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Show With The Utah State Legislature ;;.I.T LAKE. The 19th Session of the I.'lah Legislature is proceeding according ac-cording to accepted routine of such law-making bodies passing the hums u IV to care for the session expenses v great sic:'d and precision hut s. i'.ng slreuuiisly with all other details. Attempts made to have preliminary organization details of house and senate out of the way before the session ses-sion started failed to their purpose, but even seemed to retard, rather than to hasten, progress. In the house the Iiepnblicans were unable to agree among themselves and had to secure Democratic help to elect the speaker. The result is that the 14 Democrats in a lioiue of 55 are represented on the list committee chairman, whereas a group of Republicans are given little j more consideration than they would have had a right to expect if they had been the opposition, and the coalition j of Democrats and Republicans had been a regularly organized party. The senate was facing the same situation, but e.-aded it, and all its chairmen are i.e. ublicans, though the proportion of Democrats in the senate J to 20 is much larger than that in the house. One senate committee, judiciary, has a majority of Democrats on it. because iill the lawyers in the senate, except the senate president are to be Democrats. The message of Governor Dern has ben received but no formal disposition disposi-tion of the problems therein has been made, though the formal message has been entered on the journals of both houses. One senate measure, a joint resolution, resolu-tion, has been sent to the house. It authorizes au-thorizes a governor's messenger. The senate has received four bills, one concurrent memorial, and the joint resolution res-olution sent to the house. The memorial appeals to congress and the president in behalf of silver. Bills Introduced. S. B. I, Fowles Correcting a legal description of some real estate granted grant-ed to Ogden City in 1925. S. B. 2, Shields To clarify the law relating to dependent neglected children. child-ren. S. B. 3, Jefferson and Ryan To use interest on the miners' hospital land grant fund as provided in the enabling act. S. B. 4, Keyser To require that the flag be displayed at polling places. In the House, II. B. 2, Mrs. Lowe, to enable the governor to choose a proper dale for Arbor Day. II. C. M. 1, Holbrook Asks favorable favor-able consideration by congress of the Jones bill, continuing the Shepherd-Towner Shepherd-Towner funds for infants and expect-and expect-and mothers. Tax revision matters have been brot up in the senate by a letter from the chairman of the stale tax commission but no action has been recorded. Anticipated Legislation. Utahns are looking forward to legislative leg-islative action on the following matters, mat-ters, although to use a college term, the lawmakers were supposed to "major" in taxation work at the present pres-ent session : Unemployment ; questions brought forward by the six constitutional amendments ; slate revenues; state training school expenditures and revenues rev-enues for same ; building program for the state; slate road construction campaign; prevention work in regard to various sections of the state visited periodically by floods; war veterans welfare; laws controlling juvenile courts; air traffic and other aeronau-t aeronau-t ic questions. The state bar association has a legislative legis-lative program that no doubt will be given serious consideration. The several state departments will likely offer suggestions calling for considerable con-siderable work by the legislators. An interesting feature of the present legislature is the fact that the House of Representatives has a small number num-ber of professional men for members. Industries and agriculture has supplied sup-plied most of the membership of the lower house. The senate is largely made up of persons active in the professions. The stale tax commission has an-j an-j lKuuued completion of its draft of a personal income tax act, which immediately im-mediately becomes available to the legislal lire. The commission is to pres-ers pres-ers of the commission itself. The commission com-mission was created by vote of the cut an act for the defining of the pow-people pow-people at the last election. The tax commission is recommending recommend-ing against the adoption of a tax on intangible properly as property. In this it is following the recommendation recommenda-tion of Gov. Dern in his message. Separate Sep-arate acts will be prepared giving the state tax commission control over the assessment of mining property and over ov-er public utilities, as provided for in the constitutional amendments. The rale of the personal income tax proposed by the commission in its bill is graduated from one per to five percent. per-cent. The one per cent is to be paid on the first :UUI0 of taxable income or ar.y part thereof; one and one-half per cut, on the second one thousand, or any pari thereof and with 2 per cent of the third one thousand; two and one half per ceut on the fourth; threj per cent of the fifth one thousand; thous-and; I hive and one half per cent ou the Glh: 4 per cent ou the 7th; four aud one half per cent of the Sth |