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Show EiURRI NAMED TO COMMITTEES Cache Senator Is Chairman of Important Group Senator James A McMurrin of Cache County Thursday was nam-edon nam-edon several important committees as the Utah State Legislature prepared pre-pared to "clear the decks for action." ac-tion." A number of bills, dealing mostly most-ly with wartime legislation already have been introduced into the Senate. Among these are proposals to okey the use of stickers for license plates, to allow persons in the armed forces to register their automobiles without presenting a certificate from the county assessor, asses-sor, and another establish a state water control office. Other bills would provide for the subpena and examination of witnesses in criminal cases before filing of a. complaint or information; informa-tion; to require insurance companies com-panies to keep on deposit specified sums with the Utah insurance commissioner and another would authorize the insurance department to destroy records after they have been held in the files ten years. Senator McMurrin was named chairman of the education com-, mittee and a member of the . following fol-lowing committees: agriculture & irrigation, appropriations and claims, banking and , commerce, public instruction and revenue and; taxation. He also asked for clarification of the technical problem raised by the revision and enrolling committee com-mittee concerning the new annotated an-notated code. He suggested that it "be defined in layman's ' language so we can understand it." In the house, a democratic "facj tion was at work in an effort to strip the speaker from some of his power. It was learned that one idea suggested was the appointment ap-pointment of a "committee on commtitees" which would . name the regular standing committees instead of the speaker, thus depriving de-priving the presiding officer of a traditional perogative. , . .-, t |