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Show DRAINAGE BILL PASSES SENATE PETERS' AMENDMENT FOR WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROVED AP-PROVED BY UTAH SOLON'S Brought back after it had already passed the senate for reconsideration on on point on which amendment was desired by some interests, the drainage drain-age district bill was Tuesday again sent on its way to the house with three important amendments made during reconsideration. The bill is by the senate committee on agriculture, and is a substitute for e measure introduced by Senator W. D. Candland of Sanpete, who, as ranking rank-ing member of the senate committee n agriculture, has had charge of the proceedings of that committee throughout on this subject. It sought two things: To place control of supervisors su-pervisors of drainage districts more in the hands of the people of the districts, dis-tricts, rather than entirely in the county coun-ty commission; and to give drainage districts some powers over waters that might be developed by the districts. The bill was intended primarily to meet a situation in Sanpete county where a large area to the north of Manti has long been withheld from drainage, particularly because the residents res-idents there were not particularly favorable fa-vorable to giving so much control of the project to the county commissioners; commis-sioners; and partly because it was hopd that water flowing from the drainage might be used later to irrigate ir-rigate the lower parts of the tracts drained. The bill passed the senate Monday rewritten from the form in which it was originally introduced, but retaining retain-ing practically the ideas of the author in introducing the original bill. Only Senator II. C. Tebbs voted against it. Scmator David Hirschi's bill providing provid-ing for the abolition of the public utilities commission found but a single chanpion at the open hearing and discussion dis-cussion held by the senate committee on public affairs at the Hotel Utah. J. E. Pixton, city attorney of Murray, was the man to defend the Hirschi measure and he did this emphatically and in unmistakable language. A dozen doz-en of more citizens addressed the committee, com-mittee, the general trend of their remarks re-marks being comendatory of the public utilities board and its work in serving the public to the general benefit of the people. The public affairs committee of the senate, comprising J. W. Peters, chair-mai, chair-mai, LeRoy Dixon, Perry B. Fuller, A. B. Irvine and David Jenson, met, as Senator Peters explained, to get as much information as possible and ascertain as-certain the public sentiment not alone in regard to the bill introduced by Senator Sen-ator Hirschi but also as to the attitude regarding two measures introduced by Mr. Peters providing for amendments to the present legislation controlling the utilities commission. There! will be no Lincoln county f oi med in Utah at this time from parts of Juab, Tooele and Millard counties, as was intended had house bill 109 become be-come a law. This bill, of which Stark of Salt Lake county was the author would have amended the constitution of the state to make such a formation possible. Mr. Stark and other proponents propon-ents of the measure made a gallant fight for it, but lost in the final vote and the bill was declared dead. 'The senate passed nine bills down to the house Wednesday, including the fiv in the automobile regulation and gasoline and license taxes group, and two in the healing arts group. Heavy soporifics were administered to the other two healing arts bills, and, while thay are not technically dead, it is sincerely hoped by about every senator that these measures may sleep the slep that knows no awakening on the eanate table. In addition, the senate beheaded two . bids originating there and received the glad tidings from the house that it h.td likewise decapitated two senate measures . Rejxjrt has it that the house is willing will-ing to take the senate's word for it that the "gasoline bills," as they are commonly dubbed, although only one of them has to do directly with that motor vehicle fuel, are each and all good bills, and that therefore, the bills i may bob up again in the senate within a few days. The fact that the house suspended the rules and placed the measures' directly on the calendar seemed to lend substance to that rumor Wednesday afternoon. But there are nine opponents of the 2' -cent gasoline gas-oline tax who may yet be able to scatter scat-ter n goodly amount of sand on any well greased skids which may have been arranged in the house. HOUSE ACTION ON BILLS S. B. 46, committee on commerce -Negotiability of promisory notes. Ayes 19, nays 29, absent 7, S. B. 47, Funk Correction in law regulating embalming . Ayes i, nays 4, absent 7. , H. B. 78, Pettit Amusements on Sundav. Ayes 44, nays 4, absrnt 7. S. B. 27, Dixon Utah tuberculosis research commission. Ayes 21, r.ays J 8, absent 6. S. B. 57, Jenkins Voluntary admission admis-sion to mental hospital. Ayes 48, absent 7. S. B. G, Peters County treasurer ettlomcnts. Ayes 45. nays 5, aboont 5. H. B. 30, McKsll Insurance rebntec. Ayes 41, nays 6, absent 8. S. B. 29, Irvine Uniform state law for aeronautics. Ayes 48, absent 7. H. B. 114, LeaLham Exemption of homesteads. Ayes 46, nays 3, absent 6. II. B. 121, Finlinson Tax for control con-trol of hog cholera. Ayes 41, nays 8, absent G. H. B. 109, Stark Providing manner of creating new county. Ayes 22, nays 31, absent 2. SENATE ACTION ON BILLS H. B. 34, Finlinson State depositaries. deposi-taries. Ayes 18, absent 2. S. B. 91, committee on agriculture Drainage districts. Ayes IS, nays 1, absent 1. S. B. 60, Dixon Limiting civil service ser-vice law. Ayes 18, absent 2. S. B. 91, committee on agriculture -Drainage districts. Ayes 17, absent 3. S. B. Peters County treasurer settlements. set-tlements. Ayes 17, absent 3. S. B. 29, Irvine Aeronautics. Ayes 18, absent 2. S. B. 79, Peters Gasolir. a tax. Ayes 17, absent 3. S. B. 80, Peters Motor vehicle registration' reg-istration' regulations. Ayes 17, absent 3. S. B. 81, Peters Motor vehicle license li-cense fees. Ayes 20. S. B. 82, Peters Motor vehicle signals. sig-nals. Ayes 19, absent 1. S. B. 99, Peters Personal property tax on motor vehicles. Ayes 19, absent 1. S. B. 44 Dixon Control of realtors be securities commission. Ayes 16, absent 4. S. C. M. 4, Candland Tax exempt securities. Ayes 18, nays 2. S. B. 100, Standish Department of registration. Ayes 20. BILLS INTRODUCED, HOUSE H. CM . 2, Wheatley Memorial-ializing Memorial-ializing congress on distribution of war materials. Resolutions and memorials. mem-orials. II. C. R. 5, Baldwin Memorializing congress and president of United States relative to railway equipment used in interstate commerce. H. B. 185, McKell Fraudulent disposal dis-posal of personal property. Judiciary. II. B. 186, Openshaw Scholarships Scholar-ships in state school of education. Education Ed-ucation committee. II. B. 187, Wheatley Reorganizing state road commission. Highways and bridges. H. B. 188, Constantine Alternative method in appealing from district to supreme court. Judiciary., H. B. 189, Crouch Appropriation for revising maps and plats for assessment assess-ment purposes in Morgan county. Appropriations. Ap-propriations. H. B. 190, Crook Use of economic poisons. Manufacture and commerce. H. B. 191, White Sale of agricultural agricul-tural seeds. Agriculture. H. B. 192, Pettit Compensation of injured national guard members. Appropriations. Ap-propriations. H. B. 193, White Reimbursing Beaver Bea-ver county for costs in criminal cases. Appropriations. H. B. 194, Jones Committee to investigate in-vestigate state government and making mak-ing appropriation. Appropriations. H. B. 195, Jones Designating box-elder box-elder as state tree. Agriculture committee. com-mittee. H. B. 196, Jones Appointment of state librarian. Appropriations. H. B. 197, Atwood Duties and powers pow-ers of public utilities commission. Judiciary Ju-diciary committee. H. B. 198, Jorgensen Making director di-rector of finance and purchase department de-partment superintendent of state Capitol. Cap-itol. Public lands. H. B. 188, Baldwin Payment for check weighman at coal mines. Manufacture Man-ufacture and commerce. H. B. 200, Baldwin Payment of deputy sheriffs and constables. Judiciary. Ju-diciary. H. B. 201, Baldwin Deputies and assistants of county attorneys. Judiciary. Ju-diciary. H. B. 202, Mozley Hours and places of business of county officers. Judiciary. Judi-ciary. H. B. 203, Stookey Salaries of industrial in-dustrial commission members. Insurance. Insur-ance. H. B. 204, Graham Appropriation to build industrial shops at state prison. pris-on. Appropriations. H. B. 205, White Making salary of commissioner of agriculture $3600. Agriculture committee. H. B. 206, White Making salary of director of finance and purchase $4000. H. B. 207, Stookey Interference with employment. Labor. H. B. 208, Johnson Brand inspection. inspec-tion. Livestock. H. B. 209, N. C. Christensen Noxious Nox-ious weeds. ATriculture. H. B. 210, Finlinson Making levy for agricultural inspection fund. Revenue Rev-enue and taxation. " H. B. 211, Constantine Sale and use of pistols. Military affairs. H. B. 212, Brewer Exemption of property in interstate commerce traffic traf-fic from taxation. Revenue and taxation. tax-ation. H. B. 213, Bagnall Chattel mortgages. mort-gages. Judiciary. H. B. 214, Crouch Reorganization of state board of agriculture. Agriculture. Agri-culture. H. B. 215, Mozley Use of false weights and measures. Manufacture and commerce. H. B. 216, Finlinson Use of school houses for other than school purposes. Education. H. B. 217, Mrs. Lyman Inspection of hotels and Idoging houses. Public health. II. B. 218, Naylor Insuring purity of vaccine virus. Public health. H. B. 219, Mozley Designating those who shall be included in civil ' service in cities of first and second class. H. B. 220. Mrs. Graham Repealing ; laws creating and governing d?nart-! d?nart-! ment of finance and purchase and c!es-j c!es-j H'nating ba?'d of oranrn.-rs ns supply and pur ch a so board. Anp-opriations. II. B. 221. Finl;nson Release of sureties sur-eties and official bonds. Judiciary. IT. B. 222, Shelley Malfeasance, pitefcowrcce sn nonfeasance of pub-I pub-I lie officials. Judiciary. , II. B. 239, Mrs. Graham Relative I to treatment of girls in industrial B-rro!. I I H. B. 223, Shelley Powers of courts in conduct of proceedings. Judiciary. H. B. 224, Callister Uniform law on warehouse receipts. Manufacture and commerce. H. B. 225, Callister Warehouse receipts re-ceipts and storage of goods. Manufacture Manu-facture and commerce. H. B. 226, Crouch Attachments and garnishments. Judiciary. H. B. 227, Constantine State horse racing commission. Public utilities committee. H. B. 228, Cannon Social relations. Judiciary. H. B. 229, Baldwin Defining political polit-ical parties, qualifications of candidates, candi-dates, nominations and elections. H. B. No. 68, by public health committee com-mittee Requiring certificate from health officer before return to school of pupil after absence due to infectious infec-tious disease. II. B. No. G9, by public health committee com-mittee Prohibiting sale of "filled milk." H. B. No. 35, by Gillis Requiring two-thirds vote of irrigation district electors for approval of contract for sale of surplus power, but permitting such contract to run 35 years. S. B. No. 84, by Crooks Providing that state board examiners shall not approve expense $5 a day unless writ ten permission was secured from the governor, also governing hire of auto mobiles, etc. S. B. No. 90, by Eames, Lewis, Mc-Murray Mc-Murray and Wurtz Providing eight-hour eight-hour day on public work shall not include in-clude time going to or from places of employment. S. B. No. 74, by Harris Providing for sale of county property at public auction. BILLS INTRODUCED, SENATE S. B. 129, Jenson Filing fees of foreign for-eign corporations at the office of secretary sec-retary of state. S. B. 130, Jenson Regulations of foreign corporations doing business in jUtah. I S. B. 131, Funk Sixty-day quarantine quaran-tine on dairy cattle imported into Utah. S. B. 132, Irvine Actions against estates es-tates for tort. S. B. 133, Irvine Permitting dismissal dis-missal of actions on application of pla:nt:ff. S. B. 134, Irvine Revoking license of druggists convinced of boot-legging; and setting up standards of pharmacists' pharma-cists' licenses. S. B. 135, Irvine Regulating traffic traf-fic in drugs. S. B. 136, Dixon Providing for transfer of funds from one school district dis-trict to another pay the cost of education educa-tion of children attending schools out of their district. S. B. 137, Dixo.3 Making illegal traffic in alcohol denatured with corrosive cor-rosive sublimate. S. B. 138 to S. B. 153, both inclusive inclu-sive Sixteen measures by Senator Funk having for their sole object the abolition of the office of district attorney, at-torney, and placing the duties of that office with the county attorney. S. B. 154, Jenkins Withdrawal of bank deposits of deceased persons by their heirs. S. B. 155, Jenkins Excluding un-vaccinated un-vaccinated school cftildren from school during a smallpox epidemic. S. B. 156, McConkie Reimbursing San Juan county for money spent in rodent eradication campaign. S. B. 157, McConkie Permitting higher tax levies in counties with assessed as-sessed valuation between $2,000,000 and $3,500,000. S. B. 158, McConkie Providing for establishment of a system of state parks. S. B. 159, Fuller Creating new state road from Santaquin by way of Eureka, Silver City, Delta and Hinckley Hinck-ley to a junction with the Delta-Hold-en road. S. B. 160, Irvine Permitting the governor to take over coal mines and supplies in cases of emergency. S. B. 161, Irvine Dismissing actions ac-tions begun in justice courts within one year, if summons is not served. S. B. 162, Mrs. Kinney To compel county commissioners to exercise powers pow-ers under the law providing for the support of dependent mothers. S. B. 163, Hirschi Including loan, trust and guaranty associations under laws taxing banks. S. B. 164, Warnick Rewriting the pure seed law. S. B. 165, Winder Amending laws governing regulation of barbers and barber schools. ' S. B. 167, Peters Amending law regarding re-garding no-par-value stock. S. B. 168, Peters Providing doublo sets of election judges in larger voting precincts. S. B. 169, Candland Providing that monevs oaid to banks to be aonlied on debts shall be immediately applied in payment or placed in a trust fund separate sep-arate from the assets of the banks. S. B. 170, McConkie Increasing amount of estate going to surviving husband or wife in succession from $5000 to $10,000. S. B. 171. McConkie Limiting employment em-ployment of clerks by district attorneys. attor-neys. S. B. 172. McConkie Amendin" Americanization law so as to permit of rKivier fines or jail sentence for violation. S. B. 173, Peters Amending law relating re-lating to cooperative banks for personal per-sonal "redit and to credit unions. S. B. 174, Dixon Amending state road laws to permit of expenditure of state funds in cities and towns. S. B. 175, Cottrell Requiring S500" bonds from owners of motor vehicles or $2500 from chauffeurs, against injury in-jury or death caused by negligence or misconduct of driver. S. B. 176, Winder Defining prostitution prosti-tution and prostitutes. S. B. 178, Irvine For the. welfare of certrr'n girls at industrial school. SERVES FOR 20 YEARS Baliff of the state supreme court Georoge F. Kimery, completed 20 year? service as an officer of that cour' Wednesday. The bailiff has been a resident of Boise for 28 years. At the time Mr. Kimery took the position with the supreme court the three jus-tives jus-tives on the bench were: C. O. Stock-slager Stock-slager of Shoshone, J. F. Ailshie of Coeur d'Alene and I. N. .Pu'livan of Boise. |