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Show jHOOSE APPHOVES FIWARDS BILL CREATING COMMISSIONS TO HANDLE VARIOUS FU.DS IN THE STATE PASSED. Supervision of State, City, County and School Money Affected by Measure. Meas-ure. House Defines Imitation Imita-tion Milk. I Slale, county, city anil srhool district boards of finance are provided for , under House hill Xo. '.1)7, by .Soihrbeg. passed in the house by representatives March 5. For state purposes the governor, secretary sec-retary of state and attorney general would he constituted a board of finance, fin-ance, and this board would have supervision of all funds coming into tiie stale treasury. For comity p'.n.'posr-s, hoards of county commissioners would constitute the hoard of finance. In municipalities, municipali-ties, the mayor and city council or commission would be Hie hoard ol finance. In school districts the hoard of trustees would constitute such a board. As passed, (the bill creates these boards of finance. Xext in importance to the boards of finance measure, the house March 5 passed House bill Xo. 190, by Parke;-, which defines imitation milk and regulates regu-lates its sale and distribution. It differs dif-fers considerably from the imitation milk bill that was defeated in the senate, sen-ate, and is said to have a good opportunity op-portunity of passage in the upper house. It so regulates the sale of imitation imi-tation milk that those wdio wish til use that product may do so but they are to be well informed as to what they are purchasing. Five house bills and one memorial were signed by the governor on March 5, probably the most important of .which was the measure by Mrs. CI egg prohibiting the teaching of religion in the district schools of the stare. Two of the more important "administration "admin-istration measures" that originated in the state senate were signed March 5 by Governor Mabey. The act of the governor makes the department of registration reg-istration measure effective at once, though there are a number; of companion com-panion measures, passed by both houses, that are still on their way to the governor's office. The senate on March 5 spent about dght minutes in considering on second reading the Qainney bill to establish a state department of agriculture. Incidentally the senate did the expected ex-pected thing, and killed Senate bill No. 70, the incoine tax measure by Senator Edward Southwick. A synopsis of the legislation performed per-formed by the senate of the fourteenth Utah legislature up to March 5 shows the present session to be practically up to dale with no obstructions in the way of ending right on time. Eleven senate bills were in committees, commit-tees, most of them pigeonholde as a -nethod of killing; two on the second reading calendar and two on third reading. In addition to the two senate sen-ate bills killed, the house. had passed thirty-seven, leaving, fortw-o-two to be acted upon. N Out of a total of twenty-six senate measures sent to the governor for his signature, the executive had signed twenty-three, leaving three still awaiting await-ing his action. In the house 239 bills were introduced intro-duced during the period allowed for ntroduetion of bills, and two had been introduced since then by unanimous consent, up to March 5, making the total of bills introduced in the lower house 241. Of this mass of house bills twenty-three twenty-three had been passed by both house and senate and signed by the governor. Twenty-eight had been passed by both house and senate and are awaiting the Approval of the chief executive. Fifty house bills have passed the house only .nd are awaiting senate action. . Sixty-three of the bills that originated orig-inated in the house have been either killed or withdrawn officially and the remainder seem destined to expire through failure of the house sifting committee to report them out. The Southwick income tax bill was defeated in the state senate on final passage on March 3, through lack of the constitutional majority, which in a senate of eighteen members requires ten votes. The bill had nine votes in its favor on roll call on the third reading to seven against. Before the final result of the vote was announced, Senator Edward oouthwick, author of the bill, changed his vote to nay, making the result eight for and eight against, with two absent and not voting. Senator Parker of Cache county, who introduced House bill No. 19M, known as (lie ''Blue Sunday" measure, saw his hill in the hands of the sifting committee of the house an I gave notice that he wnnhl withdraw the measure. |