| Show NEW TAX DEADLOCK DEVELOPS DEVELOPS' House Balks B Over Accepting Report Upon Upon- U ponS Sales ales Levy Action Follows Heated Debate Over 2 Per PerCent PerCent PerCent Cent Impost Measure Sent Back to Committee On the brink of adjournment Utah's l I legislature gh gisl ture again deadlocked Tuesday wh when the house refused to accept to-accept accept a conference conference con con- ference report on a 2 2 per cent sales sale tax and ordered the bill bUI sent back to the committee The action followed a heated debate on the conference report during which the house which has been at odds with the senate for weeks over the sales tax divided and battled over procedure Meanwhile Republicans in the senate senate sen sen- ate formed a bloc during consideration tion of a bill allowing the governor to fill vacancies in office with the result that State Treasurer A. A Ethel Edsel Christensen R will be able to hold office for days das after the legislature legisla legisla- ture Lure closes Conferees' Conferees report on the senates senate's sales tax measure made its appearance appear appearS ance on the floor of the house after repeated delay Tuesday and an adjournment adjournment ad ad- was called while a technical technical tech tech- error was corrected I FIREWORKS BEGIN Back Back in in session however fireworks fireworks- began to shoot in all directions with Continued on Pane Pase Two SOLONS GO INTO NEW DEADLOCK Continued From Pare Page One the ale tax bloc led by Floor Leader Will L. L Hoyt D. D Juab vigorously vigorously vigor vigor- opposing the compromise agreement agreement agree agree- ment and demanding that the house conferees be instructed to insist upon house amendments to the measure Mr Hoyt ignited the fuse when he moved that the house refuse to concur concur con con- cur in two Items included in the conference conference con con- ference terence report deletion of the house t requiring that all revenue revenue reve reve- nue collected under a bracket system be turned over to the state tax commission com corn mission and to exempt all religious and charitable institutions from provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions of the levy Speaker I. I A A. A Smoot ruled the motion motion mo mo- tion out of order on the grounds that thata a conference report must be eIther cither accepted or rejected in total Mr Hoyt then moved that the report report re port be sent back to the committee an and that the house confer conferees s be instructed instructed in in- to reinsert the two house hoUe amendments This action drew vigorous objections from Re Representatives Darrell T T. Lane and Chris Greenhagen en D. D Salt Lake W i wo o 0 loudly cried that by instructing in in- conferees the very purpose o of a conference committee would be defeated Speaker Smoot again ruled Mr Hoyt's motion out or of order and suggested sug aug that he reword it to read that the recommendations to reinstate the house amendments be made to the committee Representative Conrad Frisch Frisch- knecht Jr D. D Sanpete then entered the discussion to request that the house hause conferees be instructed to ta hold holdout holdout holdout out for a 1 per cent rate Again Mr Lane objected A UA conference committee is a servant servant servant ser ser- vant of the house Mr Hoyt declared declared de de- dared and it is entire entirely within the province of the house to make recommendations recommendations recommendations to it iL The conference committee committee com corn should know the majority sentiment sen zen of ot the house Mr Lane sprang to his feet Our floor leader expounds a strange doctrine doctrine- he said I If we follow follow fol fol- fol low his reasoning why should we ve have hove a conference committee If It we ve bind our conferees one way and the senate enate binds its committee another r. r we will have ha a perpetual deadlock Mr Hoyt reworded his motion a a third time moving mo that thaL the house howe conferees send fend back the report with such recommendations as the house sees fit to take up sin singly ly thus opening open ing the way for tor a house vote vore on the controversial point poin t. t before the committee corn com mil tee resumed its it deliberations This Thi drew the ire of ot enta live tive Greenhagen en who char charged ed Mr I Hoyt's sole ole motive was to delay action ac ac- tion on the mea measure Although he had suggested the wording of oC the third motion made by bythe bythe bythe the Juab county floor leader Speaker Smoot again ruled it is out of order Mr Hoyt appealed from the decision deci slon sion of oC the chair and with Mr Lane on the rostrum a heated debate on procedure and rules was wac precipitated Mr Lane held with speakers speaker's decision although the vote was 28 to 28 As Al n a rc result th the report was sent back to Lo committee with no house howe recommendations and the conferees gathered gath gath- erect ered to make another effort to iron out difficulties between house and sena senate te MEMBERS ERS OF GROUP Members 1 of the conference committee commit committee tee are Senators C. C Clarence N len CD D. D Salt Lake George M. M Miller 1 ller D. D Carbon and Paul H. H Hunt R. R Wasatch Wasatch Wa Wa- satch Representatives Weston Vernon Vernon Ver Ver- non D. D Cache Chris Greenhagen D. D Salt Lake and W W. D D. Hammond lI D. D Grand The action toll followed owed a lengthy meeting of the conferees Monday durin during which a 1 compromise was reached when the house members agreed to a 2 per cent rate on condition condi tion that tha t all revenue in excess s of 2 to be used for tor relief purposes be DC turned over o to the state tale treasurer for Cor use lie in reducing the levy for far state school purposes While principal objections of the anti mIca tax bloc on the floor of ot the house Tuesday were against deletion of oC the two house amendments foundation tion ion of oC the action in spiking speedy speed passage of the melS measure r went back to the old house resentment over any kind of sales zales taxA tax A large bloc ha has hag favored a utilities or chain store tax as a means of providing providing pro pro- viding revenue for the state stale industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial recovery act but the senate has hasi repeatedly refu refused cd to concur I UTILITIES TAX BILL While the house delayed action netlon on on Ithe the sales tax lax measure when the committee committee com com- ended its deliberation Monday it passed a utilities ta tax bill biU with drastic drastic dras dras- tic redu reductions In the rates and sent It to the senate enl where two previous utilities measures have been defeated The senate had not placed the me measure ure on its ils calendar Tuesday The houses house's only other work during durin the morning was in passing a bill legalizing salaries and bonuses for tor legislative officials and who work after adjournment The bill was introduced by the house standing committee com corn mitree on salaries fees and contingent expenses after niter Representative Joseph JosephL L L.- L. Peterson D D. D. D Weber had charged that excessive salaries had been paid some house officials The vote on the measure was 51 to 3 with 6 absent |
