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Show WITH THE STATE LEGISLATURE The law makers really went to work makng laws this fourUi week of the twenty-sixth legislature. legisl-ature. While the only major meas ures passed by both houses were the liberalization of the woik men's compensation act and the occupational disease act introouc tion of the governor's post war planning and construction bills and virtual completion of the new school financing measure bring into legislative view almost all of the important controversial proposals the twenty-sixth legislature leg-islature is expected to deal with The senate and house had one of their to be expected alterca-tions alterca-tions when the house demanded the upper body rescind its action in naming a sifting committee and the senate figuratively thumb ed its nose at the house for suggesting sug-gesting such a thing. So the Senate sifting committee of seven, meaded by Lorenzo E. Elggren (D-Salt Lake) will hereafter here-after have complete say as to what bills are . brought to the floor of the senate whether those be house or senate measures. Many a well intentioned proposal will have its head lopped off right there. And inasmuch as the house has a hundred more bills before it now than it did two years ago at this stage of the proceedings there's certain to be some wailing and ganshing of teeth. Pension an3 pay measures for public employees are numerous and far reaching embracing everybody ev-erybody on the state payroll from the governor to the school janitor. It's too early to predict what will happen to them out if the usual economy bloc starts doing much arithmetic the more social minded mind-ed legislators are in for some difficulties, dif-ficulties, because all of the bills call for some state as well as in-dividual in-dividual contributions. The house set a uniform salary committee, to harmonize such measures. Some of the governor's major nominees for state jobs are now known to be under very close scrutiny and furthermore, the re-suits re-suits of the last election where Governor Maw dropped so far behind be-hind his ticket, have induced the party big-wigs to a more determined deter-mined attitude in patronage matters. |