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Show " LEGISLATORS lUSY ' 1 SPECIAL SESSION SALT LAKE CITY Two of the hottest issues in the special ses sion the fish and game and the educational control bills were advanced ad-vanced to third reading in tire state senate Tuesday. The measure reorganizing the fish and game department iS. B. 15) was drastically changed from its original form, but the bill setting up a control system for colleges and universities tS. B. 30) was advanced in substantially the same form in which it was introduced. By adoption of an amendment, proposed by Senator Francis S. Lundell (D), Benjamin, the fish and. game set-v.p was changed from ' a three-member full-time commission to a three-member non-salaried commission. These commissioners, who will receive a token salary of $100 per annum and expense allowances up to $1000, will appoint a state fish and game warden to serve as administrative ad-ministrative head of the department. depart-ment. Under the original bill the three commissioners would have received $4000 per annum each. A determined fight was made to amend the educational bill to ehminate one of the proposed coordinating co-ordinating officials and take the University of Utah and Utah State Agricultural college out from under a section dealing with, budget control. The movement was led by Mrs. E. E. Ericksen (D), Salt Lake City, wife of a University Univer-sity of Utah professor, and Sen. ator James A. McMurrin (D), Logan. Lo-gan. The proposed amendment .ere beaten down piecemeal, however, how-ever, . with Senator Stanley N. Child (D), Salt Lake City, leading the attack on them. Senator Jhild was chairman of the state education edu-cation survey committee of 15 which made a study of the educational edu-cational system during the past two years. Mrs. Ericksen, who maintained that S. B. 30, a compromise bill, embodied all the sins and none of the virtues of the survey findings, came within one vote of getting her amendments over. The vote was 11 to 11, and, under senate rules, a motion looses on a tie vote. The debate on the issue, long a headache to legislators, grew quiet caustic at times and President Presi-dent Wendell . Grover (D), Salt Lake City, cautioned the senators several times to avoid personalities and motives. The bill, as approved on second reading, provides for the appointment appoint-ment of a director of higher education edu-cation and a director of research and finance charged with the following fol-lowing specific duties: 1. Conduct a continuous Etudy and research in the field of education edu-cation and make recommendations through the board of education, to the governor, legislature and control boards of the institutions of higher education. ' 2. Formulate criteria for determining deter-mining the needs for additional institutions of collpge grade and make recommendations for their needs to the state board of education. edu-cation. 3. Examine courses of study and report all unnecessary duplications ' to the board of education. 4. Review all requests for plant Increases and make recommendations recommenda-tions regarding same to the gov- ernor and the legislature. Appointed by Governor |