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Show lfttdei the QafUtalbame UTAH STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION By William T. Iglehart Salt Lake City- (Special to the Chronicle) Planning for the postwar post-war reconstruction period and provision pro-vision for employment of returning veterans and displaced warworkers were emphasized by Governor Herbert B. Maw in his message to the Utah State senate and house of represntatives which met last week for the first sessions of the Twenty-sixth Legislature. Among the projects Governor Maw recommended for post-war employment were the establishment establish-ment of small scale industries in the agricultural areas; highway construction, reclamation, public buildings, airport development and cooperation with other states in a "Build the west program." He likewise advocated a one cent increase in the gasoline tax to provide funds for the construction construc-tion and improvement of secondary second-ary roads. As a means of matching federal funds for future projects he asked the legislature to grant the various political subdivisions of the state authority to build financial reserves through current taxation. From preliminary outward appearances ap-pearances the legislature seems inclined in-clined to go along with the Governor Gover-nor in the general outlines of his post-war proposals. How the lawmakers law-makers will respond to some of the detailed recommendations remains to be seen. In the first week, major legislation legisla-tion introduced embraced such far ranging subjects as the non-partisan election of the judiciary, in-cieased in-cieased pay for members of the le gi s at lire, extensions of the provisions pro-visions of the workmen's compensation compen-sation and labor relations act. an appropriation of S225,000 to the Pnuehters of Utah Pioneers for a pioneer memorial building, increasing increas-ing the salaries of the governor and'other state elective officials as well as increasing the salaries of city mayors, commissioners and auditors. The state municipal league authored au-thored a bill directed ' particularly at the country newspapers under H. B. 2 by Thomas M. Reese, D, Salt Lake, removing the neceesity of including a list of warrants issued is-sued in the county auditor's annual published statement. The only bill passed was in the senate where they ran through S. B. 1 increasing the pay of the legislators leg-islators to the new constitutional limit of $300 per year. No opposition opposi-tion is anticipated in the house. The only opening flurry of the session was a 2-hour deadlock of the senate Democrats who couldn't decide on a president. Dexter Farr of Ogden, however, outlasted Al-onzo Al-onzo F. Hopkin of Wood'uff to get the election. Republican senators offered token opposition by nominating nomin-ating Sen. Mitehel Melich of Moah for the presidency, but he could only muster four votes on the show down. W. R. White of Ogden was unanimously una-nimously reelected speaker of the house tf1or some preliminary skirmishing skir-mishing by supporters of Selvey J. Boyer of Springville. Thus Weber County men attained Irarlershinp of both houses, the first time these places have gone to men from the same county in many years. With five Republicans out of a total of twenty-three members of the senate and fifteen Republicans out of sixty in the house, the minority mi-nority party might be in a position to swing some legislation if the administration ad-ministration and ant indmi n is! ration ra-tion Democrats get into a tangle. Roth houses this week will bring the real work of considering legislation. legis-lation. Committees have been named for the senate and house. In the senate Kelly. R.. Fillmore, was named to the Agriey It ui , So-eial So-eial Relations nnd Relief, and lite State and Municipal Aftairs committees. com-mittees. Freer, D. of Lynndyl, was named chairman of the Municipal Affairs committee, and tche High ways and Aeronautics, I , ,jjc Service Ser-vice and State Training School committees. |