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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE AIDSJAILROADS APPOINTMENT. OF POLICE BY GOVERNOR AUTHORIZED BY THE LOWER HOUSE. i Also Approves Plan to Permit County Commissioners to Borrow Money At 'a Rato Higher Than Seven Per Cent. For the first time since the beginning begin-ning of the present legislature the house of representatives on February 1 failed to clear Its third reading calendar, calen-dar, adjourning at 5 o'clock with four bills awaiting passage. The house failed to reach these measures on third reading because of the lengthy arguments argu-ments for and against House bill Mo. 1, by S. W. Morrison, Jr., which would authorize the governor to appoint state railroad police. The measure was finally fin-ally passed with twenty-five ayes, fourteen nays, seven members being nbsent and one being excused from voting. The house on February 1 concurred in senate amendments to House bill No. 4, by Ivers, which would give ihe county commissioners of any county, but which was Introduced for the benefit bene-fit of Salt Lake county In particular, authority to borrow money at a rate higher than 7 per cent. When the senate on February 1 got through working the cogs of the legislative legis-lative machine which have to do with the advancement of bills, It was found that It had placed seventeen bills on the second reading calendar, had advanced ad-vanced two from second to third reading, read-ing, an one from Second reading to passage, pas-sage, and had made a special order of one of the measures on thlie second reading culeiular. Discussion over the Southwick anti-cigarette anti-cigarette biir reached the fisticuff stage February 1, when Church T. Castle of the Utah Manufacturers' association as-sociation struck LeRoy Dixon, mayor of I'rovo, on the left temple after an nltercation as to the enforcement of the present law against the sale of cigarettes to minors. The biennial appropriation bill, the measure which provides the funds on which the state of Utah must carry on the varied phases' of its state government gov-ernment for the coming two years, reached the state legislature January 31. It was Introduced in the senate by Joseph Quinney, Jr. The lawmakers are asked to appropriate the total sum of $4,330,0:i.").10. It Is estimated that the revenues of the sta In the next two years -wU be $4,120,000. The Utah senate completed the work before it In about forty-five minutes on January 31. Three new bills were placed on the calendar during the day. The governor's budget was received In the house on Monday nnd given to the appropriations committee, but the chairman of tills committee failed to introduce it during the period when Introduction of bills was In order, so It had to go over until Tuesday. Seven new bills and one memorial were Introduced In the house on January Janu-ary 31, five of the new bills relating to the juvenile court, one to airplane landing fields and one an appropriation appropri-ation bill for relief for Ahinadl Olson, who was itjiired In a road construction construc-tion camp and who cannot secure relief re-lief by court action. The memorial provides for a request to congress to withdraw certain Indian grazing lands as such and open them to homestead ' entry. The reapportionment bill introduced by Senator Teters now has a chance of becoming a law. This measure is to again come before the senate. In the form In which the bill will reach the senate, it is proposed that the state senate of 19'23 and thereafter shall consist of twenty members, Instead In-stead of the present eighteen, and the house of fifty-five representatives, instead in-stead of .the present forty-seven. At the close of the twenty-first day ' of the present session there had been ' presented In the senate fifty-one bills and six resolutions or memorials, making mak-ing a total of fifty-seven measures to be presented by senate members or committees. The house had sent over In the three weeks of the session nineteen nine-teen bills and four resolutions, which brought the total number of measures to be formally before the senate up to eighty. While the house had passed twenty-one twenty-one house bills and three house resolutions, resolu-tions, It had also passed three senate bills and two senate resolutions, or a total of twenty-nine measures In all. The senate had, In the same three weeks, passed a total of six senate bills and four senate resolutions, but treated treat-ed house measures about as well as those introduced In the senate, having returned to the house seven bills and two resolutions. If the legislature wishes to pay off the indebtedness of the state of Utah and to place It on a cash basis during the coming blennluin it will either have to cut the appropriation bill below be-low the amount determined by the governor in the budget or It will have to Increase the revenues of the state In some manner. Senator Itufus Adams of Iiyton says that the cost of living Is coming down, and for that reason he believes that the state bank examiner cun manage to get along now on $3000 a year. 4 |