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Show 1 4 NEW BILLS BEFORE SENATE Three Pass Due to Intense' Work: Many Committee Sessions Held. SALT I.AKR. Jan. 25. Intenso work wa on the program yesterday in the l lah senate and the lavvmuk-Ijera lavvmuk-Ijera dispatched it with such readiness that three measures were passed dc-leplte dc-leplte lenprhv debate. In addition the I Ida saw the introduction of fourteen! hills, eleven of which were in the I group of so-called reorganization measures, having to do with Ihe establishment estab-lishment of the state department of. finance ;,nd purrha.se, the cornerstone! I of th proposed structure of State gov j em ment. COMMIT I l SB8SION8. Numerous committee sessions were-l held througliout the da, with a caucus' following adjournment of the senate. I In addition to the eleven department ot" finance and purchase lulls which i were all fostered ly Senator John V. Peters, Republican floor leader, there I vvi.' Introduced Senator Harrison by Jenkins's poposal to reduce the indus-j trial commission to on- man, and to cstablsh u state insurance manager; a ' bill by Senator H. C, Tebbs which pro-. Vldes for an alternative method of: 'procedure by the state hanking de-j partmenl in cose a bank is declared i insolvent, and a measure by Senator Elisabeth Hayward which would ns-quire ns-quire automobiles to come to a full Stop ut railroad grade crossings. ne of the debates wan over Senator Sena-tor George H. Dern's bill lengthening the tenns of payment for slate lands) .from ten to twenty years, which waaj finally passed, though at one time It appeared to be in danger of recommittal. recom-mittal. It was opposed consistently throughom by Senator Jenkins, who; registered the onlv negative vote on i final passage. Similarly Senator Jen-kin's Jen-kin's own measure, providing for a ::ite real "state board, met with con-1 istent opposition from Senator Tebbs. who alone voled in the negative. The noii ncurrent r-solulloii asking the Arizona legislature to take action In support of the Arrow head trail I I through Mojave county came Into! the senate during the afternoon, and! " 1 1 rit once relumed, having been j passed unanimous, under suspension of the rules. N wii s MESSENGER Among the communications was onei from Governor Mabey notifying the! senate that he had signed the Tebbs: I resolution calling for a messenger to the governor, thanking the legislature 'for Us courtesv. and notifying it that i iie had named W. J. Arnold for the I position. Mr. Arnold Is a Salt Lake; streetcar man. Senator Dern'S bill relating to payments pay-ments on stale lands and to extensions, up to three years, at the discretion of the land hoard, wag a special order! on third reading calendar. It had already al-ready been debated on second reading, and Senator Hern contented himself with remarking that either the st.il. would have to go into the Shylock business und freeze out persons who had bought stale lands and were unable un-able to meet their pav men's as required re-quired by law. or else It would have to amend the law. Senator Jenkins, however, pointed to the fact that there Is another bill, now, before th- revision :unl nrlnilnir r,n, mlttee. which seeks to amend the same section as was amended In the present i bill. He therefore moved that the Dern bill be recommitted for consider-I atlon with the other measure, which alms to reduce the land board mem'-' bershlp from live to one. This set the ball rolling, and therel was some acidity in the debate before the senators decided, on a vote announced an-nounced as seven for a recommittal to nlr-.e against. Senators Perry R. Fuller I and Henry N. Standlsh voted with the seven Democrats to keep th bill before be-fore the house Some time luter It w ..-i passed i iv in. t(. ir,- ,d-, ndl- I cated. seventeen for It to one agulnst RI i E8TA PI mi, I,. Senator Jenkins' re estate board 1 measure was next on the calendar .jSenotor Tebbs recorded his opposition I to It. on the ground that there were jtoo many commissions and they did not work to the benefit of all the people. peo-ple. He told of how the public utilities utili-ties commission's control over automo-jblle automo-jblle stage line has worked out on thai . Marysv ale-Pangultch route He Ithought the bill would give protection' ,to real estate brokers, but would dls 1 criminate against the average citizen Senator Jenkins pointed out that' lo bill docs no! stop i i,,. ,,,.s, n , e. courses to law. He amended the bill so thnl control over real estatf men ln the leasing business pure and1 simple was omitted since there are I no SUCh real estate dealers at present' III Itah. so far as he knew, while fre Iquentl; i neighbor will take chare Ol S property for two or three months ii lun mi r time, when n family i I absent. " Senator Dern failed to insert some' amendments which would make the I Mil conform to the Oregon law S. ,,,, nes moved that the s-n a defer nction until the admlnistra-(tlon admlnistra-(tlon measures came in: but was ruled , OUt Of order amid laughter at htaSlly ! Senator Knight suggested that the' commltteea get ,0 none on th, rtouae "veral of which had con!! over o the senate during the Say grounds of their efSK. tS'Jena I unanimously approved ,he mente ot Mia. Alvlr. Linden a d , Martin as comanitee clerks |