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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JANUARY 15. 1937. UTAH LAWMAKERS START 22ND POLITICAL OUTLOOK SESSION LEGISLATIVE MILL from Tage 2) (Continued from Page 1) speaker of the 21st session of the legislature. The nomination was seconded by Gordon Weggeland of Salt Lake. Representative Milton Twitchell of Garfield county, one of the three Republicans in the house, moved that the rules be suspended and Mr. Jensen be elected by acclamation. The motion was put by Justice of the Supreme Court D. W. Moffat and was carried unanimously. Justice Moffat opened the house session and read the certificate of house membership from the secretary of state, and the roll was called by J. Waldo Parry, chief clerk of the house. The members then rose and stood with upraised hands while Justice of the Supreme Court Hanson administered the oath of (Continued populous counties of the state into I legislative districts. Our Scenic Resources Our scenic wonderland as a rev enue producer, recreational and aesthetic asset, is now fully dem onstrated. We propose to develop this asset by fostering wide, dustless roads, trails, san uniform camps, highway itary markings, display and advertising, and the coordination of groups now engaged in bringing these winders in reach of our people and the I tion of relief on a larger scale than heretofore, recommended a passage of a direct primary election law, and asked for expression of a prac ticable and permanent junior col lege policy, and for liberalization of the liquor law. . Utah Program The message called for recrea tion of the river commission to Utahs protect rights under the Boulder dam act and the Colorado river compact; further attention to the problem ot giving relief to settlers on Utah world. Conclusion irrigation projects; a state junior In conclusion we pledge the college system predicated on a practicable and permanent po- Democratic party to continue to licy; nondiversion of the state gas foster those principles of govern of state oline tax; repeal of the gross ton-mi- ment and institutions tax and an increase in truck which contribute to the general registration fees; appropriation ot welfare and to select for appointive surplus motor vehicle registration office as well as elective office fees for construction and improve those persons who shall devote office. ments of county roads and city their energies to the well being of Accept Senate Employes The following senate employes streets; revision of the fees now the people. were accepted on motion of Sena- charged for drivers' licenses lib tor Ward Holbrook of Davis coun- eralization of the beer provisions Direct Primary of of amendment the J. Lambert Lake Salt law; The Gibson, liquor ty: legislators, as well as the City, secretary; Ernest Dayton, the criminal code to provide for the i people of Utah, are desirous to Salt Lake City, chaplain; Joseph I probation of first offenders; legis-iear- n I about the direct primary law lation permitting Utah to join in at this time when the proposal is Eithell, Tooele, sergeant-at-armMelvin Engstrom, Salt Lake City, interstate anticrime compacts; fair presented for the consideration of docket clerk; R. L. Fahring, Hel trade legislation and for various the state legislature. One of the per, mail clerk; Joseph Willardson, other measures affecting bank in- best arguments in favor of the diSanpete county, and Feter E. terest on public deposits, aviation, rect primary is offered by Orman Johnson, Emery county, messen- agriculture and other units of the W. Ewing of Washington, D. C., in a communication to Senate Presigers; Carol Hansen, Utah county; body politic. The governor related state activ- dent Herbert W. Maw. It reads as Melba Reeves, Jron county; .Helen Poulson, Duchesne; Verna Owen, ities looking toward the removal follows: Salt Lake City, and Maurine Neb-eke- r, of the state prison and construcIn compliance with the honorSevier county, stenograph- tion of a state .tuberculosis sani- able privilege extended me by your ers; George Naylor, Davis county, tarium and also acquainted the letter of November 2, wherein you and Edward D. Clyde, Wasatch lawmakers with the policies look- stated that any information gathing toward the conservation of ered in Washington and submitted county, doorkeepers. Utahs water resources. to your committee would be great Rules Committee of Message Highlights A committee on joint rules, uply appreciated, I may report as survived The has of Utah state follows : on motion of Senator Holbrook, In order to institute as wide a was named, comprising Senators the depression as well as most research as possible on the subject D. W. Parratt, Salt Lake; Holbrook states and better than many. . . Brighter times have come and im- and cover at least a part of the and G. G. Lindstrom, Carbon. reflected vast store of material available Upon motion of Senator Hug- proving conditions are in economic all our affairs. here, I called to my aid a number gins, Senators Alonzo F. Hopkins With returning prosperity the of young lawyers and law students of' Croyden, Wendell Peterson of acall Utahns and some of whom Ferron, and Wendell Grover of desire to expand the existing as well as of tivities were government formerly your students at the Salt Lake City, were named as a deand add new ones is insistent University of Utah. From the committee to inform the house . . We can. mands consideration. composite reports submitted by senate hold was ready to that the not stand still. them, we are tendering a brief outa joint session. While considering our desire line of what such research indiUpon motion by Senator Hug for however, we must cates on the more important feagins, a committee was named to not new things, needs of existing tures of the proposed legislation, the inforget act with a house committee in and trust that such information agencies. Blood H. Governor forming Henry These figures ($12,500,000 in will be of real help in the formathe legislators were ready to hear expenditures against tion of a successfully operating dihis opening message. The senate requested in estimated revenue) rect primary law in our state. $6,000,000 committee comprising Senators 1. That the convention system Lawrence E. Nelson, Salt Lake; present our problem. . . . We must be statesmen. now operative in only one or two Glenn E. Snow, If I properly interpret the states, other than Utah, is not exand Will R. Holmes, Box Elder. wishes of the majority of the peo- pressive of democracy, or the will The house named a joint com. . . they do not desire at this of the people; that such system ple mittee, including Representatives time that the state general fund originated in the early history of Moses L. Holbrook, Davis; C. J. My the country and although always obligations be increased. Stringham and Alton B. Poulsen, sentiments atticoincide with this unsatisfactory to the people, was Salt Lake. It also named its own tude. continued in use, largely for ecorules committee, including RepreIt should be kept in mind that nomic reasons, the taxpayer obsentative Henry Peterson, Cache; Heber Bennion, Jr., Daggett, and the legal borrowing capacity not jecting to any increased cost of the only of the state, but of the local electorate. With the coming of Sheldon R. Brewster, Salt Lake. subdivisions, may be affected by low cost and quick transportation the action taken by the legislature and communication the convention LEGISLATURE HEARS on homestead exemptions. system passed into the discard. . GOVERNORS MESSAGE Home Exemption Idea Is Old The issue . . . relating to home 2. That the Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 Govdirect priernor Henry H. Blood delivered exemption suggests important mary idea originated in Crawford his message to the legislature in changes in the relationship between county, Pennsylvania, in 1860, joint session in the house of rep- state and local governments. . . . when the Republicans of that counWisdom would dictate that, at ty voluntarily discarded their conresentatives chamber. The message cautioned the legis- least for a beginning we should vention and delegate system as unlators of an impending budget adopt a program that will avoid democratic, and chose their county and counseled strongly drastic reconstruction of our rev- candidates in a direct election patcrisis terned after the general election; against revolutionary changes in enue laws. While it is true that the lan- that other local existing revenue laws. party groups here The Governor urged continua- - guage of the (home exemption) and there copied the plan, but amendment is permissive, its adop- none in area larger than a contion by popular vote carried a gressional district. After 1899, rather definite mandate that earn- when as a result of the success of Welcome, and Best Wishes to est effort be exerted to make it our Friends of Labor operative. and for strong state suThe 2 per cent sales tax is the program financial mainstay for the admin- pervision. I am committed to the policy of istration of public assistance in providing for the weladequately AULTMAN Utah. of the needy aged above and I urge that you provide for the fare I am below mark. the CASH GROCERY . continuation of local administra- also favorable to similar care betion (of the welfare program) by 450 So. 9th West Was. 6169 ing extended to the other needy couirty welfare boards, for local groups now receiving public assistparticipation in the cost of the ance. Employer and Employe So long as present systems enBEST WISHES TO LABOR dure the interests of the workman and the man who employs labor are essentially identical. . , . NeithYOU MUST BE SATISFIED er can prosper, in the long run, un20 Months to Repay $300.00 or Less less the other also prospers. A Complete Loan Service, Including Our Single Signature (Cor tinned on Page 7) and Auto Finance Plans Listen to Your Unseen Friend at 3 P. M. Every Sunday, KSL A Warm Welcome to our Labor Friends Happy New Year 4 Robin 405 Continental Bank Building Williams Stove Hospital Salt Lake City - Phone Was. 2007 75 East Center St. , Room 921 Eccles Bldg. 666 So. 5th East Hy. 5327 : Provo Ogden Sold and Stoves Bought, Phone 1277 Phone 210 Repaired UNDER STATE SUPERVISION USED FURNITURE -- self-guidi- Utah-Colora- do ng the plan in the cities of Minnesota, the plan was adopted by that state; that with the advent of modern transportation and communication, the plan spread rapidly and has been adopted in varying form by all but three states; that any disrepute which has attached to "the direct primary has come from attempts to write into a comparatively new system, unworkable parts by which some powerful politician or political group has hoped to benefit; that where the subject has been properly approached by the legislators, the people are usually more than satisfied with the results. 3. That state regulations respecting states vary widely, and are changed often, indicating that the same law is not applicable to any state, but that it is necessary to the conditions obtaining within the state in question. Convention Is Expensive 4, That with the modern system of handling votes quickly at low cost the convention system is now generally regarded as more expensive than the direct primary. Although with the old convention system, expense may fall upon the partisan and not the taxpayer, critics of the old system point out that in the long run the taxpayer pays the bill because of special privileges which always attend the convention system; that certainly' somebody pays the bill and the best evidence available is that in the end, it is the taxpayer. 5. That of all the states which have adopted direct primaries, only (Continued on Page 4) le WELCOME TO LABOR We Wish Our Labor Friends Every Happiness in 1937 DIXIE LUNCII 2152 South 11th East Hyland 8670 FRED O. GOLDING, Mgr. 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