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Show Search A Maw and retire to In 723 days Herbert B. Gus P. Backman will private life The lig h t Published F. 72 alternate Jensen, Street, T Dial Specialist in Neglected Truth every L. Salt Friday Publisher Lake 5-3989 City, $2.00 a Utah year ee et TR VOL. III, NO. 18. ee ——- 10c PER COPY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 8, 1943 —_— — ——_ TT a AE ee ee His Excellency Confesses Herbert B. Maw has confessed that his proposed ‘Executive Statutory Suspension Act’’ came from the Executive Committee of Governors, of which he is a eoy and timid member. The proposed law contemplates a grant of authority to him to suspend acts of the Legislature. In a public statement issued on December 26th—one day after the scheme was exposed by the Searechlight—the Governor sought to smooth over the affair and give the proposed act the faked status of a necessary and mertorious war measure. Excerpts from his statement read: ‘(A bill to this effeet (authorizing suspension of laws) has been prepared and was studied at the recent council of state vovernments in Los Angeles... ”’ ‘“‘The Executive Committee of the Na- tional Governors, of which | am a member, has also recommended the expediency of the legislation, ... 7’ [ would me alone. taking care I feel that Ses bs es ‘‘T think tained by not like that power vested in Not that I am not desirous of of any duties necessary, but some other agency should asthe same efficiency can be ob- authorizing the Defense Coun- ceil to recommend to the Governor whatever action might be necessary In an emercoo. 6 nis SENMCY quibbling and His Excellency is merely Military leading the public up a blind alley. officials have ample authority under Federal, and especially under Presidential war powers But if to deal with any emergency in Utah. (Continued on page 3) Supreme Court Backs Maw Scheme Any temporary gains that Herbert B. Maw may have made by reason of his three to two judicial vietory in the State Road Commission case, have been heavily offset by the loss of prestige suffered by the State Supreme Court through what is widely regarded as a political decision. The prevailing opinion veered sharply toward sustaining the validity and good faith of Maw’s reorganization scheme and attending legislation, which it appears to have accepted without argument of counsel, and over the express reservations of the relators (plaintiffs) who indicated they desired to argue that phase if the Court proposed to consider it. All the judges agreed that the Legislature could abolish offices, but that it could not retain the offices and abolish the officers from them. The opinion of Mr. Justice Wolfe, by circumlocution, and the opinion of Judge Wade directly said that the Legislature intended to abolish the office of the State Road Commission. Both sides had argued in their briefs, and Governor Herbert B. Maw had acknowledged by his letter of June 30, 1941, that the office of State Road Commission was not abolished. In 1927 when the Legislature in creating the State Road Commission said: The State Commission Road shall be composed of three members, ete. it was thought that the office of State Road Commission had come into existence. At least a lot of people drew salaries under the supposition that it had come into existence. (Continued on page 4) |