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Show SEVENTEEN BILLS PASSEDBYSENATE UTAH LAWMAKERS GETTING DECKS CLEARED FOR IMPORTANT IMPORT-ANT PARTY MEASURES. Fraudulent Advertising and Mormon Battalion Bills are Approved. House Kills Free Employment Bureau Bill. s'alt Lake City. The senate on February 19 began to clear the decks Cor important party measures yet to come with a view to closing the legislative legis-lative factory on time. The regular afternoon session, which lasted Until nearly 6 o'clock, was not enough, so the solons met again at 7:30 o'clock and threshed bills for another three hours and a half. The net result of the day's activities activi-ties was the removal of twenty bills from the senate calendar. Of this oumber seventeen were passed, two were killed and one withdrawn. The standing committees were active, however, how-ever, and fifteen bills were offered to take the places of those removed from the calendar. Outside of the passing of the Mormon Mor-mon battalion and fraudulent advertising adver-tising bills, the measures acted upon yesterday pertained to minor changes In existing statutes and appropriations appropria-tions for the ensuing biennium. The fraudulent advertising bill was passed unanimously after the senators had satisfied themselves that there was nothing in the measure which would affect newspapers and periodicals periodi-cals accepting advertising unless they had a knowledge that it was of a fraudulent nature. McKinney's bill providing for recall Df elected city officials was .passed by the house on February 19 after an unsuccessful effort had been made to amend it by making it apply only to cities of the first and, second class. By close margin the house killed the bill "by Williams providing for establishment estab-lishment and operation by the state of free employment bureaus in Salt Lake and Ogden. McKay's bill providing for creation Df a state department of agriculture and consolidating into it all state departments de-partments having anything to do with agriculture was killed. An anti-cigarette bill was introduced in the house by Representative Edward Ed-ward Southwick of Utah county, designed de-signed to absolutely prohibit the sale d cigarettes in the state of Utah. Salt Lake City. The senate on February 17 passed the public utilities utili-ties measure, but the 'bill as it was finally approved would hardly have been recognized by its original sponsors. spon-sors. The measure passed is minus the maximum freight rate and length of trains limit provisions and many other innovations proposed by the steering committee. Along with the maximum freight rate section there was dropped the provision that employees em-ployees of corporations furnishing the commission information should not be discharged. A paragraph also was substituted which gives the governor the power to remove any member of the commission without the sanction of the senate, and about a dozen other amendments were adopted which were intended to strengthen in some places and in others to make the bill "more fair and conservative." It is understood that an effort will be made in the lower house to pass the bill practically as it came from the senate. Three other bills were passed by the senate and four new measures were introduced. Speaker Tolton opened the morning's morn-ing's session of the house on February Febru-ary 17 by scolding the members for delaying legislation and urging the adoption of a rule whereby no one could speak on a bill more than five minutes nor on an amendment more than three minutes. Bills were passed by the house on February 17, authorizing state board of health to pass on qualifications of embalmers; changing assessment dates; basing freight rtes on destination desti-nation weights; requiring that bulls on range be registered; regulating making mak-ing of appropriations by legislature. House concurred in senate amendment amend-ment overlooked when bill was passed a short time ago. Providing for registration reg-istration of trained nurses. Salt Lake City The lower house of the Utah legislature will run two calendars cal-endars instead of one from now on. Administration and executive measures, meas-ures, the passage of which was promised prom-ised in campaign days, will have a special, exclusive, autocratic calendar of their very own. The new move is designed to put all distinctly Democratic Demo-cratic party bills in the clear, and thus to render them less liable to accident than they would be as cars in the overlong train of the general calendar. This was decided on at the session of February 15. Representative Boyden of Summit county has introduced a measure in the house calling for the creation of a state board of control to supervise and direct the affairs of the state capitol, prison, school for the tieaf and blind ;.nd industrial school, the mental hospital hos-pital and other public institutions. i Although the majority of the judic-r.vry judic-r.vry committee of the house reported ' the chiropract'c bill unfavorably, the bill will go on the calendar and !. d.s-cussed d.s-cussed on its merits on ihe floor of the house, as the result of an agreement agree-ment reached |