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Show CHRISTENSEN HALED BEFQRETHE HOUSE SALT LAKE REPRESENTATIVE EXPLAINS ABSENCE AND IS GIVEN FURTHER TIME. Legislature Getting Down to Business, Two Bills Being Approved by Senate and Three by the House. Representative Parley P. Christen-sen Christen-sen of Salt Lake was arrested on January Jan-uary 25 and haled before the house of representatives. Mr. Christensen had been absent from the sessions of the house for more than a week and on vote of the house the sergeant at arms was directed to bring him in. Mr. Christensen was found in the city and county building. He accompanied accom-panied the sergeant at arms to the chamber and told the speaker he was occupied with some legal business. The speaker then excused him. The following two bills were passed by the senate on January 25: Senate bill No. 2, by Eckersley, appropriating $15,000 for school teachers in districts where the revenue is inadequate. Senate bill No. 33, by Chez, authorizing author-izing county commissioners to make appropriations for farm demonstrators. The bills passed by the house were House bill No. 1, by O'Neil An act providing that Duchesne county shall constitute the Twenty-eighth legislative legisla-tive district. House bill No. 3, by Shields An act to provide against dilatory tactics on appeals from justice courts. . House bill No. S, by Day An act to punish convicts who attempt to escape es-cape from convict road camps. An appropriation of $50,000 for Indian In-dian war veterans is asked in a bill introduced by Senator J. R. Edgheill of Juab county. Ferry's senate bill No. 9, providing for posting in prominent places of advertisements ad-vertisements for bids upon public work in those localities which have no newspapers, went on the calendar of the upper house. The measure was reported back favorably -by the judiciary judi-ciary committee. The house of representatives as a whole will investigate the protest filed on January 2l against the seat of Charles L. Warnick, representative-elect representative-elect from Utah county. The protest was filed by Representative Represen-tative George F. Goodwin, Progressive, Progres-sive, of Salt Lake, who asked that the matter be investigated by the committee on elections. By almost a strict party vote, however, the house decided to vote on the merits of the protest without any preliminary investigation in-vestigation by committee. The Republicans Re-publicans voted solidly against referring refer-ring the contest to the committee on elections, or to a special committee. The protest against the right of Mr. Warnick to sit in the lower house ot the state legislature is based on the allegation that he is not qualified under un-der the terms of the constitution to be a member of the legislature. There were but two new bills presented pre-sented in the senate on January 21, along with two resolutions, while six new measures appeared in the house. A resolution proposing the appointment appoint-ment of a joint committee on revenue and taxation to propose a revision of the revenue laws and a memorial urging congress to construct a government-owned railroad from Denver to Salt Lake through the Uinta basin were introduced in the house. Fifteen bills and one resolution introduced, in-troduced, favorable reports adopted on two bills, acceptance of an invitation to visit the capitol grounds, signing of the pay roll and adjournment constituted con-stituted the work of the senate on January 22. There were committee meetings before and after the session at which various bills were discusseo informally, but action on reports was postponed. Proceedings in the house on January Janu-ary 22 were quiet. One bill and one memorial were introduced. The report re-port of the committee on rules took up the greater part of the session. The rules which governed the tenth session of the legislature were adopted adopt-ed with some minor changes. The second corrupt practices act of the session was introduced January 22 by Senator George Dern. The Dern bill covers the question of cam paign and election methods and procedure, pro-cedure, specifying just what may and may not be done by candidates for nomination and election or theii agents. The senate committee to which was referred the statewide prohibition bill is engaged in consideration of that measure from every angle before reporting re-porting it to the members for final action. The committee will devote most of the week to the bill, hoping by the end of that time to have it in shape for reporting back to the senate. sen-ate. . Several members of the state legislature legis-lature were guests over Sunday of the Cache legislative delegation. They went, to Logan Friday evening and Saturday visited the Agricultural college col-lege of Utah. Many of the members of both houses took advantage of the adjournment to visit their homes. Members of the judiciary commit-tt-e of the senate mulled over the public pub-lic uiiliTies bill and others of the huge pile of bills before it on Jan 1 ary i?:;. v.hen there wa-1 no formal s Men of the upper house. Plumbers must be lieeps- d hy a state board if a bill introdu''d by President. W. Mont. Kerry in the senate sen-ate beeotnes a haw. The bill cr---itr---a state plumbing board and a salaried salar-ied officer to be kno.vn as the st.ite sanitary inspector. His (buy will be to inspect saniia-ion conditions throughout the state. |
