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Show crease if the "reasonable requests are not granted. The senate had already passed several other veterans' vet-erans' measures, including one to set up a state veterans' dept. Two other actions of the senate sen-ate that caused considerable in- ! terest was the killing of SB-8, the measure to provide for non- I partisan selection of the judiciary, judici-ary, and passage of a bill for : equalization of tax assessment. The vote to kill SB-8 was 11-12. The bill to require the state J tax commission to work toward the equalization of assessed value over the state traveled a rocky road, but finally passed, 14-7, after af-ter amended to set the basis at 40 instead of 50 per cent ot a fair reasonable value. 2 Cg)itg! mm By James Conrad The overriding of a gubernatorial guberna-torial vote, the fust such action in 22 years, highlighted the 27th Utah legislature's seventh week of action. However, in other aspects, the week also was important to citi- I zen.s as well as political subdivisions subdiv-isions throughout the state inasmuch inas-much as the governor signed Into In-to law art., to increase inheritance inherit-ance tax exemptions; to empower , cities, towns and counties to initiate ini-tiate and finance sower and sani- I tary projects and to provide some measure of financial relief to Utah's hard-pressed political units through distribution annually of; $1,1)00,000 in liquor profits. Gov. Herbert B. Maw disagreed j with the legislators and placed I : his veto on SB-88, a bill to trans- j fer all control over sales tax re ! Venues to the legislature. The rejected bill with the governor's explanatory message was retdrn- j ed to the senate on Thursday and that body promptly passed it ov-1 er his veto by a vote of 20 yes to I 3 no. Those who voted to sustain) the gubernatorial action were Sens. Elias L. Day, Lorenzo E. ! Elggren and Sol J. Selvin. The measure then was trans-. I ferred to the house which on Friday followed the action of the upper house. Final house action, however, was delayed for more than an hour while opponents sought either to table the bill or j to force a vote on a motion to sustain the governor. On the final roll call vote in i the house, seven Democrats joined join-ed with the 38 , GOP members I present to override the veto by a vote of 45 yes, 1 1 no, 4 absent. The governor signed SB-108 which will grant inheritance tax exemptions on estates of $40,000 or less and a companion measure I SB-109, to increase half of estates j held in joint tenancy up to $40,- 000 also was passed by the house Appointments by the governor also came in for their share of j the limelight and this news was 1 highlighted by senate refusal to confirm the re-appointment of J. j Lambert Gibson as chairman of the state tax commission. One of j the most learned and well versed men in state government, Mr. j Gibson's rejection appeared pol- itical. Th esenate, however, approved Gov. Maw's selection of Philo T. Farnsworth, his present secre-, secre-, tary, to be the new welfare com-! com-! missioner. Mr. Farnsworth will take over the vacancy created I when the senate refused to confirm con-firm Gov. Maw's interim appoint i merit of Wendell Grover. Two other candidates for the tax commission were submitted I to the senate. They were Elisha Warner, former state senator and I Payson newspaper publisher, and Roscoe E. Hammond, incumbent commissioner who has belt) his post since 1931. Mr Warner was named to replace Heber Bennion Jr. who was selected to succeed Gordon Taylor Hvde in the finance fin-ance commission. Confirmations and rejections by the senate were marked by long executive sessions. No action ac-tion was taken on the governor's recommendation of H. Fred Egan a Republican and a Park City ! banker, as the new member of j the state industrial commission to succeed 6. A. Wiesley. Action on this appointment was delayed i pending Mr. Egan's release from ; the army- Besides the override on the public welfare funds and the limited lim-ited action on appointments, the seventh week in the senate fea-. fea-. tured passage of the 262-page I state insurance code and the Clegg labor bill and the defeat of a proposed veterans' housing act. Amended to eliminate county mutuals from the close regula-! regula-! tions provided under the new code, the insurance bill passed with only one dissenting vote. That was cast by Sen. Warwick C. Lamorfaux, who had previously previous-ly lost by a vote of 17-5 an attempt at-tempt to eliminate from the bill a section which exempts the insurance in-surance industry from provisions j of the Sherman Anti-trust law. The controversial labor bill, which successfully passed the i house without amendment, was ; passed by the senate only after it had been "watt-red down" by ; amendments presented bv Sen. ' Ward C. Holbrook. Essentially, i the amendments give an employ-j employ-j er a chance to petition the state j industrial commission for an in-: in-: vestigation rather than an elec-I elec-I tion as a means of escaping un-i un-i fair labor practice by refusing to j bargain until a bargaining agent I is duly set up, The bill had pro- vided for the election petition. In its amended form the tnea-' tnea-' sure outlaws the secondary boycott boy-cott and sets up several unfair i labor practices for employes and unions. It passed by a margin of 1!) to ,'i with one absent. Longest and loudest oratory of the session in the senate occur-led occur-led when the veterans housing bill came up for consideration. Nearly every member of the upper up-per house and his views to express ex-press before the vote was taken and the measure killed Proponents of the measure insisted in-sisted the bill is necessary to take care of a serious housing shortage short-age and that demands of the veterans vet-erans could be expected to in- , |