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Show BLAME FOR FUEL SHORTAGE FIXEO RAILROADS, DEALERS AND CONSUMERS CON-SUMERS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR SHORTAGE. Committee of the Legislature Makes Its Report to the Senate Governor Gov-ernor Prods the Lawmakers and More Speed Expected. Salt Lake City. Placing the blame for the recent coal shortage upon the railroads, dealers and the consumers, the committee of the legislature appointed ap-pointed to investigate' the coal shortage short-age in Salt Lake and Ogden practically practical-ly followed the advance reports of the committee with the exception that the report goes into detail. The committee com-mittee on February 26 filed its report with the senate. Twenty-four closely written pages were necessary to present pre-sent the findings of the committee, the 1 testimony on which the findings were based and the remedies which are offered of-fered by the committee to prevent I coal shortage in the future. During the hearings hy the committee coal dealers, consumers, railroad officials and the mining operators were questioned ques-tioned in an effort to determine the causes of the fuel famine. Impressing upon the members of the sifting committees of the house and senate the necessity of the legislature getting down to work and passing party measures, Governor Bamberger carried all his points on February 26 and as a result the house and senate adopted the policy of placing administration adminis-tration measures at the head of the calendar. Taxes and measures regarding re-garding taxation were freely discussed at the meeting of the sifting committees commit-tees and the chief executive. The house on February 26 indorsed the senate's action on the proposed $2,000,000 bond issue for good roads, struck a hefty blow at the loan sharks and disappointed an impressive delegation dele-gation of Ogdenites who were on the scene to hasten action on the $100,000 Ogden world's fair apropriation. Many bills relating to business and courts were passed, each aimed to remedy some defect in the present law. Senator Evans gave notice on February Febru-ary 26 that the last day on which committees com-mittees could report hills to the senate sen-ate had been reached and moved that two days longer be given, as a number of the committees had a number of measures before them which they desired de-sired to go over more fully. The two-day two-day extension for reporting bills was granted. Bills were introduced in the senate repealing the law wmcn created the Utah conservation commission and also the apropriation for the same. The reference committee introduced a bill providing for the creation of the office of state geologist and fixing the salary of the geologist at $5,000 a year. An appropriation for the office 'was also provided in the bill. Salt Lake City. If the corrupt practice prac-tice bill as it passed the' house on j February 23 is approved by the senate, sen-ate, candidates and electors in Utah will still retain a reasonable amount of freedom of action during campaigns cam-paigns and election day. Sections 28, 34 and 35 of the original draft, which j would have hampered the conduct of candidates to such an extent that they would have been dependent entirely en-tirely on personal beauty and psychic influence in forwarding their political aspirations, were eliminated by almost al-most unanimous vote. Obliterating its former action in recalling re-calling the prohibition bill from the governor after it had passed the house and senate, the house on February 23 placed the measure where its supporters believe it above the lash of the highest liquor wave when there was expunged from the journal all reference to Governor Bamberger's suggestion of an amendment amend-ment and the action in returning the bill to the executive office without the alteration of a lueter or punctuation punctua-tion mark. The house" also passed the corrupt practices measures with material amendments that remove it from the category of the impossible. It was execution day in the upper house of the legislature on February 23, and the senate killed every measure meas-ure which was presented to amend the laws of the state. The only measures meas-ures which passed the upper branch were resolutions and memorials which do not affect the compiled laws of Utah. Effort was made on February 23 to override the first veto of a bill by Governor Bamberger wl.en he returned re-turned Senate bill No. 50, by Stevens, to the senate with his disapproval, but those who were determined to pass the bill over his veto failed to carry their point. The governor has come to the aid of the sifting committee and will urge more, speedy action on different measures. meas-ures. The public utilities bill, workmen's work-men's compensation, initiative and referendum and bills affecting taxation taxa-tion are to be the first measures urged for passage. Representative Boyden of Summit county has introduced a measure in the house calling for the creation of a state board of control to supervise and direct the affairs of the state capitol, prison, school for the deaf and blind end industrial school, the mental hospital hos-pital and other public institutions. Although the majority of the judiciary judic-iary committee of the house reported the chiropractic bill unfavorably, the bill will go on the calendar and he discussed dis-cussed on its merits on the floor of the house, as the result of an agreement agree-ment reached. |