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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE ' ENDS JTSLABORS ADJOURNMENT TAKEN BEFORE GOVERNOR HAD REPORTED ON PROHIBITION BILL. In Last Three Days of Session 151 Bills Were Sent to the Gov-, Gov-, ernor, Who Had Already Signed Twenty-seven. Salt Lake City. The eleventh ses sion of the Utah legis'.aiure adjourned sine die Friday night, .March 1-. The house adjourned at 1 o'clock and the senate at 111:20. The constitutional sixty days was up at noon Thursday, when the clocks were stopped and legislation continued for thirty-four hours. Governor Spry had failed to either sign or disapprove the state-wide prohibition pro-hibition bill before the adjournment ot the legislature, and whether or not the Wootton measure will become a law depends upon the action of the chief executive. Should he veto the bill. Utah will remain a "wet" state. Up to the closing days of the session ses-sion practically no legislation of general gen-eral and state-wide interest had been passed or enacted into law by the signature of the governor, and there were predictions that the Kleventh session would be called a "do nothing" affair. Then came a rush of bills on the last three days that ended with a total of 151 being placed in the hands of the governor, who had already approved ap-proved twenty-seven and vetoed one. As to checking over the bills now in the hands of the governor and which he has until midnight March 21 to consider, it is estimated that by working on them ten hours a day and giving only two days to the consideration consider-ation of the appropriations bill, he would have twenty minutes' time to each measure. The only bill vetoed by the governor govern-or during the session was one introduced intro-duced by Senator Joseph Eckersley of Wayne county calling for an appropriation appropri-ation of $15,000 for certain rural schools to be paid from the general fund. This was vetoed on account oi its unconstitutionality and another bill which was declared by legislators to be equally at variance with the constitution con-stitution but which provided that the money come from the school fund, was passed and has been signed. Among the twenty-odd new laws already al-ready made, there are most of the administration measures which require re-quire that the various state boards turn over monthly all their fees and receipts to the state treasurer and also a series of bills relative to the handling hand-ling of prisoners in road camps, designed de-signed to prevent their receiving drugs and explosives and making escape or attempted escape a felony. The appropriations ap-propriations already made and signed include $35,000 for the exposition exhibits ex-hibits In California and appropriations for the Orphan's Home and Day Nursery Nur-sery and the Free Kindergarten and Neighborhood House association. The hills known as 'administration measures," most of which were recommended rec-ommended in the governor's message to- the legislature were practically all passed with the exception of one providing that the terms of county assessors and county treasurers should be four years. One series of bills provides pro-vides that the state board of land commissioners may invest certain funds in warrants issued by the board. There are now about $105,000 of these warrants outstanding and they bear in terest at 5 per cent. These bills provide pro-vide means whereby the land board can pay the damage claims on accounl of the breaking of the Hatchtown dam and also provide a way whereby the land board can rebuild the dam with out a bond issue. The amendment of the corporation tax law graduating the fees for filing articles of incorporation is estimated to bring in about $SO,000 to $100,000 a year, while the new motor vehicle tax law, if signed by the governor, will add to the state road fund about $75,000 a year. This amount will he in addition to the $10,000 a year appropriated ap-propriated for state roads to be spent on condition that the various counties put up sums ranging from equal amounts to one-third of the st;ite funds used in the respective counties. Othet tax laws in the hands of the governot include those extending the time foi paying taxes and providing for a pen alty of 3 per cent on delinquent taxes while another prospective law will validate tax sales. Most of the "big" legislation of the eleventh session of the legislature orig inated in the senate. Measures which were characterized as "revolutionary'' and "freak" came from the upper body of the legislature and the house devot ;d itself largely to legislation desired desir-ed by the various state departments But for every bill styled as "revolutionary," "revolu-tionary," introduced in the senate, a similar bill was introduced in " the house. The enacting clauses of all such house bills were stricken out on the last day of the session. Dan B. Shields of Salt Lake county fcolds the record as regards number of bills introduced by an individual in the last legislature, while W. L. Van Wagoner of Wasatch did not father fa-ther a single bill. Mr. Shields Introduced Intro-duced twenty-nine and had eight bills passed. At the beginning of the session ses-sion Mr. Van Wagoner announced he would not introduce a bill in the house as he had come to the legislature to "kill" and not to "pass" bills. |