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Show Battle Developes Over State Finance Group Some of Governor Maw's Bills Not Expected To Pass 1943 Legislature By J. J. CAHOON Utah State Press Ass'n SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, (Special to the News) The state finance commission which has loomed behind be-hind the scenes of the 1943 legislative legis-lative session as the probable battle ground between administration administra-tion and anti-administration forces has come into the open as the major bone of contention. The Senate not only drafted a set of bills, which, if passed, would strip the Governor and his commission of practically all the power they have wielded during the past two year's, but even went so far as to cast doubt on the legality of the appointment of Gordon Taylor Hyde, finance commission com-mission chairman. Solons Favor Bills A cross section of sentiment strongly indicated that a good majority ma-jority of the bills will find favor with the solons and will pass. And while the House may not wish to go quite so far as its companion body, early events in the lower house indicate strongly that pro-administration sentiment is, to state it conservatively, not predominant, and at least some of the measures would probably get House approval. It is expected that the Governor (Continued on Supplement) (Continue.! from first page) would cxrrc.-e freely iiis right of veto, but the r.e:esr.rry two-thirds vote to override the gubernatorial "no" is more than likely to assemble, as-semble, for at least some of the bills. Major changes provided for in the reorganization measures include: in-clude: 1. Taking from the finance commission com-mission all power over other state departments except that of an advisory ad-visory nature. The finance commission com-mission would have certain control over departmental expenditures, but none whatsoever over department depart-ment budget totals. 2. Adding three men the Governor, Gov-ernor, the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to the finance fi-nance commission and then giving the same three men, in their capacity ca-pacity of state beard of examiners, exam-iners, veto power over finance commission acts. Effectively, this gives the Attorney Ceneral and the Secretary of State authority to check the Governor and his appointees of the finance commission commis-sion at will. 3. Issuing of all state warrants by the finance commission without with-out the auditor's signature (now required), but requiring the auditor audi-tor to conduct a continuous post-audit post-audit of all departments. He also would be empowered to recommend recom-mend that the board of examiners stop payment on any warrant, if he felt such action was justified. Change Welfare Control 4. Taking from the GoveBnor himself the control of sales tax revenues for relief and giving such control to the welfare department. During the week, both Democrats Demo-crats and Republicans in the House recommitted themselves to the need for changing the state's present direct primary Jaw, but the Democrats couldn't agree on i Republican measure that was introduced, and killed it. However, other bills proposing changes in the election law, including in-cluding one by Sen. Claude Hir-schi, Hir-schi, R., Washington, to repeal the entire state law, have been introduced. intro-duced. Gaining most favor among members mem-bers is a bill sponsored by the Senate State and Municipal Affairs Af-fairs committee to provide for both a convention and primary election system for the selection of candidates. Major action taken during the week by both houses included- House Killed H. B. 33 by Rep. A. B. Anderson, D., Utah, to give local boards of education power to change boundary lines and to discontinue small school houses Killed H.B. 12, ,by Rep. G a' Staples, R., Sevier, to provide standards for slaughter houses and regulations for the sale, handling distribution and labeling of meat and meat products. Killed H R 35, by Rep. Quale Cannon Jr., R.' Salt Lake, to eliminate the runoff run-off primary. Killed S. B. 51 bv Mitchell Melich, R., Grand, to require re-quire county attorneys to be members mem-bers of the bar. And killed H B 36, by Rep. S. W. Elswood, d' Weber, to reduce annual auto license li-cense fees from $5 to $2. H. B. J, Passed Senate-KB. 1, by Rep. Val H. Cowies, D., Carbon, prohibiting legators from taking remuner? alive state appointments durin-their durin-their elective terms. Killed H. B in nhft t t0 liC6nSe naturopaths m obstetrics and minor surgery Passed to third reading H B 28 the bill to raise school teachers'' salaries with definite promise that t would be amended to make sure that money appropriated would be used for no other purpose Roll call showed Senator Hirschi tmg m the affirmative on J?'?- 2LWaS kiUed on mtion of Senator Macfarlane to strike the enacting clause. e |