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Show GOVERNOR SUBMITS CIENSIAL BUDGET UTAH LAWMAKERS ASKED FOR 111 APPROPRIATIONS TOTALINQ iH SUM OF $4,339,035.10. iB Exhlalned That Revenues of State In HHi Next Two Years Will Be Insufft- H dent Unless Expenses of GOV iB ernment Are Reduced. ilHHI Tho biennial appropriation bill, the Bfl measuro which provides tho funds on U which tho state of Utah must carry jHfl on tho varied phases of Its stdto gov- H ernment for tliu coming two years, IH reached tho state legislature January H .'ll. It was Introduced In tho senate by 1 Joseph Qulnney, Jr. Tho lawmakers lsl arc nslced to upproprlato the total sum H of M,:i30,o:r..io. 9 H It Is estimated that tho revenues ot tBI tho state ln tho next two1 years will bo H $4,120,000, H If tho leglslaturo wishes to pay off H tho Indebtedness of tho state of Utah H and to plnco It on a cash basis during iH tho coming blennlum It will either kH have to cut tho appropriation bill be- H low tho amount determined by tho H governor ln tho budget or It will havo H to increase tho rovenues of tho stnto 'l In mnntier. 1 Tho Utnli sonnto completed tho work 1 beforo It In about forty-five minutes jH on January 01. Three new bills woro H placed on the calendar during tho day. HH Tho governor's budget wus rccolved HH ln the house on Monday nnd Riven to jH the appropriations committee, but tho HH chairman of this cQinmlttoo failed to J Introduco It during tho period I when H Introduction of bills wus In order, so il It had to go over until Tuesday, fll Seven new bills nnd one memorial ' H wero Introduced ln tho houso on Jnnu- H ury 31, five of tho new bills relating H to tho Juvenile court, one to nlrplanu H lauding fields and ond.nn itpproprl- H atlon bill for relief for Ablnadl Olson, Hj . who was Injured Inn road construe- tH ttofk camp and who cannot secilvo re- H , lief by court .nctlon. Tho "Vncmorlal H provides for n request to congress lo H withdraw certain Indian grnr.lng .lands H , ns such and open tliCni tp "hoinestead H entry. H : Tho reapportionment bill Introduced H by Senator Peters now ms a cbnnco H of becoming a law.. This measure Is H to nga'lii'cbpio iJeforo the senate. In H the form In'whlqh'tho btl will reach 1 . the senate, It Is proposed thnt the H stnto sennto nf 102.'! and thorenfter H ' dliull consist of twenty members, In- H stead of tho present eighteen, nnd tho , lmr '( of fifty-five representatives, In- jH ' stead of tho present lorty-sovcn. iH At tho close of the twenty-first duy " of the present schsIoii thero had beep presented In the senate fifty-one bills H and six resolutions or memorials, tank- H Ing a total of fifty-seven measures to H ' be presented by senate members or committees. The limine had sent over M t In the thrco weeks of tho session nine- ttn bills and four resolutions, which H brought tho total numhOr of measures H J to bo formally beforo tho senate up to H eighty. . . , M While tho houso hnd passed twenty H one house bills uud three houso rcsolu- H tlous, It had also passed three senate " H bills and two senato resolutions, or a H totnl of twenty-nine measures In all. H The sunuto hud, In the sumo three H weeks, passed a totul of six senato bills H and four scnatu resolutions, but treat- H ed houso liieasures about as well as H thoso Introduced In the seuntc, having H returned to the houso seven bills and H two resolutions, Ll Thero Is nt leas', ono member of tho Hfl Utah legislature wlio'bellovcs tho law H maker ls worthy of his hlro, Hcnat.or H Deni on January 28 Introduced ,u pro- 'H posed constitutional amendment nils- H lug tho wngo of tho legislators from $1 H to $8 per day, or Just douhlo their jH present salary. The amendment would H not, If It were ratified by the people H In November, 1022, affect tho salaries K received hy any of the presont mum- H bers pt Uiu legislature for the terms M tor which they wero elected. 'H Perhaps tho feature of the senato H session of Jnnunry 28 was tho uiinul- jH moils decision to send bnck to tho ! senate agricultural commltteo I'louso IH bill No. 1.1, by Dny, which provides IH that tho state board ot health shall llH bo the stato dairy and food bureau, ifll and that the stato health commissioner IH shall bo ex-offlclo state dairy and food 'H commissioner. MM Senator llufiiB Aduins of Laytoii II says that tho cost of living Is coming , mm down, and for thnt reason ho believes mU that tho state bank examiner can flH inauage to got along now on $.'KHX) n WM year. Ho Introduced a bill la tho WJM sunato to fix tho salary ot the office MM nt $3000 n year .Instead of Sltoro. WM Tho bill of Representative Thorno, MM to authorlxo tho state engineer to des- JJ Ignnto roads for tho movement of live- jPB stock to nnd from winter ran gas was 19 defeated. -'MM Of tho soven now tnonsuros nxo- Mm dured In the houso on January 29, ''MM 8ee,niIlw's mwwurrf providing tor a rm0tomUot!&pt (lie state roud cow Mm nilwlnu i(n(l (ijvldlht,' the tni nine eountlw qf tho stnto into rue road dtotrluts, IT oxpocitd to I me qpo SB of the' mbtL Jpippriant Mi-s a tho -fl subject Of roh wfHfii win ! brought Bfl up at the prr&'iit m'ssstnu. H H it. cnxemor bns algiied V te BH - i i Mm |