Show Utah Win Will Not Have flave Direct Primary ary Law Democratic Legislative Steering Com Committee tt ur e Votes to Eliminate Reform in Election Election Election- Laws From Program By BURL ARMSTRONG No No o direct primary law will be passed by the 1917 7 legislature This fills action was decided upon by the Democratic legislative steering committee yesterday when a motion was adopted to eliminate this feature from the program of legislation Really it was not eliminated at all for the direct primary was never a part of the adopted p program for the coming oming session C C. C. C Richards of ot Ogden who Iwas I Iwas was present at the meeting was ask asked d why the direct primary was not included in- in in JD- I eluded clued In the Democratic platform He was chairman of the platform committee at the state BUlte convention Mr Richards declared it was not broached at the meetings of the platform platform plat plat plat- form committee was not discussed and therefore was not Included Instead a law may be proposed to remedy the present system of or party primary and bring under the supervision supervision supervision super super- vision of the state these farces farce A thought along the line of or purifying purifying purify purify- ing the party primary and retaining the convention system has occurred to me many times during the years that the direct primary laws in various various various va va- va- va rious states have proven extremely unsatisfactory un un- satisfactory It is to the credit of or Utah that it has lIas not written a primary law Into its statutes and when other states have established the impracticability Impracticability impracticability of it Utah is now in line Une to present an innovation that should become become become be be- come a vast Improvement This Idea Is to place under state supervision supervision supervision su su- su- su the holding of party primaries primaries primaries maries establish a great register and declare an eligibility for voters par par- If It the delegates are elected honestly the conventions cant can't be as rotten as some wt we all have seen The present method of or electing the delegates delegates dele dele- gates is an abomination The convention system la is the only feasible method or ot nominating candi- candi dates The direct primary bars the poor man from seeking office and makes two instead of one election First you run In the elimination contest contest con con- test teet and spend a a. lot more money than con I the law allows to see whether you land landon on the ticket Jf U 5 ou do land then you OU overstep the limit again to win at the final election The decision of the steering leering committee commit commit- tee to eliminate the direct primary should strike a popular chord One of the first reforms to to- tobe be en enacted enacted enacted en- en acted at the coming session will be the revamping of ot the rules Instead ad of ot having so many committees the list will be reduced to a a. few Work that should be done by clerks will be taken from the shoulders of lawmakers To bring this about a rules committee commit commit- tee of three has been selected by the D Democratic senate senate- caucus This consists consists consists con con- of Senators Dern Chez and Evans The committee will get bUs bUsat busy at once An Innovation suggested Is to make a rule that in the last fifteen pr twenty days of the session no bills may be In Introduced Introduced introduced In- In without unanimous consent of either house This will leave a long per for tor the introduction of bills and andin andin andin in the TIle closing d days ys the deliberations will not be Interrupted by the arrival of belated measures The appointment of or Senator Franklin Evans on the rules committee is a ar r reminder minder that the Democratic caucus has been convinced that he stands to today today today to- to day where he stood two years jears ago inthe in inthe the he matter of legislation He was In- In voted to attend the caucus and made such a statement y S f Evans was silent during the campaign and many Democrats have accused him of working for the Republicans Republicans Re Re- publicans His name appeared on the Republican speakers' speakers list but he de denied denIed denied de- de nied having spoken for the Republican ticket Wherefore Therefore he was given a seat among the mighty and voted with the Democratic caucus to make Senator J J. J W. W Funk president of the senate Another important bit of legislation that will b be tackled by the steering committee relates to taxation C. C C C. Richards Is la chairman of the committee on revenues and taxation Governor Governor- elect Bamberger and the state board of equalization concluded a a a- conference with the conviction that the state must rev revert rt to the old system of tax levy be because use of ot the failure of the voters to adopt the second proposed constitutions t amendment on the ballot at the November election The 17 1916 tax levy was framed on the assumption ass the amendment would be adopt adopted d d. d and much legislation isnow is isnow s snow now necessary to unravel the tangle |