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Show Under The Capitol Dome By William T. Ingleheart, Utah State Press Association The lawmakers really went to work making laws this fourth week, of the twenty-sixth legislature. legis-lature. While the only major measures passed by both houses were the liberalization of the workmen's compensation act and the occupational disease act introduction in-troduction of the governor's post war planning and construction bills and virtual completion of the new school financing measures mea-sures bring into legislative view almost all of the important controversial con-troversial proposals the twenty-sixth twenty-sixth legislature is expected to deal with. The senate and house had one of their to be expected altercations alterca-tions when the house demanded the upper body rescind its action in naming a sifting committee and the senate figuratively thumbed its nose at the house for suggesting such a thing. So the Senate sifting committee commit-tee of seven, headed by Lorenzo E. Elggren (D-Sait Lake) will hereafter 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 oil' 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 wail-ing and gnashing of teeth The Governor's post war bills which would enable counties and municipalities to share in possible state and federal funds for planning plan-ning and construction, permit the state publicity and industrial de-j de-j velopment commission to assist communities in setting up small I manufacturing and industrial enterprises en-terprises met with rathi r cordial response in most quarters. His suggested appropriation of $2,-! $2,-! 000,000 to the state board of examiners ex-aminers for these construction and planning activities may strike some snags. Pension and pay measures for public employee:, 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 but if the usual economy bloc starts doing much arithmetic the more social mind-I mind-I ed legislators are in for some dif-I dif-I ficulties, because all of the bills ; call for some state as well as individual in-dividual contributions. The house set up a uniform salary committee, commit-tee, Jos. L. Newey (D-Ogden) to harmonize such measures. Senator Grant Macfarlane (D-Salt (D-Salt Lake) succeeded in having i the senate pass his bill for a polio-I polio-I myelitis hospital with a half million mil-lion dollar appropriation, the largest to get by either house so far. Of course requested appropriations appro-priations exceed by far estimated revenues and the Governor suggested sug-gested budget. How to bring these all into line is the more nearly sixty-four million dollar question confronting the joint budget committee now in the throes of daily sessions. They have appointed sub-committees to examine all proposals and some of those reports are beginning begin-ning to sift Back to the whole I committee. While partisan politics hasn't been much in evidence on the floor of the houses unmistakable' evidence of the interest of party organization in the doings of the legislature is seen In the frequent appearance in the capitol halls j of Roscoe Boden the democratic state chieftain and his republican republi-can opponent Vernon Romney. 1 It is more than a guess that their current interest centers more in the appointments Governor Maw is recommending to the senate for confirmation than in most of the actual legislation. o - e u - i the actual legislation. Some of the governor's major nominees for state jobs are now known to be under very close scrutiny and furthermore, the results of the last election where Governor Maw dropped so far behind his ticket, have induced the party big-wigs to a more determined de-termined attitude in patronage matters. A reconstitution of the current methods of providing funds for the state's educational system is seen in the series of five bills that will be introduced this week by the governor's committee on school finance headed by speaker speak-er of the house Rulon R. White. The measures will provide a more equitable method of anpor-tioning anpor-tioning funds, a simplification of the present formulas under which funds are distributed and likewise like-wise provide a committee to continue con-tinue a study of Utah's entire system of taxation with a view to providing the next legislature with a groundwork for legislu tive action. |