j joint resolution relating to the personnel per-sonnel of the executive department of the state. Smoking -was placed on the black list by the house on February 21, and henceforth representatives will . be barred from the comforts of the cigar and cigarette during workmg hours. Olson's senate ' bill making salary of.the city auditor of Salt Lake ?3,60O a year and his term of office four instead in-stead of two years was passed. Allen's bill designed to close butcher butch-er shops, delicatessens and limit the trade of retail drug storesi on Sunday was defeated by the "house. 'McKay's bill designed, to close theater's, the-ater's, ball parks and all other places of business on Sunday was killed by the house on an adverse committee report. re-port. . In the senate on February 21 the two-million-dollar bond issue authorized author-ized ,for road and bridge construction was amended and passed by senate. Appropriation of $50,000 for relief of Indian war veterans was approved. Congress was memorialized for reimbursement." reim-bursement." A bill was introduced and approved by committee on appropriations and claims appropriating $100,000 for display dis-play at semi-centennial exposition to be held in Ogden in 1919 and providing provid-ing for creation of an exposition commission. com-mission. The bill permitting city councils to make improvements and repairs other than by contract wras amended and passed. Salt Lake City The lower house of the Utah legislature will run two calendars cal-endars instead of one from now on. Administration and executive measures, meas-ures, the passage of which was promised prom-ised in campaign days, will have a special, exclusive, autocratic calendar of their very own. The new move is designed to put all distinctly Democratic Demo-cratic party bills in the clear, and thus to render them less liable to accident than they would be as cars in the overlong train of the general calendar. This was decided on at the session of February 15. |