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Show Under The Capitol Dome ... By Harry Marlow before election day. All were killed, the attorney bills by a vote of 7-13 and the registration bill by a count of 3-ll Voting for the attorney bills were Sens. Brockbank, Day, Knight, Lund, Melich, Milliman and Hop-kin, Hop-kin, while those against were Sens. Burns. Clegg, Elggren, Fowles, Gibbons, Gibson, Jenkins, Jolley, Jones, Larsen, Marsden, Martha-kis Martha-kis and Orser. Thus six Democrats and seven Republicans joined to kill the measure. The party line was ignored just as completely in the death of the registration bill. Although Sens. Burns. Elggren, Fowles and Mar-thakis Mar-thakis gave the bill four Democratic Demo-cratic votes in favor of the measure, mea-sure, it was killed by seven Republicans, Repu-blicans, Sens. Clegg, Day, Jones, Knight, Lund, McShane and Melich, Mel-ich, and four Democrats, Sens. Gibson, Jenkins, Orser and Hopkin. A like measure on registration was killed in the House by Democrats Demo-crats and Republicans alike in accepting ac-cepting an "unfavorable" committee commit-tee report. The furore over SB 65, the famous fam-ous Day-Fowles bill which in its original form would have restricted restrict-ed use of the .22 rifle and pellet air gun to the target range, was fixed up by its proponents bv changing the meaning entirely. All reference tp restriction of the small arms was deleted and in its place came a provision to make parents liable for misuse of the firing pieces by youngsters under 16. Meanwhile, the "economy" philosophy phil-osophy of this legislature readied into the salary question and the iiouse turnea down natiy salary hikes for mayors, auditors and commissioners in first and second oiass ernes, it also killeu a bill to require the licensing of all plumbers plumb-ers in cities and towns of less than i000 population and turned down a measure that would allow overtime over-time pay for work on public projects pro-jects of more than eight hours per day. . . Still in preparation by the joint appropriations committee, headed by Sens. Fred J. Milliman (D-Mammoth), (D-Mammoth), is an appropriations bill which has been promised by the fortieth day, which comes a-long a-long about the end of next week. Indications are that the bill will be about the same as the $15,-000,000 $15,-000,000 odd measure passed two years ago. Members of the committee com-mittee have indicated the estimated estimat-ed revenues will go much closer to that figure than the $13,200,000 Gov. J. Bracken" Lee presented in his message. They are speaking of "sifting"s committees rather early in the 28th regular session of the Utah Legislature. Such talk doesn't usually come around until the fortieth day. but when the two houses passed the halfway mark in their 60-day session ses-sion this week, the calendar was so cluttered that veteran lawmakers lawmak-ers insisted early appointment of sifting committees would be necessary nec-essary soon if "more important" legislation is to get action. In all, approximately 480 measures mea-sures had been introduced in the two houses on the thirtieth day, with nearly 170 on the second reading calendar in the Senate and between 80 and 90 on third reading in the House. Four bills have been passed by both houses, while . 11 others have been killed, withdrawn or discarded through 'action on a duplicate House bill. At the same time, five House bills have been passed by both bodies and five have been killed. Appointment of sifting committees commit-tees isn't too popular with the sol-ons, sol-ons, especially the ambitious ones who get their measures in early and drive them to the front of the calendar. But unless the action suddenly speeds up, they will find many of their proposals dropping into the seive for sifting. Because of the powerful Democratic Dem-ocratic influences in the House, two matters that are certain to draw attention of the Legislature will be the welfare lien law, instituted in-stituted by the 1947 regular and 1948 special sessions, and the Clegg - Vest labor bill, Utah's counterpart to the Taft-Hartley. Bills have been introduced for repeal of both and a hearing has been conducted by the State Women's Wo-men's Legislative Council on the labor question. Fullmer H. Latter, state AFL president, spoke out in favor of returning to the "little Wagner act," while Grover A. Giles, former attorney general and now counsel for the Industrial Re- " lations Council maintained there had been no labor strife under the Clegg-Vest law and that it should stand. The welfare lien bill will furnish the second debate of the session on public assistance matters. The first was a matter of financing the welfare department through the remainder of the current biennium, ending June 30. After the House had passed a measure to give the department an additional $398,000 for the first six months of 1949, the Senate welfare commitee, headed by Sen. Orrice C. McShane explained that it was believed the lower amount would get the department through the first quarter, after which, a new administration would be in power and should have the opportunity oppor-tunity of living within the budget for the next three months. Later he was presented with figures by the welfare department and proposed to raise the amount to $189,000 for the first quarter and introduced a bill to allow the State Board of Examiners to supplement sup-plement welfare aprpopriations from the emergency relief fund in case of extreme emergencies. He maintained, meanwhile, that .the end of the Kennecott Copper strike and an eventual break in the weather wea-ther to end "seasonal" unemployment unemploy-ment would most likely cut welfare wel-fare needs. Heaviest debate so far in the session came on the issue of expanding ex-panding Weber College to a four-year four-year Weber State College. Passed by both houses 42-16 in the House and 13-7 in the Senate the bill looked certain to draw a veto when it went to Gov. J. Bracken Brac-ken Lee this week! There was quite a debate in the Senate last week over House bills to provide fees for attorneys representing re-presenting indigents in the district dis-trict and supreme courts and a Senate bill to require registration agents to- canvass their districts , and sign up unregistered citizens |