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Show rLOOO OF BILLS II UTAH LEGISLATURE IN THIRTY-FOUR DAYS 194 MEASURES MEAS-URES HAD BEEN PRESENTED IN THE HOUSE. Initiative and Referendum Likely to Cause Extended Debate, While Prohibition Measure is Causing Discussion. There was barely a quorum present when the roll was called in the house on February 13, and. but a short session ses-sion was held, most of the representatives represent-atives having taken a day off in order to visit their homes. While there was not much business done there were many little caucuses on the floor of the house in which the Democrats tried to convert the Republicans Repub-licans to their view on the initiative and referendum. This bill will cause one of the longest debates during the session, unless the house sets a time limit on the speakers. There are several sev-eral ramifications to the bill which will be brought out and discussed on the floor. The Wootton prohibition bill is attracting at-tracting much attention, in the house. The passing of the bill by the senate has caused the manufacturers and commerce committees of the house, before be-fore which are pending several regulatory regula-tory and prohibition measures, to prepare pre-pare to receive the bill when it comes from the senate. The house has broken the record of the tenth session, as it has' introduced 194 bills in thirty-four days. The tenth sessicn introduced 201 bills in sixty-days sixty-days and more than seventy-five ot these came from committees. February-la February-la was the last day tor the introduction of bills in the house. Two measures introduced by members mem-bers of the legislature from Salt Lake were considered by the public utilities utili-ties committee of the house on February Feb-ruary 12, and an unfavorable report thereon relumed. H. B. No. 4, .by T. T. Burton, providing pro-viding that there shall not be more Uian nine cars in any passenger train operated in Utah was considered at length 'by the committee. Arguments made by the trainmen and by the railroads rail-roads were reviewed by the committee commit-tee and more than two-thirds of the committee voted that the bill should be reported unfavorably. The second bill to be reported unfavorably un-favorably by the committee is H. B. No. 29, by Dan B. Shields of Salt Lake. This bill provides that cabooses ca-booses on freight trains shall be of a standard size. Although it was a legislative holiday holi-day on February 12 (Lincoln's birthday) birth-day) the senate and house committees which have charge of work pertaining pertain-ing to the state mental hospital went to Provo. As soon as the party arrived in the city the visitors were taken to the bcspital, where they made a very thorough investigation and found the institution to be in the best of condition. condi-tion. A sumptuous dinner was served at the institution and members of the legislature received a great deal of information about the way the hospital hos-pital is being conducted. .The party returned to Salt Lake late, in the afternoon. af-ternoon. The senate adjourned from Thurs day until Monday, after passing the Wootton prohibition bill. ' Petitions -were read from Provo, Og-den Og-den and Nephi organizations of the M. I. A. asking the legislature to pass the state-wide prohibition bill. There were also a number of petitions from Hurricane and Beaver asking for the prohibition bill to be passed. Scientific aid in fighting the smoke nuisance through a state appropriation appropria-tion of $5,000 to the engineering experiment ex-periment station of the University o! Utah is proposed in a bill introduced by Senator George Dern of Salt Lake. The bill provides that the state aid shall depend on Salt Lake's giving at least an equal amount. Unless there is a quantity of unappropriated un-appropriated waters at the source of a stream, the state engineer will not be permitted to receive or file an application ap-plication for water under the provisions provi-sions of a bill introduced by A. A. Hinckley of Millard county in the house. The Utah state senate had quite a busy day on February S. following the week-end holiday. Four bills were passed, one killed and twenty-one new measures introduced. Mothers' pensions and the appropriation appro-priation for' Utah exhibits at the Cal-.."ornia Cal-.."ornia expositions were taken care of In two of the bills passed. A third is aimed to save the water department of Salt Lake City $6,000 a year by enabling it to collect water rentais from "dead beats," and the fourth makes merchants and others who put out, untrue advertisements guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill killed was Hansen's measure meas-ure allowing damages for trespass by-cattle by-cattle only when the ravaged land is surrounded by fencing. Osteopaths of Utah have joined the regular physicians in opposing the passage of the bill to license chiio-practics chiio-practics and the like now before the senate, cn the grrund that the osteopaths osteo-paths are educated in every branch oi medical science and under thff prose1! t law have ii: enss from the sta'e mo ';-cal ';-cal board to practice medicine and s.:r-gf s.:r-gf TV. A '.:'.! is to he presi nted to regulate the trading stamp business in I tail. The proposed '.aw .makes the office of the secretary of state the official place at which all firms or individuals engaged en-gaged in the trading stamp business shall file a bond for the piotPction of the consumer. Mining men. attorneys and hankers to the number of about 1 o met at I Salt Lake Saturday night, to protest I against proposed legislation looking to-wards to-wards a change in the constitution to provide for a change in taxation methods. |