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Show session saw Senate thP first time since 1943 or a ! fie nee bill to .leg. gj J Pjri-m...ipi Pjri-m...ipi hotting at limited race S2 ThJ Sff would limit meets to five days and restrict the number num-ber of meets in any one county to two per year with a period of some 30 days between meets. Local option is also provided by the bill. This measure passed 17-3 in the upper house. During the week, the Senate also went on record in favor ot a state "car pool", cutting down the number of state owned automobiles auto-mobiles to a point where efficiency effic-iency in state travel might be maintained. Surplus a, ' be sold and the fundT maintenance ourposes J-be J-be kept at the state & in Salt Lake City EadT .! ment would pay a rental1 additional maintenance, chase of new cars Th eliminate the use of am! ' by officers and S driving to and from w0f . The governor had reco ed such a pool, but had? jested construction of a 7t garage on the capitol Z house the automobiles tl ate committee on highwav, ever, recommended the L already set up by the C mission be used. Speaking of special sessions, the governor indicated sometime ago, according to certain legislators, legis-lators, that he probably will call one about next September, but not necessarily on welfare. Gov. Lee is said to have observed that by next fall he will have a much better knowledge of the needs in state' government and couia probably make recommendations that would assure a sound economical econ-omical footing for the 1949-51 biennium. He appeared almost certain to veto some items in the appropriations appropri-ations bill and may send the entire en-tire measure back for reductions in some items. Higher education institutions for instance, receive approximately $10,600,000 in the appropriations bill against the governor's recommendation ot about half that amount and the Utah Water and Power board is given $750,000 where the governor gover-nor recommended nothing. Also, the bill gives $725,000 to vocational voca-tional education, $225,000 to the Central Utah Vocational school j rnd $500,000 to the Salt Lake Area Vocational school, as compared com-pared to a recommendation of no appropriation from the governor. Sen. Orrice C. McShane (R4 Beaver) suggested from the floor of the Senate that the University Univer-sity of Utah and Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college be cut five per cent in the approximately $9,-000,000 $9,-000,000 to the two schools, and Sen. Elias L. Day (R-S. L.) wanted want-ed to knock down a Utah State Prison appropriation of $700,000 to $550,000. He was also in favor ot granting $100,000 to publicity purposes, while Sens. Lewis H. Larsen (R-Kanab) and Elggren wanted about $250,000 awarded to publicity and industrial development, de-velopment, which was wiped out in the appropriations bill. Both said they had been promised the PID would receive an appropriation appropri-ation after they voted to give all motor vehicle registration funds, which have supplied PID in the past, to B and C roads. In setting up the appropriations appropria-tions bill, the joint appropriations committee, headed by Sen. Fred J. Milliman (D-Mammoth), figured fig-ured estimated revenues at $26,-000,000 $26,-000,000 from the sales tax and $15,000,000 from general fund sources, giving a total of $41,000,-000 $41,000,-000 in unmarked monies. From these funds are appropriated $38,486,2 11. leaving a surplus of $2,513,759. At the same time a $5,000,000 emergency relief reserve fund is not touched and is left as a cushion cush-ion against any decline in estimated esti-mated revenues or increases in public assistance, makers of the bill assert. Legislators who charge the appropriations ap-propriations total as too high, do so on grounds that estimated re- . ! ider ike A n JL II f enues are wishful thinking and are far out of line in face of recent re-cent cost of living decreases and leveling off signs. Meanwhile, the repeal of the welfare lien law came in for some bitter discussion in the House, with those supporting retention re-tention of the law pointing out that its repeal would throw welfare wel-fare appropriations far out of line. In addition to the introduction of the appropriations bill, the end of the seventh week of the By Harry Marlowe defeated by a count of 22-31. After Af-ter that the bill was passed by a vote of 42-10, with three Republicans Re-publicans Keps. William A. Bro-therson Bro-therson (Boneta), H. H. Crouch (Morgan) and H. Roland Tietjen (Monroe) claiming the total appropriation ap-propriation was too high. The seven Democrats against the bill Reps. Justin C. Stewart (S. L.), M. Phyl Poulson (S. L.), Mrs. C. L. Jack (S. L.), J. M. Bell (S. L.), W. G. Larson (Magna), John P. Rarton (Beaver) and Sidney A. Elswood (Ogden) all claimed welfare appropriations were "too low." |