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Show HIRSCIII FLAYS STAND TAKEN BY CRITCHLOW (From Salt Lake Tribune) Representative David Hlrschi of Hurricane, member of the legislative advisory committee, disclaims any Piallfications as a prophet. But he does claim that in at least one instance he a good guesser. ! Mr. Hirschi was arguing at the session ses-sion of the committee Friday at the capitol in favor of a proposal by Repre-nU.ve Repre-nU.ve s- M Jorgensen intended distribute throughout the state Jr' of the revenue to be de-i de-i "ea from the tangible property taxes j ""metalliferous manes. Representative A. Critchlow has opposed the I nsen motion, as being rather j jcnool equalization than tax equaliza-I equaliza-I therefore a subject foreign me Powers of a tax revision com- Steend ltS leglslative dvlsory .? Hirschl went back to one of the .u8 f tne tax revision commis-I commis-I the effect that a "few favored l." , where mineral resources i nnXJed 10 156 developed, or where ! Property 0f utilities was grouped, had of ih advantage over other districts n it. S.tat!- He also quoted the com-rrl com-rrl .the effect tllat the natural 'sources belong to the state as a whole (Continued on page 4) HIRSCHI FLAYS STAND TAKEN BY CRITCHLOW (Continued from page i) rather than a small area of the state. "I do not believe this committee is in accord with . that principle," said Mr. Hirschi. "I do not believe we can expect Mr. Critchlow to propose any substitute plan for distributing the revenues from such sources over the state. Mr. Critchlow is either not convinced con-vinced on these principles, or else he is not interested. "I could say the same in regard to a number of other memjbers of this committee. I thought the same when the list of appointments to the coml-mittee coml-mittee was first announced. At that time I made two lists, as classifying the personnel of the members. In one list I placed those who I thought would be on the side of the common people and the farmer. And I made another list. The vote on the mines question Thursday proved that my guess was 100 per cent correct. "Those in charge of the mining industry in-dustry have been more alert to their interests than some other groups. I am not disposed to criticize the successful suc-cessful ones so much as I criticise those who do not know that five votes are more than four." Naming Senator W!. D. Candland and Representatives S. M. Jorgensen and A. R. Creer, members of the committee, com-mittee, along with himself, Mr. Hirschi Hir-schi said: "W;e were defeated before we came here. "I have always paid a high compliment com-pliment to the magnanimity of the centers of population. But ther6 is a wicked injustice prevailing in this state with respect to the inequality of the tax burden. Mr. Jorgensen and Senator Sen-ator Candland have chosen the schools as the medium of equalization to correct cor-rect the injustice. I would have preferred pre-ferred some other medium. But the schools represent, we have been told here, rather more than one-half the tax burden." Returning to the aim sought by the Jorgensen miotion, Mr. Hirschi said the committee should go slowly and safely, but that the $5 fund provided in a proposed constitutional amendment amend-ment now before the people would not, in his opinion, solve the problem created creat-ed by the "immense inequality of revenue." rev-enue." "I have observed," he added, "that the proposals to settle this question have come invariably from the members mem-bers from the country. "I still say I am here in a spirit of compromise. I hope you will not misunderstand me. I believe that all members of this committee should recognize rec-ognize the justice of the suggestion of the tax revision commission that all public utilities and mines are the property of the state; and that the revenues from these should not be concentrated con-centrated on a few favored localities." Senator Knox Patterson then advanced ad-vanced his suggestion, as a substitute for two alternative plans then before the committee, which was to the effect ef-fect that the legislature should be empowered em-powered by law to provide for equalization. equal-ization. This finally became the declaration dec-laration adopted, embodying an endowment en-dowment fund to be created from some proportion of the revenue from the mines of the state. |