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Show HOUSEWORKS JJT HIGH SPEED Attempt to Raise Tuition Fee at A. C. Blocks Quick Action SALT LAKE, Feb. 10. The law-1 ni.iklmr machinery or the house of! representative wn put into hish gear I yesterday and speed featured the sea-' sion. The house standing ponimttteesl presented only two reports and hut , .two communications transntllinc bills came from the senate which allowed the third reading calendar i 1 1 be ii-Hihed In record time. The machinery wag te-lhporarllj atoppedi however, when iioue hiii 'No. 42. hy Qulnney. relating to the 'entrance and tuition te at the Utah I I Agricultural college, came up tor final ! ! passage. DEFEAT Mi NUMi i An amendment offered hy Repre-1 laentative Seegmiller halted the fu6t ! time that wax being recorded and ar- iRument and dehatt over this amendment amend-ment and another one, both of which !were defeated, lost to the house the j opportunity II had to clear Its third; reading calendar. Progress was mude. however, for, I on lv eleven measures a r On the cal-, endar for today. Seegmlllcr's proposed pro-posed amendmeni would have placed 'the maximum entrance fee to the1 ltate Agricultural college at 125, the I bill providing J25 as a minimum fee. Nearly every member of the house, had .something to aa? about the i amendment or the bill, and Represen-j tative Rhees of Weber county, who,' 'took the floor for the fust time -since 1 j he has been in the house, offered ID amendmeni 10 the amendment, but! the members declared that the ten-j dency in higher education seemed to tiVor the faVOPCd few. He opposed Ln entrance fee that would prohibit: anyone from attending the institution. jarguing that Zb was too high. j Throughout ihe debate mnnv efforts. :were made to stop It by moving the previous question and like tactics, one 'memlT being declared out of order! several times and linaiiv refused ihe! Iiloor on a question of personal privilege privi-lege when another representative re-' fused to yield to hlni. After the iSeeRiniller amendment had been de-i Ife ited the bill passed, ayes 42. nays 3, Inlisent 2. The law -crimling machine! began to pick Up speed again :ifter the bill was passed and within len minutes j 'three other measures by Qulnney, jllou.se Mils .3, 4-1 and 45. all com-! panlfm bills of the first one, were passed without opposition. All relate to entrance and tuition fees andi ! courses of study at the State Agricultural Agricul-tural college and the University of I 1 Utah. Kl PPOH riONMl l BII L The reapportionment bill of Senator (Peters came Into the hotis... yesterday.! and was referred to the Judiciary committee. com-mittee. It wus the only bill trans-nulled trans-nulled by the senate. i he usual flood of petitions and Resolutions relating to ' the Southwi. v intl-cigarcl bill were leiol l title und referred lo the com- mlttee on manufactures and com-i merce. Box Elder county residents presented a resolution asking that the legislature; provide some law whereby n hount : of 10 cents would be paid for Jack-rab-bits. The resolution said that the jack-rabblts In that section of thei state were ruining crops A bill which would place a bounty of o cents on! . , i l. u : , 1 l I wice aiiiui.im mi uireu lonouuceu 10 the house. The house judiciary committee re-Prted re-Prted unfavorably on House i.jii ::, by A. W. -Monis.on, which would permit per-mit on iv payers of taxes Oil real ptop- terty eligible to vote at bond elections. The measure was given second reading, read-ing, howcv i. In compliance with Ihe I house rules, and placed on the third I reading calendar. House bill No t.i, by Bbdsrberg, re? la) lug to licensing dealers In eggs, was favbrabl) reported with an amendmeni amend-meni which would make the license fee $1 instead of $10. It was explained that the fee was not intended as a revenue producer, but simply for the purpose of securing a certified list of those who dealt In the produci. The measure was given a second reading and placed on the calendar. Reconsideration of Senate bill 18. by Tebbs. which passed the bouse Tu. s- day and which relate to thi suspension suspen-sion and liquidation of bonds, defining jthe powers of the slate banking com-mlSSlon com-mlSSlon In that respect, failed, a motion mo-tion lo that effect losing out by the j narrow margin ol one vote. DOUGLAS'S Bll.l When the third reading calendar was reached. Rep'resegtatlVa Douglas's bill, which would authorize county I commissioners to lay out and maintain landing fields for airplanes, WHS i:.-.s-d without comment, the ayes bc-40 bc-40 and seyen members being absent. Sale of wormy apples would be pi milted under the provisions of House bill No. 17. hy lleprescntativ e Thorns, bur they must be sold only us wormy apples and all containers of such would have to be plainly labeled In bold type to contain "worms apples." The measure wa. referred lo the com-ralttoe com-ralttoe on agriculture. Kepresentalh e M. Shane of the house -steering committee yesterday! asked committee chairmen to rush action ac-tion on Senate bills Nos. IT, 2a, tl, 22. 23. J4. 27. 28 and 3". which relate to the department of finance and pur-i Chase. Introduction of other administration admin-istration measures depend on the passage pas-sage of the., hills, and he u Id that expedition ol their passage was i' -ir-nhle The same request was made in rc-1 garri to S-nate bills No. 35 to 13. inclusive, in-clusive, which relate to the depart-1 ment of registration It j proposed to! ereste. Senate bill No. 47, relating to the reduction of salaries of the state' hank examiners, also an ad minis! ra-' Hon bill, was another measure con-j tained in the list 'numerated by Mr. Mcshnne. who hss begun a tiampalgni to expedite the adnuni.-n ... MORI P v mi GH l Provision for Increases In salaries' o' the county commissioners of thei flrt class, auditor, county attorney and treasurer L ma.le in House bill I No lis. Introduced yesterday b Representative Rep-resentative Bwenson. The bin would authorise salary increases for these1 officials from $2600 to 14000 for thai countv commissioner and from fSSOO to 400o for the treasurer unit atloi-ne. atloi-ne. snd from $2400 to $30"0 foi the county auditor. |