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Show FLOOD OF BILLS I FALLS ON USE Last Day of Session for Introducing Measures Brings Avalanche SWT r.AKK. IVh. 24 Yesterday the last day or th session of the house f representatives for Introduction of .measures, except by unanimous con-'sent con-'sent or suspension of the rules brought nn avalanche of last-mliiuto hills down upon tho house. Forty-lghl Forty-lghl bills ;md one memorial were Introduced, In-troduced, the latter passing both tho house nnd sensto under suspension of the rules. So heavy were the filings of new measures that an earnest effort to reduce re-duce the size of the third rending calendar cal-endar waa iinuvalllng, for, while three measures were taken from the calendar, calen-dar, at least fifteen othors were added to It. Tho total of house bills Introduced reoehed L'3U. but many are destined, P lis Bttld, to die In committee, others In the senate and muny on the floor of the house. m i i lllil I) TO COMM Two other ine.iHiires i nine from Hint body nnd were referred to committees, commit-tees, while two house meu-xures were also returned from the senate and .sent to tho enrolling and engrossing 00m mtttee. Representative R. J. Douglas lost his position as a member of I ho commlt-rtee commlt-rtee to read and correct tho house Journal. Jour-nal. Ho overlooked an error nnd A. V. .Morrison detected It. Iouslan resigned re-signed from the committee and fejjor-rlsOD fejjor-rlsOD was given the position, and Is I Wandering if the whole affair was not ' prea rr;i nged. M Kl PORfl S. Twele Niundliifr committee reports idded thai many bills to the third rendlnir calendar. other menjiures rent Ring that calendar by trnnsfer, as shown by today's dnily calendar of action ac-tion on bills Senator Peters' reapportionment reap-portionment bill was taken from the special order calendar and placed at the bottom of the regular calendar. Unfavorable reports were brought In on the chlroprnrtlc hill and on Mrs, Pnvls's measure which proposes to place the industrial home under the Jurisdiction of the state board of education. edu-cation. An attempt by Seegmiller to move reconsideration of the vote by which House bill No 2, by Mill, pnssed tho house last Monda. was blocked when the chair ruled that such a motion only could be made b l leprcsenfatlvo W bit more, who on Mondny hud given notice that ho would make such a motion. mo-tion. Giving of such notice, it was held, rave control of the bill to the member giving such notice, and tbe measure will remain In the senate f action. HAD SP1 I IALORD1 R Hons,., bill No. 72, by fleegmlllcr. providing for tho creation of a state road commission, which was drastically drastical-ly amended last week, was taken from the calendar and made a special order or-der of business for next Saturday afternoon. af-ternoon. H was reported that sevml engineers wished to be heard on the bin, and, because of this, delay a is sought. The house passed two bills yester-day, yester-day, Nos. 114 and !09, both by Jjou-las. Jjou-las. Tho first provides for punishment punish-ment for unlawful personation SJld the second provides for I'emponsutlon for attorneys appointed by the court to defend impecunious canes. Senate bill No. 33, by tho committee on education, edu-cation, designed to Increase the size of school boards, was badly maltreated maltreat-ed with amendments which reduced the proposed maximum membership of school boards from seven to five. On passage it was rejected, the vote be-Ing be-Ing ayes 17, nays 23. absent 7. Notice i a motion for reconsideration was given and tbo bill held In the house I BIU i BEL! 8 i.' RJBED, Of the forty-eight bills Introduced yesterday, many have already received publicity, Three relate to a proposed change In the statutes on attachment and garnishment; lo giving tho governor gover-nor power to terminate the tenure of office of members of the state board of health, ond to tho proposal to dredge the Jordan river from Ninth North Street to the Ceil Sal Ivil.e |