Show 25 is Per der Capita For Schools r The Utah senate spent less than an I hour in debating House bill No 20 i by vl ch puts i Into n to effect the constitutional amendment No 2 pass pas 9 by by the the people at the last genral gen gen- ral election This bill provides that th the s state ate board of equalization may raise 25 per capita of school population population lation for the support of schools The bill passed second and third reading over the opposing opposing- votes of ot Senator Rufus Adams of ot Davis county county county coun coun- ty and Harrison E B. B Jenkins of ot Salt Lake county Senator Jenkins explained his vote by saying that he Is not opposed to the prin principle of the bill but that he does not think the present an opp opportune opportune r-i r tune time for I raising i taxes Senator Adams agreed with speech by Se Senator Sev-ator Sev P ator Jenkins much to the same effect t There was some effort by Senator J Jenkins kins to get the bill amended but it was ineffective His first attack was on b emergency clause carried I in the tho bill fo ch he could see s e no use This was opposed ed however on the ground that the hous had passed f f the bill with the emergence x cla clause I se I and to amend the tile bill in the enato enate j I m might cause complications complication in iu the I house It was argued a that hat t the ilie e emergency emer- emer emergency j gency clau clause e in this bill does no harm even if it does no good Amendments Ineffective The committee report had rec m- m men men-ded some formal amendments amendments amend amend- ments but these being technical were not upheld by the senate and the report was Vas simply filed Senator Dern pointed out that some of the new matter In the bill was wag not underscored underscored un un- and Senator Jenkins moved moved moved ed that the bill be sent back to the house to o be put into proper shape since the house members object tl this tIlls being done by the sen senate te Senator Senator Sen Sen- sen-I sen ator Tebbs opposed sed on the ground that some friction had already occurred occurred oc- oc between the two hous houses which was undesirable The debate on the merits of the bill was then Instituted Senator Jenkins saying that taxes are arc already d a burden burden burden bur bur- den on the people almost to the point pf pC revolution and this bill simply infant raising raI ing the taxes still further tu he The state is approaching a point poin t he 1 said ld where the people are rebelling fon and h he feared that this bill would bring on ona a which would wreck the very Institutions lions for tor Web it sought greater r sup sup- port He was a 8 believer bellev in hi equalization tion he said but he ho P protested in tn the present Instance rot not against un unequal u l taxation but against r burdensome Rally lly lp to Support Support- Senators Senators' Orl Orlando Bradley end nd i M. M r. r C C. C Tebbs rallied to the support of tho the bill the former saying that the people of Utah would not rebel against support of ot the schools and md the h. h latter saying that th they y would l io ioto ioto o oto to the limit for tor it l 1 purposes s Sen- Sen Senu tit u af H. H Smart was willing to 0 o oCl fr o ro ct Cl ct expenditures roads rouls but not for schools Sen Sen J ator Jones wanted to know where I Iap ap any apy revolution evo tIn had started on account ac ae- count of or support to the to-the the schools and and- Senator Jenkins replied that the present present pres pres- ent eat Russian revolution was the re r re Jt I sult suit of burdensome taxation Senator Senator Sena- Sena tor Adams said he was In support of ot what Senator Jenkins had said Senator Sen- Sen I ator John W. W Peters said he had been I frequently approached in opposition to tp the bill by representative citizens ens of his district and he might be In lri danger of incurring censure perhaps r from the majority of ot the people ho represented He had always been In Jn f favo favor of ot the thought that the revenue revenue b from corporate corporate wealth ought to be C. C pooled by the state at 1 large ge how how- ev overhand everand ri d he realized that that much of the wealth of the two counties he represents represents seats came from the long stretches stretches stretches' j. j of railroads within their boundaries Change in Census Asked Jenkins then raised the f point that the school census is taken t at a time of the year which deprives deprives deprives' the cities clUes of ot a large amount of the per capita support from the state and he that the bill be amended amended amend amend- amend amend- ed so as to provide that the school census should be taken at a time ime when the children would be In school so that the actual number of O children of school age In each die dla- j mist be determined President j f jThomas Thomas E. E McKay said that already a bill to that end had been introduce 1 t ted 1 i ed but Senator Jenkins said he was not aware that it would ever reach the senate Senator P Peters recalled retaIled f that It had been brought to the senate senate sen Len ate but was later recalled Salt Lake Would Aid State said that Senator George H. H Dern r the bill was for tor the development of the state and antI in spite of the criticism S that had be been n hurled burled at Salt Lake LaIC r rf rm m members embers of the legislature by by some som f of tho the senators from outside Salt Silt j J. J Lake Lako county he proposed to vote voto for forthe forthe the measure Salt Lake he said Bald Is interested in the development of the state and has been active in assisting assist assist- ing fug the Uintah basin and also is interested interested in- in ti in the of oC ZIon national na us- j park and other oUter points of ot interest inter inter- 3 est eat far tar removed from the county and city It Is also for tor the development of the tIle state industrially and it w was t with the tho feeling that that tho tho cast bread bread cast on the ater would return to Salt Lake Lake county that ho for the the- bill bUl He said he had been asked oske to o vote a against It by soma some of the rep rep- business Interests He e 1 was also in influenced by the vote voi vote of r t the 1 S people at- at the at-the the recent recant t election J. J 1 Senator Quinney ney voted for Cor the bill bill r he because ther the people people of the state had said they said they wanted It and because because beC be be- C cause UBO tt was right i in principle Senator Senator Sena Sena- 1 tor Southwick also supported the measure which then wont to a vote as already stated Tte bill was r. r I ed on third reading and pa passed sed without with with- out further ceremony except that that- I Senator Jenkins explained his stand stan l when whon the third reading vote was In t progress I A li L S L T I I J J |