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Show NEW JUDGES MUST WAIT UNTIL MAY 8 SALT LAKE. March 13 Discovery was made yesterday in the office of the secretary of state that the senate bill providing for two additional Judges of the supreme court of Utah, earn ing an emergency clause making it effective at once, did not receive the required number of votes in the senate to make the emergency clause effective, hence it doe not become effective until March 8. the same date as bills without an emergency clause The bill received a vote of 11 for and 5 against, with 2 absent and not voting. The law requires, it Is explain ex-plain d. that a two-thirds vote js nerrs-sary nerrs-sary to make the emergency clause effective. As a result, S. R Thurman and Valentine Val-entine Gideon, the appointees of the governor to the supreme bench, will not be able to fake office until after May 8, but can take office then as soon as they desire. i nree otner Dills bearing emergencv clauses were found to be in the same predicament. Ono was H. R No 1 bv Southwick, prohibiting discrimina tion in the buying and selling of dalrv products, and ihe other was senate bill 128, providing for a state publli It bureau for advertising the resources Of Utah Senate bill No. 138, relating to the classlf1Cation of proper! by the Btati board of equalization, which carries an emergency clause, also failed to get the two-thirds vote and the emergency clause is therefore inoperative. on |