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Show SENATE APPLIES j AX WITH VIGDR Ten Bills Killed. Including Dern's Income Tax Measure SALT LAKK. March 4. Passage of one I measure to the house, passage of .ern measures on second rending and the kill- i Ing of ten bills was the work aceoitt-J pllshed esterda hv the L'tah srniii i if ' th ten bills Killed several were return i el to the hounr headless Ono of the "dead" nieasites the Ih-come Ih-come tax bill, Is not yet dead, but it Is j comatose ami In a hail wsv Another has alrsad) hoen i ., . . and realor- ed to Its place on the second reading al-endai. al-endai. a senator who had killed n bo; Inc he had misunderstood Its intent AXE APPLIED Of the bills killed, perhaps ih most 8titbmar action was taken with Benate hill NO 100. hy Senator i.eorg.- 11 I i n. j This was a bill that proposed to amend the law with lefcaicj to reciprocal Insut-j ance and Ihttrlnsurtiiice cOhttkcTa, which had been passed two e.irs ago. The bill' wan prepared b Ruion 8. Wells, stale Insurance commissioner. Mi 1 c r i , . .-! plained yesterday, I ut had aroused mu h opposition, and Inasmihih as the coinnn'-j 1. 1 had reported tbi idii ud reel) after hearing, he moved lo aceepl Int comrhlt-I tee rejiort. The motion carried unanl-1 mously, and the hill s aa killed. The M-n- ! ate usually permits ft bill to remain on j the calendar at U-ast one dn before finally final-ly applying riiiut Ihe a ot the chlbro-torm chlbro-torm when the committee reports adversely. ad-versely. The summary execu,U0h administered by the nan i.aKc semitoi yesterday was I a r.eiiuel to n hearing held irh r m i morning before the comnterci and Indu -ltj committee, wherein the effect ol the bill . ns gone into in some detail, several representatives of concern" whli h enrrj this form of Insurance -vlrtunll a inn - tuol Insurance without the formal mutual organization being present ANOTHER GOES The Thome house bill, relating lo 111 sale of Infected fruit, was nnothi i i" ' which the ax was applied iulckl. the I. Ill n,.t hsiln.. Ir.nr l,e.r In Ihe annate Senator Sman, cnairman oi the agricultural agricul-tural committee, explained that the opposition oppo-sition tu the bill from tboye having the 4 interests of the fruitgrower at heart was to the eliect thai la would undo much that had been done through long struK'- gle In the last few years. There vuf. no One to apologise for ihe measure, and Its existence was ruthlessly cut ttibrl Representative O. F. lcShanea measure mea-sure with regard iv juvenile courts per-mltllng per-mltllng Incarceration of c?rlftia dclln- luents in Juvenile wards for ten days -i a maximum, was almosl as frlenuleSf Senator jonca. noting thai the author was experienced In juvenile court work, ;mi thai the senators should wall until the chairman of the Judiciary committer had consulted the author as jo the purpose cl the measure The senutors were imu-tlcnt, imu-tlcnt, however, and a motion by ir- nao r Soumwlck applied ihe ax. striking tile enacting clause. ALL CONFUSED AGAIN The saint leltatOt took similar actltin wt'h regard to n senate committee bill which had proposed m solve me court dlf liciiltles of the Fourtn and Bevenih judicial districts t (aning i In tan and Ouoheane counties from tin Kuurm and placing them In tin- Seventh district, and giving tht latter noi juugc intii-ad u ihe present one. The net result oi tin- killing oi the senate bill Was thai a -hup- I poseniy happy aOlUtlbn U the senate jn-nitlarv jn-nitlarv committee vii all confused again. When it was proposed " defer action until Monday on tin V hlttnore Mil, v. he h gives the Seventh dlstrh t two judgi Senator David Jenson asked, rather In-iiignantiy, In-iiignantiy, if it was proposed to recommit the bill "aRnin The committee has ha I the bill Leti rc It thrie or lour times dui - , IhR ihe present session, ami each Unite I it has held protracted hearings us iu j croWaod conditions -! coun calendars in ihe two dlstlrcts. The Wliltmorc bill, j however, i einains on the calendar unill Moada) Closing minutes of the afternoon wete I deVoted to a consideration oi Uie Siei;-inlller Siei;-inlller bill, rnlslnt the auiomohih I .. . rates and limiting loads that may oe carried, and prescribing other regulations. The bill waa amended in several partb U-l U-l lars. In accord with the Ideas of the ln-termountatln ln-termountatln Automotive Dealers asso- I elation, ii now i,.rinu. a maximum I eleven tons as n load Instead nl ten. t'-. trailers. Instead of one. and becomes effective ef-fective April 1, instead of on approval, In this condition the bill was passed. Much of the day waa spent In routine work and steady calling of the roll or reading of bill, the storv of which 1? told In the lengthy senate summary ftl th I day. INCOME TAX BILL. The Southwlck Income tax bill eter-ttaj eter-ttaj was defeated 4n the state senate on final pa-ssagc through lack of the constitutional con-stitutional majority, which in n s.n.it. of eighteen members requires ten votes. The bill had nine votea In lis favor on roll call on llie third reading lo seven against, while Senator Khzaueth llu-ward llu-ward .was absent on account ol lllni j Senator J. W. Peters was temporarllj absent. I'luns for refunding theso-called "defl-I "defl-I clto" of the state of I tun iovk fcnother turn vesierday afternoon when the senate sen-ate Judiciary committee reported baek House bill No 178, by Dav . with amendments, amend-ments, and also a new bill, which proposes pro-poses to raise $500,000 by the sale ..f . per cent bonds, tax frre The new bill is fathered ly the Judiciary committee and Is known as Senate bill No. 12G. The Day biU la Introduced and as H passed the house with but one tUsBcnilng vote, called for the issuance of $1,600.-000 $1,600.-000 In taate bonds, of which $1,000,000 waa to be used In completing contracts for the construction of Improvement "f state roads, already entered Into. The remaining $600,000 was to be uaed In rr- funding the state general fund's Indebtedness, Indebt-edness, thereby placing the fund on ! something more nearl approaching a cash basis than has been possible now for some years EXCITEMENT THREATENED Kor a few minuter during the morning session of the senate vesterday there threatened to he a lit 1 1 excitement II tamo when Senator I T. Jones n K d Senator Edward Southvvick the meaning of seciion 2 in the cooperative farm marketing hill, then nndi r di secono reading The section refSrTod iu reads No association organized hereunder shall he deemed to be a combination In restraint of trade, or an Illegal monopoly, or an attempt to leosen competition or fix prices arbltrarib : nor shall the marketing mar-keting contracts or agreements between the association and Its members. OT an I agreements authorized In this SCI I" ! I considered Illegal or In restraint ol I trade." Senator -Southwlk replied that the section meant that individuals could nut I organize monopolies Senator Jones w;i.'. apparent!) not gat-I I Isflod with the axolanatlon. and moved i to strike the section, and thereby no brought a more vigorous plea for the I section from the 1 tah county author. Senator Soulhwtok said that If the notion no-tion carried It would stop one of the proposed functions of the farm marki I -Ing organizations, which mi td enable farm, i i to h., 1 their grain in case lin y suspected market manipulation and to obtain money on warehouse receipts for farm prodie t.-. lb aserUd that the ,-, -tlon did not apply to anyone hut the members of the association themselves. Senator Jones thought that whether an agreement was Illegal or not COUlfl safely be left to the courts to decide. It was at least unusual to attempt to forestall a court decision In this manner, and he doubted whether the section would hold Its valldltv in the courts. |
