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Show STATE TO SUPPLY ' FUNDSFOR FAIRS THE HOUSE PROVIDES THIRTY-FIVE THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR CALIFORNIA EXPOSITIONS. Senate Turns Down an Amendment to the Rules Limiting Speeches to Five Minutes, But Plan May be Adopted Later. Without debate, the house, on February Feb-ruary 19 passed almost unanimously the bill to provide $35,000 for the completion and maintenance of Utah exhibits at the San Francisco and San Diego fairs. The bill was a senate bill, which had been recommended for passage by the joint apropriations committee. The rules were suspended at the request of Representative Day, chairman of the appropriations committee, and the bill was passed. Representative Puna was the only one voting against the bill. The house occupied most of its session ses-sion February 19 with the consideration considera-tion of the school consolidation measure. meas-ure. Under its terms each county constitutes one school district, to be presided over by one board. At present, pres-ent, eight counties of the state have consolidated school systems. These counties include Salt Lake and Weber. Harmony between the Republicans and the fusionists on the Shields Initiative In-itiative and referendum bill was indicated indi-cated during the discussion of this measure, which came before the house as a special order of business Friday. The senate on February 20 turned turn-ed down an amendment to the rules limiting speeches to five minute. Some one suggested that it was "gag rule. ' A majority seemed to be of the opinion, however, that the senate might heed the hint implied when the motion was made. President Ferry called attention to the fact that action has been taken on less than a score of bills, though more than 200 have been introduced in the senate and as many in the house. The hnnsp. has adopted a rule limiting lim-iting each member of the house to one minute in whichto explain his vote on a roll-call. It has been found tnat much of the time of the session has been taken up in listening to long explanations ex-planations from members on roll-calls. Unfavorable report on Rideout's res olution proposing a constitutional ! amendment as to taxes on mines was made to the senate by the committee on mines and mining. When the report re-port was returned, Senator Rideout withdrew the resolution. The senate passed Mrs. Wolsten-hole's Wolsten-hole's house bill providing stricter regulation reg-ulation of pandering, and designed to further wipe out the social evil. Senator Evans' bill, providing for bonds by contractors engaged by school boards and similar bodies, was passed in the upper house. The measure meas-ure is designed to insure payment of labor and for materials. One of the most pleasant features of the present session of the Utah legislature leg-islature was the junket on February 17 to Ogden to visit the state industrial indus-trial school and the state school for the deaf and blind. Members of both houses of the state legislature visited these institutions and afterward were guests of the Weber We-ber club at a magnificent banquet at the luxurious home of the club. At both institutions the members of the legislature were royally entertained. enter-tained. Thfi house on February 17 passed the measure increasing the levy possible possi-ble for library levies in cities of the first class. The bill passed with a dozen votes opposing. Rideout's land bank bill was under discussion for an hour and a half in the senate on February 17. Final action ac-tion on the bill was deferred. Two bills were introduced in the senate on February 17 One by Senator Sena-tor Rideout appropriate $5,000 for the state humane society, which is created creat-ed into a state bureau of animal protection pro-tection The bill is contingent upon acceptance of the terms of the bill by the humane society Another bill, by Senator Craig, provides $2,000 for the Children's Aid society of Ogden, After considerable argument as to the effect other laws might have on the measure, the house voted to pere mit the bill regulating taxes on all property to be laid over, to be voted on at a later date. Three hours of discussion over the question of taxation of mines before the senate committee on mines and the house committee on revenue and taxation, found the mining men unanimously unani-mously opposed to any change in -the present system or method of taxation on a basis of net proceeds and the advocates of a change to cash value. The house on February 16 received from the senate the Wootton prohibition prohibi-tion bill The bill was assigned by the speaker to the committee on manufactures man-ufactures and commerce of the house. The Morris bill, making It a felony for anyone to attempt to smuggle weapons or drugs into the state penl-tentiary penl-tentiary or into convict road camps was passed, with unanimous vote of the house on February 16. |