| Show utAH LEGISLATURE N W IN SESSION 1 4 BOTH SOTH HOUSES ORGANIZED FOR FORTHE FORr r THE THIRTEENTH SESSION ON JANUARY 13 r s tour Four Women Members of Present Legislature Leg Three Being Members of j the Lower House and One OneS S in the Senate 5 f Salt Lake City The The thirteenth ses ses- slon of the Utah legislature leg began 1 1 here on January 13 3 In spite of the date the lawmakers assembled insist 1 this will be the most productive ses sese from the point of work accomplished and benefits to their constituents 7 vents ants of any session of the past The t legislators are not figuring n that thir thir- f teen is an unlucky number 4 The session as provided in the law lawwill will wiil continue for sixty consecutive days including Sunda Sundays s 's and will come come comeS come S to toan to an an official end at at n noon on on the the sixtieth day unless the solons S should hould find it necessary to stop v the clock five minutes s before the final Una finalI I hour bour and continue In session until tl the e body Is s able to dispose of such suchS S legislation as might be pending Promptly at noon in the senate cham sham i her ber at the capitol Secretary of State 3 1 Harden B Bennion called the thirteenth session to order There was an Invocation cation catlon Uon by the chaplain George eorge Smith of t. t Heber City who was selected for forthe forthe the place by the Democrat caucus 11 A certified list of ot senators was then read after after which came ame the election t of a president of ot th the senate Senator It if t Joseph W. W Funk of Cache was the unanimous choice for tor that honor by the ther f r l. l Democrat senatorial caucus held on onS S January 4 The election of the other yr officers followed Those selected by bythe bythe bythe the the caucus caucus follow Secretary of tile the senate Adam L. L Petersen Petersen Petersen Pe- Pe of q of Weber county minute clerk Hugo Anderson of Salt Lake docket clerk derk Lle t. t Charles J. J Hart of Salt Lake mailing clerk Mrs l Annie Meier of Salt Lake ke county sergeant-at-arms sergeant i Jed Ted Vison of ot Davis county chaplain George Georgef Smith of at W sat h county Ther There are f re a a an n number of ot others doorkeepers doorkeepers door- door keepers watchmen messengers and the like who were vere named by the outside c counties land two vo stenographers from Salt alt Lake county The oath of office was administered i S to 10 President Funk by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Elmer E. E Corf Cort Corfman man and the upper house of ot the legislature leg was declared to be h iq in running I f order n J. J Inn In the the sec a similar i procedure took place place Charles C. C Richards the caucus s nominee e being chosen as speaker of the house There ar are four women in the thirn thirteenth thir thir- n- n legislature Three are In the louse bouse andone and one in the senate Legisla tors tors who women pre ere not a new v. thing in Utah as they fire in some of ot the states But in Utah they have al ai always ways stood In th the foreground for progress progress pro pro- gress cress and have consistently worked for laws affecting the welfare of womer 1 u and and nd children Mrs Elizabeth Eliz beth Hayward is the first firs I woman state senator in twenty years I n the house Mrs Delora Debora Wilkins Bailey Balley Dr Grace Stratton AIrey Alrey and Mrs Anna Thomas PJ a are e the he three women who will help bell make the laws approved at th the thirteenth session The The- states state's labor law labor law Is to to be the object of ot conc concerted ted attack from Utah's lour four women legislators this session Why should the law provide an eight eight- hour nour day for men meet and a nine-hour nine day for lor for women Is Js the question they unite V S In asking Moreover they ask why should women be paid so much less for forthe forthe the same work than m men n are paid I I The thirteenth mth session will be a 11 Democratic session the senate being solidly Democratic while there are nine ine Republicans In the house Creation of ot a department of ot agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture Is among measures which it is said 1 will be Introduced Another project project pro pro- jest is for a water commission court With handsome ome salaries for prIn principal Ipat and nd there here will be changes change In tho banking laws laws is certain and a bill has 9 1 been lieen endra drawn up modeled after the Oklahoma Ok Ok- lahoma laws la 8 on b banking and intended to protect prot s d depositors in state banks A state suite fire marshal Is 18 recommended I i by the Insurance commissioner cr The st state state te land board will ask for tor to reimburse settlers who lost ost ostI I t their Ir crops crops under the Hatchtown proS pro pro- S jest j wh ct-wh 7 will be requested for forthe forthe forthe the the Pi Piute ute pr project I S Sev- Sev Several r l state i institutions have urged the gove governor nor I Ito to o ask ase the l legislature for tor an appropriation n for buildings In only one instance is there ther any suggestion suggestion tion for tor a reduction In taxes and that thatis is in th the recommendation n of at the auditor of ot stat state I i l tot h |
