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Show Higher Pay for Legislators h Proposed m Bill SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 7 11'.?) -The highest budget ever recommended recom-mended by a governor of Utah before be-fore it, the state legislature reached reach-ed the half-way mark in itg de- liberations today, convening for the session's 30th day. Dubbed an economy" sesston, the legislature scarcely finished the presentation of the chief executive's exec-utive's charge that the state operate oper-ate within its estimated income and available surplus before members mem-bers of the House of Representatives Representa-tives were questioning that policy and contemplating an extension of expenditures. The house heard two "finance measures after the governor's message mes-sage was delivered but took final action on neither. One, a resolution to set legislator's pay at $1 per day for the duration of their terms rather than $4 daily during the session, was made a special order of business. Boycr Sponsors Bill The other, a bill to appropriate $10,000 for a $50,000 arts building build-ing at Utah State Agricultural college at Logan for use of rural ctlucational assemblages wishing to meet on the campus, became unfinished business when the house adjourned after discussing it at length. Rep. Selvoy J. Boyer, D., Utah, is sponsor of the bill. Although the budget proposed by the governor, totalling; $7,076,-51 $7,076,-51 6. 91 for the biennium, lopped nearly $2,500,000 from department requests and contained no appropriation appro-priation for teachers' retirement, it was the largest ever recommended recom-mended by a Utah governor. Growth of existing institutions with increasing demand lifted it to an all-time high despite sharp slashes in institutional requests-It requests-It was about $850,000 less than the budget finally adopted by the 1037 session, but was well above the budget recommended to that session by Gov. Henry H. Blood. , Before hearing the budget message, mes-sage, which was presented to the two bodies of the legislature by their reading clerks at separate sessions, the house killed a measure meas-ure proposing regulation of funeral directors. One of two much disputed naturopathy bills was advanced for final consideration of the senate sen-ate today as was another controversial contro-versial measure which would give the power to name successors for resigned members of congress I or the state legislature to county j or district political committees of the party from which the resign- ing office-holder was elected. The bill would revoke the governor's powers to name such successors. Bills introduced in the senate included : A measure to appropriate $35,-000 $35,-000 for the University of Utah for an addition to the medical building. build-ing. A bMl to permit employment agencies to increase commissions charged for services from eight to 20 per cent. |
