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Show plant when they get home be- J cause they saw it themselves on Washington's birthday. They will undoubtedly declare that every lit. din must pull for the continu- j ed operation of that $200,000,000 enterprise after thp war. Lobbyists are funny! Mostly j because they are so utterly ap- j parent. A lobbyist is a guy or a I gal who tries 'to put the heat on for this bill or that bill They take themselves so confoundedly j seriously but they are an in-1 tegral though unofficial, part of every legislature. Take 'em this time there are folk infesting : the marbled capitol corridors ad-ocating ad-ocating to the harrassed lawmakers law-makers every cause from cos- 1 metics to more dough for Supreme Su-preme Court' justices; from beer ! taxes to more dough for teach-1 ers; from air fields to peach mos-aic, mos-aic, Now, as a matter of fact, a lot of these buzzers know a lot more about the particular subject sub-ject than the legislators. And a lot of their information is of undoubtedly un-doubtedly great value in shaping laws. But their perigrinations are funny. ' who is chairman of that subcommittee subcom-mittee and his vociferous cohort Selvey J. Boyer another democrat, demo-crat, representative from Spring-I Spring-I ville. The upshot of this argument I hasn't come to earth yet. Effort i to get harmony among the demo- crats having appan oily failed, j Saturday Clifton Kerr, the Tre-i Tre-i monton house republican leader apparently wearied, said: "As a member of the minority party I'm getting tired of trying to serve , as referee of a democratic cau-j cau-j cus." But despite failure of the LeglB I laturc to solve either ot til problems, they did pass quite a I few bills of minor nature, touch-j touch-j ing general state problems, only incidentally. With less than two weeks of legal tenure left to them the members had not yet solved school financing, broad post war planning legislation, appropriations to state depart merits, institutions and services, or special appropriations. The dapper Loganite, appropriating appropri-ating Adrian C. Hatch in the house, warned that the special requests embodied in bills now pending total $9,230,000 or there-I there-I abouts, far more than anybody I yet sees money for. I Of course no legislature goes ; without a little fun. The curly i haired and vigorous blonde re-I re-I preventative from Summit, Lawr ence Rasmussen, told the house a while ago that it would certainly certain-ly be a shame if the members left their sense of humor at home after the house had been chided ! for levity. So the senate went out j ! full blast on the polygamous bull j act. The bulls and their amours i ' were spread all over the record. The law now restricts 'em. But who enforces the law remains to be seen. Tom Argyle, Davis county democrat, one time nemesis of game poachers was still wonder-, wonder-, ing what's going to happen to i the proposed revision of the big I game control commission. Tom .Tones the San .Tiem emm- Under The Capitol Dome By William T. Ingleheart, Utah State Puss Association Last week in the legislature was pretty much of a sparring match among the Democrats while the Republican minority sat by and occasionally heckled. Attention was centered on liquor (controversial matter since Omar Khayam celebrated the pressing of the grape) and upon giving Governor Herbert B. Maw a contingent con-tingent fund of half a million dollars or so. The subject of liquor, being what it is, was mostly kept behind be-hind doors that just swung enough now and then to give a j glimpse of an immemorial strug- j gle that this legislature seems bound to perpetuate insofar as its powers permit The senate Saturday decided as the house had done before, to give the li-quor li-quor commission more working ' capital. But they removed by amendment some of the restric- tions the house had placed upon liquidation of this capital that is to be used for the maintenance of a liquid stock. Sol Selvin, the sage little sena-j sena-j tor from Tooele, sort of nutshell-I nutshell-I ed the argument oy saying: "the I question here is simply whether ! we are going to control the use of liquor". Proponents of the respective re-spective points of view have yet to disclose where the argument ! will wind up, or when. Governor Maw's budget re-! re-! quest for a contingent fund that ; he has enjoyed managing for the ! past four years, met with a vig-! vig-! orous rebuff from a subcommittee subcommit-tee of the joint appropriations j committee. Maybe it's an indication indica-tion that Governor Maw hasn't 1 the control over the 1945 legislature legis-lature that he had in 1941 and 1943. At any rate this subcommittee subcom-mittee recommended that the contingent fund be renamed and j given into the control of the state I board of examiners composed of the governor, the secretary of state and the attorney general. The wail against this report led by Senator Lorenzo E. Elggren, Salt Lake Democrat very much irritated Ira Huggins, the Ogden Democratic dean of the senate ty stockman, demonstrated successfully suc-cessfully the succulence of his Blue Mountain lambs at a dinner din-ner he gave off the record at the state fair grounds. Tom's lambs didn't win any state fair ribbons. They were too well and delic-iously delic-iously dismembered. Elisha Warner, new spapering senator from Payson, put up a well documented plea for the inclusion in-clusion of the Central Utah Vocational Vo-cational school at Provo into the state vocational training program. pro-gram. He has come nearer than anybody yet in getting real consideration con-sideration for that institution. Most legislators will be able to tell their constituents the true significance of the Geneva steel |