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Show By Hairy Marlowe The Utah legislature's "big ! bill" the multi-million dollar j appropriations bill was being , hammered into shape ns I'taa i legislators ended their tifih week ; of the U."i3 session. All indications point to a en promise measure which will l . slightly higher than the In di et asked by Gov. J. Bracken lav ai'd in most cases well under depart-1 ment requests. j The joint appropriations vm-j mittee, set for day-Hig sessions j until the bill is ready, claim the money bill will be ready for in-1 traduction on the session's 10th i day last dav for introduction of . bills. " I Advance reports indicate the' biggest areas of compromise will j be in appropriations t institu-l tions of higher learning. These schools suffered the biggest recommended rec-ommended slashes under the budget presented by the governor. gover-nor. It is also quite probable that in most instances where Gov. Lee recommended a department get less money than was spent last biennium, some adjustments upward up-ward will be made at least to the same figure received frr the last two years. The generally conservative makeup of the joint committee, however, precludes any wide variance var-iance with the total proposed by the governor. In fact, many so-Ions so-Ions feel the governor deliberately deliber-ately kept his recommendations low and would not be too displeased dis-pleased with an appropriations bill somewhat higher than his proposed figures. From this week on, fate of the majority of legislation lies in the hands of the sifting committees com-mittees of each house. The seven-man Senate group assumed life-or-death power over some 132 measures at the end of the fifty week and a 17-man House committee took over 109 bills. And these do not include more than 300 measures which have yet to come out of standing committees com-mittees and then go right back into sifting. Sen. President Mark - Paxton named Republicans Grant Thorn (Springvllle), B. H. Stringham, (Vernal), Rendell N. Mabey, (Bountiful), Edwin B. Cannon, (Salt Lake) and Democrats Marl D. Gibson (Price), Alonzo F. Hop-kin Hop-kin (Woodruff), and J. Frances Fowles (Ogden) as Senate sifters. Sen. Thorn Is chairman. Speaker of the House Merrill K. Davis (R-Salt Lake) chose Kep. William N. Brotherson R. ixmetoi, to head the House group. Others iivlmle Republicans Kiel Froorer, Jr.. ( Ogden i, Karl Butlers (M-rganh Kleon Kerr Trcnunti!i i , K. G. Thomas. (Salt Lake), Wayne C. Durham. (Salt Lake). Victor L. liumlerson ,Ker rcn , Theodnre C. Jacohsen (Sail Lakei, Arthur Brian Loa, Sim eon A. Dunn lilymini, Harrison Conover ( Springville, and Democrats, Demo-crats, Mrs. C. L. Jack (Salt Lake), Mrs. Gerald Caier (Nephil, Mrs. Elizabeth Vance (Oi:den). Wendell Wen-dell Grover (Riverton), Aria P. Messinger (leaver) and Walker Lee Russell (Manilla . There wen also indications that some sU of reapportionment reapportion-ment might come cut of this session. Two now bills were introduced in-troduced in the Senate calling for compromises which mav go through. The Major bill would call for a house of (i) members, controlled control-led mainly by Salt Lake, Weber, Utah, Davis and Carbon counties, with a combined total of 42 to 27 for the other counties, and 25 senators with rural regions holding a margin of 13 to 12 over the above mentioned five counties. coun-ties. Under this plan, Sevier, Iron and Washington counties would each be given a senator. All three are now in districts with other counties. Salt Lake County would drop from seven to six senators. Uintah county, now in with Duchesne, Du-chesne, would join Daggett in one district. Duchesne and Wasatch Wa-satch would share a senator, leaving Morgan, Rich and Summit Sum-mit counties in the district in which Wasatch is now. In the House, Salt Lake County Coun-ty would be upped from 19 to 23 representatives, Davis county would go from one to three, Utah and Weber would each gain two and Sanpete would lose one. The other new measure would seek to freeze the new senatorial senator-ial arrangement into the constitution consti-tution so that control of the Senate Sen-ate would always be In rural hands while the House control would be determined by population. popula-tion. Another key bill seemingly about in shape to pass Ls the proposal to set up a Utah Tourist Tour-ist and Publicity Council to advertise ad-vertise the state. This proposal calls for appointment appoint-ment by the governor of a seven -man board, one man from each judicial district in the state. This board would then appoint a full-time, full-time, paid director who would handle publicity and tourist promotion. pro-motion. Thij is a compromise version of the two publicity bills first introduced. The measure carries with it a $200,000 appropriation. |