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Show SUGGESTIONS Bf ATTORNEY GENERAL Establishment of an intermediate penal institution Hie elimination uf the old-time school district by consolidation consoli-dation into county districts, the graduation grad-uation of the inheritance tax rati- rnd the revision upward of the corpora tion license tax are among the suggestions sug-gestions for legislative action made by A. li Barnes, attorney general for the state of Utah, in his biennial report. re-port. The report will be filed with Governor William Spry today. Further recommendations in tho report re-port include amendment of the law to bring the rules and regulations of the state sheep commission with the penalty clause, increased restriction against the bringing of sheep into the state for grazing and amendment of fhe juvenile court law to prohibit employment of juveniles in stns where tobacco is sold and to provide for the appointment and salary of a deputy probation officer in each county. coun-ty. Mr. Barnes would also revive the question of taxation of mines and mining claims, because of his expressed ex-pressed conviction that the recent proposed constitui ional amendment relative to the question was voted down by the people because of lack of understanding of it. He ruggests the re-presentation of the amendment to the voters. In support of his argument for an Intermediate penal institution, Mr. Barnes points out that the efficiency of both the State Industrial school and of the state prison Is being impaired im-paired by conditions that obtain under the present arrangement. Many burglaries bur-glaries and robberies are committed by juveniles just under the age limit, according to Mr BarneB, and when the offenders are placed in the industrial in-dustrial school they constitute a menace men-ace to the morale of the younger inmates, in-mates, less initiated in the ways of crime. On the other hand, the report sets forth, this class of lawbreakers ought not to be sent to the state prison, there to complete their criminal crim-inal education by association with hardened criminals. The report Includes In-cludes tho qualification that no intention in-tention is entertained to criticise the present management of the existing institutions, the point aimed at being entirely that of establishing n the minds of the lawmakers of the slate the need of an institution to Jo the work without the province of either |
