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Show LEGISLATIVE NEEDS ! IN UTAH OUTLINED j i GOVERNOR BAMBERGER DELIVERS DELIV-ERS MESSAGE TO JOINT SES- SION OF LEGISLATURE. j ! Advises Careful Attention to Financial j Matters, Urging Economy, but Mot ; to the Extent of Impairing j Efficiency of Service. Salt .Lake City. Governor Simon I Bamberger delivered his biennial message mes-sage to tlie thirteenth session of tlie legislature of Utah at a joint session on January 14. Tlie governor, who is still sufiering-somewhat sufiering-somewhat from a cold contracted while-he while-he was witnessing the return of the Atlantic fleet, during his trip east,, asked that the actual reading be done by a clerk, and Adam L. Petersen, secretary sec-retary of the senate, performed that I duty. A number of recommendations for reforms and desired improvements. j were made by the governor, among these being : Careful attention to financial matters,. including: (a) the budget, to be submitted sub-mitted later; (b) provision to take-care take-care of tlie $75,000 loan negotiated by patriotic citizens at tlie request of the state council of defense. Legislation to make the mine tax amendment effective, and providing for the taxation of metalliferous mines "on tlie basis of some multiple or sub-multiple sub-multiple of the net annual proceeds, iiui ill e.ct;eu uuee iniii-.?, muo ljic value of tlie land und improvements, designated in Hie amendment;" and for the taxation of coal and hydrocarbons hydro-carbons on a manner to be worked out later on some satisfactory basis. Adoption of the nation-wide prohibition prohi-bition amendment. A "blue sky" law or some similar enactment. Soldier settlements legislation. Appropriation for a proper celebration celebra-tion of tlie return of soldiers' from tlie war. Memorial of permanent nature to the heroes of the war, and also to the heroes he-roes of the Mormon battalion and of other conflicts of tlie past, to be erected erect-ed on the University campus. This would Involve the abandonment of the present plans for a Mormon battalion monument. Diploma of suitable design to be presented to returned soldiers. Substitution of a state constabulary for the present national guard. Non-partisan judiciary. " T.. Proper reapportionment of members mem-bers of the legislature. State institution' for tlie care of the mentally deficient. - ' ' Liberal appropriation for the care of homeless and helpless children. Liberal road-building program and another bond issue. Legislation making it possible to include in-clude the "Arizona strip" in Utah. Ample compensation for heads of state departments, tnose mentioned specifically being tlie state board of equalization, the state board of land commissioners and the state engineer. The legislators were urged to recognize rec-ognize tlie "necessity of strict economy, econ-omy, but not to the extent of impairing impair-ing the efficiency of the service which must be afforded the people." The governor estimates that the state will start the biennium with a deficit of $100,000, exclusive of deficits aggregating aggre-gating $237,000 which are provided for in the budget. If $100,000 expected from the government is paid, it is asserted as-serted that the state will start the two-year two-year period practically free from debt, ! other than bonded indebtedness. |