Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-02-11
ADDS MEMBERS TO
UTAH LEGISLATURE
REAPPoRTIoNMENT BILL MEETS
WITH APPROVAL OF MEMBERS
OF STATE SENATE.
Should Measure Become Law, Senate
Will Have Twenty Members and
the House Fifty-five.--Real
Estate Measure Approved.

The Utah state senate on February
8 passed the legislative reapportlon-
ment bill over the lone opposing vote
of Senator II. G.. Tebbs of the Tenth
district. Should the measure become
law, the senate will have twenty in
stead Of fifteen members, and the
house membership win be increased to
fifty-five.
The senate committee on public af
fairs on February reported out the
group of administration measures"
having to do with the establishment
Of a department of registration, which
Is to take over and supervise the du
ties and activities of various exam
lining boards for trades, professions
and occupations in the state.
Debate on two senate bills occupied
most of the session in the lower house
of the legislature on February 8, one
of them being the jenkins real estate
measure, which, after several attempts
to further amend 1t, one of which at
tempts was successful, passed with
twenty-nlne members voting aye, fiji
teen nay, one being excused from vot-
ing and two being absent.
Nine senate bills and one memorial
reached the house from the senate
February 3, were given first reading
and sent to various committees.
McShane's bill, giving the governor
power to terminate the teure of office
Of members of the public utilities com
mission, passed the house Tuesday,
ayes ~ against >.
Senator jenkins measure providing
for the creation of state real estate
department under the supervision of
the state securities commission went
down to defeat In the house of repre-
sentatives on February Z, when it fail
ed TO obtain n constitutional majority
The vote was: Ayes 22, nays 49, alb
sent 6, excused from voting /.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hayward, state SEN
atOr from Salt Lake county on Feb
ruary introduced in the state senate
n bill to raise the minimum wages paid
to women and children in Utah. Sen
ator Hayward's bill would make the
minimum wage for minors under the
aye OF IS years not less than 81 per
| day, instead of the 80 cents carried in
the present law. For adult learners
| and apprentices not less than S1.5O II
day, instead of the present 90 cents.
Antelope island, in the Great Salt
lake, is an ideal game refuge and should
be preserved as such, according to
| members of the joint house and senate
committee appointed to investigate the
slaughter of bison on the island.
The state senate on February Z, in
| three hours Of steady work, took eight
bills off the second reading calendar,
one off the third reading calendar, and
sent them all to the house. Eight of
| the nine bills which were all senate
measures, were the group providing
| for the establishment of the state de-
partment of finance and purchase.
| Further wrestling with the problem of
| handling the financial end of the
| states affairs will be done in the
house, since the senate calendars and
files were cleared by this action.
Representative FinlinsOn would
| amend the existing statutes by placing
a bounty upon jackrabbits of > cents
| each. The hunter of jack-rabbits for
bounty would be required to present
two connected ears to the county clerk
in order to secure the "jitney" bounty.
Senator Southwick, author of the
| antl-cigarette bill, on February in
| troduced in the senate n state income
tax measure, which, 1t is declared, is
to meet as formidable opposition
among the citizens of Utah as did his
non-smoking legislation.
The bill, which is said to be adapted
from the federal income tax law and
from suggestions of the model tax
committee of the National Tax assocla-
ton, contains some of the features of
the Wisconsin income tax law. 1t pro-
vides for n personal income tax, as
also business tax on the incomes of
corporations.
After deducting credits he would
levy tax upon incomes as follows :
On the first $1,000 of taxable income,
or any part thereof, l per cent on the
next $1,000, > per cent; on the third
! HlOOu, - per cent On tue lOuIll NlOpb'
per cent; on the fifth $1,000, per
cent. and on all taxable income over
$1,000, 6 per cent.
The Utah senate on Thursday, Feb
ruary 3, passed the antl-cigarette bill
by vote of II TO 3, with one senator,
Mrs. Antoinette Il, Kinney of Salt
Lake, absent, The opposing senator's
We're Senators Harrison Il. jenkins
George ii. Dern and Henry n. Stan
dish, all of Salt Lake county,
Senator Henry c. Tebbs of Pan
guitch announces that he or some
other senator will, In all probability
bring in bill during the present SEES
sion calling for constitutional con
yention in Utah, to give the state a
new basic law.
A bill designed To regulate the prac
tlce and license all drugless healers 2
proposed In house b,ll introduced
February 3. The measure, it is under
! q.