| Show ir irm M 6 ia M alt w w fmay w m J 4 d by harry marlow 0 A re shuffling of the seats in the utah legislature slature with a possible reduction of member ship P in a both bouses houses might yet come out of f the session now one third over on capitol hill tt if the legislative reap pois por tion ment should come however it appears likely it will be tied to the constitution regardless ciless of the proposal accepted I 1 debate D on the issue moved in to prominence m indence near the end of the pao third 1 rd week of the 60 day ses glon sion and Is still high on the ord er of business at this point it all started in the senate with the arrival at a spot on the calendar where rested a bill introduced by sen rendell N mabey R bountiful tins measure the only one acceptable to a majority of the utah legislative council would cut the size of the house from 60 00 to 53 and the senate from 23 to 21 davis county would pick up a representative but salt lake county would lose four and box elder sanpete San pete apte car bon and cache would lose one each in the senate section of the measure a re of southern sout and eastern stem areas area s would pr braide provide AIde for the reduction reductio n of membership also salt lake weber and utah counties would woula be districted to provide that residents of those counties would be voting for or only oni one senator as in the rem remainder aln Y er of the state now salt lake county citizens vote vot tor for seven and those in ut utah ah and ad weber yate vote for two chief opponent to this measure is sen alonzo IF hopkin D woodruff who is holding out for a constitutional amendment to provide for one senator from each each county As a compromise it has been suggested by some that the mabey bill might be acceptable to smaller r counties providing it is placed in tha the constitution by constitutional amendment in order to hold out further changes by statute that could upset the balance in full favor of population over areas in iq both houses the reapportionment issue along with gas tax refunds in come tax reduction and appropriations have havo come as top issues in the session so far gov J bracken ue lee put stress on appropriations with hia his budget message sa e that proposed cuts pally pally in he the budget of the university of 0 utah an and dUtah utah state agriculture college and state spending of for than in the nearly ended biennium cities and counties have pushed through the house so tar a provision to ortall motor vehicle registration funds into the 13 and C road fund which Is exclusively clu tor for their use at present they get and the rest Is split with the state road commission the senate also a iso killed efforts ot of sen edward 11 watson D salt alt lake to rescind a 1051 1951 vote urging the limitation of federal income taxes to 25 per cent of income and to urge the cong congress to retain federal control of off shore oil lands sen B 11 II H RV vernal emal was the lone republican to vote in favor of the latter the battle for ot of highway gas tax refund promises to be a bitter one there was no difficulty in gettine gett getting through the house a bill to g give ve refunds on special I 1 fuels u els for off highway use but in the lower house a pair of powerful rural urban coall eions battled each other to a standstill on the question of gas tax rebate As the week ended the matter was still up in the air and no one seemed quite sure just what would hap happen the lower house margin shifts will determine how much if any gasoline taxes will be raised the farm bloc so called even thou though ab it is composed of many urban representatives has promised there will be no gas tax raise unless a refund measure Is passed and they appear to have very near nearly great enough power to 0 m make their threat good good per pei ceat cent of all new automobiles aredell are delivered vered by t highway py haulers haul e rs |
