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Show 4 Democrats Come Under Fire Democratic leadership in the Utah House of Representaitves came under fire this week from the state's Republican governor. The governor accused the House Speaker, Rep. Sheldon R. Brewster, of obstructing progress on certain key revenue bills. This attack on the speaker was, of course, mostly in the nature of an attack to cover up the shortcomings in the budget the governor presented early in the legislative session. It came after Speaker Brewster had taken the spotlight by proposing that the legislature appropriate only enough money to carry state departments through one year, thus forcing the legislature into session each year. This proposal was an imaginative one and it apparently caught the governor off guard. The governor's statement about inadequate leadership made at a hurriedly called press conference con-ference did not contain rational comment on the Brewster (Continued on Page Four) Democrats Come Under Fire (Continued from Page 1) proposal. The governor merely brushed them off as "ridiculous and impracical." Nor did the governor come up with any new suggestions as to how the financial puzzle which has stalled the House might be resolved. He merely repeated statements made before to the effect that the only way to meet the situation was the Clyde-Republican Clyde-Republican way which the Republican controlled Senate had passed. |