The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-05
Assembly Far Behind
Schedule of Calendar
Only Four Working Days Remain of constitutional
Period of Legislative Work. Provision for Erection
of State Capitol Most Important
Legislation

With only four more working days
Of the present session of the state leg
islature remaining, both houses are far
behind their calendar. 1t IS probable
that the work will not be completed
by next Thursday, the sixtieth calendar
day of the session and the constltu-
tional date of adjournment. However,
as has been the custom, the clocks Will
probably be stopped and the Legislature
will continue for several days beyond
the constitutional date of adjournment.
A week ago both houses were appar-
emily swamped with work and the like
lhood of their completing the work dur
ing the required sixty days was ex.
tremely remote The prompt action of
the house in passing the liquor bill al
most without discussion CHARMED the az
mosphere somewhat. If the reconsld-
Grafton does not involve long debate
and if the governor does not veto the
bill, both houses will have completed
the consideration of the veXat1ous IL
quor problem. which has taken so much
of the time of the session.
Liquor Question Ve4ing.
In session remarkable for the NUM-
| ber of important measures introduced,
| the liquor bill was one Of the most i'm
portant. The bill was drafted after
weeks OF WOrh Dy SDecidl coHlHit'0e
| composed of members of both houses.
| The senate took a week TO consider
| the bill and made many important
| changes in it. The bill was drawn to
meet the requirements Of the Repub
| lican state platform. It's authors free
| ly admit that it failed to do this spe-
cifcally. although they declare that 1t
| is as good a liquor measure as could
| be passed. 1t provided for local option
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| and towns and for counties outside of
| the cities and towns if one-fourth of
the voters petition for such an election.
| The house considered and passed this
measure in few minutes time. This
was considered remarkable from the
fact that it was freely predicted that
the measure would be killed in the
house. 1t is understood that the bill
fails to satisfy the administration,
which preferred another bill, known as
the administration measure, which was
| recommended for passage by the house
judiciary committee. 4 motion to re-
consider the joint committee bill will
| be made in the house Monday. Specu-
lation Is rife as to whether or not
| heart and reconsider the bill, and as
| to whether or not the governor will
| veto the measure.
State Capitol Assured.
Of prime importance to the state is
the bill providing for the issuance OF
$1,000,000 in state bonds for the erec~
tlon of new state capitol, to be built
on Capitol hill in Salt Lake City. The
| bill has passed both houses and has
been signed by the governor. The
work of the construction Of a beautiful
new capitol for Utah will undoubtedly
begin early in the spring.
Another improvement for Salt Lake
City which has been authorized by the
state legislature is the construction of
new administration building for the
state university, at cost OF S300,0 900.
| The state has appropriated $4,000 dur
ing this session for the construction
of a gymnasium for the Utah Agricul-
tural college, The people of Logan are
some building will result The state
university, the Agricultural college
and the branch normal are participants
| In permanent maintenance fund,
amounting to little less than one.
third of the revenue Of the state each
year. The bill authorizing this fund
| has passed both houses.
The so.called anti-railroads bills ap-
pear to be doomed The senate has
killed the railroad commission and the
anti,pass bills. The house has killed
the bill fixing the rates for the trans
portation of coal The only "anti-rail-
road bill remaining to be acted upon
is the senate coal rate bill, which is
still IN the senate committee on rail.
roads,
OF particular Importance TO the peo.
pie Of the larger cities of the state arc
the bills providing for the commission
form of municipal government for
cities of the first and second class.
These bills are still with the committee
on county and municipal corporations.
The committees of both houses on ap-
preparations have already started the
process Of trimming down the proposed
expenditures of the state, in order to
get them within the estimated revenue.
a portion of this work has already been
begun IN the killing of bills calling for
increased appropriations to variou,
state boards 1t IS understood that all
of the measures introduced by country
members providing for appropriations
for roads and bridges in the various
counties of the state will he killed. A
general bill providing for bond issue
of 100000 for the Improvement of
roads and construction of bridges has
already passed the senate. From this
bond issue the various counties, ex-
cept Salt Lake county, are expected to
get their road and bridge money this
year.
Looks Ill for Reapportionment.
The Stookey apportionment bill pro
viding for reapportionmeDt of the
state into representative and sena tor
ial districts in accordance with the fec,
eral census Of 1910 seems doomed to
defeat. 1T came up for passage Satur.
day afternoon and after it had been
crippled by amendments it was allowed
10 rest. It Will come up again on Mon.
day afternoon. The country members
object TO Salt Lake s increase in rep.
resentation as provided by the bill
Several bills providing for increas SCI,
in the boards Of various state iustitu-
tions and making elective officers OF
the state members Of those boards are
now under consideration in the house.
The senate bill by Badger creating
a commission on tariff and revenue to
revise the revenue laws of the state
and to make recommendations to tho
next legislature has passed the senate
and is pnw in the house