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Show Twelfth session GOMES TO CLOSE v UTAH LAWMAKERS WORK OVERTIME OVER-TIME WRESTLING WITH PROBLEMS PROB-LEMS OF INTEREST TO STATE. Final Act Which Cheeks Off Last of Platform Pledges But One Is Solution of State'a Revenue Reve-nue Problem. I Belt Lake City After working Ja m about sixty hours overtime, the clock having been figuratively sopped sines midnight of March 8th, the Twelfth Utah legislature adjourned sine die at 12:40 o'clock Sunday morning, March 11. The final act of the legis-lature legis-lature was the adoption of the occupation occu-pation tax as a solution of the stats revenue problem. In the senate, .Senator Dern moved that the senate adjourn sine die at 12:42 o'clock Sunday morning as President Funk finished signing a number of bills from the house engrossing en-grossing committee. In the house ' Dr. Grace stratum A I rey made the motion to adjourn sine die at 12:49 o'clock Sunday morning. With the adjournment of the legislature, revenue measure having been passed, a special session of the legislature was declared unnecessary by the conser- ' vative members of both houses and by Governor Bamberger, who was "on the Job" until the two bonnes notified noti-fied him that they were ready to quit the labors of the session. Governor Bamberger is quoted as saying: "The legislature Is fortunate In having been able to do so much for file benefit of the state. The Democ-utlc party and the administration administra-tion have redeemed the pledgee they made to the people. We have a state-wide prohibition law, which will be enforced by the governor. Ws have a public utilities commission, a workmen's compensation act and we I have guaranteed $2,000,000 for the I construction of roads. I "The legislature has performed its 1 duty In the highest patriotic sense. I Differences of opinion have arisen, w but in the end the legislature did that I which Is tight. The majority ruled. I o one has any apologies to offer, I and I believe every member can go a home satisfied that he has contrib- 1 uted something to the progress and li development of Utah." . W J. W. Funk, president of the senate, I. declared: "We have given everything If the platform called for or the admin- I 1st ration pledged Itself for. We have El enacted laws for the benefit of the V people and we have given the state I a progressive legislation as a result 1 of which we hope the state will pros- I per. We have not been able to go I into the details of the laws, but we I have gone far. Other legislatures are I coming and I hope they will do as jf well." r "I will go home well satisfied, for I know we have fulfilled our promises B to the peoile of Utah with regard to W remedial and progressive legislation," I said Speaker J. F. Tolton. "We went 1. as far as we possibly could In the l way of making good our pledges. V There was a barrier in tho way that 1 could not be entirely overcome, and that barrier is the constitution itself. I We have kept the faith. We gave I our best thought to all measures and went fairly on record. I am proud I of the honor that was mine in presld- K ing over the house during the ses- A slon of the legislature which has Just M adjourned." W The Important measures that re- I .celved the final approval of both W houses during the Twelfth session K were: p State-wide prohibition bill, effeo- tive August 1, 1917. I Public utilites commission bill. Car- I rles appropriation bill of $60,000. 1 Workmen's compensation bill. Car- l rles appropriation of $90,000. 1 Corrupt practices act. Limits cam- I palgn expenditures. Initatlve and refrendum law. Bond Issue of $2,000,000 for build-Ing build-Ing of good roads In outlying coun-ties. coun-ties. Irrigation district bill to get federal aid in the development of arid lands. Clayton antitrust law ar.d bills affecting af-fecting laihor. ) Appropriation bill, carrying $5,207,-86491. $5,207,-86491. Appropriation of $100,000 for Ogden exposition in 1919. Creation of a budget system for ths x .state, starting In 1919. Occupation tax on mines, collecting $1 for every employee, excepting laborers, la-borers, and Imposing a net production tax at three times the net proceeds of mines for 1917 and thrice the net proceeds pro-ceeds thereafter. Increasing the state levies to the constitutional limit of S mills. Increasing the Justices of the supreme su-preme court from three to five. Giving powers to corrections board to oust state prison warden without cause. Constitutional amendment for statewide state-wide prohibition. Constitutional amendment for taxing tax-ing mines at a multiple on a submul- During the Twelfth session the senate sen-ate passed 76 measures and the house 66. The governor signed 34 bills that came from the senate and 19 that originated in the house, while he has .14 senate and 19 house hills before him, which he will either approve ap-prove or veto. 4t Governor Bamberger won his fight against an Income tux and for a law taxing the mines of the atate on a, valuation of three t'mea their net b proceeds. The governor's bnttle was successful when the legislature, on the eve of Its sine die adjournment, passed the occupation tax on mines and mining claims. 8. R. Thurman, former Democratlo Ftate chairman, and Valentine Gideon, i ne of the foremost attorneys at the Weber county bar, were appointed judges of the supreme court on M-rch 10th by Governor llatnbrger. |