Show I LIVESTOCK DING FE-E-DING FEEDING INDUSTRY IN DANGER Our chamber of commerce and andall andall andall all other business Interests should take tako note of the fact tact that Judge Thomas H II Burton Durton of the Fifth th judicial district court has bas decided that the tho 1923 law is al al exempting from II taxation sheep hogs bogs and nd cattle fed for tal slaughter aI 01 shipped out of or the state from January 1 10 lo July 1 except dur duro dur- dur durIng during ing the tue pel lad they I In ID the state stale The fhe I law w was passed In Inor 01 or- or order der to 10 allow Utah to develop elop In feeding livestock for tor or the market markeL Other states stales had hal found a II way to 10 todo todo do so and sq so Utah proceeded io to after aHer them Now ow cones comes a 11 judge of one pt of the district courts to say that lust Utah cannot do what I other states are doing I Judge Burton In the tho folio lUll lug paragraph points out ou Iha that the law lav was was vas pot not broad enough The statute I Is also detective In that ft It t discriminates in hI pt of the tho owners or feeder of cattle or hop hogs fed Cod for tor the of If slaughter laugher while the owners o other forms of or au animals mals fed fea for forthe forthe forthe the same purpose are not grant grant- granted granted ed etI the same privilege says Judge Eurton BurIan Why should sheep cattle caUle or hogs fed for tor slaughter be exempt from taxation any more than rabbits rabbits p poultry fish dab etc elc fed for or the same ume Again why should hogs cattle and sheep shepp fed for or be bec exempt he-exempt c front font their proportion ot of taxation any more Ithan than sheep cattle and antI hogs fed for breeding or show 1 i urpo ea The statute attempts an arbitrary and unreasonable discrimination In fa favor or of IIII owners of ot sheep shoop cattle cattie and bogs fed for tor other pur- pur pur poses poses antI and also alao as against the ners owners or feeders of or other forms or of animals fed fec for rol slaughter 01 front tho the state Cut But the judges judge's main point Is that the constitution demands that all property In the state te not Dot exempt under the laws Jaws of the IheI I States or under the Utah constitution must be bo taxed axed and after aCter quoting the constitution all on exemption sari says It It will be seen that hogs cat cat- cattIe cattle tIe tle and sheep the property upon which the tax Is io sought to be abated or or or which is sought to be exempted from taxation are not In section 3 of article 13 of the tho constitution and antI for that reason section antI and must be h held ld and void vold It Is II quits quite Important to 10 the tho livestock feeding Industry which baa haa grown to large proportions that a II wa way be bo found to meet this upset caused by Judge Durton's decisIon hate i Whatever or er tho law may bo It ItIs itIs ItIs Is evident e that Utah will vilt be so- so sc handicapped in the han handling dung of ot livestock for tor feeding pur lur purposes poses Doses It if animals coming into inlo the state slate for lor feeding over a a short period are to 10 be taxed on the same basis as animals which are not transient The livestock in- in industry In Industry Is menaced and a vigor our rigor rigor- gor our effort should be made to save It It 00 00 |