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Show IMPORTANT TAX BILL BEFORE LEGISLATURE; DAY FAVORS EXEMPTION j i Washington County Senator Favors Property Exemptions In Income Tax Bill by U. S. P. A. SERVICE Taxes, a joint legislative session ses-sion on liquor, sundry measures of interest to farmers and labor in particular, and a trip to the Utah Agricultural College at Logan, Lo-gan, held the attention of legislators legis-lators during the fourth week of the twenty-first Utah Legislature ending last Saturday. The senate devoted practically the . entire week, including a Saturday Sat-urday session, to discussion of the bill increasing individual income in-come taxes. The net result was the amending of the original measure by inclusion of a 100 per cent property tax offset or exemption and the killing of another an-other amendment defeating a proposal to include a $10 registration re-gistration or filing fee. The upper up-per house placed the bill on its right reading. It passed two other bills and three senate joint resolutions. j The house passed eight bills and adopted senate joint resolution resolu-tion No. 2. The last named proposes pro-poses an amendment to the state constitution to be voted on by the people at the next general election in November, 136. If approved by the electorate, it imposes a mandate upon the next legislature to enact a law exempting exempt-ing from taxation all homesteads up to $2000 in value. Signing of the resolution by the speaker of the house and senate president (Continued on last page) TAX MEASURES (Continued from first page) insures its being placed before the voters next year. Arguments pro and con and final votes on an amendment by Senator Hammond showed a narrow nar-row margin of senatorial opinion in favor of including property offsets in the proposed new income in-come tax bill. A proposal to impose im-pose a $10 registration or filing fee lost by a goodly majority on a viva voice vote. The joint hearing on liquor control bills found both state store and private licensing plan adherents emphatic in the viewpoints. view-points. The latter were apparently appar-ently in accord as to acceptance of the Holmes compromise embodying em-bodying supervision of wholesale whole-sale distribution by the state with private sales under local government govern-ment licenses. A move to delay liquor legislation until taxation and social welfare measures were acted upon was said to have found much support among legislators. legis-lators. Senate measures passed and adopted during the past week were: S.B. 21, providing for the inspection of gasoline used for motor fuels; S.J.R. 3, 4, and 5, providing that the superintendent of public instruction shall not be elected, but appointed by the governor; H.B. 5, fixing the hours o'f labor in underground mines, amended to add a lunch period not to exceed thirty minutes, min-utes, and H.C.M. 2, memorializing memorializ-ing congress to establish a national na-tional park in Wayne county. House action resulted in passage pass-age and adoption of the following measures: S.B. 28, enabling the state fish and game commission to borrow money from the state land board for public works projects, pro-jects, passed previously by the senate; S.B. 18, permitting the federal government to buy lands for flood and erosion control, also passed by the senate; H.B. 9, limiting power of the governor to call out the state militia in case of labor troubles, amended to provide that production on premises 'policed by the militia be stopped until it had been withdrawn; H.B. 2, regulating production, sale and licensing of commercial fertilizer; H.B. 19, applying weights for grades of eggs sold at retail; H.B. 21, creating a redemption period on shares of stock in irrigating companies com-panies 'from sixty days to two years and providing for the payment pay-ment of penalties, costs and as sessments; H.B. 27, creating pensions pen-sions for employes of the Utah State hospital at Provo; H.B. 28, relating to cost of patient maintenance main-tenance at the same instiltution, and S.J.R. 2, the homestead tax exemption act, making it mandatory man-datory for presentation to the people to be voted upon as a constitutional amendment. H.B. 37 and H.B. 38, fixing penalties for hit-and-run and drunk drivers, driv-ers, were defeated, largely due to tfelief that the senate traffic bill passed last week and soon to come before the house will take care of the matters. Thus far nearly 330 measures have been introduced in house and senate, leading legislative experts to believe that the total will exceed that of the last session ses-sion by at least 'fifty bills and resolutions. Approximately seventy sev-enty of the introduced bills are tax measures. Senator C. Clarence Neslen resigned re-signed and Attorney Paul H. Ray of . Salt Lake City, appointed by Governor Henry H. Blood, was seated in his place after a heated debate brought about by a motion mo-tion for a senatorial probe of the new member's business connections. connec-tions. The motion was lost and Mr. Ray "welcomed" to the upper house. Senator Wilford Day of Washington Wash-ington county voted yes on S.B. 21, no on S.J.R. 3, 4, and 5, and yes on H.C.M. 2. He was the only senator voting to register a negative ballot on either S.J.R. 3, 4, or 5. He voted no on S.B. 14, taxing cigars and smok-' smok-' ing tobaccos, and yes on the ; Hammond amendment to include property tax exemptions in the income tax bill. He also voted yes on the Bamberger lunch hour amendment to H.B. 5. Senator Day's votes against the three senate joint resolutions were not explained on the senate floor. He defended the Hammond Ham-mond income tax bill amendment as tending to ease tho burden of the taxpayer generally. m voted against the Miller resolution resolu-tion calling for an investigation of the business connections of the newly appointed Senator Paul H. Ray. The Washington county senator sena-tor introduced S.B. 137, enabling county commissioners to esl'ib jiBh pure sugar beet seed dis-tricts. dis-tricts. Speaker Walter K. Granger of Cedar c,ty voted yes on U buis d, 'GS'ti'' passed and adopted adopt-ed by the house, oxcopt tiu, Lilm. oreuux unicameral - one - house -measure which WM (hyfolUod Representative F. j. UowUr Gunlock voted o ,y camera! resolution nm, , "d yes 0n all ,,1(,r .,,'. l'axKnd except Il.lt "HUI"" 57 not voting "HI. He Wlls llm,oln " "viHllK.it,, the needs of n, |