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Show HEEDS OF COLLEGE . TO BEGARED FOR LAWMAKERS VISIT AGRICULTURAL AGRICULTU-RAL COLLEGE AT LOGAN AND MAY CONSENT TO BUDGET. New Building Desired Which Will Cost State $50,000, While Repairs and Improvements Will Total $17,000. The appropriation and education committees of the senate and house visited Logan on January 30, being tendered a reception by the faculty and students of the Agricultural college col-lege and residents of Logan. The Agricultural college is seeking two new buildings to cost approximately approxi-mately $50,000, the needs of which were set out at length. It is also de-eired de-eired that $17,000 be expended In re-pars re-pars and improvements on the present buildings. The legislators state that the Agricultural college is conservative conserva-tive in its estimates, and it was the concensus of opinion that at least a part of the appropriations would be granted. There was no session of the legislature legisla-ture on January 30, and those members mem-bers who were not busy in the committee com-mittee rooms were given an opportunity opportu-nity to take a vacation from the arduous ardu-ous duties of lawmaking. A tacit understanding has been reached by the leaders in the house that no appropriation .bill shall pass except on recommendation by other than the appropriations committee Bills referred to the highways and bridges committee and other committees commit-tees will have to be passed on by the appropriations committee before they go on the calendar for third reading. Schools for morals will be incorporated incor-porated in the educational system of Utah if a bill now being prepared for introduction in the legislature becomes a law. A number of educators and juvenile officers of the state are back of the bill. Thomas Sevy of Garfield county braved the rain of Saturday minus an overcoat. While discussing legislation in the lobby of a local hotel Friday night he left his overcoat on a chair and someone took it. i Bills for railroad legslation are the most popular in the legislature in respect re-spect to demands for sending copies over the state. The house has been out of copies of bills carrying railroad legislation for more than a week. It is expected that a public utilites bill and a prohibition bill will be in-' troduced in the house during the week. I The third reapportionment bill to be presented to the state legislature this session was introduced in the house on January 28 by Representative Charles W. Pope of Rich county. Mr. Pope's bill is unusual in that he assigns one senator to each county in the state, irrespective of population, but apportions the representatives to the counties in proportion to their population, retaining, however, at least one representative from each county. His apportionment is somewhat some-what after the plan of the apportionment apportion-ment of senators and representatives in congress. This pUin is followed in Montana and a few other states. The senate, under the proposed plan, is to consist of twenty-eight members and the house of fifty-eight members. One member of the house is added to the delegations from Box Elder, Weber and Utah counties. While the apportionment of the senate sen-ate is arbitrary, that of the house is based on a population unit of 7,300. Bills passed on January 28 were: House bill No. 8, by Day, providing that convicts escaping from road construction con-struction camps shall be tried in the county where such escape is attempted, at-tempted, passed by the senate; and in the hcuse an act to compel locators of lode mining claims to" do a certain amount of development work within six months from the time the location is made, and an act to raise the qualifications quali-fications for admission to the bar. Four new measures appeared in the senate on January 28, while five were introduced in the house. Representative J. Alex Bevan, So-1 cialist, of Tooele county, introduced in the lower house a memorial petitioning petition-ing congress to amend the naturalization naturaliza-tion law so as to make it less expensive expen-sive for an alien to become a citizen of the United States. The memorial will be considered by the committee cn federal relations and memorials to congress. Remuneration for the services of the Indian war veterans of the state is proposed in a bill introduced in the house January 28 by David H. Morris of Washington county. The bill carries car-ries an appropriation of $50,000. January 22 was pay day in the legislature. leg-islature. Vouchers were signed, affidavits affi-davits made as to the number of miles traveled and small yellow checks were given to each member and to the employees. W. H. Redd of San Juan received the most mileage. He had traveled 415 miles, 155 of it on horse 'back. Provision is made for the initiative and referendum in legislation in Utah in a bill introduced by Senator Joseph Chez of Weber. The bill also pro-. pro-. vides that the same general system may be adopted with reference to laws, ordinances, resolutions and franchises granted . by political subdivisions. |