Show sen sol J selvin appointed As delegate to meet sen sol J selvin of tooele thoele has been appo anted by house speaker rendell N leybe cha aman of the utah council as a del agate to the convention of the council of states government which will be held september 9 10 and 11 at san francisco at the clift house the council of states government represent the 48 states of the union and their purpose is for unifying all laws among the states delegates from every state and territory will be at the con bention A delegation of four will attend from utah sen selvin rendell N maybey quayle cannon and lewis H loyd director of the utah legislative council sen selvin attended the session of the utah legislative council in salt lake city on friday and sat arday when seven additional standing committees were an bounced mr selvin was named chairman oi ol the committee on banking commerce and industry with sen orrice C mcshane of beaver as vice chairman every legislator has been named to serve on at least one standing commit tee private citizens and eions are urged to continue to sub nut mit in writ ng any suggestions for council study as they wish to se cure a broad base for support of recommendations to the 1949 legis lature mr selvin made a proposal at the saturday session for a repeal of sales tax on food in whole or part in sponsoring the proposal mr selvin stated utah is a state with various kinds of taxes prop erty income business francise lie lic ense and sales tax the law re quiring sales tax was enacted in 1933 as an emergency tax for the purpose of raising funds for the welfare of the aged the blind and I 1 dependant children in 1940 the state hospital in provo the school for feeble minded in in american fork the industrial school in og 09 den the state health D department and several other state tate institutions were included in the welfare de apartment part ment and their expenditures paid out of the sales tax funds thus saving the general fund sev eral million dollars and a like a mount the large property owners in taxes now the funds received by t tl state from sales tax became the envy like the profits from the sale sala of liquor of legislators state de apartments part ments and city and county ad ministrations the legislature authorized several million dollars from the sales tax funds tor for state build at the same time re deuced the grants to the aged should things go at the state capitol in the same manner as i I 1 fear the sales did in the past tax tax will become a permanent unit and not an emergency as the I 1 intended this we legislature should prevent sales tax is not a de desirable tax it taxes the very classes per ce cent rit on their poorer income where the well to do peo pie pay only on a fracci fraction on of their earnings still we spend the poor and buildings mans money on other equipment and thereby a gain save the rich men from con their just share council should the legislative bear th wa in mind and consider necessary becom recommendations ions some to the legislature to repeal sales tax cey certainly on commodities such as food in who whole ae or part |