Show Under the Capitol Dome By Dy Win Wm T. T Iglehart for tor Utah State Press Service When they quit lawmaking at the end of the fourth week of the session of or the state leg- leg the members counted their tangible achievements in inthe inthe inthe the matter of laws passed and killed at only about ten per cent Ten per cent that Is of the more than bills and resolutions In In- In But But that vis is a somewhat some some- what misleading l g ng figure r because because in it takes in the neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- b of hours in preparation preparation preparation committee consideration lobbying persuasion and plain ordinary trading horse to ono one of debate on the tIle floor to get a bill passed And the hours have havo al already already already al- al ready been devoted to many pieces es of legislation that will have an important and Influence in influence influence In- In fluence on the way vay the people of Utah will live and carry on their various affairs for the next four years For instance the tho joint committee of or labor and industry devoted a great deal o 0 time profitably In ironing out a compromise compromise com com- promise on the bill respecting of or benefits under the Workmen's Compensation and the Occupational Disease acts They recommended a boost hoost In minimum compensation from 16 a Week to 2250 a week W. W C. C Jensen Ogden D-Ogden an and his committee have approved ed those recommendations They w will i 11 probably be o accepted Intact this week Other negotiations and compromises compromises compromises com com- promises are ahead for the major controversial measures yet to be ber r presented Su Such h as elections and voting post war planning for employment and public construction construction construction tion budgeting of the Ute states state's income in income income in- in come and there thero really is a sticklers stickler taxation another brutal word in these these days das da's highways social security affairs and that always diverting and continuing question of deer for forthe tho the hunters and brouse for the tho sheep and cattle 01 or which There seem to be anywhere from two to twenty schools of thought on any arty or all of these proposals Then youve you've got the liquor commissions commission's commissions or failures of commission de- de on the point of or view the department of ot agriculture desires to extend their domain to everything from front the number of cows to bulls on public land and to assumption of control over overall overall overall all soil enterprises And the gamut of subjects before the legislature runs on to an unbelievable un un- believable believable- number Rep Selvoy J. J Boyer CD- CD D- D Sprin Springville took a lot of wind out of the organized labor sails in iu the house early in the weeks week's proceedings when he squelched Rep nep Frank BonaccI Helper D-Helper and his effort to permit public employees and agencies to bargain bargain bargain bar bar- gain collectively ely by saying ware are we to lose the spoils' spoils system and freeze free every public job in Utah The house agreed with the Democratic floor leader No collective bargaining for the state or other public employees A A Alot lot of or other civil service proposals are quite apt to meet meeta a similarly conclusive fate But the tho county firemen did win a victory their their plea for recognition recognition recognition tion was x granted Senator Mitchell 1 R- R Moab Moah chalked up a 3 couple of or credit marks by his successful sponsorship of the emergency measure permitting the continued continued continued contin contin- employment of women in ground above mining operations The aggressive and articulate Republican floor leader in the tho house Rep Clifton G. G M. M Kerr of abetted forceful Continued on pa page e four V Under the Capitol Dome V Continued from rom page pago one ono speaker W. W R. R White in cutting off debate debato that has resulted in inthe inthe inthe the tabling of nine and the re recommitting recommitting recommitting re- re committing to committee of or a alike alike alike like number of bills The Senate tho the smaller and nd thus far more body was having difficulties in the matter of Governor Herbert B. B Maws Maw's recommendations for commission commission commission com com- comI I mission appointments so far as the record shoves all is sweet harmony But Dut emphatically tho the one ono vote margin by which President Dexter Farr Og D-Og- I den won his place hasn't yet I been sufficient to get the Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- caucuses into agreement with the chief of states state's sug sug- The The- first major blast at one of the Governors Governor's pet pel reorganization schemes was e exploded by Sen Alonzo Hopkins CD- CD DWoodruff D- D Woodruff who wants to do away entirely with the Industrial al Development and Publicity commission Due to resignation and death Ora Bund Bundy of Ogden is the solo sole member of that body Commissioner Bundy apparently got his wires somewhere With so o man many bills before them on the same related subjects subjects sub sub- jests both senate and house have resorted to the appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment of committees to consoli consoli- consolidate date and harmonize related The house has has' thrown all proposed salary increases for forstate forstate forstate state county and employees employees employees em em- into one committee The I senate h has s tossed all post war i planning proposals into another an an- I other i As the new we week k opens both both houses have full calendars The senate started off ocr with 30 measures measures measures meas meas- ures ready for final action and they the house with 29 And nd brave is the tho man who will predict what will J happen to any of them |