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Show UTAH LEGISLATURE FIHISHESJTS WORK MEMBERS WORK OVERTIME TO COMPLETE THE BUSINESS BEFORE THEM. Session Continued Four Days, Ten Hours and Forty-eight Minutes Over the Time Alloted by Law For Legislative Sessions. Salt Luke City. The thirteenth biennial bi-ennial session of the Utah legislature came to a close at 10:48 o'clock Monday Mon-day night, March 17, at which time the senate ami house adjourned sine die. 15y actual time the thirteenth session, ses-sion, which began on the 13th of January Jan-uary ami officially ended on the 13th of March, continued with stopped clocks just four days, ten hours and forty-eight minutes over the time allotted al-lotted by law for the legislative sessions, ses-sions, but, so far as the records of the legislature show, adjournment came on March 13. Among the most important measures that received the approval , of both houses were the house bill providing for a bond issue of $4,000,000 for state highways and for state co.-operafcion with the federal government in the construction of permanently improved roads in the state. With ibis is the senate bill designating the state system sys-tem of state highways and providing for the expenditure of state and other funds on road improvements. Other prominent measures were the senate bills providing for state co-operation with the federal government in soldier settlement work, to provide farms and homes for returned soldiers. These measures provide for a bond issue is-sue of $1,000,000 to carry on this work in Utah. There is an amendment to the workmen's work-men's compensation act raising the weekly benefits for temporary disability disa-bility from ?12 to $10, and a mine tax measure wbicn provides for tne assessment assess-ment of metalliferous mines on a basis of three times their net proceeds. One of Hi most important bills to the state is the Dern coal lauds leasing act, which retains in the state title to all mineral deposits in state lands and provides for the leasing of such lands, for mining operations on a royalty basis to the state. In the line of education is an act providing .for the establishment of health education throughout the state, witlr a superintendent of this education educa-tion and the placing of school nurses in every public school of the state to guard the health of children and build up their physical bodies. This legislature legis-lature enacted what is known as the Americanization act designed to compel com-pel attendance upon school of foreigners foreign-ers and providing schools in which foreigners for-eigners may be educated into real Americans. Another act is one that provides for part-time schools for the benefit of those unable to attend the regular schools, and raising the age limit of compulsory attendance to IS years. Probably the most important piece of ! educational legislation is the vocational education act enabling the state to cooperate with and receive federal funds and benefits in this new departure depar-ture in lines of education. In a health line the legislature provided pro-vided an act to enable the state to secure federal aid in control and elimination elim-ination "of social diseases, provided for free clinics throughout the state and another act establishes a home for the rehabilitation of fallen women. The legislature also adopted an eight-hour day for working women, enacted a blue sky law for the control of stock promotion to eliminate "wild-catting," "wild-catting," and it enacted an important bill on water rights providing for a general survey and adjudication of the involved and complicated question of water rights throughout the commonwealth. common-wealth. An important law to guard against criminal syndicalism and sabotage was also enacted, along with a law directed against the progress of Bolshevism Bol-shevism and other anarchistic tendencies tenden-cies in the form of an act preventing the display of any flag of disloyalty. The legislators stopped work with the feeling that the thirteenth session, which began on the 13th and officially ended on the 13th of the month, was not an "unlucky" session for the -state in any sense. Users of cigarets were given rather a shock on March 14. when both houses passed the Southwick anti-cigaret bill, the measure being sent back to the house for ratification of minor amendments, amend-ments, where t was killed by a vote of -3 ayes to 14 nays, 10 members being absent. But one vote was lacking lack-ing to secure adoption. Cigaret smokers smok-ers may breathe more freely, as it was at first reported that the measure had passed. Whether the governor would have signed the bill is problematical. problem-atical. ' The report of the sifting committee, submitted to the house just before the recess Sunday evening, left hut four bills on the calendar, one of which was a house bill which proposes to give lite public uril'ties commission greater power. When the sifting committee reported report-ed the house went into an uproar. Those who had bills on the list for killing wanted to move amendments after 1 1 10 motion had been put to adopt the sifting committee's recommendation. recom-mendation. The debate wound up in a free-for-all, with all rules suspended. |