| Show under the capitol capito do dome e 1 I 1 1 by HT malow the one on ble big mystery that remained und likely never will come to light UK this th session at tc tile end of th it first week in the twenty ninth itah le legislature gia lature was the id city tly tity of two demo crnts arnts responwe resp responde onwe iilc cilc tor for republican v ry in 0 1 lisc 111 disc ise speakership speakerghlp spe2kership battle for four daya ify dayq the 30 democrats er ants nts and 30 3 lif H publicans vublicans public ans wrangled wrangler over their candidates rep clifton 0 na M n1 kerr R tremon ton and rep W G bill lar s son D M magna g na democrats Demo crata wanted eori t to 0 toa to q q a coin and were lag flgahut at ast nst a secret ballot because two of their members admitted in a caucus secret ballot that they would have to vote for R heprscntative r tentative ventative venta tive kerr if the secret ealo eflo hi ballot t were forced knowing of this advantage the republicans republicanq republ leans stuck to their guns and even eventually dually tually came out with th the t speak makership eakership eaker ershlp ship for depre reprc repre rentatlve rentati ve ver kerr in a horse trade chairmanship and control of four major committees including appropriations went to the democrats in the deal rep clarence J albrecht 13 fremont became the man deada deadf 0 of the hour in breaking the deadlock risking criticism of some m democrats which has come com a out u t in the undercurrent flowing i largely from metropolitan area I 1 delegations the wayne county lawmaker recommended the deal from the floor near the close of the fourth day aed ied after the issue had been settl bettl ed re representative presentative resentative albrecht explained plaines plaineg that the setup being what it was the only chance his party had to gain an even break was to horse trade he claimed it was obvious representative senta tive larson could not be elected and that the proposition was to get as much committee strength as possible in a deal As a result the democrats got the tour four committees and an even break in the remaining committees to be named in reference to his position on larson representative albrecht pointed out that the republicans twice had honored forced democratic absences by holding back a single vote in order to retain the tie rep barlo T luke D junction was away for a day because of the death of a niece while bep rep wayne hin hanton hlnton t 0 n D hurricane vacated bis his seat for ln emergency a appendectomy on thursday ma m0 morning 9 represents uvtalhpcht Alt said ne a feared that thal tivialt tivi guylas gxylas 5 g animosity an 031 in the house okd wkd reach a pow t where the reau repu republicans icons icans wo wouidaake wouIdA d ake e advantage agebitbezo bf tee 30 29a 2& duration tionandnot and not only seat the speaker speak r but take the committees parlier earlier the two parties had agreed to spilt split the patronage appointing committees to name the employees and it was this spirit that teemed to carry into the final negotiation and on into the session on friday representative larson limon was wax given the power to name all democrats on committee committees mit tee tees while speaker kerr will name pie he republicans pierepublicans meanwhile the senate organized with vith sen J francis fowler D ogden replacing dean of the upper house sen alonzo F hopkin woodruff dwoodruff D as president dentbut but action of thebodo thebody the body was held up until the house organized also aeldup held up tour four days was gov xbracken J bracken lee who was forced to postpone his omeril operil opening message from tuesday morning to friday morning legislators heard from the chief executive a plea to cut taxes and balance the budget this was a typical lee economy n message in addition to his natural opposition to public spending the governor this time had war and national emergency to fall back on pointing out that so much Is needed nationally that we must economize in the state prior to the session incidentally he told reporters that he intended to make a strong point i 1 of the national emergency in his message and that if necessary he w would ould send a ia reminder to the lawmakers every day of the session commentary on the message vas was quite generally favorable on both sides representative larson the house democrat leader went so tar far asto as to say it was a fine address and that he was in favor of a program which would reduce governmental overn mental expenditures pendi tures ake lke like others however he doubted that expenditures tur could be cut very far with out endangering necessary serse vices senator nator hopkin senate majority leader commented that the governor Is a courageous defender of his own honest convictions vict ions 11 senator bias ellas L ray R sait lake the senator minority leader said sold the message menage was soundly based in fact and that the governor puts the genera eral bellare wellare wel welfare lare first ft Re presenta tive kerrs reaction was that it was a typical ptypical etypical governor lee message representing a mund approach to the ecortomyl economy most critical was sen lorenzo E elggren bggren bogren dwalt d8alt D salt lake e who said there was wu just flust blust too much self exoneration he said it was s a message of defeat and obsessed with economy that tends to create a standstill in our 8 tate functions and services ter vices with the break in the house deadlock deadlocks a hood flood of 33 bills hl hit t 1 the senate sortie some of them certain to cause a 9 bood kood iood deal of debate if they reach the floor increases from froin four to six cents per gallon in sas gas md and use fuel uel taxes and a jum lump in truck license fees on a graduated r uiated scale came in from fh the U utah tah legislative council in connection with a proposed highway colstr constr construction action uction program talk Is that the gaa gas tax increase ere ase may go through at one cent instead of two and that the truck registration fees will be raised but not as much as the council bill provides also introduced was a measure to ucal the welfare lien law but little chance was seen of its passing another question which may get no action Is that of 01 reapportionment a p p 0 arti rti 0 n m en t of 0 f the t h e legislature 1 e g i sl a t ur e A As s y yet e t there h e re d doesnt oe s n t a appear p p e a r t to 0 b be e enough steam team behind either of two propositions advanced rural I 1 lawmakers have claimed however they have a good chance of getting over a proposition to provide two senators from each senatorial district and reappor lion the house on a population basis |
