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Show DOUBLES WAGE OF' UTAH LEGISLATORS SENATOR DERN PROPOSES THAT PROPOSITION BE PUT UP TO THE VOTERS. Believes That $4 Per Day is No Enough and Asks That Salary be Doubled. Measure Provides for Road Commission Plan. There is at least one member of the. Utah legislature who believes the lawmaker law-maker is worthy of his hire. Senator Dern on January 28 introduced a proposed pro-posed constitutional amendment raising rais-ing the wage of the legislators from $1 to SS per day, or just double their present salary. The aniendiiieiir would not, if it were ratified by the people in November, I'.rj'J. affect the salaries received by any of the present members mem-bers of the legislature for the terms for which they were elected. Perhaps the feature of the senate session of January -'S was the unanimous unani-mous decision to scud back to the senate agricultural committee House bill No. 1.'!, by Day, which provides that the slate board of health shall be the state dairy and foot! bureau, and that the state health commissioner shall be ox-officui state dairy mid food commissioner. Senator Kufus Adams of l.ayton says that the cost of living is coming down, and for that reason he believes that the state bank examiner can manage to get along now on $:!(KK a year. He introduced a bill in the senate to fix the salary of the office at $:itXK) a year instead of ?:itkm j The bill of Representative Thome, to authorize the state engineer to designate des-ignate roads for the movement of livestock live-stock to and from winter ranges was defeated. Of the sevsm new measures introduced intro-duced In the house on January 'JS, Seegmiller's measure providing for a reorganization of the state road commission com-mission and dividing the twenty-uinrt counties of the state Into five road districts, is expected to become one of the most important bills on the subject of roads which will be brought up at the present session. House bill No. 0, by Howell, authorizing author-izing county commissioners to levy taxes to the extent of $7o00, or at a rate not to exceed l cents on the ?1(X) of assessed valuation, for county fair and other similar publicity purposes, was passed. What the members of the l"tah slate senate consider to be one of the most important of the'senale bills yet to be sent to the house was passed on January Janu-ary L'T. The bill was Senator 11. C. Tebbs' measure to provide new machinery ma-chinery for ihe suspension and liquidation liquid-ation of banks. In it word. II. places the duties of the receivership on the state bunking department, and also differs from the present law In that it provides for the reopening of a hank If such, a plan Is found to be feasible. feas-ible. Five house measures and one senate measure were passed by Ihe Utah senate sen-ate on January 21. The measures passed were: No. 4, by Ivors. In which the senate rid itself of a problem that has been before it many limes, regarding re-garding interest on county current Indebtedness; In-debtedness; No. 13, by Day, amalgamating amalga-mating Ihe office of dairy and food bureau wlih the stale board of health and making the secretary of the health hoard ex officio dairy and food commissioner; com-missioner; No. 11), by Morrison, Jr., abolishing the slate board of park commissioners; No. 7, by McShnne, abolishing the publicity anil development develop-ment board, and No. (I, also by Me-Shane, Me-Shane, extending time for collection of taxes on transient livestock. Three bills were approved by the house on January "7. A measure amending existing statutes relating to the bonds of state officials and their deputies and providing for surely company com-pany bonds for these officials'; an administration ad-ministration measure coming from the committee on education amended so that public libraries were not placed under the supervision' of the stale board of education; ami a bill providing provid-ing for the acceptance of the terms of the federal vocational and rehabilitation rehabili-tation art were passed. A n t l-ti I i en land legislation nnil prohibition pro-hibition of oriental iinmigrat Ion was Indorsed ,011 January L'f by the house of repi-esen In 1 1 ves of I'tah, which voted wllh one exception to pass House joint memorial No. 1, by Iversoti. The measure caused considerable consid-erable discussion, a number of members mem-bers opposing the plan of prohibiting I ; 1 Del owni'i-ship by aliens. J ive new- measures were 1111 roiluecit in the house on January ihree of iliein relniing lo tux matters; one ex-lending ex-lending the time for which county commissioners nuiy authorize bonds and one rHating ut the crealioii and iltnles of cliy courts. Bills were Introduced In Ihe slate sriinie on January U f lo repeal or to amend many seclions of the statutes, nu ml leri'd all ihe way from 1 and " 11 away up in Hie emu's. They were 'n .1 lt H' of MPs ilrs;gneil to eslab-'1 eslab-'1 t a siaie ilejia i-l ineiit of reglstni-:.'ii. reglstni-:.'ii. and all are pari o the "aillnlnis-'ntiion "aillnlnis-'ntiion jiiom-a in," I'eliiions relating lo the Soul hwiek Mi ; i-ciL'a '-el !r nieasiu-e hen-after will ' road only by line and only the tillo .ill b" placed in the hou-e journal, i'1-oriling in a motiin parsed by Ihe house. |