Show PROBE POE AND A GAS S TAX CHIEf TOPICS Trucks Accused of Pound Pound- Pounding Pounding I ing State Highway to I Pieces Piece OPINIONS DIFFER More ore Instances of Misused Funds Intimated by I Legislator I Special p Dispatch Silt Lake reb 9 The report showing alleged misuse of state stale funds and arid the proposed tea taA on line faeo-line caso- caso casoline aeo- aeo line are principal subjects of ot discus discus- discussion sion II oun l the tile capitol and In egis- egis I lath lathe e Cle today I The Tho gasoline to in Is s a live IRe Issue I Thursdays Thursday's meeting of tac om om- om i on public affairs U I The rhe I elOI t claiming misuse of state to st to I funds has been to the since it Jt t was as pi esen led e lIcKell made inh- inh I In thc the house hous Thursday y th t tI I there w ere t more cases case of ot I funds and that certain persons trIed ned departments d to stop top the I inv estimation est of or 11 1 These rhese latteR latter c Ilu 10 1 thos anih kl J dAo-J iTay ray action on the report leport to II arise rise andset nd tilt it forth that their vote was prompt prompt- prompted ed d by a desire delre to gh gite e due du tion Ion to the th I epo t and not an any hh wl h tu to smother any possible disclosures The rhe automobile trucks which th n I I let del over o the pa l paved ays ly Iy y the one L cen Ogden and S itt Ake It Lake were store atlak I and amid defended at atthe athe atthe the he gasoline Caroline ta tax tat Ing hC These rhese trucks stoic v PI e charged with pounding the s 3 to pieces piece by byH 11 Lf II Blood of the Elate roa road l commis commIs- commIssion commission sion and lit liC declared declarer the tho trucks should I p the present licence rites r in IC- IC ICI I to the pio t tax x on gasoline I Chirles T nR of the th as- as as association said that ho hI would bo lO glad clad to Lo I pa 55 four times time what the truck men art Dr DrI I pa for tor the franchise to b t Salt LoIre Lake and Os He lie sail the he people of ot the had spert j 1800 to 1 on the Salt Ogden lake toad load and were ere I fl for public carrl ove It I Un r too took up the of the mal owner In the city ont ont 0 an oIn in automobile who ho Is compelled to topa toa I pa a hea pInIng paving costs and wIllae will base e aeI aeto to 0 pay Costs coMs of ot renew Ing the th pailig JUg I I later ater also I I 1 am un hoping be saId that the time Ime will still III come when hen gasoline tax rates sill be hIgher when license fees fee wIll wIlle willbe be e and when hen the personal per property tax tat on automobiles wi wil I De 00 and the entire cost ot oh the roads oaths shall hall be placed a v hoie bet hll e It belongs on on the people who made macid It feces ary to 0 build these roads and amid tIme the people I sho ho tear them theta to pieces us auto aulo na- na naIle no-bil no bile Ile users to In gasoline taxes he to classed as buncombe and he ho ald he se had ne never 11 owned a 11 that did dd not tot make mone while his car ar had alway been iteen an expense ItO TOC TO sir 3 C 1 The collection of ot I ta axes es through county assessor ot if the time secretary of ot state the tl tax ax and the personal property tax nit automobiles to b be collected at tIe the I samo ante ame time would save ease the tho stat state os op o Utah 20 80 per annum according to toN toW V N D Rishel secretary of ot the th Utah tate date Automobile as association The statement was made mado at a meet meet- meetIng Ini Ing ng ot or the public affairs committee or of orthe the he senate enate at the Hotel Utah RepresentIng the tho Automotive s Judge Judee George Gcorge 0 Arm Arm Arm- Armstrong Ann strong trong told the committee that the ed gasoline ca ta tax of ot 2 hc a gal gal- gallon galon lon eal-lon lon on and the failure to reduce th the cense 11 II ense tax tali to on trucks truck In proportion to tho ho reduction mido on passenger all au- au automobiles to mobiles would result In an inequitable able LIe and unfair ta taxI tax I HOWARD RO PROTESTS J C Howard ard of ot the Utah Oil Re- Re Refining Rc fining company declared It would be to an In infant rant Industry which ho ho- already spent pent millions million In Utah mini anI an I IS spending pending another this year In alone Mr Ho Howard Hoard ard 1 pointed to the th rise III the he price of gasoline yesterday In Lilt alt Lake ake following an In Int mu rease in the 11 pi 0 ot f crude crudo oil recently Ho lie gate cave nit nithe he news to motorists that tho pros pro prospect is that the price ot of o gasoline tl is isear far ear will be rather high and poInted Ut that thaI with the tho th consumer a Ing the h gasoline g tax ther s-rd s rJ bo ho aided cent 30 price 2 i 10 0 a possible gas cas a cent cent ent ta tax making a price pric Vo which might I lead ead a customer to purchase five lons al al- al alons ons rather rath r th than ten t thus us decreasing I al-I Hi use anu in n In- In y tn tring Ing to dc develop elop a capacity for business i w Will iii Brolie Dross Brow no mm of or the tho Salt Lake e Trans Trans- Transportation Tran company saId ald that good roads benefit many interest both bolh I tural and urban as well nell ell as the tho auto auto- automobile automobile automobile mobile 0 onner ner and therefore all should si 81 ore are 0 re In costs cots of or construction and up- up up upkeep keep i iJ J 3 r Strong tron- ot of o the thA Ih Continental Oil company pointed to 10 the high on Pace lace TwoS To T o |