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Show HOUSE PASSES TWO BILLS GIV-, ING PHARMACEUTICAL EOARD i INCREASn POVZRS. - - - - - i Morning Sessions Now Being Held in Both Branche? Legislature and New Bills Must Come From Co-ittecs. , j Tim house on Fa jruary 2:; receive I ( i"f;jv ii-i.s from co:nniit(;oH on a lar;-'u , liUL'be,- of bills, passed two bills and killed four others. The bills pas.-rd uro hills nguiatinp. the drug business.; If II. II. No. 77, by Jan li. Shields of ! Sal Lake beeomes a lav.-, the state Pharmaceutical hoard w ill have the j pow er to revoke the license of any ; dru'ist who is a second time con-i victid of a violation ol the liquor laws of the state or the federal govern-Jneiit. govern-Jneiit. The provisions of II. ft. No. 7i, hy the same author, compel ail mercantile establishments handling . dniRs of any kind to register with the statu board of pharmacy. Objection , "was raised to this ieature. as it w.is. J.non;;I,t, the lill provided for the com- jjt lling of mercantile establishments 1 to have a registered pharmacist. Jjebate arose in t!:- house concern-j ing bills which were killed on com- j mittee reports. The first hill to be' disposed of this way was H. B. No. 1G1, by J. Alex lievan of Tooele. It-provided It-provided that every worker in state should liave one day of rest in every seven. H. B. No. i;hl. hy Mr. JU van, also a labor hill, provided that judges should not i-suo i:i,juneiio:i ; in labor disputes mih'.ss the company in applying for an injunction described de-scribed speeilieaily Iho property vliicii would he df si reyed. The judiciary -fji;ui, iti oe n-ported unfavorably and tJie hoii:-,e killed it. Aicuing .-'fi'isions of Iho U gishitui e began on j'cmtimt 2 I Tlu: house was if i gainst tiie proposition at first, bit;, htler followed Lbe plan as adopted by lhf senatfj. 1 Lis--is;i(jn of the ser:es of bills designed de-signed to require all s'.aie boards and ins! ii ul iha. lo turn ov r their receipis to ihe stale' troasnrei at the ejid of each jionih occupied most of the se sion of tile senate on February 2;j f.nd t when (his discussion ended just about; wlit-ro it started a motion to recon-' sidci all such bills carried. Then there- was a motion to recommit the hills, and while this was being dis-tcussed dis-tcussed somebody moved to adjourn. and debate ceased. Ohm hill rcMiuiring the stale hoard of1 medical examiners to turn over its' I'umh monthly went through quickly.; Then came a hill requiring the Uni- versify- of Utah to adopt the sjame method in handling its recv.ipLs fori tuitio.'i and ;a few objections were1 raised by Ihoso who said that, the uni-: versity need(d a, contingent fund. , Olio of the bills passed was to do' a way with the Utah Art. institute. This hill, introduced by the committee on education, proposes to repeal the1! laws providing for the institute and : for the annual appropriation oi' $l.()Ui)-j No mils were introduced in the sen-1 ;i In and hereafter none will be presented pre-sented except by committees, under the rules. Wiliiout debate, the house, on February Feb-ruary III passed almost unanimously I lie loll to provide $M.VJi)u for the I oomph-lion and maintenance of Utah i cxhibi'.s at the San Francisco and Sau j Diego fairs. Tlie house occupied most of its ses- ' sitjn lebniary 19 with the considera-! tion ol' the school consolidation mens-' tire, ruder its terms each county constitutes one school district, to be presided over by one board. At present, pres-ent, eight counties of the stale have ceii si -I ida ted school systems. These ceuii; ies include Halt Lake and Weber. We-ber. Th'. senate on February 20 turned turn-ed t'nwu an amendment to I lie rules limiting speeches to five minuteu. Sumo one suggested that it was "gag rule. ' A n a jo lit y seemed to he of the opinion, however, that the senate mi; at li.rd the hint implied when the nuuii n was made. i - resident Kerry cnllei. attention to the laet that adieu has he n lai.en on less than a score of bills, l hough more t ban 2i0 have been nirodmid hi the senate and as many in the house. Tli i hmiMo lii' s- adopt ed a rule I im-iting im-iting c- ich member of the house to one minute in whiehlo explain Ins vote en a roll- all. 1 1, has been found that much of the time of the session hrs been taken up in listening to long ex-f ex-f pliinalioes from members en roll-calls. 1 The sinale passed Mrs. Wolsten- y hole's Ik use bill providing stricter reg ulation of pandering, and designed to further wipe out the social evil. Senator F.vans' biil, providing, for bonds hy con t rac.tors enga ced by school hoards and similar bodies, was passed in the upper house. The measure meas-ure is designed to injure payment of labor aiul itr materia. s. Three hours of dir-eu -sion over the I nest en of t a . ai :o;i ef uiiaes before l lie serai e eemm it ! ee oa mi ies av.d. lie4 he,; -;e ce-in m '! i e " en re-e.uie a m 1 taxation, found the mining men unanimous, unani-mous, y ep; i-m 1 to any e laage hi the present system or method of tavit-e'i en a basis of net proceeds and the i dvocates of a change to cash value A bill is to he presented to regulate Ihe trading stamp business in Utah. The proposed law makes the otTic of the secretary of y'ate the official place i t which all firms or individuals engaged en-gaged in the trading stamp business shall file :v Imnd for the piotection of the consumer. Mining ue n. attorneys and bank ts -i the number of about lll met at Salt Lake Saturday night, to pretest against proposed legislation looking towards to-wards a ihungo in the constitution to provide for a change in taxation methods. meth-ods. The live stock committee of the h use voted to report II. n. No. l;;:. hy .lames J. Uarker of Weber county, favorably. The hill, if it becomes a law. will permit horse racing in the itale of Utah under the supervision of a racing commission to he appointed ty the governor. Cemlitiins in Utah which it was laimed call for the creation of a public pub-lic utilities commission for the regulation regula-tion of rates and service were outlined before the senate committee on judic-i&ri judic-i&ri ca Saturday. |