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Show LEGISLATIVE NOTES. To destroy the peon system and prevent pre-vent foremen from exacting a weekly or monthly sum from the men whom they put to work, Representative Frank Newman is preparing a bill which will make it a felony to exact such a fee. The penalty will be a term in the penitentiary. That the work of the present legislature legis-lature in many matters should be confined con-fined to amending present laws if they are found effective, rather than to passing new ones and attempting new systems is the view of Senator Elizabeth Eliza-beth Hayward. Nearly all of the time of the house on Januarj 23 was -occupied in considering con-sidering the reports of the committee on rules. It was a longer session than usual, but the business of reading and correcting the report wa finished and the rules were eventually adopted as those to govern the session. No house bills under the new rules adopted by the house on January 2'.i shall be introduced after the forty-fifth forty-fifth day of the session, leaving the fifteen days remaining for disposal of all measures not previously acted upon. up-on. No house hill is to be passed within with-in three days of the sine die adjournment adjourn-ment of the session. Speaker Richards signed in open session bouse joint resolution No. 2, by Newman, authorizing appointment of a committee to investigate and report re-port upon a memorial to he erected or established iu honor of returned and returning soldiers, sailors and marines. One of the most important measures which the house will he called upon to consider is that which originated in the senate and which makes amendments to the workmen's compensation act The bill for'the proposed amendments is brought forward at the request of the stale industrial commission and contemplates rucli amendalions as will bring about exclusive state insurance of employees, instead of permitting, as now, private companies 1o compete with the state. The compiled laws of Utah, PUT, as printed under authority of the law of 1017 by the commissioners appointed to compile and annotate the laws of the state, are approved anil legalized under the provisions of a bili presented present-ed by Morris. That every citizen entitled to vote at a regular election may oxen-iso lbat right, w bet her lie is home or away. Senator ( tlson has introduced a bill in the Utah senate. Votes cast by absentees ab-sentees will be known as itWnt voter ballots, p.iank Lai lots w HI Mip.:i.-. |