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Show CIGARETTE BILL PASSED 8! HOUSE THE "COFFIN NAIL" TO HAVE SAME STANDING AS BOOZE IN STATE OF UTAH. Measure Makes it Unlawful to Sell or Advertise Cigarettes or Cigarette Papers or to Smoke in Public Places. The SoutliwicU anil-cigarette bill passed the lower house of the Utah legislature on February 24. It had previously been approved by the senate, sen-ate, and will become a law ninety days from the date the governor signs the bill. Adjournment followed the passage of the bill, for so many members left the hall of the house for a smoke that a quorum was lacking. The bill passed is one making it unlawful un-lawful to sell cigarettes and cigarette papers ; to advertise cigarettes and cigarette papers; to permit minors to smoke in certain places of business ; for any person to smoke in certain enclosed en-closed public places. Five bills, including the anti-cigarette measure, passed the house February Feb-ruary 24. No new bills were added, to the calendar. One memorial also passed. and one hill was killed, reducing reduc-ing the third reading calendar to that extent. One adnitlonal measure was taken from the calendar and recommitted. recom-mitted. . Thirty-four rolcalls punctuated the sessions of the Utah state senate on February 24. As a result it was found that the senate had taken final action on fourteen bills and had passed twenty-two from the second reading calendar to the third. The senate on February 25 killed the measure proposing to give the people of Utah opportunity to say whether or not they wanted a constitutional convention. con-vention. Senator Kinney's bill to enable the governing authorities of the University Univer-sity of Utah, or the Utah Agricultural college to pension superannated professors pro-fessors was killed. The Utah senate took a few minutes off from its regular grind on February 25 to discuss parliamentary practice. The result was- practically a party lineup. Advertising the proceedings of boards of county commissioners will not be authorized at the present session ses-sion of the legislature, for Representative Represen-tative Seegmiller, succeeded in amending amend-ing Day's bill for that purpose so as to make it valueless, .and the author moved to strike the enacting clause rather than have it passed after It had been so amended. House bill No. 98, by Boswell, which would make it a felony for any person to maim or kill animals belonging to another, was rejected by an adverse vote, the ayes being 14,. nays 23, absent ab-sent 10. It was argued that the penalty pen-alty was too severe. Senate joint resolution No. 4, by Mrs. Hayward, which would authorize author-ize the governor to appoint a commission commis-sion to investigate the feasibility of erecting a building in which to store the relics and records of the state, passed the house without opposition, ayes 36, absent 11. Representative Parker of Cache county introduced a bill in the lower house of the Utah legislature on February Feb-ruary 23, which, should it become a law, would prevent amusements of any kind within the state on Sunday. The bill is designed to prohibit any manner man-ner of entertainment, exhibition or amusement on Sundays and to prevent at all times the showing of any motion picture in which there is cigarette smoking. Under its provisions Sunday Sun-day baseball and all other exhibitions and amusements are prohibited. The "Blue Sunday" feature of the bill is the most sweeping and drastic of the kind ever proposed in the state. Theatre The-atre owners and other amusement officials of-ficials declare that if the measure is adopted it will result in the closing of all motion picture and vaudeville theatres in the state, as well as the ruin of owners of baseball franchises. An avalatiche of last-minute bills descended upon the house of representatives repre-sentatives on February 23 the last day of the session for introduction of ! measures, except by unanimous con- ! sent or suspension of the rules. Forty-eight Forty-eight bills and one memorial were introduced, in-troduced, the latter passing both the house and senate under suspension of the rules. The memorial asks that congress take out of the amended transportation transporta-tion act the provisions threatening control by the states of intrastate rates of public utilities. For expenses of the international -;oil products expo-It ion, to be held in Salt Luke this year. Representative Day has introilured a bill providing for an appropriation of $5000. The house passed two bills February Febru-ary 23, Nos. 114 and 109, both by-Douglas. by-Douglas. The first provides for punishment pun-ishment for unlawful personation and the second provides for compensation for attorneys appointed by the court to defend in impecunious cases. The senate passed the teachers' pension bill after much debate and explanation. ex-planation. Taxation of oil produced In the state of Utah is provided for in a bill Introduced Intro-duced in the house of representatives, 7ebruury 23. by James D. Thorne of Utah county. |