Show to by U S P A service salt lake city jan 23 following an initial week devoted largely to organization work listening to visiting speakers and receiving the first of a promised deluge of bills the twenty first utah legislature monday started its second week with 25 measures ready for consideration and indications of many more to follow the upper house with urith its newly elected president DT dr herbert 13 maw in command was responsible tor for 17 of the proposed new laws or 01 amendments to existing sta statutes tules the house brought out eight bills the senate also led in introduction of joint resolutions with two in its legislative hopper the lower house housa offered only one fixing pay of legislative isla tive employed emp loyes senate and house members lived up to pre session predictions in con fining their early lawmaking efforts to measures having to do with taxes social legislation and liquor eight of the upper house bills had to do with taxation in some largely aimed at making the corporations po and business in general pay more tor for doing business in utah two house bills were tax mea sure s social legislation had its innings in tour four house bills and three in the senate liquor of the hard variety most widely discussed of proposed 1935 legislation held the limelight with introduction of the state stores bill bib sponsored by the committee of 49 and gov henry H blood introduction monday of the state licensing of private dispensers measure drafted by the salt lake chamber ot of commerce presaged a bit bitter te r right light on liquor legislation between proponents of the respective re systems A majority of the proposed tax measures call for increases in tax levies A bill by senator ward C holbrook ok of davis county increases corporation franchise taxes irately Irna tely percent and individual income taxes about per cent another holbrook bill taxes cigars smoking and chewing tobacco and snuff other senate tax bills increase levies made on insurance companies and fraternal benefit soei ties two bills tend to reduce taxes one by senator ira A huggins of weber county proposes to amend the state constitution to enable the exemption of homesteads up to 2000 another by senator greo geo M miller of corban county cancels all penalties and interest on delinquent deU deli quent taxes lev led from 1928 1923 to 1934 in excess of the two percent penalty added at the time of delinquency social legislation proposed included a bill by rep stanley N child of salt lake county amending the state industrial act by providing compensation for bocc occupational diseases eliminating insurance com panics and sell self insurers in favor ot of state insurance only inq Teasing compensation allowed putting the industrial commission on a self supporting basis and including all industries employing more than one person it Is said that the bill will raise cost of compensation two and one halt half times limes over the present cost additional social legislation proposed includes a senate joint resolution ratifying the federal child labor amendment to the united states constitution a bill establishing a state planning commission a bill to further safety on public highways a measure cutting interest rates for buyers of goods or borrowers of money and one to clarify procedure in suing on an open account three elections bills offered by senator holbrook have to do with alterations in holding of party conventions mentions vent ions ns elections and party machinery one of these bills makes it possible for a candidate to ha have ve his name placed on more than 0 one ne party ticket announcement of committee assignments sign ments by president maw of the senate revealed that senator alonzo F hopkin representing the third district district composed of rich morgan summit wasatch and daggett counties had been placed on five committees they are agriculture and irrigation fish and game mines and smelters shelters sm elters revenue and taxation and trade regulations As a member of the trade regulations ti wis ca committee brinit tt ce sena S senator ena tor hopkin will be called upon to assist in engineering gi the all important liquor legislation coming before the senate taxes and C creation r e a tion of revenue to run the state government will be considered by the committee on revenue and taxation giving this solon a voice in the most important of forthcoming legislation in committee rooms the third district house delegation received fine recognition at the hands of speaker walter K granger in committee assignments in the lower body heber bennion jr of daggett county was one of three representatives to be honored with seven committee assign eints rep clarence cook of rich county and paul M peterson of summit county each received six committee assignments and reps wayne C whiting of wasatch and mark thackeray of morgan county five each making a grand total of 34 committee assignments for third district legislators four more than any other county except salt lake third district legislators are represented on all important committees trade regulations handling liquor legislation appropriations allotting state monies for governmental and relief purposes revenue and taxation levying taxes and judiciary thus they bifi will play prom ment roles in shaping all legislation at the current session first week legislative activities found third district representatives at odds in the f first lower house voting the balloting on a mot motion to reduce the committee set pay of legislative employed emp loyes mr cook voted aye to the reduction motion twice so did reps whiting and bennion mr peterson voted twice in the negative mr Ili thackeray ackeray was absent and not voting the motion was lost after being reconsidered following its approval on the initial vote the third district was recognized in the distribution of house em aloye patronage in the appointment of frances W A davis of summit county as an engrossing clerk and J G sprouse of rich county as house doorkeeper governor bloods statement of the state sales tax made in his message to the legislature showed that a total of was disbursed to daggett county for relief in the distribution of the taxes collected to morgan county to rich county to sum mit county and to wasatch county of interest to smokers Is the tact fact that the holbrook lob tobacco taxing bill would make it more elpe expensive nilve to indulge in the weed by imposing taxes on cigars amounting to from ono one cent on each ten to ten cen cents z on each ten according to weight and retail price smoking and chew ing tobaccos cos and snuff snuff would be bc taxed one cent per ounce the proposed income tax increases will raise income taxes on a graduated scale mile of one per cent per pei 1000 up to incomes of more than would be taxed at the rate of six per cent leaders in both houses predicted the enactment of more important legislation during the current session sion than in any other legisla legislature president maw declared that that never before had senators shown such widespread interest in important measures or evinced so much interest in making early disposition of important me measures lures speaker granger said that he anticipated no clog ging legislation or any disadvantage to accrue from the heavy democratic majority in both branches |