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Show , f - - ' k . :. . : . . !.'' :. S'.C- !. . - !.'.: r..- ,r u... L :.-'.". -.y n..i."lc 1 ' , ' :-.n U..-. k : ; v.:t. '!' :"-) I e ', I 'A I.,-.. ;.r:..-.v!rr:..r.X t. ,-:-'.:'-; o-v . , r . I v i-- iU a'A i.'.r a. !.".'i. T!.'i- f.". ''' ' !'!.':.; ir.ity' u.-.'k-.,f l.,wTr..,k:h,' a.-t a i'..-. 17 !-::! h.i.- iw.-iv.-l th.? ai.f.rxval of a i: ;.j..m'v of uplwr h;-.- n!.-ini i. : T.-n h.c.i- pa 1 th. h..u.- of r. ,v-.-ntativfs, four of which lire i approwl s.-natc nieasiuv. The j -nut.- has kill.-.l thrve hills and j the lower house has disposed of one through adoption of an un-J un-J favorahle connnit tee report. The house has tahl.-d two bills. One ' has been withdrawn in the senate. A surnmariin? of voting strength on measures barked by so-called "liberal" or "proe;res-sive" "proe;res-sive" element indicates roiifjh sledding ahead for legislation such as is embodied in bills aimed to set up wage and hour standards, and for anything that smacks of increased expenditures or changes in the existing order of the state's fiscal control and mangement. Sign posts along the voting way-point way-point to a fulfillment of Governor Henry II. Blood's expressed desire for an economical legislative program pro-gram and one which will keep frnm anv drastic chanEjes that might prevent a balanced state budget. That little will be accomplished in the creation of new money-spending departments or commissions, or in burdening husiness and industry with increased in-creased taxation or regulation loads is the belief of legislative experts. Tax Rills Nevertheless there are many bills already introduced that call for a revamping of the taxation structure and more that would affect the daily lives of Utahns both in cities and on the farms. Many of these are apparently due to die a speedy death. Some will be enacted into law, but the consensus con-sensus of opinion seems to be that the current legislature will leave things pretty much as they ar excepting as to betterments that can be brought about without recourse re-course to lavish expenditures or the favoring of one group to the detriment of another. Measures of statewide importance import-ance and interest that will absorb the attention of legislators withir the next few days include homestead home-stead tax exemption, payment of industrial compensation for victims vic-tims of occuaptional diseases, setting set-ting up of a wage and hour program pro-gram for intrastate commerce sale of liquor by the drink and local option, several bills to safeguard safe-guard motor vehicle traffifr. other? to increase revenue for schools and civil service for state, county and city empolyees and appointees. ap-pointees. Bills affecting taxation introduced intro-duced in the past week include: exemption of metal producers with net incomes or less than S20.000 from the occupation tax; exemption exemp-tion of credit unions from taxation; taxa-tion; exemption from taxation of personal property up to S300 in valuation; depriving the state tax commission of power to initiate equalization proceedings among classes of property within counties : requirement that the commission's :t c u: .' u'.xter- re- , , ,!. ,.T..r..,::. -n ! the state j i.A v U- i::.. :- i.n or N fore Au-u-t ! j- r.Ulk:-.4 -ci.d improvement j t.'.v a le"n ai-ow any other tv-c,.:,':.,' tv-c,.:,':.,' s-'.-n-ral property taxes ar:d advar.c.r.,- ! V several days annual taxation proceedings of nietrop. .lit water districts. I.Jvi-Mo. k-Assru-ultunil Hills Of interest to agriculturists and livest.x-k growers are the following follow-ing bills introduced last week: providing that meat animals once in-pocted and found free of disease mav be sold anywhere in the state without further inspection; permitting per-mitting the building of dams not more than 13 feet in heighth and not over 555 acre-feet in capacity without approval of the state engineer; making death of livestock live-stock on a railroad right-of-way a prima facie case for recovery of damages; appropriating $5000 for a Utah exhibit at the World's Poultry Congress in Cleveland. Ohio; appropriating $20,000 for suppression of poultry diseases; creating a first lien in favor of producers upon farm products delivered to processors, and to establish a Utah state fruit tree improvement agency and appropriate appro-priate S3000 to it for grading and certifying fruit nursery mock. Other important measurers introduced last week affect the public health, legal transactions, finance, cities and counties, labor, trade, state departments, and the general welfare of the people. Fourteen measures affect cities and counties. Ten have to do with health. Another ten affect legal procedures. Seven affect trade and industry, four social welfare as embodied in old age f'stance' unemployment, and civil liberties. Six touch upon operation of motor vehicles. Several others relate to state departmental affairs finance, fin-ance, education, labor and fish and game matters. One health measure levies a 15 per cent tax on patent medicines and apportions a part of the proceeds to subsidize public health nursing. A traffic safety bill proposes pro-poses that four warnings by peace officers shall be the equivalent of one conviction for traffic law violation. Another agricultural measure permits inspectors to destroy de-stroy infected trees and plants. Bitterest fights of the session are expected to be waged over the occupational disease and wage and hour standardization measures. mea-sures. Friends of education will strive with might and main to procure more school funds. The bill to permit sale of liquor by the drink will provide another battlefield. Whether the house appropriations ap-propriations committee is to have full sway over appropriations is a current muddle. Measures that have attracted nationwide attention include the senate joint resolution asking congress con-gress to lift the embargo on shipment ship-ment of arms and munitions to the Spanish loyalists. Supporters of the resolution point to the fact that a recent Gallup poll showed that 75 per cent of the people favor such action. A senate concurrent con-current resolution indorses the McCarren bill proposing SI per ounce as the price to be paid for silver. |