Show I I C d a o w m ip AA LL While Senator Ward Vard the Davis Dayis county crusader had the bear of liquor control by the tall tail last week and hadn't yet let go gothe gotho gotho tho the legislature went on more or orless orless orless less merrily making la laws They sort-or sort solved a few financIal financial financial fin fin- ancial problems when Senator Sol Selvin had them put a ceiling of on welfare funds the balance balanco to go to the state general fund What's left over will partially partially partially par par- meet prospective grants to other purposes Then of course the legislature abolished the state department of publicity and Industrial development development develop elop ment by tho the simple expedient of I creating a new department of pub pub- The move means a bit biti i more than the dropping of two words The commission had done I some good Jobs the legislature said but the personnel was waB obnoxious ious sous they also said For Instance tho the Influential Henry H. H Lunt from flom Cedar City said a lot of or the movie people who've chosen tho the thoI I Knab county count for some of the most beautiful pictures ever m made mad a d o 0 would have preferred to pay the salary of or one commission employee just to keep him away awny I Mitchell 1 tho the up com ing senator from Moab presented I the bill and persuaded his democratic democratic democratic demo demo- cratic opponents to go along with I him Its It's a pretty good guess that the house of or representatives I will concur when they get around to senate bills blUs this week weck I Appropriations remain the bote bete noir or black cat as you wish of tho the last week The joint committee commit commIt- tee teo of house and senate havo have already already al- al ready slapped down Governor Herbert Herbert Her IIer- bert B B. B Maws Maw's request for an contingent fund and I while the scrap Z nl probably goto go goto goto to tho floor of t the house this week there thore Isn't much prospect that the I governor can win The board ot of otI I examiners composed of the Governor Governor Gov Gov- the Secretary of State and the Attorney General will most certainly have control of that money The Governor is IB In n another sort of quandary as to what the senate I will do with his nominations for I major appointments Neither the senate nor the democratic bigwigs bigwigs' I seem particularly happy about some of them especially the transfer transfer transfer trans trans- fer of Justin Hunt of the liquor control board to the welfare commission commission commission com com- mission and John S. S Evans E from the road commission to the liquor control outfit By Dy the time these few remarks see the light of day I however those two confirmations are arc more than a little likely Governor Maw faw hasn't yet et vetoed r any bills probably for the simple reason that nothing has yet et been presented to him of a dubious naI na na- na- na I ture In other words the tho bills passed thus far have for the most I I part been good decent run of the tho thomine mine thine laws without right or eft ert I wing unpalatable taint I Educational financing Is about taken care of The expansion of or I tho the industrial commission laws I I with Increased benefits has been I carried A lot I I of odds and ends 1 I from the licensing of fur dealers I to better educations for cosmeticians cosmeticians clans have gone on the books 1 Some of the perennial nightmares nightmares night night- mares like the oleomargarine bill J I I I tho the homestead exemption constitutional j I Honal amendment the revisal of the control and I I the big game board of others have met varying but equally equal- equal 1 ly conclusive fates And as It I Inow now stands the respective sifting I committees of oC the tho two houses arc are I more than than likely to keep buried burlea Continued On Last Page I I Under tinder The Capitol I Dome D me y Continued from pa page pace e ene cas the lunatic fringe of ot legislation which invariably attaches to er e every session For In instance tance there is IB very little chance at all that the so-called so severance tax on natural resources will ever over emerge from committee There is also perhaps less fortunately very little chanco chance that somo some of ot the post war planning planning In ing legislation will ever eyer got a test vote yote in senate or house While the senate has sort sort-of on without Inspired leadership or particularly effective organization tho the house has been much more vigorously and dex- dex directed by the firmly pleasant speaker Rulon White of ot otI I Ogden Ogdon Speaker White It should be said emphatically has no axes to grind of ot his own ut the orderly order order- ly conduct of ot the house within the rules and regu regulations regulations has been notably more orderly than tho the somewhat Roberts extra-Roberts Rules of Order processes in the senate Jim NI Nielson the tho veteran republIcan republican I lican from Fountain Green told the tho house the other day that the twenty sixth legislature will go godown down clown in n history as the Santa Claus Glaus Legislature when they I I seemed to get extravagant Tom Jones Joncs the ruddy genial San Juan stockman took tin un occasional whack at what seemed to be legIslative legislative leg leg- frills and fancies Tom Argyle the fish and game expert from Davie Davis went down I fighting on a couple of his bills as ns did Emmett Olson Price Democrat Democrat Democrat Dem Dem- and administration stalwart Alonzo Hopkin the Woodruff senator senator senator sen sen- ator fund himself at week end sort sort-of In betwixt and between Is appointments appointment's committee chairman bec because uBe whatever his committee recommends therell there'll probably be some floor arguments But as they go Into the last lap this week tempers are aro pretty much unruffled because while some good laws have been passed and some more will be no really bad ones have hae been Of course It might be alleged that some mighty good ones have been neglected But that depends on the tho point of ot view There are sixty members in the tho house and twenty threes members of the senate represent- represent ng every cross roads in the md Ud all tho the ports aorta of ot people who nake those cross roads worth ivin Inq I In The best bet Is s that tho the aws that have havo been passed and hat lint will be passed In this last week will make those even more desirable homes ou rou au cant can't auk ask more than that can enn iou ou V T I |