Show i w hi fl I G alto I i j the current session of the Utah state stale legislature but one one- fourth completed and approximate I 1 bills alread already introduced Senate President Herbert D B Maw has this early sounded an urge for more action and less less irrelevant talk b by senators if even those measures now before the upper and lower houses are arr to receive proper consideration A recapitulation of bills thus far introduced shows more more important end and controversial matters now be- be before before fore the legislature than at an any comparable period during prior priors s sessions These include a multi multi- multitude multitude tude of measures affecting the pocketbooks of citizens via the tax taxation taxation route and dozens of others that directly affect the welfare of the people and property Taxation th procession with approximately 40 bills hav- hav having having ing to do with the collection or dis disposition disposition position of revenues Many any of these are arc certain to bring prolong prolonged ed cd discussion n in the legislative halls Dills Bills in the interest of labor are arc next in number with 20 Court and legal procedures are touched upon in 16 A dozen bear upon state their creation and control Eleven carry carr appropriations appropriations for this or that Nine concern education and educational institutions and eight relative to and banking and insurance Three liquor bills introduced in inthe inthe the senate are arc surcharged with ton con controversial elements clements Dills Bills affecting trade food standards highways public utilities motor vehicles and agriculture are due for much pro and con debating So aU all in all it looks as though the lawmakers have th their ir hands full to dispose of even en the already proposed legisla- legisla legislation legislation tion And more much more much more more-is called So-called called o-called labor bills have thus far had the easiest sailing in both branches of the legislature Two have haye alread already been been passed by the and an equal number by lie the house of representatives representatives- nh ives Opposition Opposition tion in both ho houses has s has been ne ne 1 r fr One approved IM senate bill requires es Cs that aU all persons accepting em- em em employment during a strike must reg- reg reg regist t with ith the st state te c m- m mm m mission ssi The The other obligates all la 1 a bor organizations organizations- on and nd unions ui ons f o d do likewise II H B 1 1 is as p passed sed in in increases creases benefits un under et the work work- workmen's workmen's mens men's c act by addin adding g fhe five per per cent cent partial of the amount of a temporary partial or total it its award for each eadi dependent child child of the injured person The second d approved labor house bill establishes establishes lishes a miners examining board Pending labor measures include e those prohibiting prohibiting deputizing of em c m during a strike limiting g freight trains to 70 cars including g diseases as causes cause s for compensation under the work work- workmen's workmen's mens men's compensation act repealing g the picketing anti law and criminal syndicalism and e laws regulating payment of wages wage s or services servi es in private t and amending statutes to end endall all production if the militia is called calle d out to maintain order during la- la labor bor disputes Both DoUt Senate President Maw and Joseph V Jensen of the house at the annual convention of the Utah Manufacturers tion association in Salt Lake City last week gave ass assurances rances that no statutes which might work on any an grow grou would be enacted b by the cur cur- rent current legislature The legislative leaders declared that lawmaking decisions would be made with the chief idea in mind of b being ing as just as possible to the whole whole maintained people Speaker Jensen main tamed that every ever endeavor or should be expended to promote industry within the in order that em- em employment might be provided as many persons as possible lie He held that the furnishing of work was Utah's greatest current need The Build Utah program of of the manufacturers association was accorded legislators high praise by th legis- legis it lauded was as a plan tin un- der under tinder which all lines of industrial educational and labor labor- ing laboring endeavors might cooperate in inthe inthe the of ofa a greater state tate Agriculturists of the state are arc particularly interested in a bill which would exempt from the sales tax all retail sales of produce made by farmers gardeners stock stock- stockmen stockmen men r- r growe growers s of agricultural products except except- excepting ing those who regularly operate a astore store tore market or sales route Oc- Oc or sales b by persons per per- persons sons not regularly engaged in business busi business ness are arc not to be taxed under the measure introduced by Representative Representative Francis Lundell of Utah county Senator Ira A Huggins of We- We Weber ber count county has already clinched the title of poet laureate of the upper tipper house honse through his original sonnet Irie lyric epic pi or have what you rOll read recently in answer the theauthor theauthor author asserted to Senator Vard C remarks t lawyers in speaking on the legisla- legisla legislative t tive e reference bureau bill The The Og- Og Ogden Ogden den solon colon didn't exactly e e of the Davis county senators senator's al- al allusions allusions the reprisal poem Standards for the garding of o f cheese ice cream and other dairy products are provided for in a bill bil I introduced by Representative T TV V Jensen of of count county Un- Un Under Un Under der it the slate state agriculture boar board d would have power to prevent ship shi p men ment t or sale products not labeled d as meeting board requirements Permitting the sale to process process- processing processing ing plants of infected fruit undo under r supervision of the state agriculture e department the markets for se- se securities se securities of the federal housing ad- ad administration ad administration ministration These bits of enacted legislation n are the two permanent lawmaking lawmaking ing accomplishments of the hi-enty hi Second Utah legislature to date date- date three floret weeks t ecks after opening of the th e day 60 session Another bill made mad e into law law- extends the time for pro pro- procuring pro procuring curing 1937 motor vehicle keens e plates plates-an emergency measure o f temporary nature An adopted senate joint resolution resolution tion authorizes the governor to ap appoint a P point a committee to e the feasibility of holding a world worlds world's s fair in Utah in 1947 to C the one hundredth anniversary of f settling of the state by the Mor Mo r mon pioneers An approved bill hi II fix fixed d the salaries of legislative e em- em c m and anda a congratulated toted President out on his hi s fifty fifth fifty h birthday The lower house fell feU fellon on two bills bill s One proposed to fix December 10 1 0 as the date daft for payment of deli deli- del quent taxes The other proposed propose d to make auto license plates dis- dis distinguishable distinguishable designations by count county designations Thus final action has been taken on but six measures only two of which will leave a more than tem tem- temporary impress on laws of time the state A total of bills resolutions and memorials have been introduced in inthe time the senate and house All of which means that the I current legislature is moving slow I I- I and cautiously in the approval of new laws or changes in exist exist- ing existing ones It means too that many proposals are arc doomed to oblivion due to lack of time in i which to consider them properly if for moth noth ing ing nothing else Approval al of ofa bill a by the senate is not proving the open to final enactment into law that pre pre- ailed prevailed to a greater or lesser degree of last resort for action on a ma- ma jot jor major majot portion of introduced measures asin as in past years ears indeed Shoes are arc on the theother theother other feet The more numerous and supposedly mOre tractable rep es are arc now holding forth as final arbiters in many sine tan tan- ces Reason The speed with which the solons act and their seeming ability to get together for final disposal of bills and resolutions especially those of more or less minor import As example of senatorial speed theres there's the upper house action last week in introducing passing and sending resolution to the house a joint lion tion making establishing a policy of mak- mak ing no appropriations for private the agencies usch a the American merican Le- Le Legion Legion gion Utah Citizens Rate tion Association and social soci l lw w welfare e It took ook time the less than half an to do wl at sometimes takes takes-a takes week I week or more But Dut the staid lower the speed challenge They decided to let on their calendar a few afew days before taking action Time The senate may show v plenty of speed when no vital ital issue affect affect- affecting affecting ing the whole people is at stake but it slows up tip measurably when such measures bout large on the I r pro Th The lengthy lengtH debate on the pro pro- proposed posed direct primary law is an ex ex- ex example ample Although all the solons eVI dently feel fecI obligated under party platforms to support such legisla- legisla legislatIOn legislation tIOn there is an apparent hesitation hesitation tion to approve S B 1 Senate President Hrbert B D Maws Maw's primary mary bill without changes that will make it acceptable to both rural and urban communities and sections Another shining example is the thema matter ma of aidi aiding g time the needy especially especially the aged Much uch debating and amending will be heard before itis it itis is finally decided to adopt the pro proposed proposed posed Maw aw system of paying a sum as a pension for all allt t vcr ver 65 years of age or time the ad- ad ministration favored plan pIan of con con- continuing the present method of aiding aid aid- aiding ing all needy persons under direction dir c- c tion of the public welfare depart depart- department department ment S 'S Evidently Senator Alonzo F Hopkin of Croydon believes that god legislation can be only through travail and distress lie He favors at least sons some debate and anda a bit of heated opposition for every measure For one day clay last week after six senate bills had passed from sec sec- second secand and ond to third reading with little or orno no debate and without a dissenting rote ote arose and said Things Thing s are arc moving too favorably here A No goo good can come of it I move we w c adjourn His fellow solons still agreeable did Last Thursday time the senate passed a hot hat potato in iii the form of a I aI joint resolution refusing further r state aid to private agencies to the lower house Frida Friday a house men mem- member ber retaliated by passing apples t to o time the senators Senator Ward Vard C Holbrook of Clearfield dubbed d of time the Treasury has ha hawon s won a title title sub chief lIe offers more of em cm than an y other solon Senator Warwick C Lamoreaux of o Salt alt Lake City Cil in a bill making kidnapping g punishable by b death dealt Senator Hol- Hol Holbrook Hol brook followed with one abolish abolish- ing the death The penalty ques- ques tion question lion of of who is to regulate milk and an d milk products is creating quite a astir stir in legislative halls In the flu e meantime Utah cows cots remain con con- con tented Its tented Its going to be tough on o n courtroom pre fibbers fibber s and just plain tiers liers if ifa a bill stiffen stiffen- ing stiffening penalties for perjury posse passes s It makes one form of perjury pun pun- punishable by life liCe big h cost ost of lying i Calling for sound economy in i n governmental expenditures and an d adequate financial support for ex- ex ec e- e issing state departments institutions and functions before attempting attempting ting to finance new ventures Gov- Gov Governor cruor Henry H Blood submitted the 39 1937 budget to time the venty- venty t second cond session of time the legislature this week The Thc joint appropriations commit lee ice under time the co chairmanship of Senator Ward Vard C Holbrook of Davis Da- Da Davis vis and Gordon of Salt Lake began work on the budget at a special session of time the commit commit- committee tee t ee Tuesday The budget calls for estimated expenditures totaling or less than deppart- deppart mental requests Estimated reven- reven revenues revenues ues are leaving caving a balance bal bal- balance ance of to be raised from an expected increase in liquor control revenues or from relief funds which under the tarn law may maybe maybe be used b by time the governor to the ex- ex extent tent tacit each year of for other than relief r lief purposes if essary essar in his budget message stressed that during the depression years state departments and functions had been compelled t o exercise such rigid economy econom that all but vital functions had tobe to tobe be curtailed He pointed out that time the proposed budget will in part par t rectify f these conditions and he urged that adequate financial sup sup- support sup support port be g given cn established functions function s before mone money is spent for new ac ac- ac activities I I The legislature entered the th c I fourth week of its session with I m ost of its vitally important legis- legis lat e program before it in the th c form of bills introduced by individuals ants and committees Included in im i n m these are the homestead exemption t plan fathered by the committee of o f nine and championed in the two o houses by Senator Vard C Hol Hol- Holbrook Holbrook brook of Davis and th tines thes es Heber Dennion Bennion Jr of Drag Drag- Draggett gett and Milton Millon of Garfield Gar Gar- Garfield field the life administration social cotta l welfare program introduced in the th C senate b by Senator G G Lind Lind- Lindstrom strom of Carbon a member of the th e governors governor's committee which work worked wor k ed cd out time the p program and time the bills bill s designed to putt put it into effect t e WaJter K I Granger Grange r of Iron Ir l also a member of the gov- gov o v s itte is slated t to o sponsor the welfare in inthe i n time the l ous Mr Granger former ormer speaker of time the lower louver house and an outstanding ing leader in this body has de dem- dem demonstrated m that he has a weather er ee cyc on th time welfare of Utah's agri- agri agricultural i cultural industrial and social in- in interests it retests at all time has attend y started time the ball ball tolling rolling to protect prole ct the stat states s 's by in- in introducing i n- n and fI pt a a al tb congress ay against enactment of a bill before not that body for re- re repeal r c- c peal of the long and short haul ham l clause of time the interstate commerce cc act and protesting against or fa into r- r able consideration of any future measure m designed to alter this clause in a 3 manner detrimental to time the interests of Utah At the head of the third reading calendar in time the senate rests Senator Sen- Sen Senator ator Maws blows old age pension bill designed to give at least cast 30 a month to every needy person of 65 or over in time the state Itis is await await- awaiting awaiting ing arrival at the same point of time the administration welfare bills which instead of providing a definite def def- trite pension for time the needy aged places their relief on or a need basis solely solely- It has been agreed by the senate enate s president that the lime opposing measures shall be considered to- to together to gether so that time the legislature may determine which old age program shall be incorporated |