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Show HOUSE MEMBERS TALK OF I EXTM SESSION There is a good deal of talk among house members in regard to an extra session of tho present legislature to consider con-sider revenue measures exclusively. Thero is a strong conviction, especially among tho members who have had previous pre-vious legislative experience, that the state is In a bad way financially and that something must bo done to increase the revenues. Discussing tho matter yesterday, yester-day, D. H. Morris, minority leader, said; It is useless to try to arrlvo at a solution of .this all-Important problem In tho way we havo been trying to solve it. We have had these bills up In special Joint committee, but It has become wholly evident that It will require much time and patience to glvo Utah a revenue system that will meet its growing needs. Xo sort of committoo work, I think, can avail to arrive at a satisfactory solution. solu-tion. Those who havo been on that joint committee have worked night and day, but It Ih Impossible to deal with this nil-Important problem fairly when we havo tho rush of the work of a regular legislative session with us. I cannot bring myself to believe that tho special commission which studied the rovenue question for two whole years brought In a report that was absolutely worthless. I know some of the men on that commission and I cannot believe that their painstaking pains-taking efforts were all in vain. At any rate. It seems to mo that the question of putting this state's revenues on a basis commensurate with tho demands on the treasury Is tho biggest question that the stato has to deal with today; and, moreover, more-over, I do not believe It can bo dealt with unless every representative representa-tive and every senator gives It his undivided attention for several days. We are making 'appropriations here almost every day, which there Is no possibility In the world of mooting out of tho estimated revenues. 1 say frankly tliat tho stato has never been In so tight a box as It la right now, and thero la no reason for It except that our revenuo laws aro Inadoquato and our revenue system antiquated. Several others among the older members mem-bers of the house havo boon talking In a similar trend for several days, or slnco it becamo apparent that the Joint committee com-mittee could not find a satisfactory solution solu-tion of the puzzle In the scries 6f bills Introduced In tho senate. It Is their opinion that four or five days devoted to the consideration of a revised revenuo system, interrupted by no other business, would load to a solution. At any rate, they are all agreed that the revenues do not meet tho demands of a state that Is growing steadily and alBo that thero Is no good reason why thoy should not. |
