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Show SENATORS FAVOR ! STATE INCOME TAX BUT THEY HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS, AND TWO MEASURES ARE PRESENTED. Olson Workmen's Compensation Bill Is Throttled, and the Parker Measure Meas-ure Substituted. Htalth Education Educa-tion Measure Attacked. Salt Lake City. Two sessions of the state senate on February 27 brought a rush of hills, to make up for the absence of any the day before. Two of the measures are income tax bills. ! One, by Senator Edward Southwick, makes the federal income tax law conform con-form to state institutions with the same exemptions, and calls for a blank j rate to be fixed by the committee at : possible 2 per cent, and provides ?10,-000 ?10,-000 for its administration. The other income tax measure is by Senator Daniel Stevens. He fixes a rate of 5 per cent, with very low exemptions $100 for a bachelor, $200 for a married man, and $00 for each child. . The senate on February 27 ended a three-day argument on the workmen's work-men's compensation law by killing the Olson bill, providing for monopistic insurance, and substituting the Tar-ker Tar-ker bill. Originally the Parker bill was largely large-ly an adaptation of the Olson bill, with some of the features of the later measure meas-ure eliminated, such as state monopo listic insurance and the abolition or the right to review in the district courts. The Parker bill also had much smaller benefits for injured men than were provided in the Olson bill. Many of the proposed changes in the present bill, however, had been copied verbatim ver-batim from the Olson bill. |