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Show LEGISLATORS ON THJO WEEK Forty-five Bills Offered in Both Houses: House Passes on Ten ' SALT LAKE. Jan. 24. Utah la-. -makers on the fifteenth, leglelati day find that Thrr.- have been frtr; . rive bills in R Introduced, r which lhlrty-i !kTI yie house measure 1 , 1 enteei) belong K Ihe senate. ... addition each bo ... has Introduced! three oj four resolutions. Tbe legislator leg-islator are allowed sixty davs in all J by ihe state constitution. Ten of the bills have been p.--. 1 c - the tauvea not counting resolurj - , " ' ' iiim-. ami 110 i.-tr has passed two oi".-.. .1, .,; ! i -3'- i th n;,!y oiu- from el titer i f use to Ik m, ..... by the govern; t.iouph he iia ..rr.cd snnv; r. :. . . lutions and hiAnjorbLia rtq.ulrlng stn ii tetion. As a matrop-of fact, th. se 1-nte 1-nte has not yet passed at)'' 1k..i Culls, although one terns parsed on second re .ri'.np only to bo nt bar k '.. committee com-mittee from ibe tMvfl reading calen-I calen-I dar. Rl ;:(. M. ffios BILLS. I Notwithtanding the sho;v:rf madej j.bv a tabulation of, the work of the , respective lipases, th senators are in-! J !irnd to thlnlt they are about n:. Carl ahead with the work of the session j as Is the house'. n-. of the big as.- I slgnments of work for the present! leglslatiin.. they point out. is the flriy'J of legislation measures submit:.. .1 as '.-'ion from an informal advisory committee to tho senate for action, only one of these so far has been 1 . trodaced i:i the senate, whereas sev-j eral have already come Up to th senate sen-ate from the house. This. In the, minds of Republican senate mem-,1 bSrs, is because they have preferred; to ''make hafife slowly" by having tbo bills introduced In such siiape thai 1 they comply with the rules of the senate and with the Joint rules It is asserted that several of the' measures that have conic from the house do not comply with joint rules and th n fore will have to be amended amend-ed before thov become law?. This I will require action by the house after 1 the house j. 1 ensures have passed the I senate, and while the senate ainend-: ainend-: ments to 1 lie bills may be purely for-. for-. rnal arid therefore likely to meet with I no opposition in the house, the faci ! remains that amendment In one house j of a bill which has already passed the 1 other is not the best form of 'greas- In the skids" for an) measure. BILLS in Ml mm:. Tlic Republican senators, and some of the Democratic senators as well have been carefully perusing the bills submitted, whipping them into shape, and It was announced Saturday that most of the reorganization measures are vcady for introduction early this week. 1 In number they arc legion, though the number of subject matters to bci treated mlcht be grouped under only a few heads. The bill to accomplish .formation of a department of registration, regis-tration, however, requires the passage) I of some twenty or thirty olher meas-' meas-' ures In order to make the present 'laws conform to the proposed order I of things. Similarly the bill for a state department of finance and pu chase Is accompanied bv about e:t other measures amending . repealing , present statutes. To obtain cooperation between 'he j two houses on the reorgfinisa'loii , measures a Joint steeflne confmIti.ee ! Is being oraanlr.eij of wl i- '.: Mi.- n-I n-I ate members ate Senators .r V. I'ei-; I'ei-; ers. Harrison K' Jenkins md Dnvfd Jenson. The house naembci are to I be appointed by Sp.-- ' "i- Ca lister t. -1 day. The houe of Representatives has no I special business oh is eaipndnr rpr o!n'. bill It Is vim '.,- sv-- ii committee reports will ba Hied and possible action taken Upon tbe--c. A number of additional bills also arc expert ed to be introduced. I V FOR SfTHOOLS Tuesday. Scegmiller' bill. ropos-ing ropos-ing thp Insertion !n !) existing statutes stat-utes relaiirig to a state tax levy for illsttirt school purposes of ihe constl tutlonal amendment passed last N'n-vember N'n-vember af the general el Hon. This constitutional amendment is desiuni-.i ... seoure sufflclen,! state support for schools to make $25 fur. each person of school agf. In the state, as '.own by tne last preceding school census.' The bill has been favorably reported i- the committee on education, has received II s on'd reading and will conie ui 8,8 a special order of business Xueedso afternoon at 3 o'clock. The bill, if passed, paves the way for the introduction of other measures which. It Is expected; will provide for new methods 01 raising tax that, as appoi lio'ied. will be sufficient 10 enial 1 the necessary - per eisoii or school age An income tax bill Is expected to be the companion bill of the Seeg-mlller Seeg-mlller measure, if it passes both 1 j houses of the legislature. In the two weeks the house has been in session thirty-eight bilN have been introduced, a number of them originating with the Republican a.l-j a.l-j ministration and being known as ad- 1 I ministration measures. Only one house 1 I bill has met defeat and ten have been 1 ' passed and sent to the senate for ac- ; tion This does not include the emer- gency appropriation bill. Which orlg- I mated In the senate, and which hat 'passed both houses and befit sign, fl bj the go ernor. |