| Show V UTAH LEGISLATURE V V V DOWN TO BUSINESS BOTH HOUSES SPEED UP AND GET ACTION ON SEVERAL MEASURES Senate Approves the State Fee Bill Bills While in the the- House the Child Labor Bill BUI and Other Measures Are Arc Passed Paned Seven bills were passed by the senate sen sen- f V 5 ate te at its first morning session on February Feb t 24 and then came came the I Hideout Rideout T 4 bill bUl for rural operative co-operative savings ts banks ending the work for the day The bills passed included those recommended mended by the governor to require state boards boards' and institutions to pay their receipts monthly to the state treasurer The bills were were all brought out and generally placed back in their I original form and passed without op d position 1 P Opponents of ot the operative co-operative bank J plan sought to amend the bill to death but only a a. few changes had i been made when a call was made for t roll call on final pass passage ge and the senj senate sen I j F ate adjourned before the vote was taken f Two bills were introduced one providing providing pro pro- viding for the biennial roads r apPropriation appropriation I and the state ro road d commission commission commis commis- j commiS-j sion and the other providing for a range of or two or more paving materials when advertising for paving bids Two bills were killed and fifteen more were placed on the calendar Of Ot the bills reported favorably one by Senator Evans provides for tor the application ap of the Torrens land system i to Utah whereby the state may guarantee guarr guar guar- r antee titles I Both of the bills bUls intended to legal legal- i a j e the practice of ot drugless healing c s were reported unfavorably J There was an hours hour's d debate bate in the hO house S On February 24 on Goodwins Goodwin's L bill to appropriate 1000 for a commission com corn SS mission to select a site for a monument monument c cV V ment to the Mormon battalion but buts s L the bill was finally approved H. H B. B No by Mrs Elizabeth Hayward prohibiting children under L' L the age of 16 from working In any T gainful occupation more than nine hours a day also created extended arr ar ar- r Exceptions to the law are areSS SS domestic employment farming and packing of fruits and vegetables The bill was passed r H. H B. B No 95 by T. T T. T Burton providing pro pro- J r viding iding for the recording of instruments Instruments ments on a certified copy when transferred trans trans trans- transferred from one county to another S 'S went through without a dissenting vote The official state road appropriation ti tion bill providing for annuals annually annual annual- s S V ly for the next two years and for amendments to the rules and duties y V of the 1 state tate road commission was introduced in i in the senate Wednesday by bythe bythe the committee on highways and public pub pub- lic He lands and went to the calendar V One of the days of the present pres pres ent sessions of the Utah legislature was that of February 20 six bills being be be- lug ing pass passed d by the senate three bills bUls killed seven introduced and seventeen seventeen seven teen reported from committees while in the house three bills bUls were passed fourteen Introduced and more than seventy bills were reported out of V committees Probably one of the most important measures before the present session the and referendum bill was ii VV approved by the house This measure by Representative Shields provides V initiative and referendum upon petition petition petition peti peti- tion by 12 per cent of qu qualified voters of the state at last general election u p Amended to make it necessary to sign petitions in presence of justice V of peace town clerk or notary public and signatures on each page to be attested attested at- at J tested to officer The senate on reconsideration decided de decided to overlook the governors governor's veto message as to the unconstitutionality unconstitutionally of the bill providing for state aid for certain rural schools and passed the bill designed as a substitute for the theone theone theone one vetoed the only amendment being that the for the biennium to togo togo toli li go go to the rural schools shall come from the state school fund instead of from the general fund Another bill passed was Senator D. D O. O RIdeout's measure providing for transfers by the judge of titles held by former territorial probate judges Senator W W. S S. Hansens Hansen's bill providing providing provid provid- ing that two or more contiguous counties counties coun coun- I ties may join In the organization of mutual fire insurance companies passed as did a bill by Senator Joceph Jo- Jo Joseph ceph seph Chez providing for bonds to top tomake tomake p V make mechanics' mechanics liens Hens more secure A bill by Senator Joseph Eckersley yV providing for a commission to investigate innes- innes and suggest codification of the tate state school laws was passed after being being be be- ing amended so that legislators might 1 have the report in time to look it over overs s before the next session of the legis legis- t lature Senator Thornleys Thornley's bill providing tt that corporations must give ghe notice of V the transfer of corporate stock when hen transfers are made to avoid the Inheritance inheritance inheritance in in- tax was the other bill passed 4 t Adjournment was taken until Tuesday Tues Tues- 4 I day at 2 p. p m. m because of Monday being being being be be- ing a holiday On Monday members ti of the senate and house were guests of the Oregon Short Line on a junket to 0 Logan leaving Salt Lake at 2 o'clock in the afternoon by special I train and returning Tuesday morning Senator William Craig of W Weber ber has hasI I introduced a bill which would give givey y the state fish and game commissioner the right to game sanctuaries sanctuaries sanctuaries sanc sanc- for the permanent protection of wild bird and animal life lire excepting such euch as are expressly by law allowed to be killed at all times The government ownership feature caused objection to the house bouse memorial f sal ial introduced by J. J Alex Bevan Benn asking ask S ing congress to build a railroad w through the Uintah reservation and andt t the memorial was laid on the table I by a. a ote o of 6 G to 11 AI c l' l i V |
