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Show rage JMgnt By WILLIAM T. INGLEHEART ffat Watc Pre.s.s An.i'iciaUon With Governor Herbert B. Maw's $Hi,UO0,000 budget before them, seventy-two bills introduced in the senate and sixty-eight in the House of Representatives the twenty-sixth session of the Utah Stale Legislature completed its second week fully organized and ready to devote the remainder of the session to actual law making. Only one bill has reached the statute books thus far and that one provides for the increase in 'pay of legislators to the newly ' authorized constitutional limit of j $300 per year. And speaking of pay increases, there are already pending bills increasing or authorizing autho-rizing increases for the salaries of all elective and the major appointive appoin-tive state officials, county officials, offi-cials, district attorneys, mayors and city commissioners. Representatives Selvoy J. Boy-er Boy-er (D-Springville) and H. H. Lunt (R-Cedar City) are the bigger pay advocates in the house while Sen. Mitchell Melich (R-Moab), is the major sympathizer with under-paid officials in the Senate. Public servants have come in for and the labor relations act. These bills are sponsored by the labor bloc of the house, among them Reps. Frank Benacci (D-Helper), Mrs. C. L. Jack (D-Salt Lake), Rep. Rasmussen, D. S. Walker CD-Salt CD-Salt Lake), and others. The long standing discussion of the divisions of the waters of the Colorado river were brought to a legislative focus by the proposal of Sen. Melich that a committee of the legislature be named to report re-port on the pending treaty between be-tween the United States and Mexico Mex-ico on this subject. The pros and cons of the publication publi-cation by newspapers of the activities ac-tivities of county, city and school district ' financial transactions appeared ap-peared in one house bill and three senate bills. Rep. Rees, Salt Lake would eliminate the detailed voucher description of county disbursement dis-bursement from the county auditor's audi-tor's report. Sen. Melich proposes in his three bills to have the counties, coun-ties, cities and school districts publish minutes of their proceedings proceed-ings relating to the allowance of claims, letting of contracts and granting of rebates on taxes or assessments. Looking to post-war development, develop-ment, several measures dealing with authorities of tax imposing political units to set up planning other consideration -also in a number num-ber of civil service, retirement and pension plans offered in behalf be-half of non-teaching employees in the schools, county firemen, employees em-ployees of state custodial institutions institu-tions and the state highway patrol. pa-trol. All of these would be eligible for benefits similar to those now given state-wide only to employees of the Welfare commission, the state health board and the department depart-ment of employment security of the state industrial commission. Senator Taylor P. Brockbank CD-Salt CD-Salt Lake) is the senate spokesman spokes-man for a number of these measures, meas-ures, while Reps. T. M. Rees CD-Salt CD-Salt Lake), Burton H. Adams CD-Pleasant CD-Pleasant Grove) and T. Earl Foote (D-Provo) are the house advocates of such measures. No legislature would be complete com-plete without some investigations, so the motion of Rep. Clifton G. M. Kerr (R-Tremonton) for a house committee to probe the financial operations, and maybe other operations op-erations of the state liquor control con-trol commission, hardly came as a complete surprise. On this committee com-mittee are Reps. Adams, chairman, chair-man, Kerr, Joseph L. Newey (D-Ogden), (D-Ogden), Kenneth S. Bennion CD-Salt CD-Salt Lake), and Royal J. Brinker-hoff Brinker-hoff (R-Bicknell). To the house elections committee headed by Rep. Joseph E. Rees (R-Morgan) went the house seat contest committees and other similar agencies ag-encies are in the legislative hoppers. hop-pers. More measures of a similar simi-lar and related nature are in the making. The Governor's desire to retain part of the income from motor vehicle ve-hicle registration and gas taxes is certain to meet legislative resistance resis-tance in the form of bills now pending to prohibit the diversion of such income from state road funds. All in all, the legislators have already set themselves a lot of major problems to deal with, and they show every sign of digging right in for what may be the busiest busi-est and is certain to be one of the most important sessions in the state's history. brought - by Republican county chairman Mark Paxton of Delta against C. E. Freer, Democrat the declared elected representative representa-tive from Millard county. Decision on the contest will probably not be made until the Supreme court has decided the pending action for a declaratory judgment in the recount petition of J. Bracken Lee against Governor Gover-nor Maw. Changes in the election law for all offices and for the judiciary in particular are certain to lose a lot of miscellaneous oratory when they come to the floors of the legislature. leg-islature. A headless ballot, changes chan-ges in the primary law system, the non-partisan election of judges and such like mean differences of opinion that will be thoroughly aired before the shooting subsides into law. State senatorial voting districts are provided in another measure. In this connection considerable interest has been manifested in the proposal of Lawrence L. Rasmussen Ras-mussen (D-Summit) to reduce the voting age from 21 to 18 years. He. is strongly supported by veterans of previous wars and many of the returning veterans of the current upheaval. Labor interests are already on the calendars with bills liberalizing liberaliz-ing the workmen's compensation act, the occupational disease act |