| Show Utah Legislators Face Busy Day 60 Session By J Patrick R. R Eckman I Sixty busy days face the Utah state legislature after it convenes Monday Ai onda y to wrestle with the problems problems problems lems which have arisen alisen in the past I two years or have carried over I from the last session I The hoppers promise to be be jammed as usual with bills of j i I varying importance ranging froma from I Ia a wholesale revision of the states state's I tax system to obscure suggestions I important only to their sponsors At the thc 1949 1919 session nearly I measures were introduced only 20 of which were passed Most of the rest Just quietly disappeared in committee the not uncommon fate of oC controversial controversial legislation as aswell aswell aswell well as the unimportant I However er even that ratio is i enough to provide two months of packed calendars headed by several sev sev- eral cral issues too lively to be shelved In the latter classification will wm fa fall Gov J. J Bracken Lees Lee's efforts Ito to produce a tax reduction the legislative councils council's highway program program program pro pro- gram including increases in gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line taxes and truck registration fees demands for more funds from schools and colleges the states state's sprawling retirement system and civil defense legislation Also sure to stimulate plenty of debate behind the scenes if not on I the floor noor t will b be a the question of reapportionment The urban centers centers' centers centers' centers centers' cen cen- demand for more representation tion will twill be met by counterproposals counterproposals counterproposals from the more sparse areas but with each cach side offering two or more suggestions to correct the present situation the argument is likely to become so involved it will stra strangle gle itself But while bills stemming from the governors governor's office or from the legislative council are assured of safe passage through committee but uncertain passage on the ro roll call their interests will be reflected reflect reflect- ed in only a handful of the hundreds hundreds hun hun- hundreds of bills biUs to be introduced The others will twill stem from various various various vari vari- ous organizations and sources who have problems of interest to them but whose biggest problem is to get enough of the legislators interested in interested interested in- in in their problems to see that the bill gets consideration For instance the state medical association probably will have at i least two bills in the tho hopper one I seeking to set up a medical examiner examiner ex ex- system for investigating unnatural deaths and the other requiring compulsory X-raying X of food handlers I Mayor Earl J. J Glade has said he will have a bill introduced todo to todo todo do away with primary elections in first and second class muniCIpal municipal municipal pal elections a step wh which ch he estimates estimates estimates esti esti- mates would save Salt Lake City every two years I |
