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Show servation activities in Utah with the state board of agriculture, The old familiar homestead exemption bill emerged again under the authorship of Rep. T. Earl Moote (D-Provo). The financial fin-ancial troubles of the State Liquor Liq-uor Commission would be given legislative relief under the legislative legis-lative proposal of Reps Selvey J. Bover (D-Springville) and Clifton G. M. Kerr (R-Tremon-ton). Rep. Fred J. Milliman (D-Mammoth) (D-Mammoth) would expedite divorce di-vorce proceedings for, it is said, the benefit of war hasty brides and grooms while Sen. Sol Sel-vin Sel-vin (D-Tooele) and Rep. Frank Bonacci (D-Helper) have both introduced in-troduced a bill which would prevent pre-vent racial discrimination in public places. The house gave its approval to tourteen varied measures last week, none of which developed much debate or opposition. They killed two proposals, one for a constitutional amendment that would permit 18 year olds to vote, the other calling for a certificate cer-tificate of inspection of motor vehicles before transfer of title can be made. Bills they passed included authority au-thority to tax federal property with the consent of federal authorities; auth-orities; enabling counties to set up reserve funds for post war planning and employment; extending ex-tending the permission for women wo-men to work in mines; extension exten-sion of the soldier voting law; continued abbreviation of the school year to provide farm labor la-bor and some others of less con- sequence- The senate disposed of thir-teeil thir-teeil measures, among them authorization au-thorization for pay increases of 15 per cent in counties of the 1st and 2nd class and 25 per cent in I all others; reducing the age of girl attendants at theatres and Other places of amusement to 16; Eroviding for retirement of mem-ers mem-ers of county fire departments, ! changing the make-up of the state j board of health to permit appointment ap-pointment of three lay members, and various others making minor technical amendments in existing exist-ing laws. The big controversitl measures remain to reach the floors of both houses. Thus far it has been a remarkably calm and peaceful gathering with no broken heads or hurt feelings reported yet. But there are plenty of notential fireworks fire-works that may begin to explode before very much longer. committee of the house would create a new dairy department in the state department of agriculture, agri-culture, and so on with minor appeals to the exchequer. These and others are not contemplated in the governor's budget. Nor are the requests for increased in-creased salaries from everybody in public service from town board members to justice of the state supreme court, including all state elective and appointive officials as well as all employees of the state. The Legislature promises to scrutinize those lists rather minutely. . Other revenue taxing proposals propos-als include the provision for civil service and retirement benefits for non-teaching employees of the schools and employees of the state's custodial institutions. There may not be harmony as regards all of these but the past week did produce a notable example ex-ample of what harmony can be when representatives of the state's major industries and of the principal unions of organized organiz-ed labor got together and ironed out their difference on proposed broadening of the scope and benefits of the state workmen's compensation act and the occupational occu-pational disease act. Quite a number of the 112 bills submitted to the house and 123 in the senate give teeth to existing ex-isting statutes such as welfare j provisions making parents and I guardians financially responsible for custodial cases where possible ! and the house agricultural com-mittee com-mittee measure centering respon-1 sibility for soil and water con- i Under The Capitol Dome by William T. Igleheart, Utah State Press Association If the voters of Utah don't have new laws to guide them at the next election it won't be because the current twenty-sixth session of the state legislature isn't trying try-ing to frame legislation that will permit them to know just how to vote for whom. Half a dozen bills ranging from an extension of the county attorney's at-torney's term to four years, to aJ headless ballot are already in the hoppers of both houses and as the third week of the session concluded Saturday, assurances had been given that additional bills will be submitted to clarify the methods of both voting and counting the votes. There will be no more Maw-Lee ballot difficulties dif-ficulties or their like, say the lawmakers. The legislature really got down to business this past week with all committees in both houses functioning smoothly and turning out the new ones for consideration. con-sideration. While the joint appropriations ap-propriations committees were subdividing their chore of meeting meet-ing new demands with what money there may be, the demands by no means ceased coming in-Among in-Among last week's new requests for instance Senator Alonzo Hopkins (D-Woodruff) would create a new centennial committee commit-tee to plan for 1947 and would give that committee $275,000 to work with. The agricultural |