Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-03-04
SITTING PROCESS IN
UTAH LEGISLATURE
MERclLEss SLAUGHTER OF BILLS
EXPECTED WHEN COMMITTEE
GOES INTO ACTION.
Senate and House Flooded with
Measures That viii Probably Never
Receive Consideration at the
Present Session.


before adjournment.
This means that action must be
taken by a sitting committee, IL the
house is to adjourn before fall.
The senate is expected to also ap.
point sitting committee and what
the house sitting committee does not
cast into the discard is likely 10 meet
disaster in the upper body.
The governor on March 1 attached
his signature to seven bills and me-
MORALS that originated in the house
and ten measures were signed by the
speaker and sent to the senate Sew
eral were transmitted 20 the governor
for signature.
Though but three measures were
sent to the house by the state senate
March /, the legislative mill ground
steadily with the result that three
bills were killed and six were passed
on second reading. Including one re-
commitment, nine bills were taken off
the second reading calendar, while
seven were added during the day.
The Southwick bin providing an in
come tax was acted on by the senate
judiciary committee on February %
and was reported out at the afternoon
session of the state senate with some
amendents.
The amendments made by the senate
committee were on three lines-the
IF tn1
duced from the present reading of the
bill, provision was inserted that all
general property taxes may be deduct
ed from income taxes, and the bill was
amended SO that thhe state general
fund may retain enough of the pro-
ceeds of administering the income tax
law to reimburse itself for expenses in
that connection before the remaining
proceeds are divided as per the terms
of the Southwick bill.
The bill as it went to the committee
carried the same exemptions as the
federal income tax, $1,000 for single
men, $1,000 for married men and heads
Of families and $500 for each depend
ent child.
: The senate on February % passed
but one bill down to the house, the
Wood house measure, changing the
time of the annual school census.
Nine measures were finally acted
upon in the house February 2S. Seven
were passed and two were rejected.
AT the same time eight bills were add
ed to the calendar, leaving a net gain
of one for the calendar. 1t seemed
that as fast as two or three bills were
passed, or rejected, the senate would
transmit from five to seven that had
been passed in the upper house. thus
adding To the houses work.
Sixteen senate measures and TWEEN.
ty-three house measures had met with
executive approval on February 20.
The senate memorials which have
been approved are one providing for
Il messenger for the governor; me-
moriaizing congress to increase the
duty on lead; memorializing congress
TO aid in carrying out of the Green.
river project, and memorializing CON
gress to aid in irrigation by increased
appropriations for investigation.
Talk of adjournment is already be-
coming common. Members of the SEN
ate are said to be ready to adjourn on
the sixtieth day, without the consent
Of the house. In the house there's
already talk of either sitting com
mittee, or else of having the house act
as sitting committee by keeping inn
porting bills we'll up to the front OF
the calendar.
The senate has seen the introduce
ton of 1873 measures in all, yet has
passed all but sixty of these down to
the house.
With less than two weeks remaining
of the present session, only seventy
bills and resolutions of the approx
mately $50 introduced in the house
have been passed. by that body.
VThe SOuthwick anti-cigarette bill
passed the lower house of the Utah
legislature on February "a. 1t had
previously been approved by the SEN
ate, and will become law ninety days
from the date the governor signs the
bill.
The bill passed is one making It I'M
lawful to sell cigarettes and cigarette
papers; to advertise cigarettes and
cigarette papers; to permit minors to
smoke in certain places of business
for any person to smoke in certain en-
closed public places.
Five bills, including the antl-clgar-
cite measure, passed the house Feb
ruary "a. No new bills were added to
the calendar. One memorial also
passed and one bill was killed, reduc-
ing the third reading calendar to that
extent. One additional measure was
taken from the calendar and recon-
mitted.
A measure providing for state
bond issue OF $1,500OO0 for the con.
structlon Of state roads, passed the
house on February 20. The bill had
been presented by Representative
Day.