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Show -LOWER HOUSE-MUST HOUSE-MUST CHOOSE PENSION PLAN f Utah Senate Leaves Problem Solution to Other Body By JENNINGS PHILLIPS The state senate dumped the old- age pension problem completely into the house lap Tuesday by passing the ad- r ministration welfare program regarded as less costly than the Maw plan, already approved ap-proved by the senate. ' The administration bill went to the home, leaving It up to that body to decide whether the atate'a poliejr for earing for needy aged the next two year shall be the one embodied la the-aid are pension pen-sion bill of Senate President Herbert Her-bert B. Maw, ar that outlined ha the measure adopted by taw aanata Tuesday. No senator dissented afsiaat the administration dui, aner n nao oeen amended to permit the house to write in the pension program, it deems better. Tha administration bill fixes no aet pension for the aged, leaving the amount to the state board of public welfare. The Maw measure provides pro-vides a maximum pension of $30 a month for each needy individual over 69 years of age. Amendment Satisfies Opposition was also satisfied by an amendment exempting from a property lien any pensioner with holdings valued up to 13000. . The afternoon session found the aenate debating another administration adminis-tration welfare bill, reorganizing the state welfare setup. Several amendments included one to deprive de-prive the welfare board of power to approve or reject appointment of county welfare board members. Another change would subject the state public welfare director's appointment ap-pointment to confirmation by the aenate and limit his salary to $3600 a year. The house, meanwhile, speeded procedure by authorising Speaker Joeeph W. Jensen to appoint a sifting sift-ing committee and limiting individual indi-vidual debate on tha floor to 10 minutes. Returns from Junket The house returned from its Junket to Snow junior college, Eph-raim, Eph-raim, late Monday and made an assault Tuesday on Its crowded calendar, with result an amended pure foods act giving the board of agriculture power to set up standards stan-dards for sale of imitation flavoring flavor-ing extracts, poultry and livestock Continual on Pas Elgin (Column On. I HOUSE RECEIVES PENSION PLANS i . ' icnimii mm rs twi fda ud oUmt products won final (UMi without defeat. Killed, however, m concurrent memorial calling upon congress to submit constitutional nmsndmsnt which would vest la Ue pMplo power to declar wm. - Although th hous, to a BMBibor, favored any mniun to prsvsnt war, debate Indicated a Mntlment the memorial might leave the nation na-tion unprotected in a eudden invasion. inva-sion. Xw Bin Appear .- A flood of Dew bill continued unabated, un-abated, with lntereet centering on a proposed new sterilization lew and a memorial urging the legiilaturee f other state to join Utah in a national campaign to eradicate venereal ve-nereal disease. The sterilisation bill would create a 'human betterment" board of five ' professional persons, with authority to permit sexual sterilisation, upon petition, of th sexually criminal. Insane, idlotlo or epileptic persons r those sufferuur from a genera- tiv hereditary disease who are "probable, potential parents of socially so-cially inadequate offspring." - Terming venereal disease on f th "most alarming problems confronting society," th house memorial me-morial urge other legislatures to pas law aimed at eradication and to require medical certificates of freedom from such maladies as a prerequisite to marriage. Shaw Fund Bought . Another measure was received, to appropriate 12800 to defray in part expenses of th Intermountaln Junior fat livestock show, to be held in Salt Lake City la June, 1MT, and June, 1Mb. . Echo of the senate flereup over 5 charg political spit has Inspired some legislation war heard in ths house, when Representative Sol J. Selvln, Tooele, obtained permission to withdraw as a sponsor of a measure to prevent an Interim ap-polnte ap-polnte irons drawing a stste salary an less confirmed by the senate As first Introduced, th blU was sponsored by two-thirds of ths house membership. Representative Selvln's request, it was reported, was an outgrowth of ths senate dispute. Attempt of others to withdraw were checkmated by hous progressives, pro-gressives, who refused to give the required unanimous consent. The (keleton of last summer's torrid fight over th Democratic nomination for governor rattled in th senate'' closet as an upper house rift threatened over charges Of political spit. Senate progressives, target of the Charges, rallied their force for a showdown aa th bill which provoked pro-voked th attack S. B. 11, which seeks to consolidate th Stat highway high-way patrol and th enforcement di-. vision, of th Stat liquor commission commis-sion Is a new Stat polio department depart-ment Th bill sponsors y Senator Lawrence E. Nelson, Salt Lake progressiva, pro-gressiva, was advanced to third reading after acrimonious debate between Senate President Herbert 6 Maw, Salt Lake, and Senator Ira A. Huggins, Weber, lets Monday. Debate on final passag was expected ex-pected to bring a new outburst of verbal fireworks and a real test of the progressive strength In the upper up-per hous. Debet Monday left th progressive simmering after Senator Sena-tor Huggins, who supported Governor Gover-nor Henry H. Blood tor renomlna-tton renomlna-tton last year, declared: "In all my experience here, I hav ever seen so many alii which smell bk spit legislation . . . W should forget personal spit and prejudice, hut I notice there are bills here to renovat completely all the departments depart-ments which supportsd Governor Blood la th hut campaign ... I, lor on, re rue to believe that la a coincidence." asBasss-asasssBaHasssssv-x |
