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Show 1 7 BILLS PUT ON SECOND READING Anti-Cirjaret Measure Now Heads Calendar List in the Senate SALT LAKE, Feb. 2. Seventeen bills were placed on the second reading read-ing calendar yesterday in the 1'tah senate, two wore advent ed from second sec-ond to third reading, and one from , second to passage. When the bills j were straighten, n ,Ki, al ordvr. by ; the secretary it wa found that the I SouthWiCk antl-elgnret measure nbw heads the r.ilendar list. I !ength debate Is expected todav on i this measure, with eet senator hav-I hav-I ing something to .say about the bad j effects of the elgurut or the bad effect i of the bill on the state's revenues. Next on the calendar ll the group of measures concerned with the cs- i tabllshment of the state department of ' finance and purohue and concerning I I which there s some possibility of de- , , bate, as these measures contain Ihe most Important features of the reorganization reor-ganization program outlined by the present state administration.' (U IPPORTI4 Mi T DILL. Next In line to these measures, ! comes the reapportionment bill, which I m less Hu- senators fight shy of the measure entirely will undoubted! I cause much effort at rearrangement ; I before it is finally disposed of In the i senate. Senator Jenkins" bill to re-j duce the state land board to one member, mem-ber, part of the reorganization program. pro-gram. Is sure to bring out strong de- I ; l aie, as nu mbers of neither party ln j the senate are united on this measure, i Then Is . hoiic measure touching the indebtedness of cbool dlstrkls. which Ik a subject alwofyi provocative of de-! de-! bate. Just as Is the Knight bill with regard to the distribution of lrriga-I lrriga-I tlon water in cities in which every sen-j sen-j ator finds a more or less personal interest. in-terest. : The last bill on the senate second . 1 reading calendar, as now arranged, is (the Si egmlller measure which would t J I put Into effect the constitutional ' ! ' amendment for Increased state sup- I I port to the public schools of the state. 1 1 This bill caused much serious del-ate1 In the house. What opposition has I ' developed t,, this measure will un- doutyedly try to make m I t. stern i sia nd in the Hcnate. The session xcsterday began with the I UlUal reception of petitions which Is now getting to be a regular Is not more lor less tedious part of the day's busl- Jneas. There are the usual Hood of I I petitions In faxor of Die Southwfck j ; anti-cigaret bill, xvhlle opponents of i the bill also begun to show that they haxe some knoxedjfe of the vim.- of I English phrases. "Futile In Its pur-i pur-i ' pose and vicious in Its provisions" were Some of the milder phrases from one I i petition, largelx signed in Salt Lake I ; county, against the measure. Weber I county had another group of petition 1 similar in nurnr.se PROI L KKS1DKXTS IXXIOLS Residents of Provo were very anxious anx-ious that House bill No. 20. and 21 should be passed. The former Is the (measure providing for $25 a head for I state support of schools- the latter SOUld provide for the taking of the school census In 'Jctobcr. when thej r-hlldren have moved in from the country coun-try nd are going to school, rather than in July and August, when the children child-ren are within the confines of the I country school prechut. when- the ; do not attend school. It was related, Ihai 7 per cent of the enrollment of j the Provo schools are not In the censua , enrollment. ; The lower house had some commun-i commun-i Icatlons. two of which were refusals to concur In senate amendments to bills. "The impression was given out by som quoted remarks ..f house mem-, mem-, hers." said President Thomas B. Mr-Kay, Mr-Kay, "that the senators are spending j their time changing commas to ieml-I ieml-I colons and the like. That Is a false I mprsslon and should be corrected. The senators are doing their best to I get the bills Into correct shape, which I Is an important pari of law-making. , We want the bills to be m proper ( form." j i The senate preeiden! appointed the senate rules committee as the con-1 ference committee on the two hills that had come bai h from the house RJ Pi 1 1 ; i ii nn D Amid the draft of bills that were reported re-ported in was the anti-cigaret bill. In which the failure, of Senators George H. Dern and Harrison E. Jenkins to concur In the favorable report of the . ommitter was noted There was also a divided report on Senate bill No 20, ihe bill to establish the statu department depart-ment of finance and purchase Senator Sena-tor Dern Vaid that he was not xx dllng to concur in all the provisions of that bill and desired the record to show-that show-that a majority, or else that Senator Lern dissented. Senator H. Tebbl wanted to state that the report favoring the passage of the reapportionment bill as amended amend-ed did not have his concurrence. He had desired to present some amendments amend-ments to the committee but the report had come in unexpectedly lo hlrn. One of the proposed amendments In the ill is to take Kane county from the Eleventh district, which Includes the southwestern :ler f counties und place It in Senator Tebbs district. Senator J. William Knight did not agree with the report of the committee on Senator Sen-ator Jenkins' bill io red lice tho mim. I bership of the state board of land i commissioners. (SEEKS CONSIDERATION Senator Jenkins tried to net immc- d1 it.' ' ou.-i.l. ration ,,' lu.s , Odolutlon j provdlng for an investigation of the I advanced colleges of the state, but I Senator Joseph Quinney demurred. Senator Prlah T Jones was inquisi-, inquisi-, live about the effect of Senator Peter's hl'l to raise the minimum size of sec- ond-class cltaiei from GOOD to 5000 In ! order to exclude Urigham City. Senator Peters told of the financial problems j before Erlgham City should the relief asked In the bill not be provided und -aid that several other Ptah cities will Hod themselves In similar position be-foie be-foie long. Senator Jones wanted to know the stand taken by the people from the west end of Kox Klder county, coun-ty, "but the senator from there said that ex en If they were to protest he thought the subject was of too great Importance for mer- io. a sentiment to predominate. The nl was finally sent on to third reading calendar over the opposing vote of Senator Jones. There was a sharp debate before the s.jderberg bill from tho house, which would bring the date for tho imparting! of notice by records copied onto the ' lounty records up to January i. is2i.' was passed to third reading over the neR.-itlxe vote of Senator Edward Bouthwick. The Seegmlller bin, giving towns power to vacate their streets, was passed without opposition, and was' so simple that Senator Jones moved it 1 on to final passage, which was done. |
