Show Warm arm arm Debates MarkI Mark I Week of Session I By JENNINGS PHILLIPS With vigorous debates in both the senate and the house final Utah's 1935 week of action on bills moved slowly as the seventh legislature came to a close today the burden of re responsibility responsibility re- re Hundreds of ol bills clog the calendar putting sifting committee Themore Themore The for their movement on the ahead but the majority are more more important of them will be placed expected to die in committee 1 In this same connection were issued vigorous Injunctions by President Herbert Maw of the senate arid and Speaker Walter Granger of or the house to forget class legislation and move the Important bills for tor the welfare of ci the state Important l That both houses can get tet together measures and sud forget target on important evidenced blocs and coalitions was that featured manner in the decisive e the enactment of or the metropolitan water bilL This was one o ol of the most Important measures o of the session and It is 15 now flow in irs the hands o of Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Henry H. H Blood Its IL principal effect wilt will be to permit permit permit per per- mit Salt Lake City to participate In Inthe inthe inthe the Deer creek Utah creek Utah lake project and md to clear dear the path of ot legal lesal obstacles preventing other cities to Join in similar reclamation projects Several related bills were passed b by the senate including one which will place control of underground water ater resources in the hands o of the state to combating of the future Another action which brought official official of of- applause for the Je legislature was of ot S. S B. B the governors governor's bond refunding bill It was signed by the chief executive Friday Makes Fund Available A The bill will make available avail avan able shie to the state general fund during the coming biennium without the levying of a dollars dollar's worth of additional additional addi addi- taxation It was recommended by br the governor that the bond bon issue floated by the legislature in Its 1933 be refunded at lower interest rates and with the first payment due in 1940 Such action would release at lit present appropriated for tor bond redemption redemption re re- re- re and which would have to be raised for the same purpose purpose pur pur- pose during the next two years ears Legislators will return to their desks Mon Monday lay to enter th the last lap lapof of the session But ten legislative days remain Party whips will crack Monday and most rapid action beneath beneath be be- neath the capitol capital dome for or many a aday dav day is to follow Conference nce committees will meet in an attempt to iron out di differences between the houses on the individual income and nd corporation franchise taxes Both bills biUs contained property tax offset provisions when passed by the senate but these were deleted on final passage in the house Fails Falls to Concur The senate classed the income tax measure as amended by the house as robbery pure and simple and refused refused refused re re- re- re fused to concur The house refused to accede and nd conference was ordered or or- dered Death is predicted predict d for both measures since the senate committee is adamant for an offset oset while the house group is just as determined that the offsets shall shaH stay out Friction between the houses was not lessened Friday when C C. W. W S Spence nce D. D Salt Lake denouncing failure of ot the upper house to pass labor measures said sale he be would lead lend a move to table al all senate bills if it action is not soon forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming coining In the other bod body on the desired dc de- de- de sired ired bills The senate opened the seventh week auspiciously passing nineteen judiciary judicial bills biUs to clarify and plug I loopholes s in criminal court procedure Monday and Tuesday I A resolution calling for a constitutional amendment amendment amend amend- ment merit to permit the state bar to recommend recommend rec rec- rec- rec and the governor to appoint appoint appoint ap ap- ap- ap point justices of the state supreme and nd district cour courts w was s killed At the same time the upper house passed the last of a series of bills bUls by Senator Ward C. C Holbrook D. D Davis Da Ia- Ia vis viz to correct abuses in Utah's elec tIon procedure School advocates in the upper house won von a victory by obtaining passage of a bill to give g schools a ashare ashare share of sales tax revenue in excess excess' of the earmarked for relief i purposes An amendment however makes available to the general fund the first of the annual sur sur- plus Group to Continue Continued existence of the committee commit commit- tee of ot nine was guaranteed with pas rage lage of another measure in the senate sen sen- ate The bill provides for a new com corn to study development of Utah's coal r resources feasibility of consol consolo school districts and effect of the proposed exemption from rom taxation taxa taxa- tion of real property up to 2000 and personal property up to o of the assessed valuation Of primary importance in the house were passage of bills affecting Industry utilities insurance compa riles nies truckers farmers rind the or or- of the state slate road commis lion sion Special significance was attached to e of the Child passage bill first revision revision re re- re- re vI vision ion of ot the industrial compensation act since 1921 Despite protests 01 of Jn Industrial representatives the house approved inclusion of ot occupational diseases as comp compensatory ailments in the bill The bill also abo makes make Industrial indus Indus- trial Insurance a state stale monopoly Its s passage in the senate is expected to be contested A tax of 4 1 cents per 1000 cubic feet on natural gas delivered or used in Utah Ulah will wUl be Imposed if the senate nets acts favorably on the B Bosone bill passed by the house during the week A similar measure still in the senate The house voted to boo boost t the insurance ance premium tax from 1 12 2 to 4 per cent with the Stipulation that the should hould be 2 12 2 per cent in cases caes where her 30 SO per cent of or the assets of the company are arc Invested in Utah Sub License Following a stormy public hearing hear hear- ing the tho house struck a staggering Wow blow at the yield from the present mlle wn-mlle tax on motor carriers using Utah's yta highways It pas passed ed the Keitt Kei- Kei i for tt bi bill 1 bani banishing hing the tax for common and ana contract carriers and for carriers o- o othe the latter type the specific permit U Ure of the present statute A lice license c system was vas ted Fd cU triumphed in the passage k w oX 1 t I new produce dealers dealers' license law f. f 1 designed to correct unconstitutional provisions of an act passed in 1933 Bonds must be posted by dealers to protect farmers from fraud in disposing dis posing of ot produce Sharp skirmish preceded approval of a provision to farm cooperatives The state stute road commission would be supervised by b three commissioners commission ers under provisions of two other bills given house approval One would repeal the to to appoint an ex cx officio member while the second gives the chief executive the authority to appoint three com corn missioners with the consent of the senate enate The present commission Includes In in- eludes Attorney General Joseph Chez ex cx officio Bills to give the governor power to coordinate Utah's social security program with that of the federal government government gov gov- arc are in preparation and are expected to reach the legislature next week |