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Show SENATE KEEPS ' CLOSE TO WORK Upper House Members Show More Action Than Representatives Rep-resentatives SALT LAKE, Feb. 23 -it i, now ndl-'-.'.t-l that i ,t. ,.Bislatlve rk will either "top or bJbc n,e,0 will be :t wholosille use of th.. guillotine Marcji (0 Bigures Indl-iti Indl-iti ih.ii the i'tm .-iiHtc Is rather closer "l to lis work of lh prcseiu ,..M.n in. n ; in thr house Of I cpresentotives ' ,; l(" measures, l." senate bills I and thirteen senate resolutions or mejnor i lals Introduced during the present session, ses-sion, the senate has taken finnl action on , n.o'. ',h" ' Sf reaolutlon did not re. QUIrt house action; fourteen ecnRtc billa ana one resolution were killed in th cnate, and forty senot.; bills and seven engte resolutions were sent over to the JHu' r.h,!? '"vB seventy measures "lx hills mid foiu resolutions .-.till I iSLt iJ?0!4 -uPn- The proportion of ora to be dom during the roraatulng jquarie,- 0( tbe logUlatlv. esslon thi, ocins the fbrtj fifth day) indicated iv the act, that of the nioojure.o .dn remabi I nc in the senate. fort five I-Ills aV.I solutions Hie m, p, the hands , or standing committees sixteen hills .-n.l one resolution arc n the second ie.;dint; - t-dMi. and fi,. aenate bills ar- on ih-UUra ih-UUra reading calendar and will in nil I prohnblllty. he safely assigned to thc i noose committees t-v tnig;ii MANY GO TQ HOUSE Thus ahout thirt.v-flve per cent of the nut-- in. anres alt. a. I- , r, , , ,.,, h , , , h,,.e .been sent to the house and alioui half as many more will probably be Btitlt over to the boilSe this WCek. since III.' senUte should he able (hiring the present week to et IhroiifTh Hi. hsl of I. Ilia iivvn on , inr aecond readlpK calendar. The house, with more thsn 200 rasa-1 ! urea introduced, of w hich 191 are bills I hss sent over to the senate In tlni.j to , DO received in that arm of th. legislate.)', i at its last session a totnl of foi 1 1 eight I mcasurea of which thirty-nine were bills i and nine were resolutions or memories. There are a few bills that have DAsaed the house. In Mondaj s session of the lat-! lat-! ter body, but have not et been received i In thc- senate However, tho house hss ! sent oer less than o0 per cent of its mas SUres, us anitinst thc 26 per c ent of sen i .'. me.iMlle.s ec.-jed in th.' Iioiix Mel the house la still Introducing bills, . process pro-cess which, according lo senate n.l. :, stopped in that ami of the legislature last Fridaj THIRTY FOUR RETURNED or the flftj eight house pleasures re-celved re-celved in the senate so far. thirty-four have been returned to the house, one de- ' teaie.i. an.l the others with Die senates approval Of the fort) s. ven senale m.-H lures sent lo the bouse, that bodv has i etu rned pnlj nineteen, oi srhtch on. also was in headless condition, while the others oth-ers hud been passed by tbe house. Thus. j in spite of the lorxei number of house bills sent to the senate, the senate La only twenty. three house hills and pne I house resolution hi the senate, whiie the l"ii".- now has twent six -a-nato bills and two aenate resolutions awui'.ing its uctlon. This would seem to indicate that the senate is treating house measures with a consideration and attention that Is not entirely reciprocated in the house. FIVE DAYS AVERAGE The senate committees as a whole are ke.-ping Close Up to their work The ret ords snow forty five senate hills, three , hills and one house resolution in senate committees, a total of sixty-ssyen measures. mea-sures. Bui of these a considerable number num-ber will be reported out this morning as a result of committee meetings Monday, Mon-day, while a few have been' retained In committee for periods longer than al-I al-I lowed by the rules on account of special I Circumstances. The average lime spent ; by a bill in senate committee so far this ion has probably been not more than fic davp. The senate Judiciary' pmmlttce has been the busicrt of the present session, and now has before It sixteen senate I measures and five house measures, but la large number of these an- heim. n 1 tHirleil out this i nlrr Th.. nniniiltt e 'on education has aui senate bill and Lj .house hills before it for consideration: the committee on public affairs Ins eight senate hills hut no house measures pend mg. The committee on public health and 'labor has under consideration six senate measures, and that on enunerCS and In dustry five senate measures and two house measures, of which four bills, at least will be reported out toda CALENDARS GROW. Th- :-ciiate calendars show ten bills on third reading, of which probablv all 'will he either in tbe r.ouse or dead by tonight, while on thc second reading cal endar there are seventeen s.nat- mea sures and five house measures, a lotal of tWOnty-tWO. With the speed set during dur-ing last week and with morning and aft ernoon session.-", the senate should have ibis h- pitted h about Friday of this week. With Iho ei cption of the two hills at the head of the calendar the medical examiners bill and the bouse bill to provide for an edticallonul co-ordl nation Uiartl th. n- ate I. v. measures on Die list that are liable to provoke pro longed discussion. There nie -.till BOmS measure.. In the senate that aie liable to consume considerable time in their dls cussion. but these arc not yet out of com mlttee. , , The fmiv fifth daj t.f the sesalon finds in.- agricultural department hill sUll swuiling introduction. This however Is the only group of so-called adminlstrs tlon measures that has not alreadS made such progress as to be assured of passage pass-age at the present session. |