| Show HOUSE KNOCKS OUT ONE MAN CONTROL PASSES STATE ROAD commission BILL INDORSED BY GOVERNOR speaker of the house signs cigarette bill and number of other measures income tax bill has close call representative Seeg millers bill cresting a three man state road cou llull slon passed the house on march larch 2 virtually as it came from a conference between governor mabey and who besides being author of 0 the measure Is chairman of oc the house committee on highways proposed amendments which would have made tile the commission a one man affair instead of three were defeated the speaker of the house on march larch 2 signed the antl anti cigarette bill the pen with which lie he signed the measure being given to representative mcshane who in turn will present it to the murdock academy at beaver 1 besides the southwick bill the speaker of the house on march larch 2 signed his bix house and senate bills and transmitted several house measures to the governor for ills his action house members failed to object to the introduction of a substitute bill for house bill no by crook on march larch 2 and the first measure to be introduced since the forty fifth day was wag placed on the calendar the measure designated bouse bill no 2 10 substitutes the bill by crook which would provide for the regulating and distribution of meat for human consumption six bills passed down to the house hoube and two others placed on third reading calendar calep calendar dar was all that the state senate was able to tl accomplish comp on march 2 2 though it worked hard and long the southwick income tax bill passed second reading in the state senate on march 2 winning a bare majority on two roll calls during the debate it was amended so as to present little that could opposition of farmer fanner homo hoine owner or business man who ho might be concerned over the manner in which the bill would affect ills his particular interests forty tour four bills were added to the already crowded third reading calendar of the utah house on march larch 1 making eighty two bills to be handled by the lower house of the legislature before adjournment this means that action mut must be taken by a sitting sifting committee it if the house Is to adjourn before fall the senate is expected to also appoint a sitting sifting committee and what the house sifting committee does not east cast into the discard is likely to mee meet disaster in the upper body the governor on march 1 attached his big signature to seven billt bills and memorials that originated in tile the house slid and teu ten measures were signed by the speaker and sent to the senate several were transmitted to tile the governor for signature I 1 though but three mpa measures were sent to tile the house by the state senate harch 1 the legislative mill ground steadily with the result that three bills were killed and six were passed on second reading including one recommitment nine bills were taken off the second reading calendar while chile seven were added during the day the southwick bill providing an income tax was acted on by the senate judiciary committee on february 28 slid and was aias reported out at the afternoon session of the he state senate with some amendments amen dents the bill as it went ent to the committee tarried the same exemptions as the federal income tax 1000 tor for single men 2000 for married men and heads head of families and for each dependent child the senate on february 28 passed but one bill down to the house the wood house measure changing the time of the annual school census nine measures were finally acted upon in tile the house february 28 seven were passed and two were rejected at the same bame tinie time eight bills were ere added to the calendar leang a net gain of one for the calendar it seemed that as fast ns as two or three bills were passed or rejected the senate would transmit from five to seven that had been passed in the upper house thus adding to the houses work sixteen senate measures 0 and awen ty three house measures had met with executive approval on feb february uary 20 26 the senate memorials which favl been approved are one providing tor for a messenger for the governor me morial izing congress to increase the duty on lead memorializing memorial izing congress to aid in carrying out of tile the green river project and memorializing memorial izing congress to aid in irrigation by increased appropriations for investigation talk of adjournment is already becoming common members of the senate are said to be ready to adjourn on the sixtieth day without the consent of the house in tile the house there Js already talk of either a sifting committee or else of having tile the aliouse act as a sifting committee by keeping importing bills well up to the front of the th calendar with less than two weeks remaining n of the present session only se seventy venti ji bills and resolutions of tho the app r introduced in the house I 1 have been passed by that body vy |
