Show AT THE ahe STATE CAPITOL WHAT OUR legislators AR ARE DOING taxes a joint legislative session on oil iu baur r sundry measures of interest to framers and imbor in par alular ald iti a trip to tre ri lah agricultural tural college at logan fidran held the attention of cf legill ilas irs string the fourth week of the twenty first utah legislature legisla tuie ending last saturday the senate devoted practically the entire week including a saturday session ses slon to discussion of the bill increasing individual income taxes the nel net result was the amending of the original measure by inclusion 0 f a per celli cent proper property tv tax offset or exemption and the killing of an another amendment a proposal to 1 include a 10 re registration or filing fee the upper house placed the bill on its third reading it passed two other bills and three senate joint resolutions the house passed eight bills and senate resolution no 2 the last named proposes an amendment to the state constitution to be voted on by the people at the next general election elc tion in november 1936 if approved appi oved by the electorate it imposes a mandate upon the next legislature to enact a law 1 aw exempting from taxation all homesteads ti up to 2000 in value signing of the resolution by the speaker of the house and senate president insures its being placed before the voters next year arguments pro and con and final votes on an amendment by senator Hil showed a narrow margin ot of senatorial opinion in favor of including cl property offsets in the proposed new acome tax bill A proposal to impose a 10 registration or filing fee lost by a goodly majority on a viva voce vote A move to delay liquor legislation until unil taxation and social welfare measures were acted upon was said to have found much support t among legislators senate measures pissed passed and adopted during the past week were 21 providing for the inspection of gasoline used for motor fuels 3 4 and 5 providing that the superintendent 1 in of public instruction shall not be elected but appointed by the governor HB 5 fixing the hours of labor in underground mines amended to idd add a jun lunch h period not to exceed 30 minutes and 2 memorializing memorial izing congress to establish a national park in wayne county i house action resulted in passage and adoption of the following measures 28 enabling the state fishi fish 1 and game commission to borrow I 1 money from the state land board aorl tor public works projects passed previously i by the senate 18 permitting the federal government to b buy y lands ands for flood and erosion control also passed by the senate HB 9 limiting power of the governor to call out the state militia in case of labor troubles amended to provide that production on pr premises policed by the militia be stopped until until it has im been withdrawn HB 2 regulating production sale and licensing kofl of commercial om mercial fertilizer HB 19 applying weights tor for grades of eggs old at retail HB 21 creating a redemption period on oil shares of sock it irrigation companies from 60 days to 10 two years and providing for the continued Con linned on last ans I 1 AT THE STATE CAPITOL T r continued continue d from page I 1 1 I 1 I 1 anent 0 adul pd ul costs coste and assesses asses mes R it II 3 2 treating creating pensions fo for employed emp loyes of tte tie utah state hospital dospital a at fryu i B 28 rel i editing biting to cost of patient maintenance at the same institution and STR S TR 2 them the hoffstead tax exempt exemption ian abt making it mandatory for presenta tion to the people to bo be yet voted e d upon us As a constitutional amendment HB 37 and fixing penalties tor for i hit chit and run and drunk drivers wore were defeated largely due to belief that the senate traffic bill passed last week and soon to come before the he house will take cale caie of the matter senator C clarence resigned and attorney paul H rily of 0 salt lake pity city appointed by governor henry H blood was seated in his I 1 place after a heated discussion brought about nebout by a motion for a senatorial probe of the new member s business connections the motion lost and mr ray was welcom I 1 led ed to the upper house 1 I 1 senator W D hammond of grand county voted yes on nil measures passed in the upper house last week and also on his own amendment to the income tax bill and the bamberger ler amendment to HB 5 with its lunch hour provision the I 1 IL moab to ab solon deuced the amendment last week providing fo for r property tax offsets or r exemptions to the income tax levied by the vad administration income tax measure that hat led to several days discussion i senator hammond maintained that I 1 i his amendment would create much i more revenue than the original bill land I 1 and would also greatly benefit prop erty owners with small incomes representative birten allred of 0 grand county voted yes on all house measures receiving final action except the unicameral unit ameral one house resolution representative emit gammeter of san juan county voted yes on fill all pissed upon es except the unicameral cameral resolution od HB 9 land and 18 lie ha was a me merri ber of a subcommittee sub committee on appropriations to investigate the appropriations needs of the state treasurer state engineer juvenile court commission utah etab diate state agricultural college extradition of utah commission for adult blind chil ra R en encamp ca menti |