| Show I Problems Shadowing Utah's Future Facing Facini Legislators I Revenue Relief RUIn Rum Stand Adamant as Chief Issues By HENRY SUT SUTHERLAND ERLAND Problems shadowing Utah's future had still to be solved as her legislators legisla legisla- tors tars faced the final 20 days of ot the 1935 session Saturday y Revenue relies relief and rum the rum the trio stood almost as adamant on the twenty first day as on January 14 when gavels first rapped house and senate to order Eleven bills pa passed sed by both houses most of them irrelevant to the major issues of the session j sion had not even scratched the surface of the work to be done There was a striking difference in inthe in 10 inthe th the situations situations' then and now how how- ever In mid mid January January courses were un tin- charted Governor Henry H H. Blood had not yet pointed the goals and means of reaching them None of ot the bills resolutions and memoriaLs memorials memo memo- rials now before lore the legislature had made their appearance Now Time for Choice It was then a time for lor proposal Now it is a time for choice During the next three weeks the legislature must make decisions which will affect Utah's social and financial structure not for a mere biennium but but probably for lor a decade to come Legislators junketing Saturday In southern Utah will return to the capitol Monday with the machinery which will turn out this thi crucial legislation legislation legis legis- lation set up and ready to go Short sessions and long committee meetings and public hearings which featured the first 40 days will be a ahing athing athing thing hing of the past Beginning Monday Mon Monday Mon day the houses will meet in morning and afternoon sessions to consider measures marshaled on the floors b by powerful sifting silting committees Sitters Sifters Named A sifting committee has already been appointed for the senate One has been authorized b by the house howe and will probably be named b by Speaker Walter K Granger Monday To these groups will go all aU bills on the calendars Monday night and to them hem for the remainder of the session session ses ses- ses sion will be reported all bills from standing committees In the hands of the two groups is the all important question of priority of consideration Their decisions may govern to a large extent the choices which the legislature must make A decision on the manner In which Utah's government shall be financed and Its institutions subsidized is one of the weightiest Principally two plans are offered One of them is that of ot Governor Blood who in his budget m message sage proposed a plan whereby the ture ure may raise during daring the biennium without levying a pennys penny's worth of additional taxation Asks Refunding He suggested that the bond issue floated by the legislature of 1933 be refunded d the Initial payment pay pay- ment not to be due until 1940 when the governor said the state will be bein bein bem in m much better position to meet it Such action would rel release e three three- quarters of a million dollars earmarked earmarked ear ear- marked for bond redemption and pa payment ment of interest to the general fund The alternative Is the levying of heavy new taxes Roughly proposals proposals propos propos- als take tak two forms increased imposts imposts im Ira- posts on individual incomes and higher corporation franchise taxes Proposed boosts in individual income income income in in- come taxes have been criticized as discriminatory many citizens and lawmakers holding that should the legislature take this road the brunt of the tax burden would fall faIl on the small salaried people of the state Higher franchise taxes It was pointed out would impose a l heavy penalty on Utah business and end indus try and might even bring ruin to some firms finns Organization of new business units in Utah would be sadly discouraged discourage d. d Relief Decision A second decision which the leg leg- must make conc concerns concern rii 11 f and there are fewer guides on this question than on any other facing lacing lawmakers The problem Is js how to make Utah statutes conform to those wherewIth wherewith where where- with the national congress will carry out President Roosevelt's work relief program when the na program has not been agreed on and may not take final form until after Utah's legislature has ad ad- Looming large on the legislative horizon was the liquor problem Pass Pau age by the house this week of the committee of 49 9 state store bill amended to remove all provision for lor sale by drink was regarded by observers ob ob- ob servers as being far tar from a settlement of the qu question tIon Before the house Monday will come a motion by Representative William Murdoch D. D Salt Lake for lor recon Only after action is taken on this matter can the bill be transferred trans trans- to the senate Far r From Satisfied While the house passed the bill by B a two to one cne majority Wednesday after f four days of heated often oUen bitter debate many who voted for it pro pro leased themselves far from satisfied with their work The bill ws WIS called a temporization the least compromis ing lag action which could be taken on ona a perplexing dangerous question While Its opponents opponent scored red the bill billas as ItS a prohibition measure and one representative frankly said raid that he was voting dry In casting his ballot ballotIn In its favor a majority of its supporters support support- ers era were anything but enthusiastic over the system The bill bUl Was vias jammed through the house In neck or haste many charged Its Its' supporters supporter had agreed that unless unless' final action was taken Wednesday they would consent consent con con- sent to dropping the bill to the foot of the house hOUle calendar How the senate would view the stats state store bill biU was a n matter of ot wide widO I conjecture Amendments are certain ertain to be bo offered and some tome even predict its overthrow in the upper house One Other Dill Bill Falling Failing passage of the state store bill blU the house has ha only the commonsense common common- sense private licensing bill by Representatives Will R R. Holm Holmes s D. D Box Elder and William WilHam I Murdoch D. D Salt Lake to turn to A total of bills had been Introduced Intro IntrO-I In house and senate when the thel fortieth day d deadline adline for introduction tion pa passed ed Friday with the legIslature legislature legisla ture not in session Jession In the house bills had been Introduced and In Ih lathe the senate Thirty nine resolutions and m memorials had also been given the house haute while the senate had bad received re rea 22 On the fortieth day the senate had aued 22 bills bUb killed two and with drawn 11 The house had passed 31 killed two and withdrawn eight Only 11 11 bills bUb had passed sed both houses and of at these only two had received received re rc re- re th the governors governor's signature One bill passed had still received no DO final action owing to the refusal of the house to concur in ih a senate amendment and the equal determination tin tion of the senate not to recede Mine Work Day Day It was wa-s H. H B. B 5 by Paul M. M Peterson Peter Peter- Peterson son IOn CD D D. Summit proposing t that at an hour eight day for miners be figured I from from the he time the worker goes underground underground underground under under- ground until he returns to the sur sur- face The senate amended emended the bill providing that not more than 30 minutes min mm- utes might be allowed for lor lunch or orrest orrest rest periods The bill is now before a n second conference committee the first one appointed having failed to agree Eight bills were passed by house howe and senate during the abbreviated weeks week's session ending Wednesday night when the legislators left for southern Utah Uth and Boulder darn dam amA am A last minute feature of legIslation legislation legislation legisla legIsla- tion in the house of representatives was passage of ot the long-heralded long metropolitan water bill Empowering cities to participate In water corporations corpora and irrigation projects the bill would permit Salt Lake City to b bene benefit ne fit lit actively from the great Deer creek plan The bill numbered H. H B. B was introduced by Floor Leader Reva Beck Deck Bosone D D. Salt Lake and md Representative Frank M. M Edman D. D Utah Elmer Holdaway D. D Utah and Grant Macfarlane D D. Salt Lake A hot debate preceded pa passage age of H. H B. B 63 by Floor Leader Bosone which would limit freight trains in Utah to 70 cars and passenger trains to 14 coach coaches Move Moye A third measure passed by the house was H IL J. J M. M 4 by tive P. P S. S D. D Salt Lake asking the federal government to pass legislation Four bills were approved by the senate One of the most mOlt important was wu H. H B. B an administration measure mea men sure ure introduced by Representative at vc Marion G. G Romney CD D. D Salt Lake and designed to permit financial companies com corn panics under supervision of the state banking and insurance departments to make loans and advance credit In accordance with the federal housing act It was passed in both houses howes under suspension of the rules In order that It might become effective with least possible delay Other bills bilIs passed by the senate were twin measures measure by Senator Ward C C. Holbrook CD D. D Davis S. S B B. B 5 and 6 S S. S B. B 5 would make drastic changes in Utah statutes governing political conventions and primary elections Under terms of f S. S B. B 6 public officers officer or of state or federal gov government governments would be forbidden to qualify for an elective c public office while still BUll ho holding ding their posts or ox- to serve as itS delegates Jo to o a political convention con con- S S. S B B. B 17 by Senator Senat Eldred M. M Royle D. D Salt Lake proposes reduction of ot legal Interest rates rate on loans from froma 8 a to 6 p per r cent and on op contracts from 10 to er Dt p |
