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Show TWO PER CENT LEVY MADE HOMES SCHOOL REVENUE'ACT IS NOW EXPECTED TO SOLVE LONG DISCUSSED PROBLEM. Under Proposed Law Less Populous Sections of State Would Not be Taxed in Greater Amounts Than More Populous Sections. Salt Lake City. The income tax bill for educational purposes was passed by the house at the session of March 8. This bill was prepared by a special spe-cial school revenue committee which the house appointed to solve the school tax question so that the less populous sections of the state would not be taxed in greater amounts than the more populous sections. The committee was instructed to draft a bill which would provide a fund to be equitably distributed among the school districts of the slate for use in defraying the expenses of administration ad-ministration of primary schools. The raising of funds for building purposes remains the problem of the individual districts. There is no radical departure in the measure from the National Taxing association as-sociation recommendations. It follows the plan "of the federal tax. " It adopts a flat 2 per cent levy in the place of the graduated levy of the federal tax. The same exemptions as allowed by the federal tax are provided in this measure. The special committee to which was referred house bill 127, by Mrs. Blake-ly, Blake-ly, and house bill 135, by R. E. Currie, recommended the tabling of the Blakely measure and favorable action for the other. The house followed the recommendation. Both bills relate to the organization and government of cities and provide that city commissioners commis-sioners shall be elected from the various var-ious wards. The proposal to redistrlct the legislative legis-lative districts of the state was killed by the house on March 8. Unanimous consent was given the appropriations committee on March 8 to introduce two appropriation bills. They provide an approbation for the state to buy some Hatchtown claims and to reimburse the school fund, which will suffer a loss, through the sale of irrigation bonds, the constitution constitu-tion providing that the school fund cannot be made to suffer a loss. The senate on March S rejected Senator Sen-ator Olson's bill for a constitutional amendment permitting the consolidation consolida-tion of city and county governments in cities of the state upon vote of the people of the districts affected. The senate on March 8 called upon the house for return of the workmen's compensation bill t correct a minor error in words, but the house, apparently ap-parently suspecting a "joker" in the move, refused to return the bill, but offered to refer it to a conference committee. com-mittee. This was done. The conference committee on the senate amendments to the Piercey eight-hour law for women, reported back recommending that both houses concur in an amendment removing exemption ex-emption of application of the law from employees engaged in interstate commerce, com-merce, from those employed under contract con-tract and those upon piece work. |