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Show Utah Legislature Now In Nineteenth Sission The Utah legislature in its nineteenth nine-teenth session has moved in a dclih- erate fashion and at the end of the second week of the session still had delved but lightly into its program. The subject of new amendments to the constitution has been considered consid-ered to some extent. Four questions ques-tions have been under consideration. These are: Affecting trial by jury, schools iu the live cities of the first and second classes, qualifications for membership in the legislature, and prohibition. The assortment of subjects is interesting, but none of them has much to do with taxation. Two taxation bills have appeared in the legislature. One has been introduced in both houses. It is the state tax commission's personal income in-come tax measure. The commission forwarded it to the legislature Friday, Fri-day, January 16. It appeared for the first time in the hill files of the legislators in printed form Monday, January Another bill from the same commission was submitted to the legislature Monday. If it does not make better progress than the first, it will not be in the bill files uutil some time in February. There are at least five more bills to come before the state tax commission. The other taxation bill is a measure mea-sure dealing with penalties for false or incomplete reports of property prop-erty assessed. It was introduced by Senator Paul II. Hunt of Kee! ley. It has been printed, but so far lias not received much attention from the committee so far as announced. announc-ed. Monday was the fifteenth day of a session of sixty days, so that at the close of the day one-fourth of the present session was passed. So far the legislative mill ha ground out and completed one senate sen-ate resolution, which provides a messenger for the governor ; one house bill and a bouse memorial lo congress. The house bill spends $50,000 of the state's money for the expenses of the legislature; the I memorial favors the Jones maternity matern-ity and child aid bill, which the national senate passed without the urge from the Utah legislature, and which is now before the national nation-al house. This memorial awaits the signature of Governor Dern. The first quarter of the sessien finds twenty-six bills and resolutions resolu-tions introduced in the house. If past experience is a guide the total number will he about ten times that number. In the senate there are eighleeen bills and resolutions also a small part of what may be expected. ex-pected. Of the eighteen, one, as noted, has . been disposed of ; the remainder are all alive, and two have reached the senate second reading calendar. They must be debated two times in the senate and run the gauntlet of the entire house process before they become laws. The house, at present, has possession poss-ession of no senate bill. The sen ate has one house measure, and another is on its way to the senate, sen-ate, having been passed by the house, but not yet appearing on the senate floor. . Eight senate bills have not yet been ordered printed, and seven are in committee. House committees still have seventeen sev-enteen of the twenty-six measures presented to that body. Of the seventeen, fiive are resolutions or memorials and twelve are bills. Of the six remaining, one, as noted, is on its way to the senate, oue is in the senate, one has been sent to the governor, one-signed, while two are already dead. Of the two one was withdrawn by the author, while the committee drew a substitute for the other. Of special interest is the joint' resolution introduced iu the senate sen-ate by Knox Patterson of Moab which would submit to the voters of Utah the question of whether they desire to repeal the section which writes prohibition into the constitution of Utah. The section the Moab senator would repeal was approved by the people in the general election of November 5, 1918, and became effective ef-fective January 1, 1010. Utah, however, had state-wide prohibition before that time, having hav-ing passed the law practically in its present form in the legislature of 1 017. Prohibition was effective uate-wide in Utah before the fa-aous fa-aous eighteenth amendment was dopted. Senator Patterson does not pro o.-e to alter the present proiiib ion laws of Utah. The resolution .'ould simply take prohibition out f the basic law of the state. This, the senator from Moab oiiits out, leaves the qusclion en-irely en-irely in the hands of the legis'a .no. "Those persons," he said, "who .ippurted the constitutional ameiiu-icnts ameiiu-icnts of last November, which elieved the legislature of limita ions covering taxation, and who iaiined that the legislature could ud should he trusted with its en urged powers, should rally to the aipport of this resolution. It siinp-y siinp-y makes the constitution more flexible, flex-ible, and permits the legislature lo enact a law in keeping with the needs of the occasion. It places tht control iu the hands of the legisla fare, |