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Show Governor Vetoes Appropriation Bill With the end of the session of the Utah State Legislature very close at hand the legislators legislat-ors are faced with the task of almost re-writing the all-Important appropriations bill, as the result of a sweeping veto by Governor J. Bracken Lee. Following Fol-lowing the Governor's veto .message .mes-sage the Republican member-ship member-ship of the House of Representatives Represen-tatives sustained his action. The 30 Republicans in the hous voted to uphold the veto, with the 30 Democrats voting against the action. Forty votes were needed to override the ve-(Cotimd ve-(Cotimd M Bock raft) . GOVERNOR'S VETO (Continued from Front Page) to. The Governor made it clear that his action was not designed to cut out the departments affected, af-fected, but rather to cut down the amount of their appropriations. appropria-tions. However, a new appropriations appropri-ations bill must be passed before be-fore the session closes or the departments affected by the veto ve-to would be left without funds with which to function during the next two years. The governor vetoed 26 items in the appropriations act, but intended to wipe out the appropriations approp-riations of only five of them. All of his "reduction vetos" were aimed at state departments and institutions that would have received substantially more than the amount they received from the 1949 legislature. The following items were cut out by his veto: University of Utah, $3,420,504; Utah State Agricultural college, administration, $3,058,340; extension exten-sion division, $460,000; experimental experi-mental station, $763,000; Branch Agricultural college. $355.802: Carbon college. $219,660; Weber college. $900,970; Snow college. $225,673, and Dixie college, $219,-051. $219,-051. Other items vetoed as being too high were: Adult probation and parole, $107,000; state industrial school. $550,000; state training school, $1,000,000; state engineer, $518,-733; $518,-733; Utah water and power board administration, $75,000; board on alcoholism, $63,000; Adult blind, $124,000. |