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Show SENATE AND HOUSE ! AT LOGGERHEADS MEMBERS OF LOWER HOUSE ARE PEEVED AT ACTION OF SENATE IN DELAYING BILLS. Charged That House Measures Are Given Scant Consideration. Senate Approves Measure Postponing Court in Times of Epidemic. Salt Lake City. The senate and house are engaged in the old fight that comes up at every session of the legislature. Members of the house uVchire they have become tired of passing upon senate bills and having its own measures held up in -the upper body and therefore there is a loud and prolonged wail upon the part of members. It was pointed out on March 3 by Representative D. D. McKay that so far this session the house has acted upon twenty-seven senate bills which had been passed ; two had been laid upon the table, four were in the hands of committees, one bad been killed and one, senate bill No. 42, was iost. On the other hand the house, according ac-cording to Representative Miles, had sent fifty-five measures to the senate, twenty-two of which are still in the hands of committees', thirty have been read a first time and three are ou .the calendar. The Utah state senate on March 3 gave its reading calendar the "once over" with the result that all but two bills were taken off and one more was added the "water rights" bill. The bills passed were the Heppler bill, regarding postponement of district dis-trict court terms in times of epidemic ; the judicary committee measure, which would give the larger cities of the state city courts, instead of justices of lhe peace and municipal courts; and the Dern bill, which proposes to raise the salaries of the state land board. |