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Show I S E N ATE APPROVES MINE TAX MEASURE PROVIDES ASSESSMENT SHALL BE NOT TO EXCEED THREE TIMES NET PROCEEDS. Radical Measure Presented by Senator Olson ' Effectually Sidetracked. Establishment of Part Time Schools Proposed. Salt Lake City. Assessment of metalliferous met-alliferous mines on a basis of "not to exceed" three times their net proceeds was the verdict of a majority of the senate at the conclusion, on February 21, of the third day's battle over the mine taxation measures before the upper up-per house of the legislature. The vote stood 11 to 7 in favor of the "not to exceed" amendment, President J. W. Funk of the senate switching from the minority to the majority and voting for the amendment, which he said, was favored by the governor. The minority committee's other amendments to the Parker-Bevan .bill were then incorporated in the measure and it was passed on second reading. Under a suspension of the rules the bill was passed on third and final reading read-ing and ordered printed in amended form before being sent to the lower house. On the final reading the vote was 13 to 3. This action automatically kills the Olson bill, which Is still on the calendar, but is due to have Its enacting clause stricken when It comes up. Establishment of part-time schools for the benefit of children who nave not completed high school and who leave school before they are IS years of age is provided for in house bill No. 43, which was passed in the lower house of the legislature on February 21. Under the provisions of the bin, which now goes to the senate, sucli schools would be established In every district of the state where parents of fifteen or more eligible children petitioned peti-tioned for them. |