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Show PROPCSSD CHANGE IN LAW UNCHALLENGED j SALT LAKE May 22 So far no negative argument have been filed , with regard to any of the three con-i st:utlonal amendments which will be submitted to the people of the s;aie at 'Jie election next November, j according to Charles Helner. chief' deputy in the office of h e Crockett. ' secretary of state. i The law provides that the argument argu-ment fo.- and ag&inat each proposed amendment, together with the text I -f Ihf proposed amendment and the! text of the section. If any, which it is proposed to amend, shall he printed hy the state md mailed to each rtrlsterr-d voter by the county clerks of the rc-ipi rc-ipi tlve counties. Tho printing of these circulars to' be sent each voter was a method adopted by the legislature of 1917. In the hope that thereby popular attention atten-tion would be directed to th pro-! posed amendments, and thereby al really representative expression' of, i . hi. kiji ie ontainecl either for or against each of the pro-ppsed pro-ppsed amendments at the polls. (if the Ihroe jruiosed amandiuaQtsjy rperHSps Uhe one of tnost general ac-j-'r-ted importance is that which pr-that pr-that the legislature mav classify --:: property, except mimnr property, for taxation purposes This resolution- had a stormy time in the last j legislature, and after being introduced , in the house and failing there, in "P1'" of attempts to resuscitate it, was finaMy Introduced in the state senate in the closing days of the session, and' passed both houses Senators George H. Dern and J. VV. Peters, Democratic nd Republican floor leaders, prepared prepar-ed the. argument in favor of this amendment A sei ond proposed amendment Is' that the bonded indebtedness limit ofl the state bp Increased from 1 i, to 0 I per cent of the total assessed valuation valua-tion of the state. Senators Dern and Peters were also the committee wi lting the argument i in favor of the third proposed amend-! ment which would increase the pay a 1 -1 lowed to members of the state legisia-ture legisia-ture from the present M a da to the proposed ts. a day. oo |