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Show NEWS OF THE UTAH LEGISLATURE Senator Seegmiller has announced the appointment of standing committee commit-tee members for the Fifteenth Utah legislative assembly as follows, the first named in each instance being chairman: Agriculture Finlinson, Millard; Fletcher, Summit; Stookey, Tooele; Johnson, Rich; Crouch, Morgan; White, Beaver; Atwood, Utah; Jacobs, Weber; Andrus, Salt Lake; Leatham, Cache; Bagnall, Sanpete; Nix, San Juan. Appropriations Jorgenson, Sevier; Mooks, Wayne; Browning, Weber; Rowan, Garfield; Pembroke, Salt Lake; Finlinson, Millard; Jones, Iron; H. Christensen, Sanpete; Wheatley, Box-elder; Box-elder; McKell, Salt Lake; Shelley, Utah; Naylor, Carbon. Banking Iverson, Boxelder; Hansen, Han-sen, Salt Lake; Openshaw, Salt Lake; Wood, Cache; Brewer, Weber; Larsen, Daggertt; Rowan, Garfield. Corporations Goggin, Salt Lake; Browning, Weber; Naylor, Carbon; Crook, Wasatch; Anderson, Salt Lake; Larsen, Daggett; Shelley, Utah. Education Wood Cache; Mrs. Lyman, Ly-man, Salt Lake; Siddoway, Uintah; Jacobs, Weber; Wheatley, Boxelder; Judd, Washington; Shelley, Utah; Meeks, Wayne; Hanson, Salt Lake. Elections Meeks, Wayne; Bailey, Weber; Andrus, Salt Lake. Engrossing and enrolling Rowan, Garfield; Mrs. Graham, Salt Lake; White, Beaver. Fish and game White, Beaver; Brewer, Weber; Crook, Wasatch; Goggin, Gog-gin, Salt Lake; Mrs. Graham, Salt Lake; Rowan, Garfield; Peacock, Emery; Em-ery; Fletcher, Summit; N. C. Christensen, Chris-tensen, Utah; Meeks, Wayne; Crouch, Morgan. Highways and bridges Jones, Iron; Bagnall, Sanpete; Nix, San Juan; Johnson, Rich; Siddoway, Uintah; Holiday, Hol-iday, Utah; Iverson, Boxelder; Mozley, Moz-ley, Salt Lake; Larsen, Daggett. Industrial school Jacobs, Weber; Mrs. Graham, Salt Lake; Naylor, Car-Ion; Car-Ion; Wheatley, Boxelder; Schaub, Cache; H. Christensen, Sanpete; Booth, Salt Lake. Insurance and real estate McKell, Salt Lake; Iverson, Boxelder; Mozley, Salt Lake; Cannon, Davis; Hansen, Salt Lake; Wilkins, Juab; White, Beaver. , Judiciary Callister, Salt Lake; Hol-lenbeck, Hol-lenbeck, Duchesne; McKell, Salt Lake; Judd, Washington; Constantine, Grand; Cannon, Davis; Iverson, Box-elder. Box-elder. Irrigation Stookey, Tooele; N. C. Christensen, Utah; Bailey, Weber; Butterfield, Salt Lake; H. Christensen, Sanpete; Peacock, Emery; Finlinson, Millard; Jorgenson, Sevier; Wood, Cache. Labor Judd, Washington; Baldwin, Salt Lake; Anderson, Salt Lake; Mrs. .Lyman, Salt Lake; Pettit, Carbon. Livestock Crook, Wasatch; Bagnall, Bag-nall, Samete; Peacock, Emery; Crouch, Morgan; Pembroke, Salt Lake; Finlinson, Millard; Johnson, Rich. Manufacture and commerce Browning, Brown-ing, Weber; Booth, Salt Lake; Cannon, Davis; Atwood, Utah; Judd, Washington. Washing-ton. Military affairs Pettit, Carbon; Stark, Salt Lake; Baldwin, Sa't Lake. Mining and smelting McCaskell, Salt Lake; Mrs. Dunyon, Salt Lake; Pettit, Carbon; Booth, Salt Lake; Wilkins, Wil-kins, Juab. Penitentiary and prison Mozley, Salt Lake; Brewer, Weber; Stark, Salt Lake; Leatham, Cache; Hol'.iday, Utah; Hollcnbeck, Duchesne; Mrs. Graham, Salt Lake. Public buildings and grounds Schaub. Cache; Bailey, Weber; Butter-field, Butter-field, Salt Lake; Siddoway, Uintah; Constantino, Grand. " Public health Mrs. Lyman, Salt Lake; Ho'liday, Utah; Constant'ne, Grand: Fletcher, Summit: Beiley, Weber; We-ber; Wood, Cache; McKell, Salt Lake. Public lands Crouch, Morgan; Bagnall, Bag-nall, Sanpete; Butterfield, Salt Lake. Public printing Pembroke, Ssft Lake; Hollonbcck, Duchesne; Shelley, Utah. Public utilities Stark, Salt Lake; Jacobs, Weber; Leatham, Cache; Jorgenson, Jor-genson, Sevier; Larsen, Daggett, McCaskell, Mc-Caskell, Piute; Anderson, Salt Lake. Resolutions and memorials Constantine, Con-stantine, Grand; Jones, Iron; Pembroke, Pem-broke, Salt Lake. Revenue and taxation Cannon, Davis; Da-vis; N. C. Christensen, Utah: Goggin, Salt Lake; Atwood, Utah; Openshaw, Salt Lake; Andrus, Salt Lake; Jorgenson, Jorgen-son, Sevier; Crook, Wasatch; Wheat-ley, Wheat-ley, Boxelder. Rules Callister, Salt Lake; Jones, Iron; Stookey, Tooele. Salaries, fees and contingent expenses ex-penses Hansen. Salt Lake; Wilkins, Juab; Atwood, Utah. State mental hospital N. C. Christensen, Chris-tensen, Utah; Mrs. Lyman, Salt Lake: Mrs. Dunyon. Salt Lake; Baldwin, Salt Lake: Nix, San Juan; Naylor, Carbon; Johnson, Rich. University and Agricultural college Openshaw, Salt Lake; Jones .Iron; Callister, Salt Lake; Schaub, Cache; Mrs. Dunyon, Sail Lake; Peacock, Emery; Brewer. Weber. Joint rules Seegmiller, Kane; Callister, Cal-lister, Salt Lake; Jones, Iron; Stookey, Tooele. With the ending of Friday's session each house of the Utah legislature closed the first week, so far as formal for-mal sessions were concerned, with lull organization perfectei. and fifteen r bills introduced during the five days. The senate getting away with a clean start, had elected the president of the senate, and passed two measures meas-ures on Monday, the first day of the session, but the house, although it elected its speaker during the first day's session, was not sufficiently organized or-ganized to transact further business until Wednesday, when at a joint session ses-sion of the house and senate Governor Gover-nor Charles Mabey delivered his message. mes-sage. Governor Mabey, in his message, laid especial emphasis on denouncing freakish legislature, "disregard for one law tends to create disrespect for all laws," said the governor, and he asked the members to exercise restraint re-straint in legislative enactments. Commendation may be given Speaker Speak-er Seegmiller of the house, in his appointment ap-pointment of the house committees, absolutely without reference to party lines, each committee being appointed according to the speaker's estimate of the appointee's ability in the particular particu-lar line assigned. About the only criticism that any one could make was that, in a house of which forty-four members were Republican as against eleven Democrats, four committee memberships were allotted to members mem-bers of the minority party. Eight new bills were introduced into the state senate Friday; four others, previously introduced, were passed by the committee on revision and printing; print-ing; two other measures were sent to the governor for his signature, and the senate adjourned until Monday, with fair prospects of being able to put in an active week at the work of legislating. All the preliminaries to such work were out of the way, and the senate will have before it Monday a sufficient number of copies of printed print-ed bills for its committees to work on. The bill by Senator H. C. Tebbs, providing pro-viding $45,000 for legislative expenses, was received back from the house with the signature of Speaker W. W. Seegmiller, Seeg-miller, and was sent to Governor Mabey Ma-bey for his signature. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing that the bill had not been signed at that time, the warrants from the state auditor's office paying each senator and senate employee for the first thirty days of the session were distributed. distrib-uted. The fund on which the warrants were drawn will not be officially established es-tablished until the governor has signed the bill and transmitted it to the secretary sec-retary of state. As soon as Speaker Seegmiller informed in-formed the house of representatives that the house machinery was in readiness read-iness for operation, fourteen bills were introduced. Of the fourteen, nine were by Representative L. A. Hollenbeck of Duchesne county. Four at least of Mr. Hollenbecks bills contemplate rather startling and unexpected changes in existing laws and also in the status of one or two state departments. depart-ments. The bills of the Duchesne representative rep-resentative were numbered from 3 to 11, inclusive. BILLS INTRODUCED IN THE SENATE Senate Conjoint Resolution No. 1, by Candland Messenger to governor; signed by president and speaker, and sent to governor. Senate Bill No. 1 by Tebbs Forty-five Forty-five thousand dollars for legislative expenses; received from house and transmitted to governor. Senate Bill No. 7 by Jenson Declaratory Dec-laratory judgment; referred to judiciary judic-iary committee. Senate Bill No. 6 by Peters County treasurers' settlements; committee on public affairs. Senate Bill No. 4 by Peters Colorado Colora-do river compact; public affairs. Senate Bill No. 5 by Tebbs Requiring Requir-ing notice of prior sale on tax receipts; public affairs. Senate Bill No. 2 by Jenkins To repeal re-peal the indeterminate sentence law. Senate Bill No. 3 by Candland A measure providing that local farm bureaus bu-reaus and similar organizations might incorporate. Held for changes and alterations. al-terations. Senate Bill No. 8 by Candland Relating Re-lating to requirements for issuance of patent to state lands. Senate Bill No. 9 by Candland Limitations Lim-itations on sale of public lands. Senate Bill No. 10 by Candland Covering purchase of public lands from state, after relinquishment of filings with federal land office. Senate Bill No. 11 by Candland Reducing fee for filing mineral lease from $5 to ?2. Senate Bill No. 12 by Candland Permitting chief clerk of state land office, as well as commissioner, to certify cer-tify expense vouchers of the department. depart-ment. Senate Bill No. 13 by Can-Hand Amending statutes govern:ng investment invest-ment of state land grant funds. Senate Bill No. 14 by Candland Making state school fund beneficiary of certain revenues from state lands. Srnate Bill No. 15 by Peters City zoning commission bill. BILLS IN THE HOUSE Senate Bill No. 1 by Tebbs Appropriation Appro-priation of $15,003 for contingent legislative leg-islative expenses signed by the speaker. Senate Conjoint Resolution No. 1 by Candland Messenger for the governor; gov-ernor; signed by speaker. House Bill No. 2 by Atwood Or-ganv.ation Or-ganv.ation of marketing associations. Agriculture committee. House Bill No. 3 by Hollenbeck I Construction of bridge in Duchesne county. Anpropriations committee, j House Bill No. 4 by Hollenbeck 1 Sale of property for delinquent tax. Judiciary committee. House Bill No. 5 by Hollenbeck Repealing utilities commission act. Judiciary committee. House Bill No. 6 by Hollenbeck Limiting authority of commission for validating irrigation district bonds. Education committee. House Bill No. 8 by Hollenbeck Equalization of general property assessments as-sessments by state board. Revenue and taxation committee. House Bill No. 9 by Hollenbeck Providing for assignment of certificates certifi-cates of tax sales made to county. Revenue Rev-enue and taxation committee. House Bill No. 10 by Hollenbeck Abolishing state control of plans for school buildings. Education committee. commit-tee. House Bill No. 11 by Hollbeck Act to amend public utilities commission sections. Judiciary committee. House Bill No. 12 by Constantine Prohibiting ambulance chasing. Judiciary Ju-diciary committee. House Bill No. 13 by Constantine Salaries of district attorneys. Judiciary Judi-ciary committee. House Bill No. 14 by Constantine Judiciary committee. House Hill No. 15 by Constantine Deputy district attorneys. Judiciary committee. Senator W. D. Candland, himself formerly chairman of the state board of land commissioners for a long term, ntroduced in the state senate seven bills intended to clarify and in one or two instances to amend in rather important im-portant particulars the state land laws. ?he bills were introduced at the request re-quest of the state land commissioner, John T. Oldroyd. HIGH POINTS OF THE GOVERNOR'S GOVER-NOR'S MESSAGE. Law requiring counties, municipalities municipali-ties and school districts to make proportionate pro-portionate funding annually of bonded indebtedness during life of the debt. Definite restrictions on local tax levies. Authority to a board consisting of the attorney general, treasurer and bank commissioner to select depositaries depositar-ies for state funds. Amendments to motor vehicle laws to overcome defects and eliminate trifling annoyances to the public. " Requirements for periodic independent independ-ent audits of records of counties, cit-;es cit-;es of the first and second classes and school districts. Protection of the producer and a guarantee, of a return commensurate with the importance of his labors, a co-operative marketing law and a law permitting local farm bureaus to incorporate in-corporate as associations not for pecuniary pe-cuniary profit. Curtailing powers of finance and ourchase department so as to exclude constitutional officers. More liberal privileges, whereby director di-rector of registration may permit members of examining boards of different dif-ferent professions to attend the various var-ious national conventions. Revision downward of automobile 'icense fees and imposition of gasoline lax to provide funds for road maintenance. main-tenance. Well-organized patrol of highways, to prevent their destruction by overloaded over-loaded vehicles. Requirement of proper lighting of horse-drawn vehicles at n;ght. Support of provisions of the federal Sheppard-Towner, or maternity, act. Co-ordination of five different state agencies engaged in health work for the state. Commission to make a compete study of the prevalence of tuberculosis tuberculo-sis in Utah, to report to the next legislature. leg-islature. Provision for settling the rights of the state to riparian lands. Funds to enable stite land commissioner com-missioner to resist in the courts arbitrary arbi-trary federal rulings as to mineral lands. Increase in the revolving fund for survey of pub'ic lands. Study of present pardonmg system, and amendment of the indeterminate sentence law. Providing that counties, rather than the state, shall pass on extradition extradi-tion cases and stand the expense. Suitable action opposing the federal fed-eral public shooting ground, game refuse bill. Initiation of a system of state parks, with especial reference to Bryce canyon. Reimbursement of private citizens who made possible investigations "r irrigation projects by federal r.nd state eng:neeving agencies. Approval of the Colorado river met. as embodying ideas on which Utah insisted. The governor's message also attributes attrib-utes large savings to the state department depart-ment of finance and mirchnse, and calls attention to the 231,000 in the motor vehicle fund now at the disposal dis-posal of the legislature. He claims that salutary changes have been wrought by the reorganization of state government since the 1921 legislature. legis-lature. He takes occasion to express publicly the gratitude of the state to the national guard officers and men for their excellent service in Carbon county durini the coal strike. His conclusion calls attention to the dig-n:ty dig-n:ty of the law, and he comments that "disregard of one law tends to create disrespect for all law. Freakish enactments." en-actments." he says, "are as perilous as the disdain with which they are met. Our statutes are alrea.-iy too ! much cluttered with this type of or-; or-; dinance. Any steps you might takr i toward strengthening the existing lav 1 and upholding the hand of authority will, I am sure, have the approbation of your constituents." A |