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Show PROPOSED TAX Ofl 0TAK0ME5 MEASURE EEFORE LEGISLATURE PROVIDES THAT STATE IS TO SHARE IN EARNINGS. Unmarried Men to Pay on Incomes of $3, COO and Marri;d Res dent3 to be Taxed on $4,0'JO Incomes, if Bill Passes. Salt Lake City If the bill which was introduced In the house on .Ian-nary .Ian-nary 2U by Representative Thomas P. Page of Salt Lake county becomes law an income tax will have to be paid by every adult resident of tiie slate who has an annual net income of more than $ 1,000, by every adult non-resident who derives more tiian $-1,000 net income from interests within the state and every resident and non-resident corporation doing business within the state. Under the bill every adult unmarried unmar-ried resident of the state who has a net income of more than $3,000 a year is required to pay the tax; every married adult resident with an income in-come of more than $4,000 a year must pay the tax, and the same rule applies ap-plies to married and unmarried nonresidents non-residents who derive incomes from interests within the state. A record in legislation was established estab-lished by the house of representatives on January 26 by tho passage of four bills. Six new bills and one joint memorial me-morial were introduced and referred to committee, and three bills passed by the senate were received and referred re-ferred to committee. Some highly important proposed legislation was introduced and the session was a busy one. The house named a special committee to confer with a similar committee of the senate sen-ate to arrange for a trip to Ogden to visit the state institutions there at an early date, and then adjourned until Monday at 2 p. m. Opposition of country members of the senate to the apportionment measure providing for more senatorial and representative districts and a re-survey re-survey of district lines caused Senator Sen-ator Dern, author of the measure, to move its recommitment to the committee com-mittee on public affairs, where the bill will practically be redrafted and concessions made to the members from outlying counties. Bills were passed by the senate on January 26 relating to costs on appeal; ap-peal; exempting certain citizens from jury duty; and authorizing the revision re-vision and reprinting of Utah statutes. stat-utes. Four new measures were introduced intro-duced in the senate on January 26, bringing the total up to. 65. But 59 measures had been presented to the house at the close of business on January 26. The lower house of the Utah legislature legis-lature closed the third week of the Twelfth session with a record of eight house bills and three resolutions and memorials passed, three house bills and four resolutions killed, out of a total of fifty-one bills and twelve resolutions and memorials introduced. In the Utah senate the total of the third week's operations was the introduction in-troduction of twenty-four 'bills, the passage of nine, the killing of two and the withdrawal of one. A summary of the activities of the Utah state senate for the first three weeks of the session follows: Senate bills introduced, 65; house bills introduced, intro-duced, 4; senate joint resolutions introduced, in-troduced, 2; house joint resolutions introduced, 1; house joint memorials introduced, 2; house joint memorials introduced, 2; senate resolutions introduced, in-troduced, 2. Senate bills passed. 12; senate hills killed, 2; senate bill ta.bled, 1; senate sen-ate bill withdrawn, 1; senate bills on calendar. 4 ; senate bills consolidated. 1; senate bills in committees, 44; house bills in connmittees, 4; senate joint resolutions passed, 2; house joint resolution passed, 1; senate joint memorial passed, 1; senate joint memorial in committee. 1; house joint memorial passed, 1; house joint memorial in committee, 1; senate resolutions res-olutions passed, 2. Nine new measures were introduced intro-duced in the house on January 24 and three in the senate. The house killed the Currie resolution resolu-tion asking that the Denver & Rio Grande furnish the house a complete report of the number of cars of coal handled since December 1. The outstanding feature of the workmen's compensation measure, as introduced by a majority of the judiciary judi-ciary committee, is the abandonment of the state insurance monopoly idea and the substitution in its place of a threefold plan that makes legitimate state fund, regular casualty and private pri-vate insurance, the latter embracing company or corporation insurance. Utah towns will be given the right to levy a special tax not to exceed 4 mills on the dollar for layout, construction, con-struction, opening and keeping in repair re-pair of water lines or canals tor irrigation irri-gation or other purposes ' if the bill introduced In the house by Cardon of Cache becomes a law. Employees of sugar, cement, gas, powder, brick, steel and flour mills and shops connected with mines or smelters will be given an eight-hour day, if the bill introduced in the house by Southwick of Utah county becomes a law. |