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Show GLEAR II FOR SENATE ACTION With No Obstructions Legislature Legisla-ture Expected to Close Thursday SALT LAKE. Mar. 7. Survey of the legislation performed by the Utah senate sen-ate to date shows the present session to be practically in the clear, with no obstructions In the way of ending right on time Thursday, the official day for adjournment. Final action has been taken on 112 of the 127 bills Introduced In the senate sen-ate to date, thirty-one being hilled and eichty-one passed to the house. Of the eighty-one received from the tipper K,-or.v, tiift iiniun ii,H i.dleil two. mak ing a total oi thirty-three measures which have met the executioner Eleven Elev-en senate bills are In committee, most of them pigeon-holed as a method of killing, two are on the second reading calendar and I wo on third reading. 2 TO l.l I ED In addition to the two senate bills killed, the house has passed thirty-seven, thirty-seven, leaving' forty-two to be acted on within the next lew days before adjournment. ad-journment. Three Benate bills are In the enrolling enroll-ing and engrossing committee and seven sev-en have been sinned b :he president and sent over 10 the house for the signature of the speaker. out of n, total of twenty-six senate measures sent to the governor for hisl Signature, the executive has signed j I twenty-three, leaving three still awnlt- I Ing his action Fourteen resolutions have been Introduced In-troduced Into the senate during the j present session. Of this total ihe governor gov-ernor has signed seven, threp are still In the house, three were killed and final action was takeu on the remaining remain-ing one, the signature of the governor not being required. ou HOI 5JE IUI, I s House bills to the nuinbei of nlne- !ty-slx Q0.VS been reeelvcd by the upper I body, according to senate figures. 'Eight of the house measures were Iklllcd and flfly-one passed. The senate sen-ate conunlttees have twenty-nine in their possess lot) 1 eleven ;ne on second (reading Calendar to be acted upon, and I five are on third reading. , All senate eommlttees have been in-Struoted in-Struoted to get all bills OUl today. Which marks the deadline for final action on somite measures, onlv house I bills being acted upon from the close of today's session until final adjournment adjourn-ment In fact, tho senate has considered con-sidered house bills for the past week. In marked contrast to the, lower branch, which has considered only bills of Its own sponsoring In an effort to catch up with the houic program. With the exception of tho ngrlcul-turS ngrlcul-turS bills, ill ii the administration senate sen-ate bills haVe been passed and nearly nil of thetfl signed. Among the house Hulls in the senate at the present time are the city commission measure, which Is on second leading calendar and the bills providing for the removal of some of tbe state officers bv the governor al his dlst retlon. 241 iv IK l M In the house 3! bills were introduced intro-duced during the period allowed for Introduction of bills, and two have been Introduced since then iv unanimous unani-mous consent, making the total of bills Introduced in Ibe lower house 24 1 Of this mass of house bills twenty-three twenty-three haVS been passed hy both house and lenati and signed by the governor. Twenty-eight have been passed by both house and senate and are awaiting await-ing the approval of the chief executive exec-utive Fifty house bills have passed the house only nnrl are awaiting seri-ats seri-ats aCtiOf! and this total will be added to today, th last day the bouse may art upon Its own bllle. Sixty-three of the bills that originated In Ihe house have been either killed or withdrawn officially and the remainder seem destined de-stined to expire through failure of the house, sifting committee to repr.r' them out. None Of the ahov eom-putatlons eom-putatlons include memorials or resolutions, reso-lutions, ot which there were about fifteen, fif-teen, in the lower house. |