Show V AMEND M la 12 aim 1 11 at TO CUN mm UN F THREE H R E E ARE TO 0 BE VOTED if U UPON irv u r 0 N AT ATTHE tn E COMING ELECT fON abree amendments amendee ants to the conf f ution o of f the abe state of utah are to be voted upon n by the people vat at this election at least bao one of them is likely to have bave appo opposition altion from mine owners an and d bp operators era tors and support from f rom class blag s es of citizens I 1 it calls for the assessment ases of the value u e i of mines s and mining property by the sta ble boa board id of equalization tion fihs ihs instead te idd of by coun county ty assessors 40 3 rs the a 4 r 1 1 was planned by bythe the last ll 11 legislature egi slature and passed by it t because ezi to the fact t abat t t the e county assessors seem io cave be blind 6 or halt oy or ap cam x MA of property arad f for or j f some reason eason the s state wils was hil faili ng ing to get expected rev revenue enuel from rom this dource As ah ili e was as an the states rei revenue venue by 1 increasing hd fd 6 n g t he t a x zone taj to ni elude many ta mons scions heretofore hore ove oolie 1 I it devised this plan and submitted it u in proper reso resolution lut an the ai amendment m fiand m ddn t iffa if passed i ased is coun teil on du to have the affect of 16 9 r F ea sif fill the e states state S re revenue v denue it i is no I 1 and first on bu fife he abt ing ma machine cidne amendment no 2 also il heals eals with state taxes and raises the figure at which the rate of tax tat aaion must be lowered to a given iven amount lower than ihan now prevails the constitution at present provides in the article sought to be amended that whenever the taxable property within 1 nwe n we the state stafe shall amount to the yaw rate of taxation shall not exceed li five ve mills on each dollar of i alion 1 i until jail that sur sum n is reached the ritte rate of eight mills is allowed what is now sought is to raise the provision to goow As the property ion may reach with it in a 1 short time this increase of WI wealth alth would be public calamity ti to the state s revenue as it would i 1 h bus a s a automatically u houi ati cally lower lowe r th the e mid decrease the revenues when they ule are considered to be badly i in 11 need of in increasing creasi ng to tn care for state proba problems nis now how demanding attention r such ubba as the jhb building of state highways erecting a capitol building and supplying similar PECULIAR R PROBLEM the third q question stion recalls a peculiar pr problem eblem the last sta state to legislature had to meet the makers of the state constitution evidently considered that the state had all the land etwas going boget this thi s land it noted was divided divide dinto into counties and therefore it vested in th the e legis legislature IdOY e a right top to p bange these cou county my boundaries with the of the vot 4 fl ii ii 16 of new hew land and new la land i nd ca came 1 md to tho state in the opening i ng of the uinta reservation the uintah lands an asre were a ap pp to several existing counties iund and s some oin e of e if n e it it now new coin cain t m unities oh the ibb reservation tract bradt a shifting t of the che centers of population an and d old cam munif muni cies ties were disturbed disturb Od wa a satch county for instance was d threatened that thai if some of ali tab e hew bw reservation atio n towns given about every e V office 0 aae at the th hands of the party ty conventions ons they would organize a local party par ty and through newly acquired numerical strength sweep the county the old wasatch settle ment want the new uintah settle ments to enjoy a county government of their own the legislature was power powerless loss 1 tu to grant that wish and as a consequence s amendment number three was proposed to be voted on at this election it is n not ot likely to have any opposition deseret news |