Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-02-04
UTAH LEGISLATURE
AIDS RAILROADS
APPOINTMENT OF POLICE BY
GOVERNOR AUTHORIZED BY
THE LOWER HOUSE.
Also Approves Plan to Permit County
Commissioners TO Borrow Money
At Ratio Higher Than
Seven Per Cent.

For the first time since the begin
ming of the present legislature the
house of representatives on February
failed to clear its third reading calen-
dur. adjourning at o'clock with four
bills awaiting passage. The house
failed to reach these measures on third
reading because of the lengthy argu-
rlents for and against House bill No.
|, by :. W. Morrison, Jr., which would
authorize .he governor to appoint state
railroad police. The measure was fin
ally passed with twenty-five ayes,
fourteen nays, seven members being
absent and one being excused from
voting.
The house OH February | concurred
In senate amendments to House bill
No. 4, by lvers, which would give the
county commissioners of any county,
but which was introduced for the bene-
1T of Salt Lake county In particular,
authority to borrow money at rate
higher than per cent.
When the senate on February got
through working the cogs of the legls-
the advancement of bills, 1t was found
that 1t had placed seventeen bills on
the second reading calendar, had adj
vanced two from second to third read
| ing, IN one from second reading to pas
sage, and had made special order of
| one of the measures on thhe second
reading calendar.
Discussion over the Southwcll anti
cigarette bin reached the fisticufT
stage February |, when Church +.
Castle of the Utah Manufacturers as
ISOLATION struck Leroy Dixon, mayor
alteration as to the enforcement of
the present law against the sale OF
cigarettes TO minors.
The biennial appropriation bill, the
measure which provides the funds on
which the state of Utah must carry
on the varied phases of its state gov
eminent for the coming two years,
| reached the state legislature January
81. 1t was introduced In the senate by
| Joseph Quincy, Jr. The lawmakers
are asked to appropriate the total sum
of $4,330, 035.16.
1t is estimated that the revenues OF
the state in the next two years will be
$4,120,000.
The Utah senate completed the work
before 1t in about forty-five minutes
on January 81. Three new bills were
placed on the calendar during the day.
The governors budget was received
in the house on Monday and given to
the appropriations committee, but the
chairman of this committee failed Ia
Introduce it during the period when
Introduction of bills was in order, so
1t had to go over until Tuesday.
Seven new bills and one memorial
were introduced Va the house on Janu'
airy 81, five of the new bills relating
to the juvenile court, one to alrpane
landing fields and one an appropri'
who was injured in n road construc
tlon camp and who cannot secure re-
lief by court action. The memorial
| provides for a request to congress to
withdraw certain Indian grazing lands
as such and open them to homestead
entry.
The reapportionment bill introduced
by Senator Peters now has Il chance
of becoming law This measure Is
to again come before the senate. In
the form in which the bin will reacl
the senate, 1t Is proposed that the
state senate Of 1923 and thereafter
shall consist OF twenty members, in
stead Of the present eighteen, and the
house Of ffty-five representatives., in
stead of the present forty-seyen.
Of the present session there had beer
presented in the senate flfty-one bill!
ana six resolutions or memorials, max
ing a total of ffty-seten measures Il
be presented by senate members o.
committees. The house had sent owe
in the three weeks of the session nine
teen bills and four resolutions which
brought the total number Of measures
to he formally before the senate up t.
eighty.
While the house had passed twenty
one house bills and three house resolu
tons, it had also passed three senate
bills and two senate resolutions, or
total Of twenty-nine measures in all
The senate had, in the same thre
weeks, passed total of six senate bill
and four senate resolutions, but treat
) ed house measures about rs we'll IA
those introduced In the senate, havin
returned to the house seven bills an
two resolutions.
If the legislature wishes to pay of
the Indebtedness OF the state of Uta
and to place 1t on a cash basis durin
the coming biennlum 1t will eithe
have to cut the appropriation bill be-
low the amount determined by tn
governor in the budget or 1t will hav
to increase the revenues of the stat
/ In some manner
Senator Rufus Adams of Layto
says that the cost Of living is comm
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