OCR Text |
Show Ira ihihahe H Mil HOUSE APPROVES 0 ' E C r.!OST IMPORTANT MEASURES BEFORE BE-FORE THE LAV.' MAKERS. Se ite. Passes Substitute Measure P'oviding for Aid for Rural Schools ! and Dill Providing for Mutual I r.s urar.es C cm pan ies. ' One o;' buis'-st days of the prcs-' prcs-' " ii ' s"ss:o::s of tl.e Utah legislature was tiiat (ji Kf.'bj'uary 2', six bills he-ing he-ing j.as.-fd by the seriate, three bills killed, seven iu:ruui;ced and seven-; seven-; teen reported from committees, while in tine l:ou.-e three hills were passed, , fourteen iiuroduced and more than seventy 'oi! is were re ported cut of commhiees. Urobably one of the most important measures be fore Lbe present session, tht; inirative and referendum bill, was apjiroved by the house. This measure, Ly Representative Shields, pro ides initiative and referendum upon petition peti-tion by 12 per cent of qualified voters of tiie state at last general election. Amended to make it necessary to sign po J tions in presence of justice of pre.ee, town clerk or notary public and KigrmUires on each page to be attested at-tested to officer. The st nate on recon side rat. ion decided de-cided to overlook the governor's veto ines'-.f-ge as to the unconstitutionality of t ie bill providing for state aid lor cert1 in rural schools and passeil the bill deMgp.'-d as a substitute for the one -eteed, the only amendment being thai the SI.Vju.j tor the bieimiuin to go '.i the rural schools shall come iron, the state sehooi fund instead of t': e i.": tiie general fund. Ai:o;lK-r bill passed was Senator D. 0. KbP'out's measure providing for tra!.s:c.rs by the distirct judge of titles h':hi by former territorial probate J Ufif.;"S. senator W. S. Hansen's bill provid-;Lg provid-;Lg ti:at two or mere contiguous counties coun-ties mr-.y join in the org an i:-. a tiun of leu! ual fire iiisur;ince comp;ini( s jtc' :-scd. as did a bill by Senator Jo-s Jo-s : i ; Chez p ro v i cl i n g for bo ml s to m;:i.e m'-ehanics' liens mor;.; secure. A bilf by Senator .losejjii Eckerslcy iiro'.'iding for a commission to in ves-ligate ves-ligate r.;.d suggest codification of the ::!:.! e school laws was passed after be-ijlt3" be-ijlt3" amended so tluit legislators miglit have the report in time to look it over before the next session of tiie legislature. legis-lature. Senator Thornloy's bill providing that corporations must give notice of the transfer of corporate stock when I ransfors a re made to avoid t lie inheritance in-heritance tax was the other biil passed. Adjournment was taken until Tuesday Tues-day at 2 p. m. because of IMonday be-int be-int a holiday. On Monday members of the senate and house were guests of the Oregon Short Line on a junket to Logan, loaing Fait Lake at 2 o'clock in the afternoon by special trail, and returning Tuesd;,y morning. Hideout's land hank bill was passed in the si mile on February JS ather a considerable discussu-n. On- final passage, pas-sage, aUer amendments suggest d by the committee and on the lioor had been sliicken out. there was .very little lit-tle opposition to the bill. The bill provides for the organization organiza-tion of co-operative farm mortgage banks by land owners. The land owieis wou'd put up their farms as 1 security to the hanks, which thereupon j would lend money at more favorable j rales tbm ordniaiy hanks do. secur-; secur-; ing the money from the sale of bends, j The he; uso on Fh bruary 1 passed ; tli e hill -resented by the committee ' on revenue and taxation, which has. i lor its object the limitation of the lev-: lev-: ies of taxes lor public schools, for tie.' (onsfiuction of roads and for other 1. rbiie pir poses. The biil is one of a series proposed by tiie state board ef equalization, and it has the indorscmuic of the taxing officials of thestate. Fiithr the provisions pro-visions of this bill the levies for va riouu purposes are so reduced as to in like the maximum levy not to exceed J 2 in lis for all purposes. I At the present time there is no j maximum levy prescribed by law. j Ft kerse y's .? na. hill No. 2. giving I sl-"..(i)o as s.ato aid to tiie poorer conn. ! try schoi !s came 'oaek to the suiati-! suiati-! from the governors. o..ice tn i-'.mruary j IS with tiie chiefs ex. i u live 'a veto. An effort to secure a report from Die committee on manufactures and i commerce ef the house on the Woot-j Woot-j ton prohibition hill failed in thh house. ' Senator D. O Kid ni' introduced h bill providing tbat t; xes may be paid in two instalments, ha'f of it in No vember ttml 'naif the following .lune The Salt Lake senator also intreducecr a bill providing two justices of the j peace, instead of one, in cities of the j first class. I Oas companies are included in the I laws giving right of eminent (bun;. in by an a;.n ndment prepesed in a bill ! mtrrdueed in the upper hous1 by I'resi-1 I'resi-1 ui ut W. Mont Ferry. j F.y a vote of i '' to t!;e seim:c ! killed the iiitlee.ut bill proviiiing at i ,:n- rguiey r. pp.repria tion of ? i en o Iter j;;adbig the eam'el -rounds, Th-; Th-; '-e.'l was in reduced in order that work j may he given to the cm mm yed. I Sr-eitor William Ura'c of Weber has : introduced a bill which wen d givr tb,, st.i'tisii ;v.id giu.e corvii lsit m-r ! the right to deism:, :e "paire sr.ne-! sr.ne-! taa-ies" for the po-. ;r.:m. nt protefioti I of wihl b:r.l anti ::nim;F lite e,-epl;u ! sin h as a re expi ' ss'y : y la .v allowed j io be kiih d at all times. ! Tl-o govern tvent ce; -r.-l,1;! U: e 1 ausd obht-M-'n to tie aeu-e lr.v'i-ier- ial iuToduced by .1. Alex, lb van e-k-! ing congress to build a r,-.i .re.ui 1 tcr imh the Uintah rese.-va lien ami j the memorial was hi fa on the table hy a vote of ti to 1 1. Mrs. Lily F. Wolstonholme of Salt Lake introduced a bill hy Ui unanimous unani-mous consent of the house, uhhm. if it becomes a law. wiM eompo! ail stores in cities of FLoou p.-.;-ulaiion or more to close e.ieh day in the week at ii o'clock in the evening excepting two weeks prior to Christinas. Arnendmeu; s proposed to the law relative to collection of taxes in a hill introduced by Senator Kdgheill provide pro-vide that in giving notice of delinquency delin-quency the notice shaU also state, besides be-sides the amount of t ixes due. the amount of, the penalty provided. |