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Show BILL AMENDED BEFORE PASSING Real Estate Measure Approved By House; 29 to 15 is Vote SALT IAKK, Feb. 9. The Jenkins real estate measure passed the house of ri"-." ii' 'tives yeaterda) with twenty-nine member voting for .nn! fifteen against, one member being excused ex-cused from voting and two being absent ab-sent Several attempts were made to further amend the measure, one of vvimh attempt! was suoceaefui. The amendments that rucceeded was that providing that the license fce ot a real estate broker shall be $20 Instead In-stead of fit, The original amendment would have placed the fee at $5 ILMOSl CNRKCi IGN1Z 1MLJ The bill will be returned to the sen- ,it. iimost nn re cognisable, tor numerous numer-ous ame idmcnta wen- attached to it in the I s,. Moil. I. iv .in.i several of it:. i paragraphs were deleted. S. n.ite bill No. 1. by Tebbs. was the second measure to lake up ihe lime of ihe house. There was not much debate de-bate ov.r tins bin. but Bank Commissioner Commis-sioner N T. Portal explained the objects of the measure. The house went Into the committee of the whole In order to permit the bank commissioner to speak. The bill provides, It was explained, ex-plained, for the suspension and llqui-I llqui-I itlon 01 banks, w hich Is not now pro vide. i for In the statutes, but which the bank commission has been doing In some instances. Mr. Porter said the measure provided pro-vided for reduced expense In liquidation, liquida-tion, that the fees or percentage of a receiver were done away with, and ths liquidation was done by an employee of the commission upon a salary basis, i It also gives the commission an opportunity op-portunity to prevent liquidation when suspension for a brief period might I straighten out a bank's affairs, it was said. The bill passed, ayes 43, absent j 4, but notice was given that a motion for recohsidcratoh w ould be made to-1 iduy. MM s. M y Nine senate bills and one memorial reached the house from the senate yes-terduy. yes-terduy. were given first reading und1 -nt to various COmmlttSSS House landing committees brought In favor-1 abls reports, some with amendments, ill of which reports were udoptcd Tin- bills were given second reading and placed on the lliird reading calen-l dar House bill -No. llu. by Iverson. create the Office of state fire marshal, and defines his powers and duties and' I provides for maintenance of his office. ;Th- bill provides that the commission-1 'cr of Insurant shall bs ex-offlclo state i jfire marshal with no additional com-) penaatlon. Ii would be his duties, according ac-cording to the provisions of the bill. I to enforce all lows regarding the pro-1 ventlon Of fires, storage of explosives and combustibles, suggest construction, 'maintenance and regulation or fire escapes, exits from ill characters of buildings, and to suppress and punish arson and f i ;iu.lulent claims ir. connec- 1 tion with fire losses. The bill provides for the appoint 1 ment of a deputy fire inurshal at a al-ary al-ary not to exceed 12400 annually and defltves his ilnties. The -tate fire I marshal would have Jurisdiction ov. r jcounty or municipal frs marahals, fuv chiefs or constables In the matter of Jflro prevention, and be would make' regulations for the handling of all 1 1 -' flammables, explosives und rubbish! and would regulate the nuking and' sale of fireworks. He also would pass upon the cousin Hop ol all new build-' mc, as to whether or. not they com-! mien iin ure regulation. 8 M l l PHOPI RTY, Representative Sander proposes to amend the existing statutes relating tO sale of property for delinquent , taxes in House bill No. ill The proposed pro-posed amendments arc technical, providing pro-viding that he shall Stats ths .ggre-gate .ggre-gate amount of taxes due on property) enumerated as dclimpi. ot and provid-Sd provid-Sd thai taxes lev ied only on a certain J kind or class of property for a special i purpose shall be separately set out. i h measure was referred lo the coin-1 mlttee on reverent and taxation. VfcBbSne'S bill, giving the governor; pow.-r to terminate the tenure of of-flee of-flee of members ol the public utilities! commission, passed the house yesterday, yester-day, ayes 4' absent The measure. I " ,: l?i been held Up for some time and it came out todav with Ui amendmont which would ollow the governor to dismiss members of this1 commission "If, hi his Judgment. It 1st ; for the best interest of the state.'- and that provision thai ha shall not bs required re-quired tO Klve .,i, reason therefor is! deleted. Representative Winder ex-1 Plained his vdte in favoi ol the bill by' saying that hc hoped it would eventually eventu-ally mean th0 abolishing f the. com-' mission PI PRR8 B1M in DORS! i Al a speciul meeting ..f ti,.- committee commit-tee OH public affans of the t'tah As-1 soclatad industries resterday al tbei office at the association. Senate bill No. JO, by Peters, which provides for he . reation of a department of fl-1 nance and purchase, was unanimously Indorsed. According to a. ' rtees msnnger of th,. association, tpe bill w.- carefully analysed, and experts who have experience with the operation opera-tion of similar measures In other states, were brought in for conaulta- 1 Hon. |