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Show ANOTHER TWIST TO THE DRYMEASURE PROVISION WOULD GIVE GOVERNOR GOVER-NOR FULL POWER IN PROHIBITS PROHIBI-TS ENFORCEMENT. Committee of Senate Eliminates the Commissioner Feature of Prohibition Prohibi-tion Measure Which Was Objectionable Ob-jectionable to Governor. Salt Lake City. The commerce and industries committee of the senate sen-ate on January 29 decided to eliminate elimin-ate the commissioner feature from the prohibition bill and favor offering the following as a substitute for the commissioner section: "For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act the governor is authorized and empowered to appoint ap-point and employ all necessary assistance as-sistance and to deputize and commission commis-sion any such assistants as special officers, with power to make arrests, seize property, initiate crimincl proceedings, pro-ceedings, or proceedings under the search and seizure or nuisance and abatement provisions and the pro visions for the removal of officers, and to do and perform any and every act. duty or thing in the enforcement hereof wdiich may be done or performed per-formed by any executive, peace or prosecuting officers. And for this purpose the governor may deputize or commission any health, food, hotel or other inspector or any game warden or commissioner or probation officer or any other employee of the state, as well as any other competent compe-tent person or persons. - And any person so deputizes; and commissioned shall, within the time and scope of his commission, exercise all the powers, privileges and duties in the enforcement hereof given by law to any peace executive or prosecuting pros-ecuting officer within the state. Two bills were passed by the senate sen-ate on January 29: Senate Bill No. 31 relates to the purchase and development de-velopment of public parks and playgrounds. play-grounds. Senate Bill No. 41 reduces the bond of the Salt Lake county treasurer. The house passed the title to lot in townsite bill. Laid the public utilities bill on the table for a day. Killed the bill abolishing capital punishment. pun-ishment. Passed the senate memorial urging congress to give the states the right to develop power sites. An antitrust rider was placed on the public utilities bill before it was reported back to the senate by the legislative reference committee on January 29. Opposition to the in clusion of minor industries lea tne committee to insert a provision which the members of the committee believe be-lieve will prevent abuses through the formation of combinations inimical to the interest of the general public. Proposed abolition of capital punishment pun-ishment in this state under the terms of the Bywater bill created a deal of discussion in the lower house. After a debate which ranged from the law of Moses down to the killing of Eugene Eu-gene Allen by Harry Brewer at Bingham Bing-ham two years ago. the house defeated defeat-ed the bil by a vote of 30 to 13. Six new bills were introduced in the senate on January 29 and seven in the house. The lower house of the Utah legislature legis-lature closed the third week of the Twelfth session with a record of eight hcuse bills and three resolutions and memorials passed,, three house bills and four resolutions killed, out of a total of fifty-one bills and twelve resolutions and memorials introduced. In the Utah senate the total of the third week's operations was the introduction in-troduction of twenty-four bills, the passage of nine, the killing of two and the withdrawal of one. A summary of the activities of "the Utah state senate for the first three weeks of the session follows: Senate bills introduced, 65; house bills introduced, intro-duced, 4; senate joint resolutions introduced, in-troduced, 2; house joint resolutions introduced, 1; house Jbifit memorials introduced, 2; house joint memorials introduced. 2; senate resolutions introduced, in-troduced, 2. Senate bills passed. 12; senate bills killed, 2; senate bill tabled, 1; senate sen-ate biil withdrawn, 1; senate bills on calendar, 4 : senate bills consolidated, 1; senate bills in committees, 44; licuse bills in committees, 4; senate I joint reso'.ution passed, 1; senate I joint memorial passed, 1; senate joint memorial in committee. 1; house joint memor al passed, 1; house joint memorial in committee, 1; senate resolutions res-olutions passed. 2. Four new measures were introduced intro-duced in the senate on January 26, bring'ng the total up to 6.". But r,9 I measures had been presented to the house at. the close of business on January 26. A bill designed to regulate "loan sharks" by placing all persons, cor-' cor-' porations and organizations engaged ' in the business of loaning sums of $300 or less under the supervision and control con-trol of the state commissioner of banking has appeared in the house. Governor Bamberger has let it be known that he intends to curb the protests against bills passed by the legislature and sent to the governor to sign. Hearings are usually askr-d on important measures before the governor gov-ernor attaches his signature. Abolishment of county surveyors is proposed in a bill introduced in he house by McKinney of Salt Lake county. With this measure he introduced intro-duced a second bill which gives greater power to the county commissioners commis-sioners in the matter of laying out and opening grades. |