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Show BLOOD, FUNDS GROUP REACH FULL ACCORD Appropriations Body Agrees on Fiscal Policies By JENNINGS PHILLIPS . Faced with providing revenue rev-enue for the largest budget since statehood and demands for . homestead exemption from taxes, Governor Henry H. Blood and the joint appropriations ap-propriations committee of the state legislature reached accord ac-cord Tuesday on a fiscal policy pol-icy for the coming biennium. After a harmonious meeting, marking the first business this session, the committee agreed with the governor that extreme caution must be used In adoption ef a homestead exemption plan if deficits are to be avoided. Committee members discussed budget problems with Governor Blood, lent a sympathetic ear to his explanation of recommended Increases In-creases in state expenditures and gavs ths executive a vote of confidence con-fidence and appreciation in accepting accept-ing his offer of cooperation. Tentative Bill Drafted Representative Gordon Wegge-land, Wegge-land, Salt Lake, cochairman of the committee, announced a tentative appropriation bill had been drafted, subject to revision after investigation investiga-tion by the committee of needs of stats institutions and departments. Hs said -it would be a committee policy to work with the governor in surmounting obstacles to a balanced budget The committee meeUng preceded opening of the twenty-second day of legislative activity and introduction introduc-tion of new bills In each house. A number of public bearings on labor and other measures also preceded the 2 p. m. call to order. Because of the crowded calendar, the sensts voted to hold morning meetings throughout tne remainder of the session, beginning at 10 a. m., Monday. Motion was by Senator D. W. Parratt Salt Lake City. Heading new bills in the house was a lengthy measure providing for organization, management and operation of farm cooperatives in Utah. New Bills Appear In the senate, a series of acts to correlate Utah laws with federal emergency acta was introduced, together to-gether with a bill to prohibit any district court from Issuing an injunction in-junction to restrain enforcement of a city ordinance until the ordinance has been held unconstitutional by the state supreme court Uncertainty as to the fate of the committee of nine homestead ICoutlniied on Pan Eisnt) (Column Thre ) BLOOD, FUNDS GROUP AGREE tCesllaejsl cress Pse Oeel exemption program rode ths wake of Governor Henry H. Blood's bud-gst bud-gst mssssge Tussday a lbs-twenty. ' second Utah legislature digestsd the chief executives proposal to use 11,000,000 In liquor revenue to keep the general fund In balance. Us of thie revenue to offset losses from a homsstaad exemption, the lawmakers noted, forms a basic element of th committee's program, pro-gram, which calls for a full $2000 exemption on real property and a fsOO exemption on household furnishings. fur-nishings. Not only will the liquor revenue be needed, but it will also be necessary neces-sary to relmpoe a property tax for general fund purposes If the budget I to b balanced. Governor Gov-ernor Blood advised th lawmakers Monday In submitting the largest biennial budget since etatehood. The budget message called for stats expenditures during th next biennium. beginning July 1, 137, of $41,7M.10, as against 88,481,-62S.M 88,481,-62S.M appropriated for the current cur-rent two-year period. Exemption Difficult A psrusal of this fiscal plcturs Indicated that ths legislators will be hard put to provide a nominal homestsad exemption, let alone the full exemption permitted by the constitution. con-stitution. Sentiment appeared to be swinging In favor of an exemp-tion exemp-tion between $900 and 1730. Adjournment Monday saw ad-vancement ad-vancement ef the direct primary bill ' to third calendar reading In the 1 senate, where its immedlats psssags was expected, and the paasags of a labor measure regulating payment of wage and safeguarding In other way th pay check of workers In ' Industry by th house. Primary BUI Passes The direct primary bill advanced without a dissenting vote, although several senators expressed doubt as ' to whsthsr the election systsm embodied em-bodied in th measurs la an improvement improve-ment over the preeent convention systsm of nominating candidates for public office. A proposed amendment to provide pro-vide for th election by the public of officer snd committees of political politi-cal parties was voted down, but a series sf changes offered by Senator Herbert B. Maw, author of tha bill, to exempt minority parties from the direct primary act were approved. The house deleted the Imprisonment Imprison-ment penalties from H. B. 11, sponsored spon-sored by Repreeentative Sol 3. Sel-vln, Sel-vln, Tooele, before passing ths mea-sure. mea-sure. A call of the house, first of the 1M7 session, was ordered before final vote was taken. The house recommitted a bill to reduce dealers' license fee snd killed a measurs requiring the payment pay-ment of county officials' bond out of public treasuries. |