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Show Under the . . . jCapitol Dome j (By J. J. Gaboon) ' Salt Lake City, Special to The News The state finance commission, commis-sion, which has loomed behind the scenes of the 19-13 legislative session ses-sion as the probable battle ground between administration and anti-administration anti-administration forces, has come into the open as he major bone of contention. I The senate not only drafted a set cf bills which, if passed, would strip the governor and his pet commission of practically all the power they have wielded during the past two years, but even went so far as to cast doubt on the ' legality cf the appointment of j Gordon Taylor Hyde, finance commission com-mission chairman. I A cross section of sentiment : strongly indicated that a good niajority of the bills will find ; favor with the salons and will 1 pass. And while the house may j not wish to go quite so far as its i companion body, early events in : the lower house indicate strongly ; that pro-administration sentiment is, to state it conservatively, not predominant, and at least some of the measures would probably get house approval. It is expected that the governor will exercise freely his righjt of I veto, but the necessary two-third two-third vote to override the guber natorial "no" is more than likely to assemble, for at least some of the bills. Major changes provided for in the reorganization measure include: in-clude: 1. Taking from the finance commission com-mission all power over other state departments except that of an advisory nature. The finance commission com-mission would have certain control con-trol over depaitmentali expefcdi- lltures, but none whatsoever over department budget totals. 2. Adding three men the -gover-I nor, the secretai-y of state, and : the attorney general to the finance fin-ance commission and then giving ; the same three men, in their capa- city of state board of examiners, I veto power over finance commission commis-sion acts. Effectively, this gives the attorney general and the , secretary of state authority to check the governor and his ap-; ap-; pcintees of the finance commis-; commis-; sion at will. ; 3. Issuing of all state warrants l by the finance commission without with-out the auditor's signature (now ( required), but requiring the audi. tor to conduct a continuous post-5 post-5 audit of all departments. He al-i al-i so would be empowered to recommend recom-mend that the board of examiners exami-ners stop payment on any warrant, war-rant, if he felt such action was justified. 4. Taking from the governor himself the control of sales tax revenues for relief and giving such control to the welfare de-t de-t partment. During the week, both Demo. 1 crats and Republicans in the house recommitted themselves to the need for changing the state's pre-; pre-; sent direct primary law, but the 1 Democrats couldn't agree on a . measure that was introduced, and , killed it. However, other bills proposing changes in the election law, in-, in-, eluding one by Senator Claude Hirsrhi (R), Washington, to repeal re-peal the entire state law, have , been introdured. Gaining most favor among members mem-bers is a bill sponsored by the (Continued on last page) v Under Capitol Dome (Continued Irom first page) senate state and municipal affairs committee to provide for both a convention and a primary election elec-tion system for the selection of candidates. Throughout the week, house members seemed to be in a rebellious rebel-lious mood and most measures of state-wide interest considered were killed and quietly laid to rest. Major action taken during the week by both houses resulted as follows: The House: Killed HB-33 by I I j Representative A. B. Anderson (D), Utah, to give local boards of i education power to change bound-I bound-I nry lines and to discontinue small school houses. Killed HB-12 by Representative G. A. Staples (R), Sevier, to provide standards for slaughter houses and regulations for the sale, handling, distribution, distribu-tion, and labeling of meat and meat products. Killed 'HB-35 by Representative Quayle Cannon jr. (II), Salt Lake, to eliminate the, runoff primary. Killed lSB-51 by Mitchell Melich (R), Grand, to require re-quire county attorneys to be members mem-bers of the bar. And killed HB-36 by Representative S. W. Elswood (D), Weber, to reduce annual auto ; license fees from $5 to $2. , The Senate: Passed HB-1 by' Representative Val H. Cowles j (D), Carbon, prohibiting legisla-1 tors from taking remunerative state appointments during their elective terms. (Roll call tabula, tion on this measure were: Yes Senators Bailey, Child, Dawson, larr, Hirschi, Hopkin, Hugging, Kelly, Kendall, Lund, McMurrin, Melich, Morrill, Rich, Richards, and Mr. President; No Senators Ashton, Ericksen, Miller, Nielsen, Romney and Warner. Senator -Christensen was absent.). Killed HB-29, the bill to license naltur-opaths naltur-opaths in obstetrics and minor surgery. Passed to third reading HB-28, the bill to raise school teachers' salaries, with definite promise that it would be amended to make sure that money appropriated ap-propriated would be used for no ofTier purpose. |