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Show LEGISLATURE IS HOW GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS Salt Lake. Jan. 10. Two measures were presented to the state senate today by Joseph Chez of Weber count: The Ogden senator introduced intro-duced a bill to limit the expenses of candidates for office to 20 per cont of the yearlj salar of the offices aspired to, and to prohibit corporations corpora-tions making any contributions whatever, what-ever, under a varying penalty reaching reach-ing as high as $100,000 for the most grievous offense. Senator Chez also presented a resolution reso-lution for a joint committee of the house and senate to work out a new method of taxation Speaking on the subject, be Baid Utah had the most antiquated and atrocious system in the United States and some action should be taken to correct the defects. de-fects. The house met at 2 p m., but was slow in proceeding to business (Contlnuod 0n Page Two.) LEGISLATURE IS NOW GETII DOWN TO BUSINESS (Continued from Page 1) Senate Committees. The complete list of committee appointments ap-pointments made by President Ferry of the senate is as follows: Agriculture and irrigation Seeg-miller, Seeg-miller, chairman , Rldeout, Thornley, Wooten, Eckersley, Evans, ( he-. Appropriation and claims Cottrell, chairman; Hansen, Wight Thornley, Seegmiller, Funk, Reynolds Banks and banking Evans, chairman; chair-man; Hansen, Eckersley, Hideout, Craig, Wooten, Reynolds County and municipal corporations -Rideout. chairman; ('raic,. Edgheill, Cottrell, Wight, Dern, Funk. Education Eckersle . chairman , Colton, Wootou, Seegmiller, Hansen, Chez. Evans. Engrossing and enrolling bills Bradley, chairman; Thornley, Craig Fish, aine and forestry Craig, chairman; Wooten, Seegmiller, Ride-out, Ride-out, Eckersley, Funk, Bradley. Highways and public lands Colton. chairman; Thornley, Eckersley, Wight, Hansen, Reynolds, Evans. Judiciary Wight, chairman, Eckersley, Eck-ersley, Colton, Edgheill, Cottrell, Evans, Ev-ans, Dem. Livestock Thornley, chairman; Edgheill, Seegmiller, Hansen. Bradley Manufactures and commerce Edg ! helll, chairman; Wight. Craig, Thornley Thorn-ley , Rideout, Colton. Dern. Mines and mining Dern. chairman; Wooten, Edgheill, Wight Chez. Private, corporations and insurance Hansen, chairman; Craig, Colton, I Funk, Chez. Public health and labor Wooten. chairman, Craig, Colton, Cottrell, Eckersley. Eck-ersley. Dern. Reynolds. Public institutions Funk. chalr-man, chalr-man, Eckersley, Rideout, Edgheill, Seegmiller. Evans, Chez. Railroads-Edshelll, chairman: Colton, Col-ton, Hansen, Craig, Cottrell Seegmiller. Seeg-miller. Bradley. Rules Wight chairman; Cottrell, Thornley. State affairs and federal relations Chez, chairman, Rideout, Edgheill. Cottrell, Wooten, Reynolds. Bradley, Contingent expense and printing Revnolds, chairman; Rideout, Thornley. Thorn-ley. House Committees. The Democratic fusionista had the first choice of a committee, as the Republicans elected the speaker of the house. The fusionlsts chose the judiciary committee and the Republicans Repub-licans chose the appropriations committee. com-mittee. The Republicans will have control of the following committees during the session. Agriculture, appropriations, contingent contin-gent expenses, capltol, education, enrollment en-rollment and engrossing, fi3h and game, industrial school, insurance, joint resolutions, livestock, manufacturing manufac-turing aud commerce, military, mining min-ing and smelting, public buildings and grounds, public health, public lands, resolutions, rules, school for deaf and blind and state statistics. Tbe fusionlsts will have control of the following house committees: its, banking, census, claims, public pub-lic accounts, counties, elections, federal fed-eral relations and memorials to congress, con-gress, highways and bridges, horticulture, horticul-ture, irrigation and reservoirs, judiciary, judici-ary, joint committee on revenue, labor, la-bor, municipal corporations, penitentiary peniten-tiary and prisons, private corporations public funds, public printing, public utilities, salaries and fees, state library li-brary and state mental hospital. |