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Show than 50 to be acted upon during the special session starting Monday. Mon-day. Other legislation may be taken up under suggestions from the governor. Both senators and representatives representa-tives from the Salt Lake county legislative district last week divided di-vided their ballots on the controversial con-troversial chain store tax bill-Five bill-Five solons voted yes on the measure- The lower house vote was divided 14 yes, four no, and one absent. Senators Grant Mac-farlane Mac-farlane and George A. Christen-sen Christen-sen cast the nay ballots in the senate. The four negative house ballots were cast by Representatives Representa-tives John C. Leary, Quayle Cannon Can-non Jr., J. I. Nichols and Parnell Hinckley. Six measures introduced or co-authored co-authored by Salt Lake county legislators passed both houses and were signed by the governor up to last Saturday night. Fourteen Four-teen more have passed both branches and are now before the chief executive for final action. These give the Salt Lake delegation dele-gation by far the largest number of enacted bills of any single district representation. Salt Lake legislators to have bills signed by the governor are Senator Stanley N. Child, Senator Sena-tor Mrs. E- E. Ericksen, and Representatives Re-presentatives J. Harry McGean and John C- Leary. Senators Ed H. Watson and Child lead in the number of measures passed by both houses, with three each. Representatives McGean and Leary are tied with enacted legislation le-gislation in the house. Each had UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME By Uarda McCarty Limiting action on controversial controver-sial measures to a scant half dozen doz-en or so, the regular session of the twenty-fourth Utah State Legislature came to a close Monday Mon-day just before an extra session called to consider and provide for reorganization of the state government in particular got under un-der way. Seemingly determined to a-void a-void legislation that might impose im-pose additional tax burdens on the people, business or industry; increase regulatory activities of state authorities; add or detract materially to or from educational facilities; interfere with liquor control or sales or change existing exist-ing statutes to any important extent, the lawmakers sidetracked side-tracked practically everything of highly controversial or far-reaching far-reaching nature. In all only 101 measures out of 555 introduced were passed I by both legislative branches. Of these 25 had been signed by Governor Herbert B. Maw up to last Saturday night. He had vetoed ve-toed only one. Seventy-six remained re-mained to be approved or vetoed. ve-toed. Two were on the legislative legisla-tive calendars. Eleven had been withdrawn, leaving a total of 440 measures killed by senate or house votes throughout the ses- one measure eitner introduced I alone or co-authored signed by the governor and one each passed by both houses. Senator Christ-ensen Christ-ensen introduced one bill passed by both and signed by the governor. gover-nor. Mrs. Ericksen had one bill signed and another passed by both branches. Representative T. W. Rees had one H.J-R. signed. Representatives Mrs. C. L. Jack and Mrs. Albert Jensen each had a bill passing both houses. sion or by striking enactment clauses in, the final days of last week. Taxation bills passing both branches include the chain store graduated tax measure; a bill permitting county commissioners commission-ers to levy up to 1 mill for participation par-ticipation in weed eradication programs excepting in Salt Lake county where the levy is limited to one-half mill; another imposing impos-ing a 4 cent per gallon tax on Diesel fuel, and another bringing bring-ing federal employes living in the state under the Utah Income Tax law. Several far-reaching tax measures were not even discussed. dis-cussed. Enacted legislation affecting education include amendments to the teachers' retirement act, including one fixing minimum pensions at $30 per month with a maximum of $100; a bill increasing in-creasing non-resident college fees from $45 to $55; another establishing courses in police science at the University of Utah; another providing education educa-tion for handicapped children; a bill creating scholarships of $100 each per year in junior colleges and lower divisions of senior in- - stitutions and one creating a state course of study committee. Legislation favored by organized organ-ized labor includes the making of certain occupational diseases compensable under the Workmen Work-men s Compensation Act; extending extend-ing industrial -compensation coverage cov-erage outside the state on a reciprocal re-ciprocal basis; rewriting and liberalizing lib-eralizing the state unemployment compensation act, and providing for the securing of wage payment pay-ment by employers. The Old Age Assistance law was liberalized. Several health measures were approved.-A uniform traffic law was adopted. Milk marketing and agreements lor marketing of fruits and vegetables affect agriculturists agri-culturists and dairymen. New highways were added to the state system. Stockholders in state banks were relieved of double liability. Hunting on posted areas without permission was made a misdemeanor. Compulsory earmarking ear-marking of livestock was abolished. abolish-ed. Twenty reorganization measures mea-sures were passed, leaving more |