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Show IMTEBSEGTIOM BILL PISSES THE SEIIE Salt Lake, March 0. After escaping escap-ing several amendments, Edghelll's "ebhipromlsi ' Intersection paving bill was passed In the senate yesterday, it Is held up until today, however, by notice or a motion to reconsider, mad': by Senator Joseph Chez of Og-d Og-d 1 n . Tho bill was passed by a vote or 18 to 4. One senator was absent. It was redrafted from bills drawn by the Municipal league of Utah and H J. Dlninny, city attorney of Salt Lake. Tht re was much opposition in Salt Lake to 1 lie bill as originally drawn. As flmt drawn the Edghelll bill provided that all the intersection paving pav-ing should be paid for by the owners of abutting property, instead of by the city, now. Opposition developed t several p'ublh hearings conducted by the committee on county and municipal mu-nicipal corporations. The bill objected to, senate bill No 55, was Iheii withdrawn and senate I bill No 19s introduced as a substitute. I This provides that owners of abut- I ling property pay one-half of the cost I ol pa in:r intersections. Objection was made to the require- I ment of two-thirds of the owners of property to stop a contemplated improvement, im-provement, so the bill was changed to read 00 per cent Senator Oottrell, , on the floor yesterday, proposed an amendment reducing the number of Protestants required to 51 per cent, but the amendment wa6 lost The bill does not charge tho building build-ing of storm sewers to the owners of nbutting property and eliminates the compounding of interest on property-holders' property-holders' payments for theBe features which were among the features of the intersection bill passed by the last legislature which induced Governor Spry to veto the bill. The pending motion to reconBider the panBage of tho bill holds it up In the senate till today Senator Edgheill does not think the passage 1 will be reconsidered and expects the measure to be transmitted to the house today. |