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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE 1 COMPLETES WORK I SES8ION LASTED SIXTY-TWO . DAYS, MANY NEW LAW8 ,M BEING ENACTED. H - '.1 Some Bureaus Merged and Member. lH ship Reduced for the Sake of H Economy. All "Freak" Bills l But One Defeated. H Salt Lake City.' Tho fourteenth scs- -M slon of tho Utah state legislature cama tM to a close nt 0:57 o'clock Saturday -1 afternoon, March 12, after having ox H cecded tho tlmo limit by two days. ' H During tho sixty-two day session 127 jB wins wuru nuruuuceu in ino scnaio "h and 24 1 In the house. B Legislation which will revolutionize BJ tho sovernl departments of tho state BJ has beon enacted. Tho first of thosa ,;BJ measures Is tho creation of a depart- tfll ment of finnnco nnd purchase, which f turns over a number of boards and fiVJ commissions and makes tho ono do- iBI partment . responsible for n number ! of things, nil purchnscs for tho state V fB having to bo mado through this do- lBJ partment nnd centralizing tho gov- Hj eminent In this branch. BJ Another creates tho department of BJ registration and in this department ta Bfl centered n number of commissions nnd BJ boards, which docs away with a nun ;BJ bcr of others. ;BJ Still another department Is that of BJ agriculture, which was ono of tho now ifll bureaus to bo created and which, like BJ tho others, takes over sovcral old boards and commissions. Changes hnvo been mado In the jB Btato board of equalization and assess- BJ ment, tho number comprising that BJ body being reduced from four to three. BJ In tho stnto road commission tho BJ law has beon completely changed, the BJ new commission being composed ot B three, all of whom must bo practical B men, Instead of tho former couunls- ,.' BJ Blon, which was composed of tho gov- flj crnor, secretary ot state, nudltor of Bh state, attorney general and tho state , BJ engineer. BJ In the land offtco the greatest i'l chango has been made. Under tlio law j tho board consisted of flvo mombcra, JBJ wbllo the now law creates a one-man BJ board, with all tho authority which BJ heretofore was vested In a coramla- jB Authority hcrctoforo vesting In the 1BJ statu board ot health hns been ma- IB tcrlally curtailed, wliUo some com- BB missions hnvo been merged in with ,, BB tho hoard. BJ Among tho greater chnngos that .BJ have beeii mndo In departments out- iBJ sldo of tho creation of now ones, Is 'BJ In the offlco of tho stnto supcrluten- B dent ot public Instruction, whero a flj number of useless offices havo been jflj abolished und tho functions of tho su- jjflj perlntcndcnt, which hud been usurped, BJ returned to him. Tho powors ot t'ho iBJ stnto board of education havo beon en- BJ largcd. jBJ 'Changes havo also been mado In the IBJ motor Tchlclo law, new llccnso feel jBJ provided, greatly Increasing tho tax ' IBE placed on auto owners. 'BJ Another bond issue amounting to BJ $1,000,000 Is authorized for tho main- iBJ tennncu of tlio roads and" to carry out 'BJ loclstlng contracts. Another bond is- 'BJ uo of $500,000 IS authorized to caro BJ for n deficiency In tho general fund BJ created under tho last admlnlstra- BJ iBJ A mcusuro wns passed which mnkos IBJ tho sennto consist of twenty senators :, iBJ from thirteen districts nnd thu houso BJ to bo mndo up of flfty-flvo represcnta- BJ lives, with Salt Lako returning six H senators and sixteen members ot tho BJ house. ,BJ While the old law providing for a BJ bond Issue of $1,000,000 was repealed, ,BJ owing to tho fnct that tho government (H did not provide a similar nmount, a .'flj hill wns pnsscd which provides for flj and authorizes u bond Issue for the jflj purpose authorized In tho soldier sot (H tlemcnt net of Utah. IS Perhaps more freakish legislation BJ was proposed by this leglslaturo than IB any other slnco statehood, Thoro wero JBj flvo measures presented, ono In the jjfl reuute, which has becomo u law, and jjfl four in tho house, all ot which met l death. BJ Tim sennto incasuro was tho ono ot tB Senator Southwlck, tho onti-clgarotta iflj bill, which was passed after a stormy fill dohnto In both houso and senate. Its il provisions aro drastic. Efforts mado by HI the opponents ot tho incasuro to sub- - ! stltuto nnothor less drastic measure jjl failed. Jl Tho mensuro of Representative Par- 4JJ kcr ot Caoho county, which would mM mvo created a "bluo" Sunday, was un- ; M Jthcr frcuk bill. This one prohibited j n ill kinds of amusement on Sunday and ; m would hnvo closed all ball parks and plcturo theatres, but It wns klllod by 9 tho commltteo to which It was ro- " M ferred. Prohibition of tho tenoning of see- J iirlan and certain other doctrines In iho public schools Is contained In a hill passed. President Thomas B. McKay of tho M sennto nnd Speakor B. R. Calllstcr of jflj tlio houso said farewell to their rcspoe- flj live houses shortly after adjournment, flj tho presiding officer ot tho uppor jfl houso slinking hands with, everyone, J9 nnd the speaker of the houso doing 'fl likewise, but, Just prior to adjourn- .M meat, speaking from tho chair nnd fl thanking tho members and employes M '.or their courtesy und assistance. jfl flftSBNflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflfll |