Show Utah Session Sets Closing Today Toay Water County Co ty Salary Me Measures sur Welfare Lie Lien Imposed By Patrick R. R Eckman a Hours away from sine die adjourn adjournment ent s 's set t fo for for noon the Utah legislature Friday Fiday swept away the odds and ends which have accumulated during its day 12 special session Final Fina p passage of t the e troublesome w welfare bill Thursday afternoon left only two tyro or three minor issues to He Ie v voted ted upon The chief business ess of the day y W was s the signing of bills by the senate senale president and t the e house speaker The senate sauntered and the thc house with a bare majority on hand called an early recess reces until 2 pm p.m. Bills acted upon were H H. B B. B 22 raising the the- the salary satar limits for officIals officials dais of third f fourth rth and fifth class counties S. S B. B 20 on water adjudication procedures and H. H B. B 18 a assessed property tax tat exemption for dis disabled bled veterans All three three meas measures res were passed without notable opposition n. n Reach Accord The two houses house ran into momentary momentary momentary momen momen- tary conflict over over a welfare commisSion commission com corn mission inquiry on the legislative intent of the new welfare bills bill's lien and residence provisions After Aft Aft- er some exchanges of both the ilie house and th the senate senate senate sen sen- ate adopted motions to apply the lien liel provision to all present but the residence requirement requirement requirement require require- ment to new new new- applicants applicants' only The senate left unfinished one piece of business business action action on Gov Herbert B. B Maws Maw's nomination of Edward T. T OBrien O'Brien as director of the state department of veterans' veterans affairs to succeed A. A O. O Ellett an an interim appointee who did not hot meet with the upper provat i In la an executive session Thursday afternoon the upper chamber confirmed confirmed confirmed con con- firmed Milton B. B Taylor the governors governor's governors governor's governors governor's gov gov- secretary for the finance finan e commission post from which J J. J Henry McGean was ousted by senatorial senatorial sen sen- atonal rejection earlier in the week I Finally Approved The welfare bill center 1 center of the sessi was approved after coming out of its second conference committee Sixteen senators voted for the bill and seven seven Democrats held out against it P Party lines in the house continued to be tightly drawn in ina a 38 to 19 vote only two of 20 Democrats present going for the bill and two of 37 Republicans opposing opposing opposing op op- op- op it posing f p fIn pIn In its final form it appropriates an additional for the balance balance bal bat ance of the c current fiscal year and for the next fiscal year The latter figure is a compromise between the houses house's and the senates senate's The house a also o backtracked on its efforts to permit all welfare clients to supplement th their ir maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum grants with outside income The final action extends the permission permission permission per per- mission to old age assistance re recipients re- re only Under the original 1947 welfare act the maximum grants granth also represented the maximum maximum maxi max mum budgets Lien Stir The other major change and the one which stirred up the most opposition is an extended lien clause which takes in all real property property property prop prop- erty of old age recipients exemptIng exemptIng exempting exempt- exempt Ing cash upon death The present law puts a lien on all property prop prop- erty in excess of 1200 valuation These amendments were a tar far cry from th the governors governor's recommend recommendations recommendations mend in his special session call He asked for abolishment of the lien clause and maximum grants an additional and the cut clear-cut right for deficit See Su Page 4 Column 4 UTAH SESSION Continued from Page rage One spending if the welfare budget prove proved to be inadequate On the latter Jatter score the bill Instead Instead instead in In- stead uses strong language t to o show the legislatures legislature's s 8 stand t tan a n d against loosening the budgetary y limits Residence ce Point The legislature re e also tightened da d welfare eligibility by tacking on a residence requirement Agreement on the bill was along a along along long process of evolution House Republicans first passed a bill of their own but some of the senate Democrats refused to play ball on any measure which carried a party label including the governors governor's bills The first step toward bipartisanship bipartisan bipartisan- ship was reached when Sens Ward Wart C. C Holbrook D. D Davis and Orrice C. C McShane McShan R. R Beaver tossed S. S B. B 23 into the senate hopper Much Amended This Thill is the he bill which finally achieved passage but not before 1 It had undergone amendment in the senate more amendment in the house louse and then more amendment in a conference committee The house made madee further changes on the committees committee's report but the senate refused to concur and the house refused to back down necessitating necessitating necessitating the second conference committee Although S. S B. B 23 probably wilnot will wil not meet with Gov Maws Maw's pleasure pleas pleas- ure it carries arries veto insurance in inthe the appropriation provision If the bill is vetoed the funds lunds are Jostand lost Jost and the welfare commission will be bein bein beIn in th the same po position as before the session |