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Show Witt! The Utah State Legislature SALT LAKE. The 19th Session of the Utah Legislature is proceeding according ac-cording to accepted routine of such law-making bodies passing the measure meas-ure to care for the session expenses with great speed and precision but struggling sireuously with all other details. Attempts made to have preliminary organization details of house and senate out of the way before the session ses-sion started failed to their purpose, but even seemed to retard, rather than to hasten, progress. In the house the Republicans were unable to agree among themselves and had to secure Democratic help to elect the speaker. The result is that the 14 Democrats in a house of 55 are represented on the list committee chairman, whereas a group of Republicans are given little more consideration than they would have had a right to expect if they had lieen the opposition, and the coalition of Democrats and Republicans had been a regularly organized party. The senate was facing the same situation, hut evaded it, and all its chairmen are lLepublicans, though the proportion of Democrats in the senate 9 to 20 is much larger than that in the house. One senate committee, judiciary, has a majority of Democrats ou it, because all the lawyers in the senate, except the senate president are to be Democrats. The message of Governor Dern' has ben received bat no formal disposition disposi-tion of the problems therein has been made, though the formal message has been entered on the journals of both houses. One senate mea'sure, a joint resolution, resolu-tion, has been sent to the house. It authorizes au-thorizes a governor's messenger. The senate has -received four bills, one concurrent memorial, and the joint resolution res-olution sent to the house. The memorial appeals to congress and the president in behalf of silver. Kills Introduced. S. B. 1, Fowles Correcting a legal description cf sonic real estate granted grant-ed to Ogden City in 19'25. . S. B. 2, Shields To. clarify the law relating to dependent neglected children. child-ren. S. B. 3, Jefferson and Ryan To use interest on the miners' hospital land grant fund as provided in the enabling act. S. B. 4, Keyset- To require that (Continued on page five) Utah Legislature (Continued from page one) the flag fie IT.spla.voir at poUTus places. In the lloi se, II. B. 2, Mrs. Lowe, to enable the governor to choose a proper dale for Arbor Day. II. C. M. 1, Holbrook Asks favorable favor-able consideration by congress of the Jones bill, continuing the Slioplierd-Towner Slioplierd-Towner funds for infants and expect-and expect-and mothers. Tax revision matters have been brot up in the senate by a letter from the chairman of the state tax commission but no action has been recorded. Anticipated Legislation. Utahns are looking forward to legislative leg-islative action on the following matters, mat-ters, although to use a college term, the lawmakers were supposed to "major" in luxation work at the present pres-ent session : Unemployment; questions brought forward by the six constitutional amendments; slate revenues; state training school expenditures and revenues rev-enues for same; building program for the state; state road construction campaign ; prevention work in regard to various sections of the state visited periodically by floods; war veterans welfare; laws controlling juvenile courts; air traffic and other aeronautic aeronau-tic questions. The state bar association has a legislative legis-lative program that no doubt will be given serious consideration. The several state departments will likely offer suggestions culling for considerable con-siderable work by the legislators. An interesting feature of the present legislature is the fact that the House of Representatives has a small number num-ber of professional men for members. Industries and agriculture has supplied sup-plied most of the membership of (be lower house. The senate is largely made tip of persons active in the professions. The state tax commission bus announced an-nounced completion of its draft of a personal income tax act, which immediately im-mediately becomes available to Hie legislature. The commission is to pres-ers pres-ers of the commission itself. The commission com-mission was created by vote of the eut an act for the defining of t lie pow-people pow-people at the last election. The tax commission is recommend- ; iug against the adoption of a tax on j intangible property as properly. In this it is following the recommendation recommenda-tion of Gov, Hern in bis message. Sep-erale Sep-erale acts will he prepared giving the state tax commission control over the assessment of mining property and over ov-er public utilities, us provided for in the constitutional amendments. The rale of the personal income tax propo-ed by the commission in ils hill is graduated from one per to five iht-cent. iht-cent. The one per cent is to be piiid on the first $HXI of taxable income or any part thereof; one and one-half per cent, on the second one thousand, , or any p:u t thereof and wi:h 'J. per cent of the third one lhors:mil; two ami one half per cent on ti e fourth; three R-r cent of Ihe fiflh one Ibous-uud Ibous-uud ; three and one half per cent on the litli ; i per cent on the Tth; four ' and one half pel- ceut of the h:b |