Show i under the capitol a pitol dome 1 by I Y T T tah state press association Assor lation last week in the legislature was pretty much of a sp sparring ar r 1 n g match r na tc h among the democrats w while h i 1 e th the e R republican e minority sat by and occasion ally heckled attention was centered on liquor controversial matter since omar khayyam cele celebrated bra te d the pressing 1 ng ot of the grape a and d u upon pon giving gins governor herbert Herber tB B maw a contingent fund of a million dollars or ar so the subject of liquor beins bein what it is was mostly kept behind behin F closed doors that just swung enough now and then to give a glimpse of an immemorial struggle 9 ae that this legislature seems bound to perpetuate insofar as its powers permit the senate saturday decided as the house had done before to give the liquor commission more working capital but they removed by amendment some of the restrictions strict ions lons the house had placed upon liquidation of this capital that is to be used for the maintenance of a liquid stock sol selvin the sage little senator from tooele thoele sort of nut shelled the argument by saying the question here is simply whether wo we are going to make liquor a revenue producer or whether we are going to control the use of liquor proponents of the respective spec tive points of view have yet to disclose where the argument will wind up or when governor maws budget request for a contingent fund that he has enjoyed managing for the past four years met with a vigorous rebuff from a subcommittee of the joint appropriations committee maybe its an indication that governor maw the control over the 1945 legislature that he had in 1941 and 1943 at any rate this subcommittee recommended that the contingent fund be renamed and given into the control of the state board of ear adners composed of the th governor the secretary of state and the attorney general but despite failure of the legislature to solve either of these problems they did pass quite a few bills of minor nature touching general state problems only incidentally with less than two weeks of legal tenure left to them the members had not yet solved school financing broad postwar planning legislation appropriations to state departments institutions and services or special appropriations the dapper Log 1 anite appropriating adrian C hatch in in the house warned that the special requests embodied in bills now pending total or thereabouts far more than anybody yet sees money lor for i r of course no legislature goes without a little fun alie file curly haired and vigorous blonde representative from summit lawrence nas mussen told the house a while ago that it would certainly be a shame if the members left their sense of humor at home after the house had been chided for levity so the senate went out full blast on oil the polygamous bull act the bulls and their amours were spread all over the record the law now restricts em but who enforces the law remains to be seen lobbyists hobbyists are funny mostly because ahey are so utterly apparent A lobbyist is a guy or a gal who tries to put the heat on for this bill or that bill they take themselves so confoundedly found edly serious but they are an integral though unofficial part of every legislature take em this time there are folk infesting the marbled capitol corridors corrido rs advocating to the harrasser harr assed lawmakers every cause from cosmetics to more dough for supreme court justices from beer taxes to more dough for teachers from air fields to peaola mosaic now as a matter of fact a lot of these buzzers buzzerd know a lot more about the particular subject than the legislators and a lot of their information is of undoubtedly great value in shaping laws but their perl gri nations are lunny funny |