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Show BLAME FOR FUEL SHORTAGE FIXED RAILROADS, DEALERS AND CON- SUMERS HELD RESPONSIBLE T FOR 8HORTAGE. i Committee of the Legislature Make Its Report .o the Senate Gov- ernor Prorts the Lawmakers and More Speed Expected. Salt Lake City. Placing the blame for the recent coal shortage upon the railroads, dealers and the consumers, the committee of the levjslature ap-Wt' ap-Wt' pointed to Investigate the coal short-ex short-ex age In Salt take and Ogdcn practically practical-ly followed the advance reports of the committee with the exception that the report goes into detail. The committee com-mittee on February 26 filed Its report with the senate. Twenty-four closely written pages were necessary to pre-Mcnt pre-Mcnt the findings of the committee, the testimony on which the findings were based and the remedies which are offered of-fered by the committee to prevent coal shortage In the futtfrc. During the hearings by the committee coal dealers, consumers, railroad officials vnd the mining operators were questioned ques-tioned In an effort to determine the causes of the fuel famine. Impressing upon the members of the sifting committees of the house and senate the necessity of the legislature getting down to work and passing party measures, Governor Bamberger carried all his points on February 2C f and as a result the house and senate adopted the policy of placing administration adminis-tration measures at the head of the calendar. Taxes and measures regarding re-garding taxation were freely discussed at the meeting of the sifting committees commit-tees and the chief executive. The house on February 26 Indorsed the senate's action on the proposed $2,000,000 bond Issue for good roads, struck a hefty blow at the loan sharks and disappointed an impressive delegation dele-gation of Ogdenltes who were on the scene to hasten action on the $100,000 Ogden world's fair apropriatlon. Many bills relating to business and courts were passed, each aimed to remedy ome defect In the present law. Senator Kvans gave notice on February Febru-ary 26 that the last day on which committees com-mittees could report bills to the senate sen-ate had been reached and moved that two days longer bo given, as a number of the committees had a number of measures before them which they desired de-sired to go over more fully. Te two-day two-day extension for reporting b.lis was granted. Hills were introduced in the senate repealing the law which created the Utah conservation commission and also the apropriatlon for the same. The reference committee Introduced a bill providing for the creation of the office of state geologist and fixing the alary of the geologist at $!,000 a year. An appropriation for the office was also provided in the bill. Salt Lake City. If the corrupt practice prac-tice bill as It passed the house on February 211 is approved by the senate, sen-ate, candidates and electors In Utah will still retain a reasonable amount of freedom of action during campaigns cam-paigns and election day. Sections 28, 34 and 35 of the original draft, which would have hampered the conduct of candidates to such an extent that they would have been dependent entirely en-tirely on personal beauty and psychic influence in forwarding their political aspirations, were eliminated by almost al-most unanimous vote. Obliterating its former action In recalling re-calling the prohibition bill from the governor after It had passed the house and sena, the house on February M pUcd the measure where lis supporters believe It above, the lash of the highest liquor wave when there was expunged from the Journal all reference to Governor Bamberger's suggestion of an amendment amend-ment and the action In returning the bill to the executive office without the alteration of a h.rter or pu"-.tua-ion maJk. The house also passed the corrupt practices measures wit1" material amendments that remove It from the category of the impossible It was execution day in the upper house of the legislature on February 2:i. and the senate killed every meas-tire meas-tire which was presented to amend the laws of the state. The only measures meas-ures which passed the upper branch were resolutions and memorials which do not affect the compiled laws of I'tah. Kffort was made on February 23 to override the first veto of a bill by tiovcrnor Bamberger when he returned re-turned Senate bill No. fiO, by Stevens, to thp senate with his disapproval, but those who were determined to pass the bill over his veto failed to curry their point. I The governor h.is come to the aid of the sifting committee and will urge more speedy action on different measures. meas-ures. The public utilities bill, work-' nuns compensation, initiative and referendum and bills aflecting taxa-; Hon are to be the first measures ui,ed for passage. Representative Boyden of Summit county bus Introduced a measure In the house calling for the creation of a t 'state board of control to supervise and direct the affairs of the state capltol, 1 prison, school lor the deaf and blind end Industrial school, the mental bos- pital and other public institutions. " Although the majority of the Judlc- x lary committee of the house reported the chiropractic bill unfavorably, the bill will go on the calendar and be discussed dis-cussed on Its merits on the floor of the house, as tne result if an agreement agree-ment reached. |