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Show ANTI-SNJUNGTION BILL ISAPPROVED MEASURE IS OF SPECIAL INTEREST INTER-EST IN CASE OF LABOR DISPUTES. Provides That No Injunction Shall Issue Is-sue Unless it is Apparent That Irreparable Injury is About to be Done. Salt Lake City. The anti-injunction bill was passed by the house on January 30, by a vote of 42 to 2. The bill provides that no injunction shall issue on a labor dispute unless it is apparent that irreparable injury is about to be done and that any one cited for contempt of court where the alleged contempt was not committed in the presence of the court, shall not be convicted without a trial by jury. Two other measures approved were S. B. No. 27, by Olson, providing that corporations shall furnish the attorney attor-ney .general with a list of their stockholders stock-holders for inheritance tax purposes; and H. B. No. 2S, by Southwick, providing pro-viding for the definition of discrimination discrim-ination in buying and selling of dairy products. In the senate on January 30 a bill was passed increasing the salary of the city auditor in cities of the first class and decreasing the salary of the mayor, commissioner and auditor in cities of the second class. Another measure approved by the senate was the bill creating a Mormon battalion commission and appropriating appropriat-ing $100 for the construction of a monument. mon-ument. McKinney of Salt Lake on January 30 introduced his "recall" bill, which gives any taxpayer in the state the right to file with the district court an affidavit alleging that any officer within with-in the jurisdiction of the court has been found guilty of knowingly charging charg-ing and collecting illegal fees for services ser-vices or has refused or neglected to perform the duties of his office, and when such affidavit is filed a trial must be had. Ah appropriation of $56,000 is asked by Williams of Emery in a bill introduced intro-duced in the lower house to enable the state board of education to create two colonies throughout the state for the care and the training o the feebleminded. feeble-minded. The senate commerce and industry committee, to which -was consigned the Young state-wide prohibition bill, went on record officially on January 30 as being against the creation of a commissioner of prohibition to supervise super-vise enforcement of the contemplated law. The committee reported the bill to the senate favorably, but minus the commission feature. Salt Lake City If the bill which was introduced in the house on January Jan-uary 26 by Representative Thomas P. Page of Salt Lake county becomes law an income tax will have to be paid by every adult resident of the state who has an annual net income of more than $4,000, by every adult non-resident who derives more than $4,000 net income from interests within the state and every resident and non-resident corporation doing business within the state. Under the bill every adult unmarried unmar-ried resident of the state who has a net income of more than $3,000 a year is required to pay the tax; every married adult res'dent with an income in-come of more than $4,000 a year must pay the tax, and the same rule applies ap-plies to married and unmarried nonresidents non-residents who derive incomes from interests within the state. A record in legislation was established estab-lished by the house of representatives on January 26 by the passage of four bills. -Six new bills and one jo'nt memorial me-morial were introduced and referred to committee, and three bills pussed by the senate were received and referred re-ferred to committee. Some highly important proposed legislation was introduced and the session was a busy one. The house named a special committee to confer with a similar committee of the senate sen-ate to arrange for a trip to Ogden to visit the state institutions there at an early date, and then adjourned until Monday at 2 p. m. Opposition of country members of the senate to the apportionment measure provid:ng for more senatorial and representative districts and a re-survey re-survey of district lines caused Senator Sen-ator Dern. author of the measure, to move its recommitment to the committee com-mittee on public affairs, where the bill will practically be redrafted and concessions made to the members from outlying count'es. Bills were passed by the senate on January 26 relating to oosis on appeal; ap-peal; exempting certain citizens from jury duty; and authorizing the revision re-vision and reprinting of Utah statutes. stat-utes. Utah towns will be given the right to levy a special tax not to exceed 4 mills on the dollar for layout, construction, con-struction, opening and keeping in repair re-pair of water lines or canals for irrigation irri-gation or other purposes if the bill introduced in the house by Cardon of Cache becomes a law. Employees of sugar, cement, gas, powder, brick, steel and flour mills and shops connected with mines or smelters will be given an eight-hour day, if the bill introduced in the house by Southwick of Utah county becomes a law. |