Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-02-25
LAST QUARTER OF LEGISLATIVE
SESSION OPENS WITH FLOOD
OF MEASURES.
Being Predicted That Members Of
Utah Legislature Will Be Forced
to Work Overtime in'order to
Act on All Bills.

last TWO weeks there is now every in
dication that either the legislative
clock will stop or else there will be
wholesale use of the guillotine about
March 10.
OF the 1873 measures, 100 senate bills
and thirteen senate resolutions or me-
MORALS introduced prior to February
%, the senate has taken final action
on sixty-three.
One resolution did not require house
action; fourteen senate bills and one
resolution were killed in the senate,
and forty senate bills and seven SEN
ate resolutions were sent over to the
house. This left seventy measures,
sixty-six bills and four resolutions,
still to be acted upon.
The house, with more than 200 meas
ures introduced, of which 191 are bills,
had sent over to the senate In time to
be received in that arm of the legis-
lature at it's last session total of
forty-eight measures, of which thirty
nine were bills and nine were resolu-
tons or memorials.
hoiN huy Va tht SCSSlpil
found the agricultural department bill
still awaiting introduction. This, how
ever, is the only group of so-called adj
ministration measures that has not al
ready made such progress as to be as
sured OF passage at the present ses-
sion.
Under date of February %, Cover
nor Mabey attached his signature to
ten measures and one memorial which
| have passed the senate and house.
The lower house of the Utah legisla-
ture on February 81 passed the meas.
ure increasing motor car licenses fees
and limiting vehicle loads on the paved
| highways of the state. The author of
the measure, Representative Seegml-
Ter, said that it was anticipated that
IL would increase the motor vehicle
license receipts to some extent this
year, but nothing in comparison to
what The increase would be next year,
when every ear owner would be re-
| quired 20 pay the higher fees. 1t was
expected, he said, TO add approximate
! y 100000 to the annual revenues of
the state.
A measure has been presented by
s. w. Morrison which provides that
amy voluntary association of seven or
more members may sue and be sued in
the name of the association. and that
service of process upon any officer,
manager or managing agent of such
association Shall constitute service
! upon the association. The bill would
make any organization, especially
labor unions, liable for suit, and IL
would, according to its language make
the members liable also.
The Southwlck income tax measure
was the subject of lengthy debate dur
ing hearing before the committee, the
measure being declared impractical by
! some of those who appeared before the
committee.
Representative Day has introduced a
| new bin providing for examining and
regulating Of chiropractors. The new
measure varies only slightly from the
| original b.ll for such purpose, intro
| duced by Day.
ness of production and sale of imita-
ton milk is to be made Representative
| Parker having introduced bill for
that purpose. Two years ago such a
measure appeared in the legislature,
but II failed of .enaction.
Representative Clawson has intro
duced bill to increase the hours of
I.,l. F.s alA hnIY "a
than the Quincy bill killed in the
senate last week, for 1t would increase
| the working day from eight to- eight
and one-half hours, and 1t would delete
| that provision I'm the existing statute
which would provide that more than
eight hours may he worked sin eases
of emergency where life or property
Is In imminent danger"
Governor Mabey's proposal for a
state bond issue of 81, SOC, 600 for state
road purposes, took concrete form on
February 10 in the shape OF a bill
providing for such an Indebtedness.
The measure was introduced in the
house by Representative Day. The
hin would authorize the state land
commission to provide for and negoti-
ate as needed for the purposes OF the
measure, loans aggregatlng S1500,000
the bends to bear rate of interest to
be fixed by the land board, but not to
exceed 5Aa per cent.
AS u companion bill TO the proposed
road bond issue, Representative Day
introduced a bill which would repeal
the action OF the legislature Of 1919,
which called for bond issue OF ST.
900 for the Urah soldier settlement
fund. The measure simply provides
for the repeal Of the solder settlement
act.
When the state senate adjourned
Saturday, IT was with the understand.
Ing that the senator's would not NEE
again until Wednesday morning. The
members of the house decided 20 M
session on Monday.