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Show ' i'ol House Owners' Association, a banker, a business man, and a representative of labor. No one with an income in excess of $840 a year can rent a project dwelling. dwell-ing. The senate also passed the agricultural fair trade practices bill already approved by the I lower house. It exempted livestock live-stock and livestock products from the bill's provisions. As it stands the measure seeks stabilization stabili-zation of the price of farm products pro-ducts at a minimum of cost of production plus 6 per cent. It outlaws certain unfair practices as well. ing the direct primary law and providing for a non-partisan judiciary, ju-diciary, natural gas, patent medicine medi-cine and occupation tax bills, old age assistance bills, appropriation appropria-tion bills, and many others. Governor Henry H. Blood has signed 29 measures and vetoed one. A total of 585 measures, exclusive ex-clusive of resolutions and memorials, mem-orials, have been introduced. Thirteen bills have been passed by both houses and as yet unsigned un-signed by the governor. Eighteen have been killed. Many have been passed by one house, but unacted upon by the other. O "'" One more week and the twen- f ty-third Utah state legislature c becomes statute-recorded history. I The curtain spelling finis to emption to $500. Tax raising measures aiming to restore revenues rev-enues lost by tlie exemption propose pro-pose to lower exemptions in id- A :. . ... i . : ... ; two years is due to fall next y Thursday. It will unless the oft-enused oft-enused device of "turning back ; the clock" is again resorted to in order to gain additional hours for legislative action, jf That Father Time will be i "halted in his tracks" is almost certain if the law-makers hope J to find opportunities to consider even a small fraction of the new I I laws proposed in the multitude! I off measures introduced. Such 1 action will bring the session's f close to a week from Saturday in thi opinion of legislative ex- ( l, perts. j I .Last week's highlighted activi-j : ties centered largely in the pas-i t sage by either the senate or low-l low-l it house of several controversial bills a modified homestead tax ' exemption and income tax rais- ing acts by the house, and low cost housing and public-owned j utilities financing bills by the f senate. These are believed due l for, "roughsledding" in further ; consideration by branches still ; to pass upon them. : The homestead tax exemption i bill passed by the house lowers J' the proposed $2000 in value ex- ; , unmuiiis income taxes irom ?buu to $400 for single persons; from i $1200 to $800 for married per- sons, and from $300 to $200 for I dependents. The first 1 per cent ' of the tax on the first net tax-j tax-j able income is placed at $500 in-1 in-1 stead of $1000 as at present. Rates are carried up to a maxi-mum maxi-mum of 0 per cent instead of the current 5 per cent. The income tax bill also taxes the incomes of non-residents, exempting stocks, bonds and notes against corporations outside out-side the state, but which might be held in trust in Utah. Passage of the tax measure was followed by defeat of a bill proposing to divert $300,000 a year from liquor sales profits to the state high school fund. The senate by a close vote passed pas-sed the controversial bill under which cities and counties of the state with more than 3000 population popu-lation may set up housing authorities auth-orities and undertake slum clearance clear-ance and low cost housing projects pro-jects in cooperation with the federal government. Any such authority in a first class city must be composed of two members mem-bers of the Utah Apartment Another controversial measure removing the tax from oleomargarine oleomar-garine made from domestic fats and oils and doubling the levy on that made from imported products was passed by the senate. Earlier in the week the senate killed H. B. No. 5!), a measure mea-sure aiming to simplify procedure proce-dure for financing publicly-owned utilities, and passed S. B. No. 107, which according to its sponsors spon-sors tends to curb municipal officers of-ficers from undertaking projects before the cost is known. The house passed a bill banning bann-ing fireworks and prohibiting the firing of toy pistols, etc. using explosives. It also approved a jneasure prohibiting any person holding a government job paying $1000 or more annually from holding office in any political party. The latter is expected to encounter stiff opposition in the senate. The lower house relegated to oblivion two measures which had passed the Senate after much debate. It killed an amendment amend-ment to the present anti-syndicalism anti-syndicalism an ac: which would have liberalized the law in respect re-spect to labor meetings. It also defeated S. B. 13. under which a person failing to settle a judgment judg-ment for personal injury or property pro-perty damage following an automobile auto-mobile accident would be deprived depriv-ed of his driver's license and registration plates until the claim had been adjusted or financial responsibility shown by taking out of liability insurance or posting post-ing of a real estate bond. The legislators began their next to last week's deliberations Monday with9 approximately 500 bills still to be considered. It is certain that a major portion of these will die in sifting committees. com-mittees. These powerful committees commit-tees now have before them all but about a score of measures, only four remaining on the house calendar board and approximately approximate-ly a dozen on the senate calendar. In the hands of these committees commit-tees are such important bills as those pertaining to payment of compensation for occupational disease victims, the wages and hours regulation bill, bills amend- zzzzz |