Show SEVENTEEN BILLS PASSED BY senaid UTAH LAWMAKERS GETTING DECKS DECK CLEARED FOR IMPORT ANT PARTY MEASURES f fraudulent advertising and M mormon ormon battalion bills are approve approved e house kills free employment bureau bill salt lake city the senate on february 19 began to clear the decks for cor important party measures measured yet to rome come with a view to chosvig closing the legislative factory on time the regular afternoon session which lasted until nearly 6 was not elou enough gh io eo the solons scions met again at and threshed bills tor for another three hours and 4 a half the net result of the days activities was the removal of twenty bills from the senate calendar of this number seventeen were passed two were killed and one withdrawn the standing committees were active however and fifteen bills were offered to take the plates places of those remove atrom the calendar outside of the passing of the mormon battalion and fraudulent advertising bills the measures acted upon yesterday pertained to minor changes in existing statutes and appropriations tor for the ensuing blenn lum iuni the fraudulent advertising billias bill was passed unanimously after the senators senator S had satisfied themselves that there was n nothing in the measure which would affect newspapers pad and periodicals accepting advertising unless they had ad a knowledge that it was of 1 a fraudulent iia nature ture McKin mckinneys bill providing for recall of elected city officials was passed by the house on february 19 alter after an n unsuccessful effort had been made to amend it by making it apply only to cities of the first and second class by close margin the house killed the bill by williams providing tor for establishment lish ment and operation by the state ot of tree free employment bureaus in salt lake and ogden mckays bill providing for cr creation eatton of a state department of agriculture and consolidating into it all state departments part ments having anything to do with agriculture was killed an antl anti cigarette bill was introduced in the house by Represent representative aUve edward southwick of utah county de signed to absolutely prohibit the sale of at cigarettes in iii the state of utah salt lake city the senate on february 17 passed packed the public utilities measure tout but the bill as it was was finally approved would hardly haac been recognized by its 0 original rigl n ai ipha pon sors the measure passed Is minus the maximum freight rate and length of trains limit provisions and many other innovations proposed by the steering committee along with the mail maximum murn freight rate section there was dropped cropped the provision that employees of corporations furnishing the commission information should not be discharged A paragraph also was substituted which gives the governor the power to remove any member of the commission without the sanction of the senate and about a dozen other amendments were adopted which were intended to strengthen in some borne places and in others to make the bill more fairand fair and conservative it is understood that an effort will be made in the lower house to pass the bill practically as it came from the senate three other bills were passed by the senate and tour four new measures were introduced speaker tolton opened the mornings session of the house on february 17 by scolding the members tor for delaying legislation and urging the adoption of a rule whereby no one could speak on a bill more than flye five minutes nor on an amendment more than three minutes bills were passed by the house on february 17 authorizing state board of health toj pass on qualifications of embalmers chang changing ng assessment dates basing freight rates on destination weights requiring that bulls on range fange be registered ed regulating making of appropriations py by legisla legislature tuie house goncu concurred in senate amendment overlooked overlooked when bill was passed a short time ago providing for registration of trained nurses salt lake city the lower house of the utah legislature will run two calendars instead of one from now on administration and executive measures the passage of which was promised in campaign days will have a special exclusive autocratic calendar of oc their their very own the new mo move ve Is designed to put all distinctly democratic party bills in the clear and thus to render them lesa lem liable to accident than they would be as cars in the overlong train of the general calendar this was decided on at the session of february 15 representative boyden of summit county has introduced a measure in the the creation of a state board of c contralto olto supervise and the affairs of the ibe state capitol prison school for the deaf and blind an fn end d industrial school tle the mental menta I 1 hoax hoa 1 pital and other public institutions although the majo majority rity of the judie judic ary committee odthe oil tho house re reported ported the chiropractor bill unfavorably the bill will go on the calendar and be q ds cussed on its merits on on the floor of the house as the result of an n agreement reached |