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Show SPEAKER SIGNS CIEARET BILL: Measure Proposed to Ban All Tobacco Goes Into Discard SALT LAKE, March 2. The apeak' er estenla morning signed the SoUtll wick antl-olgaret bin, the tnaasurs being be-ing returned to the senate later In the day. As soon ns the .hill had been signed P pl -esent.it l c Scegmlllcr offered of-fered the bill that had been drawn by llarrv S. Joseph, a former speaker Of the house, which would prohibit all I tobacco in the state, but objecilon was m ule to its Introduction, and the Kan. county representative feeling thai he had kept his promise, discarded the proposed measure- An effort was made to bring House bill No. IIS. by 8. W. Morrison, Jr.. back for consideration, but the motion for reoonsldeoatlbn was froted down However, it gave v W Morrison of Tooele an opportunity to tell hOUBe what he though! of the bill, an opportunity oppor-tunity which he did not receive Tuesday, Tues-day, SIFTING "IM ill I Continuation of the flood Of standing stand-ing Committee reports, was 'he order tffler the morning session goi well under un-der way. and fourteen bills went to the third reading valendar In this manner. man-ner. Their slay on Ihe calendar, however, how-ever, will not bo for long, for at 10 o'clock this morning every house and senate bill in the house whether In committee or on the calendar, goes to the sifimg committee, and their future depends upon this committee entlr I) The silting committee comprises Pep-resontatlvea Pep-resontatlvea Day, Knight, Henderson. Kcrs and Douglas, and It began its work on bills yesterday afternoon, working while the house was In set-slon set-slon I if the bills that were placed on the calendar yesterday several had unfavorable reports. ;md they were killed during the afternoon session when motions to adopt the unfavorable unfavor-able reports w-re passed. Fifteen bills were thud killed, one being reinstated later. Two of the measures reported had hoth favorable and unfavorable reports re-ports attached, and they wen! t(, the calendar In that condition However, they will be further sifted by th sifting committee. BIX o i n l 5IGXI it. Besides the Southwlck bill. lh speaker signed six house and senate bills and transmitted several house measures to the governor tor his action- One bill which came in from the senate was referred directly to the si ft ing i om m in c-e Debate on bills from now on will he limited to five minutes for each speaker on his first speech and two minutes on the second, and no member mem-ber will be permitted to waive his time to a speaker, according to an amini-ir.cn amini-ir.cn t to the nibs .-idopri-d cst.r..i Authors Of measures would be permitted permit-ted five minutes In which to close ADM STISTR TI BILLS. As soon as the bills having unfavorable unfav-orable reports had been disposed of administration bills were placed at the head of the calendar, and seven senate bills articulating thai many departments depart-ments with the new department of registration were passed. There were no negative Notes casl against any of these meaSUn B House bill No. by McShane, an administration measure ! giving tho governor power to terminate termin-ate the tenuro Of office of the state engineer, met4 with some opposition, however, but it also passed without a negative ote ayes 34. absent 13. House bill No. H, by Calllster, relating re-lating to the state industrial commission, commis-sion, met with an unlooked for opposition oppo-sition Representative Douglas opposing oppos-ing the bill, declaring It was taking a step too far ahead. He declared the bill would place the industrial com-mission com-mission in politics, and would give the incoming governor power to throw out experienced men and place In their I Stead men of his own political faith. ( ECRTAtti HARMON) Speaker Calllster declared that the Democrats had done the verj Same thing four vears ;:go, and said that he had sufficient confidence In Governor Mahey to guarantee that the industrial I commission would not be thrown Into politics, and that the majority of the commission would be in harmony with the administration The final vote was ayes 35. nays 5. absent 7. Two public health commUtee bills passed at j o'clock, and there being no disposition to adjourn, three additional senate measures were placed at the head of the calendar and passed. All wero by l'eters. and refer to special Improvement Improve-ment districts and bond sand guarantee guaran-tee funds. i When the house convenes today It will have before it onlj what the sift-,ing sift-,ing committee has managed to bring j"ut of the chaotic condition it has found, and also some senate measures thar may conic over from the uppei house. These senate bills, how . . will have to first pass through the ha nds of ih- Billing committee , The conjoint agriculture committee of ihe house ami senate will hold ' llieelinir at S oYll.ck tolllKllI in the Hotel Utah fop the purpose of discussing discuss-ing the three gdmlnlstratlon measures I proposing the organization of the state department of agriculture The bills I were Introduced In ihe senate last w eek. BOND "til l. The $1,500.0011 bund bill I fore the legislature, which ivac introduced by ' Representative WUford Day, In response re-sponse to a request from Governor Charles R. Mabcy, will be seriously amended In the state senate. If a report re-port on which the senate Judiciary committee decided yeaterday receives fa orable action. As the bill came from the house, where It was passed under suspension of the rules. It provides that tho utaie motor vehicle fund should provide the interest and sinking fund for the 'proposed bond Issue, but of the proceeds pro-ceeds of the sales of the bonds only $1. 000. 000 was o go to the building of state roads, or their Improvement, while $600,000 was to go to tho pa Ing off of various deficits in the general gen-eral fund resulting from the period of heavy expenses through which the state has Just passed. oo |