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Show binder keh Qj By J. J. CAHOON Salt Lake City (Special to the Springville Herald As the regular regu-lar session of Utah's twenty-fifth legislature draws to a close this week, is becomes more and more evident that the most important measure, politically speaking at least, was a bill which failed to pass. The measure was S. B. 164, designed de-signed to reduce the dictatorial powers of Gordon Taylor Hyde and his Finance Commission, and in the bill's death especially in the manner of its demise lies a tale of political "horse-trading" which will completely dominate the Utah gubernatorial race next year. For the death of S. B. 164 at the hands of the House of Representatives Rep-resentatives has brought a Democratic Demo-cratic split which vritually will be impossible to heal next year, while the Republican forces at first disappointed dis-appointed when the measure failed J;o reach the Governor's desk now realize that the death of S. B. 164 on the House floor has brought greatly increased hopes for a Republican Re-publican victory in 1944. Political issues, which thus far in the session had made themselves felt only in legislative bills, flared into vitriolic and personal attacks on Maw led by Senator Lynn S. Richards. D.. Salt Lake, in the senate, and Reps. Frank Mozley and Quayle Cannon, Jr.,' Salt Lake Republicans, in the House. Mozley started off the fireworks when he arose on the floor of the House immediately after the defeat de-feat of the finance bill and sarcastically sarcas-tically moved that the House thank Maw for his "personal lobby" against the bill referring to a Dprnnrrflfin caucus at whinh thp Governor appeared and opposed the i , bill during the noon recess just prior to the House action on the measure. S. B. 164 is dead, but its ghost will haunt Utah politics during the next 20 months, with both Republicans Repub-licans and anti-Maw Democrats attacking at-tacking the governor for his alleged al-leged attempts to influence legislative legis-lative vetoes rather than, as Mozley Moz-ley put it, "to face the responsibility responsibil-ity of a veto." The true power for and against the bill in the House was shown, not on the final ,roll call on passage pas-sage of the measure, but on an amendment proposed by Rep. Grant Midgley, D., Salt Lake, to emasculate the bill by removing the six-man commission proposal. After this amendment had passed, 32-24, even the former backers of the measure voted against it in the i amended form. 1 Vote on the amendment, with "for" votes being against the bill I was as follows: I For: Anderson, D., Utah; Elliott, D., Utah; Grotegut, D., Utah; Lov- 1 eridge, D., Utah; Roberts, D., Utah. |