Show utah legislature the third week of the present session of the utah legislature finds the lawmakers del berating on taxation liquor control schools utilities and labor questions as out lined in eleven resolutions and ap pro preaching aching two hundred bills introduced by the busy legisla legislators more bills an the above subjects and also on many others are ex pecked to appear water control and social relief and security are in the offing as subjects for much legislative labor amon among important bills place 1 before the legislature were resola eions by jensen of mt pleasant they propose to submit to the people of utah constitutional amend ments which would give future leg Isla tures considerable leeway in arranging the tax system of the state constitutional limitations ire to be removed and the legislature would be able to substitute other forms of taxation for part of the property tax the legislature would be obliged to classify tangible property tor for as ses purposes and the aagre gate of the state school funds would be raised other sources than the property tax would have to the school revenue these resola eions would provide a framework for a new tax setup for adoption by the legislature two years from bow ilow the program Is being backed by labor farm and educational or bills for curbing traffic accidents have appeared two of the bills would make drunken driving and hit and run driving fel felonies tiles when ever serious accident or death re suits from such driving under the present laws these acts are misdemeanors A bill providing for bontol of t the he liquor traffic by licensing private dealers was introduced and the state store bill was also launched the lamoreaux deleted or changed store bill was previously introduced to the consideration of the solons two house bills one a measure to extend the period for redemption of certain tax delinquent prop arties from january 1st last to april 1st has been passed this was an emergency bill which went thru under a suspension of the rules in I 1 loth oth houses at the suggestion of governor H 11 blood the other till was tor for the expenses of the legislature important bills have been introduced du ced by mrs R B bosone of salt lake one of them proposes a tax of four cents per 1000 cubic feet on all artificial and natural gas delivered in the state and the other would limit the number of cars in both freight and passenger trains operated in utah in the list of things the legisla tare ture proposes to operate on if bills now introduced are passed are the following barring elective officers from participating as delegates in cal conventions creating the state planning board a permanent part of the state gov eminent forcing tourist camps to comply with health and other regulations imposed on hotels appropriating 1000 for ustah bain industrial conference creating of a great basin of utah authority to develop natural resources and sell power fuel and water so developed empowering state land board to drill lease or sell experimental wells requiring railroads to repair rolling stock within the state preventing the state bank corn com missioner niss miss loner from voting by proxy stock of corporations under his ju providing for confiscation of slot machines and other unlawful devices and diversion of their funds to police mutual aid funds diverting ten per cent of the state gasoline tax annually to mu for city street construction under supervision of the state road commission vesting vestin of police powers in the state highway patr I 1 setting up standards for gasoline and other motor vehicle fuels sold in the state the following includes a number of the measures of general interest before the legislature 8 constitutional amendment taking out provision that cities of first and second class must have separate school districts 76 distribution of proposed state school funds TS 78 makin the 5 per capita school equalization fund effective at once 79 fixing state dietric dis school fund at 20 per capita of 0 school po population 81 increasing the sales tai to 3 per cent SR CS 68 creating a legislative ref wence bureau for drawing up cf laws and advice of legislature 70 non pol tir tie I 1 I 1 airen fc fe Pl Petion to se acl ool and judi lary of I 1 P 72 red icing tax discount fot for nie fitment of t taxes ites SI qi chang ng rhe the of tip mo stat hoar I 1 of op s s tat M I 1 TI binl in tl e len ie sr INV m Ps p for rel ef aid 1 W ij S |