Show SESSION COMES TO 10 CLOSE UTAH LAWMAKERS WORK OVER TIME WRESTLING WITH PROBLEMS OF INTEREST TO STATE final act which checks checka off lat last of platform pledges but one Is solution of states state reve nue problem salt lake city after working about sixty hours overtime the clock having been figuratively stop shopped peI sin since ce midnight of march ath alli the twelfth it utah legislature adjourned sine die d Q at 1240 sunday morning morn lne charch 11 the final act ot of the legislature was the ud option at 0 tile occupation tax as a solution of thy the state revenue problem in the senate senator dern moved that klinl the senate adjourn sine die at 1242 2 sunday morning aa 48 pr president punk funk finished signing a number of bills from the house engrossing committee in 11 tile the house dr grace stratton alrey made the motion to adjourn sine bine die at 1249 sunday morning with adjournment of the ilia legislature a revenue measure having been passed a special session of the legislature was declared unnecessary by the conservative ill members embers ot of eboth houses housea and by governor damberger Dam Bamber bergei goe who was on oil tho the job until the two houses notified him that they were ready to quit the labors of tile tho seH lehston ston governor damberger Damberg pr Is quoted as saying baying tile the legislature Is fortunato fortunate in haying having boon been ble able a to do so much for the benefit ot at tho the state tho Demo catle party and the tion have redeemed ilia alio pledges they mado made to the Ti people eople we have a 0 statewide prohibition law blitch will to enforced by ilia governor wo we have a public utilities commission a work mens compensation act and wo we have guaranteed tor for the construction of ro rosula broatis atIs tile legislature has performed its ili duty in the highest patriotic sense differences of opinion have arisen hul but in ili the end the legislature did rold that which Is right the majority ruled lao 0 o one lina has any apologies to otter offer and I 1 belleve ibel teve every member can go homo home satisfied that lie he has contributed something to the lie progress ani and development of utah J W funk president of the senate doc declared lared we havo have given everything tile the platform called for or the administration pledged itself use for we have enacted laws for the bene benefit 11 of 51 ilia people and we have given the state a progressive legislation as a a result resul t of which ave hope the state will prosper we have not been able to go into the details of the laws but we have gone far other legislatures are coming ond and I 1 hope they will do as well 1 I will go home well satisfied for I 1 know we have fulfilled our prom promises loes to ta the of oc utah with regard to remedial and progressive legislation sald paid speaker J F tolton we went as far as we possibly could in the wa way of making good our pledges there wits was a barilar bareiter tit in the way that could riot not be entirely overcome overcome ani that barrier la Is tha ilia constitution itself we have kept the faith gave our best thought to nil inea pleasures and went nent fairly on record i am proud of the honor that was m i in fix prIe presiding sid over the house during the session of the legislature which haa has lust just adjourned the important measures that received the final approval of both houses luring during the twelfth session were statewide state wide wido prohibition bill 1111 jeffco live five august 1 1017 public bill carries appropriation bill of Work mens compensation bill carries appropriation ot at corrupt practices net act limits campaign expenditures initiative Inita tive and law gond dond issue of for build ing of good roads in outlying counties irrigation district hill bill to go federal aid id in tile tho development of arid lands clayton antitrust anti trust law and bills d af labor appropriation bill carrying appropriation of tor for ogden exposition in 1919 creation of a budget system for the state starting in 1919 occupation tax on mines collecting 1 for every employee excepting laborers end and imposing a net production tax at three times the net proceeds of mines tor for thereafter 1917 and thrice the not net r proceeds ro increasing the state levies to the constitutional limit at of 5 mills increasing t the a justices of the lie supreme court from three to five giving powers to corrections board to oust state prison warden without caust cause con tiit lonal amendment for statewide prohibition constitutional n for taxing mines at a multiple on a sub mul mill during the twelfth session the aan ate passed 76 anti anil tit the 3 house 66 the governor signed 34 bills that came from the senate and 19 that originated in the house while lie ho has 11 34 senate and 19 house bills before him which he will either cither approve or yeto veto governor damberger nam berger won ills his fight against an income tax and for a law taxing the mines alnea of the state on an a tiu of three times their net proceeds the imie governors battle was waa successful when the legislature on the ave vo of its sine die adjournment paold pas d the lie occupation cu pation tax on mines and mining claims S rt thurman fornier former democratic state chairman and valentine gideon one of the foremost attorneys nt at tho the weber county bar were appoint eLl judges of the supreme court cioth by oo governor vernor |