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Show uu SIFTING COMMITTEE TO BEGIN ACTIVITIES Salt Lake, March C All bills in the 3 1 house remaining In the hands of the I standing committee, will be transferred trans-ferred to the sifting committee at '4 the commencement of tho session at I 10 o'clock this forenoon The sifting . committee will reign supreme from now on until the close of tho session in the house. The members of the I committee, as announced by the : spearker yesterday, are Wilford Dav of Iron, Charles R. Maber of Davis, C. L. Warnlck of Utah, George D. Folk-man Folk-man of Weber, W. M. Grifrin. Jr., of ! Cache, J. Louis Brown of Salt Lake and D H. Morris of Washington. There are not many bills remaining in tho committees of the house. Most of them have already been reported and are either killed or are on the remarkably long calendar that confronts con-fronts the members. The sifting committee com-mittee will not only take upon itself all of the duties of the standing committees com-mittees of the house, save the appropriations appro-priations committee, but it will also have referred to it all bills which are passed by the senate and sent to the bouse. The standing committees or the house will continue to exist, through shorn of most of their functions The committees, however, may stllj introduce intro-duce bills and resolutions and conduct con-duct investigations. 00 |