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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE BEHIND 1919 RECORD BILLS NOT COMING IN AT THE SAME RATE THEY DID AT LAST SESSION. , At Close of Last Week's Session There Had Been 129 Bills Presented Present-ed in the House, While But 81 Were Before the Senate. The I' tali legislature is somewhat behind the record of the last session in the matter of bills presented for consideration. Oil Knliruary 12 there hail been presented pre-sented to the senate .just XI bills, as well as about a dozen resolutions and memorials. Two years ago, on the thirty-third day, which was, however, already three days past the time stated by the rules for Che introduction of bills;, there were 11G bills introduced, and Friday was the thirty-third day of the pres'-nt session. At that rate, the present session of the senate is thirty-live thirty-live bills behind the pace set by its Democratic predecessor. The present Utah house now had seen the introduction of 329 bills, and may be introduced there for ten days more, without suspension of rules, and after that date by suspension of rules or by unanimous consent. Under sudi circumstances, it lor' is if the present pres-ent ,?,X,.;j$L surpass the ,rs ago, when ! GE0RGEj:j'ls were intro-'duce"d intro-'duce"d -. " The legislators took a vacation on February 12, the thirty-fourth legislative legisla-tive day of the present session. Friday, February 16, will be the fortieth for-tieth day of the present session, and senate rules provide that no b'H' may be introduced after that day, without unanimous consent of the senators. The Ihouse has set the final date for introduction of bills as the forty-l'fth forty-l'fth day, or Wednesday, February 23, thus giving the house members all of Washington's birth day in which to put final touches on their last legislative legis-lative ai tempts of the present session. ses-sion. The one-man land board bill, the administration ad-ministration measure introduced in the state senate, by Senator Harrison E Jenkins of Salt Lake, was approved by the senate, February 10, by a closf margin, and now goes to the house. The Dern joint resolution, calling for an amendment to the state constitution consti-tution to allow legislators $8 a day instead in-stead of .$4 was passed under suspen- 6ion of the rules. Speaker Callister took the floor of the house on February 10 in behalf of Senate bill No. 20, by Peters, piloting pilot-ing the measure to passage without opposition. op-position. The measure is the key bill to the series of measures for the organization or-ganization of a state department of finance and purchase! f The house members put in one of the busiest days of the present session ses-sion on February 10, nearly disposing of the third reading calendar they faced when the session began, hut when adjournment was taken a larger calendar was in front of them for the next day's session. The Utah state legislature on February Feb-ruary 11 had a total of eighty-one bills, in addition fo possibly a dozen resolutions, resolu-tions, introduced in the senate this term. A bill introduced by Representative Swanson would amend the .existing statutes affecting control of state lands and would, If passed, permit the sale of lands lying below the water's edge of ai: lake or stream when the owners of riparian lands had made valuable Improvements oa contiguous lands lying below the water's edge at a cash price not to ex-coed ex-coed .$2.50 an acre, but coal anil mineral rights would be reserved t the state in case of such sales. The Utah senate spent less than an hour on February 9 in debating house bill No. 20, by Seegmiller, which puts into effect the constitutional amendment amend-ment No. 2. passed by the people at tho last general election. This bill provides pro-vides that the state board of equalization equaliza-tion may raise S?2."i per capita of school population for the support of schools. There were but two votes against the measure. j Only four hills and one joint resolution resolu-tion were Introduced in the house during the session of February 9. The resolution proposes an amendment to the state constitution, relating to the taxation of mines, and would eliminate mines or mining claims, the principal product of which is iron. It would assess all other ruining claims upon their value in monwy, and not on ores or as personal property. McShane's bill, giving the governor power to terminate the leure of office of members of the public utilities commission, com-mission, passed the house Tuesday, ayes 42 against o. Only the absence of Senator W T. I.atnpb. Democrat, saved the Jenkins bill to reduce the state hoard of land commissioners to a single member from sudden death. As 1 was. it is the claim of the Democrats of the senate that. President Thomas K. McKay established es-tablished a new precedent when he placed the bill on the third reading calendar: but the president had the! support of tho majority of the senate j In so doing. i Ei.u'ht bills, seven of which were administration ad-ministration measures, passed the: house on February 11. I |
