Show 01 L PASSED BY HOUSE rhe COFFIN NAIL TO HAVE SAME STANDING AS BOOZE IN STATE OF UTAH measure makes it unlawful to sell or f advertise cigarettes or cigarette papers or to smoke in public places the ali Soud antl anti cigarette olgarette bill passed the foby house of the utah legislature legi lature on oil february 24 it bud bill previously been approved by the senate ate and will become a law ninety days from tile the late date lie hie governor signs the ille bill adjournment followed the passage of tile the bill for so many members left the hall of the house for a smoke that a quorum was lucking jacking the bill passed Is one making it unlawful to sell cigarettes anil and cigarette papers to advertise cigarettes and cigarette papers to permit minors to smoke in certain places of bu business inea for any person to smoke in certain enclosed public places five bills including the a anti elgar cigar ette measure passed the house hous e february 24 no new bills were added to the calendar one demor memorial hl also passed and one bill was killed reducing the third reading calendar to that extent one additional measure was taken from the calendar and bitted thirty four rol calls punctuated ifa ted uie the sessions of the utah state senate on february 24 As a result it was aas found that the senate had taken final action on fourteen bills and had passed twenty two from the second reading calendar to the third representative parker of cache county introduced a bill in the lower house of the utah legislature on february 23 which should it become a law would prevent amusements of liny any kind within the state on sunday the bill is designed to prohibit any manner mander of entertainment exhibition or amusement on oil sundays and to prevent at fill all times the showing of any motion picture iu in which there Is cigarette smoking under its provisions sunday baseball and all other exhibitions and amusements are prohibited tile the blue sunday feature of the bill is the roost most sue sweeping and drastic oi of the kind ever proposed in the state theatre owners and other amusement officials fici als declare that it if the measure Is adopted it will result in th the e closing clodin of all motion picture and vaudeville theatres theartres the atres in the state as well as the ruin of owners of baseball franchises an avalanche of last minute bills descended upon the house of representatives senta tives on february 23 the last day of the session for introduction of 0 measures except by unanimous consent or suspension of the rules forty eight bills and one memorial were introduced trod tile the latter passing both the house and senate under suspension 0 of the rules the alie memorial asks that congress take out of the amended transportation act the provisions threatening control by the states of intrastate Intro state rates of public utilities the senate passed the teachers pension bill after much debated debate and explanation taxation of oil produced in the state of utah Is provided ded for in a bill introduced in the house of representatives february 23 by james D thorne of utah county for expenses of the international soil oil products exposition to be held in salt lake this year representative day has bas introduced a bill providing for an appropriation of representative proposed income tax bill was introduced february 23 and with it a 8 companion measure designed to repeal any possible conflicting statutes the thorne bill provides that in addition to the normal property tax there shall be levied a normal tax of 2 per cent upon the net income of every person in the state the house passed two bills february 9 23 3 nos and both by douglas the first provides for punishment tor for unlawful and the second provides for compensation for attorneys appointed by tile the court to defend in impecunious cases figures would seem t to indicate that the utah ats state te senate Is rather closer up to its work of the present session than is me llie house of representatives but with the flood of bills that lia has been introduced in both houses in the last two weeks there Is now every indication di that either the legislative clock will stop or else there will be a 0 wholesale eside use of the guillotine about march 10 of the glea measures senate bills and thirteen senate resolutions or memorials introduced prior to february 23 the senate has taken final action on sixty abree the lower house of 0 the utah legislature ou february 21 passed the measure increasing motor car licenses fees and limiting vehicle loads load on the paved highways of the state the author ot of the measure representative said that it was anticipated that it would increase the motor vehicle lice license fise receipts to ame some extent this year but nothing in comparison to what the increase would be next dext year when every car owner would be required I 1 to pay the higher fees it was expected he suit said 1 to add approximately to the annual revenues |