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Show GHRISTENSEH HALED BEFDRETHE HOUSE SALT LAKE REPRESENTATIVE EXPLAINS AESENCE AND IS GIVEN FURTHER TIME. Legislature Getting Down to Business, Two Bills Being Approved by Senate and Three by the House. Representative Parley P. Christen-sen Christen-sen of Salt Lake was arrested on January Jan-uary 25 and haled before the house of representatives. Mr. Christensen had been absent from the sessions of the house for more than a week and on vote of the house the sergeant at arms was directed to bring him in. Mr. Christensen was found in the city and county building. He accompanied accom-panied the sergeant at arms to the chamber and told the speaker he was occupied with some legal business. The speaker then excused him. The following two bills were passed by the senate on January 25: Senate bill No. 2, by Eckersley, appropriating $15,000 for school teachers in districts where the revenue is inadequate. Senate bill No. 33, by Chez, authorizing author-izing county commissioners to make appropriations for farm demonstrators. The bills passed by the house were House bill No. 1, by O'Neil An act providing that Duchesne county shall constitute the Twenty-eighth legislative legisla-tive district. House bill No. 3, by Shields An act to provide against dilatory tactics on appeals from justice courts. House bill No. 8, by Day An act to punish convicts who attempt to escape es-cape from convict road camps. An appropriation of $50,000 for Indian In-dian war veterans is asked in a bill introduced by Senator J. R. Edgheill of Juab county. Ferry's senate bill No. 9, providing for posting in prominent places of advertisements ad-vertisements for bids upon public work in those localities which have no newspapers, went on the calendar of the upper house. The measure was reported back favorably by the judiciary judi-ciary committee. The house of representatives as a whole will investigate the protest filed on January 21 against the seat ot Charles L. Warnick, representative-elect representative-elect from Utah county. The protest was filed by Representative Represen-tative George F. Goodwin, Progressive, Progres-sive, of Salt Lake, who asked that the matter be investigated by the committee on elections. By almost a strict party vote, however, the house decided to vote on the merits of the protest without any preliminary investigation in-vestigation by committee. The Republicans Re-publicans voted solidly against referring refer-ring the contest to the committee on elections, or to a special committee. The protest against the right of Mr. Warnick to sit in the lower house ot the state legislature is based on the allegation that he is not qualified under un-der the terms of the constitution to be a member of the legislature. There were but two new bills presented pre-sented in the senate on January 21, along with two resolutions, while six new measures appeared in the house. A resolution proposing the appointment, appoint-ment, of a joint committee on revenue and taxation to propose a revision of the revenue laws and a memorial urging congress to construct a government-owned railroad from Denver to Salt Lake through the Uinta basin were introduced in the house. Fifteen bills and one resolution introduced, in-troduced, favorable reports adopted on two bills, acceptance of an invitation to visit the capitol grounds, signing of the pay roll and adjournment con stituted the work of the senate on January 22. There were committee meetings before and after the session at which various bills were discussa informally, but action on reports was postponed. Proceedings in the house on January Janu-ary 22 were quiet. One bill and one memorial were introduced. The report re-port of the committee on rules took up the greater part of the session. The rules which governed the tenth session of the legislature were adopted adopt-ed with some minor changes. The second corrupt practices act of the session was introduced January 22 by Senator George Dern. The Dern bill covers ihe question of cam paign and election methods and procedure, pro-cedure, specifying just what may and may not be done by candidates for nomination and election or theit agents. The senate comm'ttee to which was referred the statewide prohibition bill is engaged in consideration of that measure from every angle before re porting it. to the members for fin-il action. The committee will devete most of the week to the bill, honing by the end of that time to have it in shape for reporting back to the senate. sen-ate. . Several merpbers of the stte legislature legis-lature were tr-icsM ever Sunday of the "cache legislative delegation. They t -.vent to I ogan Krday even ind and Saturday visited the Agricultural college col-lege of Utah. Many of the members jof both hcieos to.'.k advantage of the j adjournment to visit their homes. i Menil ers of the judiciary commit-' commit-' lee ef t he senate muiled over the puh-iic puh-iic uti'.i'ies bill and others or the huge pile of bills before it on Janu-'ary Janu-'ary 2" when there was no frn:ial ses-'sien ses-'sien of the upper ho;:se. i ! Plumbers mast be lice-scd by a 1 state beard if a bill introduced by rresidn- i'. Mont Perry in the sen-' sen-' a.te becoine a la v. The bill create? 'a tate piun.btrg board and a sa'ar- - :ed (Cfuer to be known as th" tate sanitary inspecfr. His duty will be ';'.o inspect sarii'atinn conditions i throughout the state. A public defender a lawyer to pie id for the poor when th'-y are bro:urht jto trial will be created ia a hill to he " : intre el;K-e-d in the uppe-r house of the' ' Je-gislatare by Senator Frank Kvans. of - Salt Lake City. The relief of the settlers of the i former Uinta Indian re-servation is prayed for in a memorial to eoncross f introduced in the house by William O'Neil of Duchesne. Utah will have its state police if a - bill by Senator D. O. Rideout is en acted into law. |