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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE ENDS JTS UBORS ADJOURNMENT TAKEN BEFORE GOVERNOR HAD REPORTED ON PROHIBITION BILL. in Last Three Days of Session 151 Bills Were Sent to the Governor, Gov-ernor, Who Had Already 8lgned TWenty-seven. Salt Lako City. Tho eleventh sos alon of tho Utah legislature adjourned sine dlo Friday night, March 12. Tho house adjourned nt 9 o'clock and tho senate at 10:20. Tho constitutional sixty days was up at noon Thursday, when the clocks wore stopped and legislatlou continued for thirty-four hours. Governor Spry had failed to elthor sign or dlsapprovo tho stato-wldo prohibition pro-hibition hill before the adjournment o( tho legislature, and whether or not tho Wootton measuro will become n law depends upon the action of the chief executive. Should ho veto the bill, Utah will remain a "wot" stato, Up to the closing days of tho session ses-sion practically no legislation of general gen-eral nnd state-wide Interest had been passed or enacted Into law by the signature of the governor, nnd there wero predictions that tho Eloventh session would be called a "do nothing" affair. Then camo a rush of bills on tho last three days that ended with a total of 151 being placed In tho hands of tho governor, who had already approved ap-proved twenty-soven and vetoed ono. As to checking over tho bills now In tho hands of the govornor and which he has until midnight March 21 to considor, It Is estimated that by working on them ten hours a day and giving only two days to tho consideration consider-ation of tho appropriations bill, he would have twenty minutes' tlmo to each measure. Tho only bill vetoed by the governor govern-or during the session was ono Introduced Intro-duced by Senator Joseph Eckersley ol Wayne county" calling for an appropriation appropri-ation of $15,000 for certain rural schools to bo paid from tho general fund. This was vetoed on nccount ol Its unconstitutionality and another bill which was declared by legislators to bo equally at variance with tho constitution con-stitution but which provided that the money como from tho scnool fund, was passed and has boon signed. Among tho twenty-odd now laws al ready mado, thero aro most of the administration measures which require re-quire that tho various stato boards turn over monthly nil their fees and receipts to tho state treasurer and also a series of bills relative to the handling hand-ling of prisoners In road camps, designed de-signed to prevent their receiving drugs and explosives and making escape or attempted escapo a felony. Tho appropriations ap-propriations already mado and signed Include $35,000 for tho exposition ex hlblts In California and appropriations for tho Orphan's Homo and Day Nursery Nur-sery and tho Free Klndorgarton and Neighborhood IIouso association. Tho bills known as 'administration measures," most of which were roc-ommonded roc-ommonded In tho governor's message to the legislature were practically all passed with the exception of one providing that tho terms of county assessors and county treasurers should bo four years. Ono series of bills provides pro-vides that tho state board of land commissioners may Invest certain funds in warrants Issued by tho board. Thoro aro now about $105,000 of these warrants outstanding nnd they bear interest in-terest at 5 per cont. These bills provide pro-vide meanB whoroby the land board can pay tho damago claims on account of the breaking of the Hatch town dam and also provide a way whoroby the land board can rebuild tho dam with out a bond Issue. Tho amendment of tho corporation tax law graduating tho fees for filing articles of incorporation is estimated to bring in about $80,000 to $100,000 a year, while tho now motor vehicle tax law, if signed by the governor, will add to tho stato road fund about $75,000 a year. This amount will bo lu addition to tho $10,000 a year appropriated ap-propriated for state roads to bo spent on condition that the various counties put up sums ranging from equal amounts to one'thlrd of tho state funds used In tho respective counties. Other tax laws In tho hands of tho governor lncludo those extending tho tlmo for paying taxes and providing for a penalty pen-alty of 3 per cont on delinquent taxes, wjillo another prospective law will validate tax sales. Most of tho "big" legislation of tho oloventh session of tho legislature originated orig-inated In the senate. Measures which wero characterized as "revolutionary" and "freak" camo from tho upper body of tho legislature and tho house devoted devot-ed Itself largely to legislation desir-ed desir-ed by the various stato departments. But for every bill styled as "revolutionary," "revolu-tionary," Introduced In tho senato, a similar bill was Introduced In tho house. The enacting clauses of all Buch house bills wore stricken out on the last day of tho session. Dan B. Shields of Salt Lako county holds tho record as regards numbor of bills Introduced by nn Individual In tho last legislature, whllo W. L. Van Wagoner of Wnsatch did not fa-tlior fa-tlior a Blnglo bill. Mr, Shields introduced intro-duced twenty-nlno and had olght bills passed. At the beginning of the session ses-sion Mr. Van Wagoner announced he would not Introduce a bill in tho house us he had como to tho legislature to "kill" and not to "pass" bills. |