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Show measure are Sen. J. Welton Ward (D-Boxelder), chairman of the senate sen-ate agriculture committee; Rep. Horace L. Allred (R-Duchesne), chairman of the house irrigation ' committee; Aloozo W. Watson, secretary of the Utah Water Users' ; Association and representing pro- ponents of the Wallace bill, and a representative of Melich bill sup- : porters. Extensive debate Is also expected over two election bills, one seeking elimination of the ''runoff" and changing the primary election date to the second Tuesday in Septem- ber, as introduced by Sen. Ward j C. Holbrook (D-Davis) , and one providing a "headless ballot" through removal of party emblems and designating a candidate's party par-ty affiliation under his name, as introduced by Sens. Holbrook and Melich. Some sort of a record was also set in the size of a bill, when Sen. Grant Midgley (D-Salt Lake) submitted sub-mitted a 262-page state insurance code worked out by his interim committee to study insurance legislation. leg-islation. Speed, too, came into the picture pic-ture with passage by both houses of a joint resolution to set up a committee of 15, including five 1 By JAMES CONRAD , With the business of organizing barely behind it, Utah's 27th Leg- j islature already is faced with battles bat-tles over labor, water and political problems, resulting from appear- j ance of 95 bills, a record number j for the two houses during their first week of action. j Most of the major legislation j was introduced in the senate, j where organiaztion was completed ; quickly, while the house, carrying its first Republican majority in 16 ' years, spent most of the week look-ing look-ing for employes and setting up ! committees. Two labor bills were tossed into the senate hopper by interests seeking seek-ing the advantage of early consid-1 eration. Both would tag labor with as many as six unfair labor practices prac-tices in an attempt to make employes em-ployes and unions responsible under un-der labor relations laws, according to sponsors. First of the measures to appear was authorized by Sen. Warwick C. Lamoreaux (D-Salt Lake) and would repeal Utah's "Little Wagner Wag-ner Act" and set up a new set of labor relations laws in its place. The second was sponsored by Sens. Rue L. Clegg (R-Salt Lake) and H. Grant Vest (D-Uintah), and carried the endorsement of the Utah Citizens for Sound Legislation. Legisla-tion. Lynn S. Richards, counsel for the endorsing organization and a former member of the senate from each house, four from the Municipal League, and one from the state tax commission to study participation of municipalities and counties in state revenues, such as liquor profits. from Salt Lake, said the latter measure does not go so far as the Lamoreaux bill, but that they are similar in equalizing responsibilities responsibili-ties of labor with those already borne by industry. Of particular interest on a statewide state-wide basis was the forming of battle bat-tle lines over the control of the state's water development program. pro-gram. Controversy arose over two water development measures, neither of which was introduced, but both of which received as much discussion on the senate floor as did any of the 59 measures introduced intro-duced in the upper house. Sen. Mitchell Melich (R-Grand), a member of the interim committee commit-tee to study Colorado River problems prob-lems as they apply to Utah, prepared pre-pared one of the measures, while the other is fathered by William R. Wallace, president of the Utah Water Users' Association. The former seeks appointment of a I state water board of 15 members, including the state engineer and to directors from each of seven waiter districts, with the board to handle survey and development of small streams and small reservoirs within the state. The Melich bill would make the water board a state agency responsible respon-sible for development of all intrastate intra-state waters and would leave the Colorado River compact duties ' with ' the state engineer. Board members would be appointed by the governor with aproval of the senate. The Wallace bill sets up the board of directors of the Utah Waiter Wai-ter Users' Association in an advisory ad-visory capacity to the state engineer engi-neer in 'the development of intrastate intra-state waters and leaves interstate waters entirely with the state engineer. en-gineer. It would also provide a board of five experts, to be appointed ap-pointed by the governor without consent of the senate, to put a final check and set up priorities on water projects. Proponents of the two bills attempted at-tempted to get together and iron out difficulties without success. They did agree, however, to turn the bills over to a compromise committee of 11, including four senators, four representatives and three Salt Lake and Ogden attorneys. attor-neys. In a single meeting, the compromise compro-mise committee agreed that a single bill could be drawn to set up a state water board, as proposed pro-posed by Gov. Herbert B. Maw in his message, of 15 men to be given authority as a state agency t administer ad-minister all water development affairs, af-fairs, both interstate and intrastate, intra-state, either as an independent body or in conjunction with the state engineer and his office. Working out the compromise |