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Show LEGISLATIVE NOTES. Salt Lake City. By a vote of 16 to 1 the senate on January 31 passed Senator Sen-ator Joseph Chez's bill, which makes the teaching of anarchy and the practice prac-tice of sabotage in the state of Utah a felony. The measure was sent to the engrossing committee, preparatory to being forwarded to the lower house for consideration and action by that body. Representative Currie's measure providing pro-viding one day's rest in seven makes oJie day's rest a week mandator, except ex-cept in cases of emergency where life or property is in imminent danger, or in cases where employees are not work-' ing more than six and one-half hours per day. A measure has been introduced in tlie house that proposes the "barring of claims against the estates of deceased de-ceased persons after tlie lapse of eight years, when.no executors or admin-, istrators of stich estates have been appointed." ap-pointed." A period of one year following follow-ing the passage of the act is allowed for the appointment of executors or administrators. A bill presented by Representative Bullock amends the laws relating to the control of water and water courses by cities. It gives city councils the right to annually fix the sum necessary to meet the expenses of controlling, regulating and distributing water, and; to collect assessments from users of water. House Bill No. 70 amends the law relating to abatement of actions. It provides that rights of action shall not abate by the death of the persons in whose favor the rights exist, but that they may be prosecuted by the representative repre-sentative of those persons for the benefit bene-fit of their heirs. Abolition of tlie poll tax. as provided for in house hill No. 3, was approved of by the lower house on February 6, when it passed the O'Neill measure by a unanimous vote: Only one new bill was introduced in tlie senate on February 0. and that was senate bill No. 77, by Parker, which provides that local boards of health shall have power to make rules and regulations governing the conduct of people during epidemics, and making the violation of any such rule or regulation reg-ulation a misdemeanor. The senate also suspended the rules and passed Representative Day's house memorial to congress urging federal fed-eral aid on state post roads on a population pop-ulation basis and an extension of the time of availability of each annual appropriation. ap-propriation. Strenuous opposition to the creation of a state supervisor of health education educa-tion and the making of health education educa-tion compulsory for school teachers, parents of infants and others was voiced at a public hearing held in tlie capitol by the joint committee on education edu-cation of tlie legislature. Chiropractors and osteopaths were before the joint committee on education educa-tion demanding that the bars be thrown down and that they be permitted to participate in the free clinics which are contemplated under II. 1',. No. -15. by the joint committee. |