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Show MOTORVEHIGLE BILL RECEIVED I SENATOR PETERS INTRODUCES MEASURE CHANGING LICENSE FEB AND GASOLINE TAX Wis (reneral appropriation bill, which was introduced in the house, and also a letter from Governor Mabey, transmitting trans-mitting the budget. The governor's letter calls attention to the excess of the budget over the states estimated revenues, but add? that the enactment of pending legislation may serve to save the $107,000 in expenses. ex-penses. The governor adds that the president of the board of the Utah Agricultural college asserts that it will be impossible to maintain the Branch sioner and his salary. Repeal of the present laws is sought by house bill No. 40, by the same author. Consideration Consider-ation of the proposed new laws has been under way by the committee since January 20. Several amendments are proposed by the committee, to which all members mem-bers agree, with the exception to a change proposed by the the minority report, which would reduce the Balary of the commissioner from J4000 a year as provided for in the bill, to $3600 a year. Tne minority report was adopted by the Souse after the debate had waxed strong for a considerable length of time. INTRODUCED IN TOE SENATE S. B. 67, Adams Osteopathy. S. B. 68, Jensen Voluntary associations associa-tions to sue and be sved. S. B. 69, Jenson 4?tate engineer's fees. S. B. 70. Dixon Limiting civil service ser-vice commission to Salt Lake and Ogden. S. B. 71. McConkie Requiring sheriffs sher-iffs in smaller counties to reside at county seat. Judiciar- S. B. 72, Irvine Fixing fees for University of Utah and Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college. H. B. 2, Atwood Cooperative siasv keting bill. Ayes 20. S. B. 45, Committee on Agriculture (Sub. for S. B. 26, Candland) ayea 16, absent 4. H. J. M. 1, Mrs. Dunyon Use of. silver by foreign governments. Aye 18, absent 2. S. B. 40, Committee on commerce and Industry Negotiability of promissory prom-issory notes. Ayes 18, nays 2. STB. 40, Funk Architects. Ayes 20. S. B. 48, Funk Certified public accountants. ac-countants. Ayes 19, absent 1. S. B. 24, Committee on revision and) printing Land office regulations. Ayes 19, absent 1. S. B. 27, Dixon Utah tuberculosis research commission. Ayes 12, nays 8. S. B. 37, Jenkins Insurance agents qualifications. Ayes 18, nays 1, absent ab-sent 1. S. B. 47, Funk Embalming. Ayes 15, absent 5. S. B. 57, Jenkins Voluntary admis-sion admis-sion to state mental hospital. Ayes 15, absent 5. S. B. 42, McConkie Killing livestock. live-stock. Ayes 14, absent 8. S. B. 43, McConkie Maiming livestock live-stock Ayes 15, absent 5. S. B. fO, Irvine Aeronautics. Ayes 15, absent 5. HOUSE ACTION ON BILLS S, J. M. 2, Jenkins Asking congress con-gress to aid silver industry. Ayes 49, absent 6. S. J. R. 1, Winder Special committee com-mittee to investigate crime wave and activities of pardon board. Ayes 38, nays 12, absnt 7. II. B. 22, Jacobs Adding half pint container to fruit and berry measures. Ayes, 22, nays 25, absent 7. H. B. 57, Callister Appolntn'int of deputies for county, precinct ano district dis-trict officers. Ayes 43, absent 7. II. B. 17, Shelley Reducing rate for legal printing, ayes W, nays 31, absent 1. II. B. 2, Atwood Farm marketing associations. Ayes 61, nays 1, absent 1. - ' IT. B. 21, Openshaw Requiring trust and guarantee and loan associations associ-ations to obtain permit from stats bank examiners. Ayes 52 absent. 3. H. B. 42, Cannon Excluding building build-ing and loan associations from paying annual corporation license tax. Ayes 14. nays 40, absent 1. H. B. 43, Cannon Excluding bulling bull-ing and loan associations from provisions pro-visions relating to fraud in the sale of securities. Ayes 6, nays 45, absent 4. II. B. 66, Mrs. Lyman Jurisdiction. i The leng-zpected amendment to the state motor vehicle laws, including the gasolins tax law, was introduced Thursday in the senate by Senator J. W. Peters ef Boxelder county. The gasoline tax bill is about as already announced as the recommendation recommen-dation of the state commission on revision re-vision of taxation, except that the rate carried is two and one-half cents a gallon, instead of two cents advocated advo-cated by some, and three cents advocated advo-cated by others. Licensing of dealers in motor vehicle fuels is carried in. the bill, and provision is made for collection collec-tion of the tax from the distributors, who may, of course, pass the tax along to the consumer. The proceeds of the tax, estimated roughly at $625,000, are to be covered into the state treasury by the secretary secre-tary of state, who collects the tax, and are to go into the state highway maintenance main-tenance fund, after the interest and sinking fund of state road bonds are cared for annually. Remittances are to be made the fifteenth of each month. Motor vehicle fuel for export from the state is excluded from the tax. The second of the bills amends various var-ious features in the present law regulating reg-ulating motor vehicle licenses and their collection. Solid tires are any kind that does not depend wholly on confined air for fie support of the load. A dealer may handle secondhand second-hand automobiles as well as new ones. A chauffeur is "any person who operates oper-ates a motor vehicle in the transportation transpor-tation of persons or property, and who receives any compensation for such service in wapes, commission or otherwise, other-wise, paid directly or indirectly, or who, as owner or employee, operates a motor vehicle carrying passengers or property for hire. Alterations are made in the provisions provi-sions covering the size of license plates, so as to permit of better bargaining bar-gaining with the manufacturers of such provision is made for e'iminat-ing e'iminat-ing the vexatious charges of the past two years, when an owner changes his Agricultural eollege at Cedar City on the amount stipulated in the budget As to the legislation pending, of which the governor speaks, there are already several bills before the legislature legis-lature which might contribute, if they or any of them pass. The house has bills before it to abolish the public utilities commission, for which $50,890 is appropriated in the budget; and the state securities commission, which is, however, a source of revenue to the state general fund, contributing to it a surplus over its expenses from the fees taken in. There is another bill in the house which would require that the expenses of the state industrial commission be paid out of the state insurance in-surance fund. The budget total for this commission is $91,570. Senator C. L. Funk of Cache county is studying economy and reduction of expenses. He introduced a bill in the senate which would require that all officers and employees of the state should be entitled to free transportation, transporta-tion, intrastate, subject to restrictions laid down by the state board of examiners. exam-iners. This would serve to reduce the state's travel bill considerably. The Cache senator also proposes a bill to limit the state supreme court to three members, instead of the present five. This would be accomplished by the expedient of electing justices in the future only for Bix-year terms. Thus the membership would gradually be reeduced, first to four members and lh?n to three. Publishers of newspaper in rural communities had many defenders in the house of representatives, when a proposal to reduce the legal printing rate was hotly opposed .by several members. The proposal was contained in House Bill No. 17, by Representative Representa-tive Shelley. It sought to change the present law governing the printing rate to be charged in towns of less than 25,000 population from 10 cents a line for each insertion to 10 cents a line for the fir.it insertion of legal advertising ad-vertising and 5 cents a l!ne for subsequent sub-sequent insertions. The bill was defeated de-feated after considerable debate by a S. B. 73. Winder Requiring annual audit of state insurance fund by state auditor. S. B. 74, Dixon Exclusion of public from certain court trials. S. C. M. 3, Dixon Relief for settlers on United States reclamation projects. Agriculture. S. B. 75, Jenson Prescribing rules for assessing merchants and manufacturers. manufac-turers. S. B. 16, Funk Requiring railroads to issue free transportation te state employees. S. B. 77, Winder Town taxes. Referred Re-ferred to public affairs committee. S. B. 78, Tebbs Restricting perquisites per-quisites of warden of state prison. S. B. 79, Peters Gasoline tax. S. B. 80, Peters Automobile license regulations. S. B, 81, Peters Automobile license fees. S. B. 82, Peters Automobile traffic signals. S. B. 83, Funk Reducing membership member-ship of supreme court to three. S. B. 84, Hirschi Appropriating $173,000 from motor vehicle registration registra-tion surplus for revolving fund for state road commission. S. B. 85, Hirschi Appropriating $50,000 from same fund as contingent fund for state road commision. S. C. R. 3, Warnick Constitutional I car midseasons. Transfer of the licenses li-censes will cost hut $1. The new schedule of license fees is changed by a reduction of approximately approxi-mately one-third for the passenger cars and the smaller trucks. A horsepower horse-power of not more than 23 charges a fee of J5; the charge is 7.50 for' a horse power of 25 to 40; $10 for 40 to 50 horsepower and $12.50 for all above 50. A half-ton truck would pay $5 per annum, a three-quarter truck $7.50 and a ton truck $10, and a one anl one-half-ton truck $20, other truck licenses remaining as they are. A two-wheel trailer for the camper is exempted from the trailer provisions of the present law. The traffic regulations are 'altered as regards signs, so that cars shall be equipped with provision for hand and arm sirnal, or else mechanical devices. de-vices. Trucks are required to carry rear-view mirrors. Tax levies on livestock ere to be materially ma-terially increased for the purpose of providing funds with which to pay bounties on predatory animals, though the bounties in some in.ttencea, have been removed and for all animals they have been lowered. A levy of 4 mills on the dollars for all sheep and goats is proposed in the place of the lVi-mill levy. On range horses and cattle the levy is doubled and is fixed at 2 mills instead of 1. The 1-miil levy on domestic cattle provided pro-vided in the present law is eliminated. Changes in bounty payments are far-reaching. far-reaching. Tayment of $30 for s bear is removed. For a mountain lion or ennp-ar, the bounty is reduced from $30 to $15; for a black tinber wolf, from SK2.P0 to $15; fir coyotea, from $t to $3; for a lyn: or bobcat tho payment remains the sair.", $3. Tha B cent boun'y for Jack-rabb'ls or vjite hures if removed. Authority to expend f :rdi fur the eradication of rabies r.nd d2?trvction of pre-iatory nnimiils is t.-nMsf erred from the ate board of Afrvicuiture, as provided lor in the picient statute, to the state auditor, who may spend 3) rer cent of the ftate bu-ruy f usi '., including in-cluding unexpended biilanros for thii purree. Ill aninulri;cnt lowcrj the e'nount to be devoted to the campaign tf 20 per w-it, the r.tate bonrl ,f ag-ri ag-ri culture ft the present being allowed P'j per ft:t. T'ne bit nnial budget of K.e state of Utah aprr a -e.1 in buh ho.i icn of the lorr-lnUrs. it, c.rricj it loUl r.t ex-pen.litijr.-s of $3,871,187.51, wh'rh is $l'iC.9f,3 11 n.r-c tr-a" the latest und nest lilctul estimate ynt made of the statf1 t"-.'! .f ai -I nvenv! ty the cpri;ii; ! ' ." . 'Vith ih.' h :. ',. rsi. 'he drft of vte of 31 nays to 28 yeas. The author of the measure and Representative Rep-resentative Stookey and Jorjrensen were the principal speakers in favor of its passace. Each said that the rate now established is excesive, and that publishers received irr parment for le-Cal le-Cal ndvertisment out of proportion to space consumed. P.oprescntativea Hollonbeck, Wilkins, J'jdd and Jones opposed the bill in debate. The tenor of their defenss was to the effect that publishers of small nevspnpers realize little profit from sueh advertising, even at the present rate, and to reduce it would bo to deal a severe blow to them. The maintenance mainten-ance of, small community newspapers, each said, Is necessary to the welfare or the communities, and that in consideration con-sideration of the service they render the public, they are entitled to all they are receiving as payment for legal adverti?irg. The fact that such an elaborate dinner, din-ner, bii?innin? with a soup and ending with cake, ice cream, candy and coffee for those who wanted it, could be served to a crowd of 200 or more in the cafeteria, In such prompt order, and with victuals so well cooked and served in such appetizing manner, was a tribute of itself to the management of the cafeteria. It is likoly that a special joint committee, com-mittee, consisting of members of the senate and the house will be selected to visit and inspect the Branch Agricultural Agri-cultural college at Cedar City. Representative Rep-resentative Jorgensen, chairman of the house appropriations committee, said that thore had been some misunderstanding misunder-standing concerning whs should investigate in-vestigate conditions at the college, and nnde b motion that Speaker Seeg-xiller Seeg-xiller and tu other members. of the house cirstiU:'.? a committee to confer with a committee from the senate, con-si.lin,t con-si.lin,t of President McKay and two senators, relative to the appointment of the investigating committee. The motion was ra-ried and Representatives Representa-tives Jones and Opcnsbaw were appointed ap-pointed by the speaker to serve with him in conjunction with the senate committee. Lengthy and ardent debate on the proposed salary of the state (rame commissioner took place in the lower house of the legislature. Tlie discussion discus-sion ens-ted when a majority anl a minsiity report on housa bill N.. 39, by Rrpresentative Robert B. White of Boavpr county, were submitted by the committee on fish nni game. The me.ifuiro prewnta on entirely new set of law pertaining to the protection of fi h nni game of the state, the duties of the fi.-h and pame commis- amendment to provide for classification classifica-tion of property for taxation purposes. Public affairs. S. B. 8Q, Jenkins rermAinic establishment es-tablishment of branrh ban'ts within the same county. Commerce and industry.- - S. B. 87, Irvine Givinir county purchasing pur-chasing agent control over feeding of prisoners. S. B. 88, Irvine Removing fao'lir of prisoners of Salt Lake county from sheriff's office. INTRODUCED IN Till? IIOUSE H. B. 63, Fletcher Empowering county commissioners to change boundary lines of school districts. Education committee. II. B. 6S). Contantine Repealing act creating securities commission and laws relating to theaiale of securities and the real estate department. Judiciary. Ju-diciary. II. B. 70,' Jorgenson Amending laws relating to bounties on predatory animals. Livestock committee. II. B. 71, Baldwin Amending laws pertaining to powers qf boards of education. ed-ucation. Education committee. II. B. 72, Stale budget bill. Appropriations Ap-propriations committee. II. B. 73, Finlinson Ievying and collection of taxes on irrigation and water conservation districts. Irrip-a-tion and water conservation districts. Irrigation committee. II. B. 74, Rowan Substitute for II. B. 64, withdrawn. Relating to liquidation liquid-ation of banks. Banking committee. II. B. 75, Mozley Relating to placing plac-ing stationary advertising on public highways. Highways and bridges committee. com-mittee. H. B. 70, Wilkins Examination and rrgisti-atien of professional engineers and surveyors, Public lands committee. com-mittee. If. B. 77, Brewer Statements concerning con-cerning personal property of merchants mer-chants and manufacturers, manner of assessing such property, manner of listing other property not a part of property used by merchant or manufacturer, manu-facturer, and exempting from taxation property moving in interstate commerce. com-merce. Revenue and taxation committer. com-mitter. SENATE ACTION ON BILLS S. B. 2H, Jenkins Repealing annual an-nual military census. Ayea 20. S. B. 30, Jenkins Salt Lake assessor's asses-sor's salary. Ayes 9, nays 11. S. B. 31, Adams Repealing ce;g-candling ce;g-candling law. Ayes 7, nays 13. II. B. 35, Bagnall Reducing interest inter-est on delinquent taxes to 10 per cent per annum. Ayes 1, nays 18, 1 absent. S. B. 40, Jenkins Hours of counly offi.-ers, Ayes 3, nays 17 of cities over watersheds. Ayes 51, navs 1. absent 3. II. B. 55, Mrs. Graham Transferrin? Transfer-rin? habitually delinquent children t industrial school. Ayes 42, nays 10, absent 3. H. B. C3, Judd Assessment of metalliferous met-alliferous mines. Ayes 15, nays 33, absent 5. ( II. B. 59, Committee on Irrigatiotr Abolishing certification commission oa irrigation bonds. Ayes 50, absent 8. S. B. 28, Jenkins Repealing law requiring county assessors to prepare' lists of persons available for military -service. Ayes 45, absent 10. II. B. 20, Bailey Relating to appointment ap-pointment of water commissioners. Ayes 36, nays 10, absent 9. II. B. 40, White Repealing fish and game laws. Ayes 44, absent 10. II. B. 78, Pettit Governing amusements amuse-ments on Sunday. Education commit tea. II. B. 79. Ncyljr Voting of abseil electors. Elections committee. II. B. 80, N. C. Christensen Coi against estates subject to sn inholV tance tax. Revenue and taxation con mittee. II. B. 81, N. C. Christensen Cowr pensation of inheritance tax appra'S" ers. Revenue and taxation. II. B. 82, II. C. Christensen Notice to be given by safe deposit companies, banks and other institutions before transferring securities. Banking committee. com-mittee. II. B. 83, Callister Par value at corporation shares. Judiciary committee. commit-tee. II. B. 81, Callister Sale in bulk of merchandise, furniture, fixtures or equipment of stores, hotels, restau-rantu, restau-rantu, barber shops or any place of business, where equipment sold is use! in carrying on business. Judiciary committee. com-mittee. II. B. 85, Stark Effect of tax aJ lien. Revenue and taxation comml-tee. comml-tee. II. B. 86, Stark Taxes lcv'rd drainago districts, collection a ll distribution dis-tribution and sale of property. Judr-ciary Judr-ciary committee. II. B. 87, Stark Trespassing oi railroad property. Judiciary committee. commit-tee. II. B. E8, Mrs. Lyman Accepting congressional net for the promotion of welfare and hygiene of maternity and infnncv. Public health committee. II. B. 89, Wilkins Amending laws relating to filling of vacancies in e;ty councils. Judiciary committee. II. B. !)n, Wilkins-Election of citv justices of the peace and city marshals mar-shals in cities excepting fu't and sea-lid sea-lid class. Ju.liciary committee. ' |