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Show (license fee toW hunting save deer m the fee uld befthe22newbm3 MarT'innethe Senate11 during intrdUpC wouW provide for pay-the pay-the week womu t fe ame animals to the dis- SurfsaToedfeTerminet,edam- Hinder Ike j .fourth week as it was alive at tne, end of the third week wtte re vival of junkets to state i tions. Reversing its stand c-i , week before, when it went to O. ; den for a day, the legislature de cided to stay home, as a body, ; and let committees make the ucational tours." Upshot of the decision found the Senate with a bare quorum of 12 members I there were times when as many as 12 were seated in the chambr) Thursday, Feb. b, while its public institutions committee com-mittee visited the Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural College at Logan. Progress was retarded somewhat during the day, although the quorum quor-um did okey motions to set up committees for immediate study ! of state building and state road-!,.j.- a v.o latter eTOWing By JAMES CONRAD 4 Members of the 27th Utah Legislature Leg-islature really got into the swing of this .during their fourth week of j-essions when they approved adoption adop-tion of a new style "headless ballot," bal-lot," voted to repeal gubernatorial depression emergency powers and appropriated $861,500 to finance Utah's Centennial. If approved by the governor, Utah's new "headless ballot" will j for the first time in history permit voters to cast their vote for the president and vice-president. No electors will be listed. j The ballot will be split up into j sections, one for national offices, , one for state offices, etc. Demo- crats and Republicans will not be j listed in separate columns, but will j be listed alphabetically with each other under" the respective offices. . No party emblems would appear on the ballots and it would be impossible im-possible to vote a straight ticket Candidates would be voted for by p'acing an X in a square to the lett of their names and the party of each candidate would be indicated indi-cated to the right of his name. Two Senate bills, 6 and 7, by Sens. Ward C. Holbrook (O-Davis) and Rue L. Oegg (R-Salt Lake) were signed by the governor. These new laws repeal the governor's gov-ernor's emergency powers which permitted him to order state departments de-partments to reduce their operating operat-ing budgets should state income tax drop and which permitted him to use any state revenues for public relief. Top House measures to receive approval during the week were HB-71 to appropriate motor vehicle vehi-cle registration funds to the road commission; HB-130 by Rep. E. K. Olson (D-Carbon) to grant World War Two veterans special income tax exemptions; SBt35 to permit second, third class cities towns, and libraries to establish retirement retire-ment systems; HB-62 and HB-65 co make $1,000,000 in liquor prof- not too adverse to killing meas- ures. The bill to control lobbyists and their activity, HB-60 by Rep. Frank Bonacci (D-Carbon), was defeated by the Republican ma- j jority which adopted an unfavor- I able committee report after Mr. i Bonacci had concluded an eloquent I but vain plea for support of the bill with the remark: "Well, I've ; had my say. Go ahead and kill the bill." SB-66 by Sens. Hirschi, H. Grant Vest (D-Uintah); Melich, Elias L. Day (R-Salt Lake) and Grant Midgley (D-Salt Lake) which would have permitted Utah banks to close their doors on Saturdays, was defeated by the so-called "cow county" representatives after passing pass-ing with only a bare majority in th upper house. Major political skirmishes of the week occurred when Republicans Republi-cans took the controversial labor bill from committee and placed it on the third reading calendar without report because th committee com-mittee had held the measure more than 15 days, and when HB-71 by highways and aeronautics committee commit-tee came up for discussion. Rep. Clifton G. M. Kerr (R-Box Elder) House majority leader and sponsor of HB-36 to define unfair labor practices on the part of employes em-ployes and to : outlaw secondary boycotts, -moved that' the bill be placed on the calendar and, acting act-ing under House rules, Speaker Rendell N. Mabey (R-Salt Lake) so ordered. However, between Mr. Kerr's motion and the final placing of the bill on the calendar, Reps. (Mrs.) C. L. Jack (D-Salt Lake) and Bonacci, minority members of the labor committee, fought in vain to have their "unfavorable" minority minor-ity report attached to the bill. However, the Republicans argued that the stand of every lawmaker would become apparent when the measure came up for consideration considera-tion on the floor. out of the governor's request for an increase in the gasoline tax from four to six cents a gallon. As if to make up for the listless ( executive session the following day Tursday, the Senate went into the and not only rejected the interim appointment of Wndell Grover to the State Public Welfare Commission, Commis-sion, but approved a revision of the second reading calendar to throw several important measures dealing with state government up front for early consideration this week. They left two anti-racial discrimination measures at the head of second reading, largely because be-cause they result from itnerim committee action, and listed under them bills concerning control of public welfare funds; repealing the property tax through which counties provide 15 percent of the welfare fund; eliminating the Publicity Pub-licity and Industrial Development Dept. in its present form; providing provid-ing a basic budget for institutions of higher learning and setting up the State Water Board. Soon after announcing its rejection rejec-tion of Mr. Grover, the Senate received re-ceived a communication from Gov. Herbert B. Maw appointing Heber Bennion Jr., Manila wool grower and member of the State Tax Commission, to the State Finance Commission in place of Gordon Taylor Hyde, chairman. Mr. Hyde was not expected to be re-appointed, but the presentation of Mr. Bennion's name came as a surprise. sur-prise. It proved popular on first impression and observers began speculating that Arthur McFar-lane McFar-lane would be appointed to the tax commission. Mr. Grover's interim appointment appoint-ment runs out on March 1, and Senate action in his case indicates that another new name will appear ap-pear for appointment to the six-year six-year term beginning on that date. Senate action during the fourth week continued to concern minor measures as a rule, although it set up some important matters fgor final consideration this week. Among them are fish and game them are fish and game bills, one of which would raise the residence hunting and fishing license fees. Hunting licenses for residents would be upped from 4 to $5, fishing fish-ing for men and women will go to S3 from $2 for mn and $1 for women, wo-men, and non-resident fishing fees would be boosted to 5, the same its available to counties, cities, and towns and to create a city and county liquor control fund; HB-33, the perennial fertilizer which was compromised to gain approval, and HB-5 which would permit Utah cities, other than Salt Lake, to levy a special tax in 1947 and 1948 to establish public building reserves. Activity in the Senate includes consideration of new appointments by the governor, passage of SB-21 by Sens. Ward C. Holbrook (D-Davis) (D-Davis) and Claud Hirschi (R-Washington) (R-Washington) which would increase terms of juvenile judges and require re-quire guardians of children taken into court to pay costs of child care and SJR-6 by Sens. Sol J. Sel-vin Sel-vin (D-Tooele) and Mitchell Melich Mel-ich (R-Grand) which proposes a constitutional amendment to empower em-power the legislature to regulate salaries of its own members by removing the present $600 biennial bien-nial stipend. The House .during the week was HB-71 which would have appropriated appro-priated all motor vehicle registration registra-tion funds to the B and C road fund of the state road commission and which would have stripped the publicity department of its revenue reve-nue source, split te GOP house majority wide open. Members, headed by Rep. Daniel Dan-iel S. Frost (R-Kane), objected strenuously to the measure. He not only was supported by other GOP members, but also by the Democrats. It became apparent that the bill would never pass unless un-less a compromise was reached. As a result it was made a special order and the compromise was worked out by Rep. Mark Paxton (R-MiUard.) Under the compromise, the publicity pub-licity department would receive $300,000 annually from motor vehicle ve-hicle funds. The hill passed on final vote with 35 yes, 24 no, and 1 absent. Just as dead at the end of the |