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Show 4 Setting au enviable record for speed in "getting down to business," busi-ness," the twenty-third session of the Utah State Legislature last Friday closed Its second week of activities well advanced along the lawmaking highway. A noticeable desire to got things done as speedily as possible was not the only outstanding feature of the first 12 days of legislative maneuverlngs. Another was the apparent! desire and willingness on the part of all senators and representatives to pull a coordinated coordi-nated stroke in efforts to draft only such new laws and effect such changes in existing ones as will benefit the state as a' whole. This cohesion of effort was made more pronounced by the seeming absence of the definite administration adminis-tration and ntl-admlnlstrltion lines that developed early in the 1937 legislative session. Acrimony and cleavage has apparently given giv-en way to a unity of purpose that trained observer believe will weld so-called 'progressives and so-called conservative together in the Interest of worthwhile legislation. Both legislative branches got away to a flying start in the ear- ly organization sessions and echo-j es of Governor Henry H. Blood's V. R.F.C. funds. Bills defeated related re-lated to state appointees. One would have required confirmation every two yean of appointees confirmed by the senate. The other oth-er prohibited legislators accepting a state appointment while serving In the legislature or (or two years thereafter. The dozen or more bills affecting affect-ing agriculture and livestock interests in-terests already introduced propose pro-pose in brief: to require all livestock live-stock owners to brand stock and record Ibe brands In efforts to stop theft of livestock; to provide stricter regulation of commercial feeds; to create a Citah farm deb-It deb-It commission; to appropriate $60,000 for Bang's diseases control; con-trol; to require grading of agricultural agri-cultural products shipped out of the state; to Appropriate $20,000 for farm organization and agricultural agri-cultural marketing work; to appropriate ap-propriate $15,000 for noxious weed conitrol ou state-owned lands; to appropriate $135,000 for' general noxious weed control; con-trol; to place the state chemist under the department of agriculture; agricul-ture; to permit land owners to organize shooting areas and collect col-lect fees for shooting; to appropriate appro-priate $5,000 for the lntermoun- tain Junior Fat Stock Show, and a .house Joint memorial urging congress to prevent reduction of present tariffs on Cuban sugar. Taxation and revenue measures mea-sures introduced propose: to require re-quire use of Bales tax revenues for welfare and relief needs, with surpluses to be Invested in government or government-guaranteed bonds and sold as needed; to levy an excise tax of 4 cents per 1,000 cubic feat on natural gas sold or delivered in Utah; to permit counties to lease or rent tax sale properties; to use sales tav revenues for emergency relief re-lief funds; tto exempt from taxation taxa-tion homes up to $2,000 in value and personal property up to $300, and to appropriate $700,000 annually an-nually from liquor sales receipts for the state high school fund. So-called labor bills introduced propose: to repeal the syndicalism syndical-ism and sabotage law and another message, of do's and donts had scarcely, died away before the bill hopper. began to grind their dally grist of measures introduced by the lawmakers. The Vhlef executive's biennial couii il'to the liglslators summed up to a strong plea, for economy no new governmental spending agencies, no additional taxes or bond issues, uo building appropriations appro-priations beyond those absolutely absolute-ly necessary, no departmental expenditure ex-penditure that will prevent a balanced bal-anced budget not even a homestead home-stead tax exemption calling for a drastic reconstruction of revenue statutes'. . Governor Blood opposed diversion diver-sion of - state revenues to local governments, gasoline taxes to other than highway uses, and sales tax revenues to other than public welfare purposes. He was also against changes In the existing exist-ing liquor control laws, especially to amend it to strike out sections sec-tions restricting freedom of labor la-bor organizations to assemble; to provide for registration of persons per-sons accepting employment during dur-ing a strike by a recognized national na-tional union; to establish a wages and hours standard for concerns engaged in intrastate commerce, and to proh'blt employment by government units of persons whose spouses are gainfully employed. em-ployed. " Measures which may be classed class-ed as political in nature propose: to repeal the law empowering the any that authorized the sale of liquor by the drink. A non-partisan Judiciary law providing for .the appointment of Judges was favored. So was careful care-ful consideration of the traffic safety problem, and a wages and hour law that will keep Utahs labor la-bor relations act in conformity with the federal law If the latter Is amended by the present United States congress. The second week of legislative activities ended with 153 bills Introduced; In-troduced; 82 in the senate and 71 in the lower house. This is five more than the 1937 legislature had introduced during the same period.' Five measures had been passed In the two branches this year, two defeated and one tabled. ta-bled. None has as yet been passed pass-ed by both senate and bouse. Four bills passed by the senate Include one providing for the fly-' fly-' lng of the American fUg from schools while In session, another prohibiting diversion of fishing and hunting license fee monies to any other purpose than wild life propagation management, and another fixes the fees for justices of the peace for services In criminal oases at $3.00. The one 'bill passed in the house provide pro-vide that a retailer's mark-up under the fair trade act shall be not less than '6 per cent of the ost to him after adding freight charges and cartage. The bill tabled la the house proposes that the prevailing wage scale be paid employes on projects pro-jects financed by emergency or governor to fill legislative vacancies vacan-cies from lists approved by county coun-ty central committees; to transfer trans-fer power to fill legislative vacancies vacan-cies from the governor to the party par-ty central committee concerned, and to create a non-partisan judiciary judi-ciary through appointment of judges jud-ges by the governor. Bills establishing new departments depart-ments or commissions propose, to create a state constabulary including inclu-ding highway patrol, bureau of criminal identification and Investigation, Inves-tigation, and liquor enforcement officers; to establish a state department de-partment of Justice; to create a department of commerce; to create cre-ate a state civil service departments depart-ments and to include a hospital for disabled miners at the state sanatorium in Ogden. In the realm of education bills propose: to establish Junior colleges col-leges at Roosevelt and Richfield; to require character education In 1 schools. In the general classification |