| Show House Skips funds Act Tackles Highway Bill BiD The House Thursday lIa afternoon tabled the basic budget et hill bill to work worl out amendments suggested suggest suggest- std st ed d h by ov Go ov J J. Bracken Leo in his Ills veto eto me message sa c. c Utah's House of Representatives tives which must repair the 1951 1051 appropriations act net riddled by a 3 shotgun veto Thursday temporarily temporarily temporarily tempo tempo- bypassed the big job to get at the legislative councils council's highway highway highway high high- way program The 26 money items sent back backby backby backby by Coy Gov J. J Bracken Lee were in inI appropriations committee which met during during- the morning but took I no action The House did not meet during I the morning but its sifting sifting- committee committee com com- I reported out five of the I highway program bills including I the proposed Ic lc gas tax increase The Senate nine measures measures meas meas- ures tires have been bottled up in the House committees for two weeks and four of them still were being held in sifting Held for Amending A bill to Increase truck license fees was held for further amending amending amending amend amend- ing while measures which would involve imol distribution of city and county road funds apparently were being stifled House Republicans late Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day afternoon upheld the governors governor's governors governor's governors governor's gover gover- nors nor's line item vetoes necessitating ing rewriting re nearly a fifth of the entire bill The legislature has only a week to go o after Thursday unless the clock is stopped The veto veto sustaining vote was 30 to 30 in a perfect party division reminiscent of the deadlock which opened the session Neither side bothered to debate the motion which was put by the Republicans as soon as the veto message had been read Democrats recessed into a caucus and then returned to accept their defeat I without temper Only five of the items were ve ye vetoed vetoed ve- ve j toed with the intent of ot wiping out out the entire appropriation They were for teachers teachers' teachers teachers' teach- teach I ers ers' retirement for the water and power board construction construction construction tion fund and for functions functions functions of the highway patrol which Gov Go GoLee Lee said could be handled from the patrols patrol's own appropriation The other 21 items were returned for reductions somewhat nearer the governors governor's own estimates His proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed budget called for only 49 in all compared with 1 the appropriation bills bill's I IOne Prime Tar Target et One of the governors governor's prime prime targets was higher education for which he has recommended reductions re reductions reductions re- re from the current budgets on the grounds that enrollments have and will drop because of or orthe off the national emergency 8 The spending bill gave the University University Uni Uni- of Utah Utah State Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural Agri Agri- cultural college and the five junior junior junior jun jun- colleges a total of O compared with for the present biennium Only higher education branch to escape the veto was the university's university's university's uni uni- medical school Three other line vetoes were vere aimed at vocational education education- he objected to for the state board of vocational education education education tion to Salt Lake area vocational school and to central Utah vocational school Although Gov Lee himself had recommended s sub substantial u b s t tan a n t i a I 1 increases increases in increases in- in creases for welfare institutions he said the appropriations committee committee committee com com- had overshot the mark in allocating td to the state training school and to toI I the thc industrial school The other down cut vetoes were for the attorney generals general's office adult probation and parole I state engineer water and I hoard board administration 63 board on alcoholism adult blind Got Gov GOLee Lee took issue with but did not veto three other items which he said did not allocate ample money for operation He asked additional appropriations for the state prison held to by the appropriations bill the finance commission and the district district district dis dis- dis- dis courts Merely a Gesture The Th chief executive vetoed the entire teachers teachers' retirement fund because he said the would be merely a gesture to toward toward toward to- to ward meeting the states state's obligation obligation obligation obliga obliga- tion of nearly He suggested suggested sug sug- that a committee study some definite plan for amortizing amortizing- the deficit and taking future contributions contributions con con- out of the thc uniform school fund rather than the general general general gen gen- eral fund The water and power construction construction construction tion fund a pocket veto casualty casual casual- ty two years ago should not be increased this year because such construction would not bo be in line with the nations nation's defense efforts the governor said r r ft J r Jl r J Ja a x 4 r s r rick Nick ick Kladis Operated fruit and vegetable market business |
