Show Under the Capitol Dome By WILLIAM T T. INGLEHEART Utah State Press Pre Association I When they quit lawmaking at the end I ot of the tho fourth week ot of the twenty sixth I session or of the state legislature the members counted their tangible achieve achieve- achievements achievements ments In the matter ot of laws passed and killed nt at only about ten per cent Ten per cent that Is s ot of the more than bills and resolutions Introduced But that Is a a. somewhat misleading figure because In n reality It takes In the neigh neigh- neighborhood ot of hours In preparation committee consideration lobbying per per- persuasion I suasion and plain trading horse to one hour ot of debate on the floor to pct get a bill passed And the tho hours have already been devoted to many pieces of f legislation that wm will have o an Important and con con- controlling trolling influence on the way the people ot of Utah will live 11 and carry carryon on their various affairs for the next four years For Instance the tho Joint committee ot of labor and Industry devoted a great deal ot of time profitably In Ironing out n a compromise on the bill respecting ex- ex exI extension tension ot of benefits under the Workmen's I Compensation and the Occupational Dl- Dl sease acts They recommended in a boost minimum compensation from 1600 a Vc week k to 2250 a week weck W. W W C. C Jensen D Ogden D-Ogden Ogden and his committee have ap- ap approved proved provet tho those recommendations wm will They probably bo be accepted Intact week this Other negotiations and are ahead cOmpromises for the major controversial measures yet to bo presented SUch as elections and voting for war post planning employment and pUblic construction bUdgeting or of tho states state's Income and there really Is n a tIcker I taxation other brutal an- an another word ways social In these days high high- highways security affairs and that always diverting and ot of deers for the hunters question the and browse for sheep and cattle or which There seem to bo be to anYWhere from frem two twenty 00 or all these tho on ot of these propos The any or orthe the liquor o failures ot of commissIons 01 the the depending on department or to every everything thinS to e tho he Ir 0 q J cows to bulls on publIc land to as- as asI asI ot of control over all soil soU con con- conservation I enterprises And the gamut or of I subjects before the legislature runs on I to an unbelievable number I Rep Selvoy J J. J Boyer Springville D-Springville I took a lot ot of wind out ot of the labor sails In the house early in the tho I weeks week's proceedings when ho he ed I Rep Frank Bonacci D Helper and his effort to permit public employees and i agencies to bargain collectively by say say- sayIng saying Ing are we to lose the spoils spoil I and freeze every pUblic job In Utah I The house bouse agreed wIth the Democratic floor leader No collective bargaining for forI I the state or other public employees t A lot ot of other civil service proposals are quite apt apy to meet a similarly con con- conclusive e fate But Dut the county firemen did win a a. vICtory their plea for tor recognition was granted Senator Mitchell R-Moab R chalked up a couple ot of Credit marks by his successfUl sponsorship or of the emergency emer- emer emeri i gency measure permitting the continued continue employment ot of women In ground above mining operations The aggressive and articulate Republican floor leader In the house Rep Clifton G. G G M. M Kerr ot of Tre- Tre neaten monton abetted forceful speaker W. W R. R In n cutting ort off debate that has r resulted In the tabling ot of nine and the committing re-committing to committee or of 4 like number pt of bills The Senate the smaller and thus far deliberate bOdy was having dif dif- difficulties In the matter ot of Governor Her lIer- Herbert bert B. B B Maws Maw's recommendations for com com- commission commission mission appointments so tar far as the record shows all Is sweet harmony But emphatically the one vote margid margh by which president Dexter Farr D- D lr Ogden won his place hasn't yet been sufficient to get the Democratic cau- cau caucuses into agreement with the chief of states state's suggestions The first major blast at one ot of the tho Governors Governor's pet schemes was exploded by Sen Alonzo Hopkin D- D Woodruff who wants to do away en- en entirely entirely with the Industrial Development and Publicity commission Due to re- re 1 na lo and ana death 0 Ora 0 Ora Bundy ot of Og- Og Ogden den Is the Commissioner sole member ot of that ht bOdy body Bundy apparently got his wIres crossed somewhere With so many bUts bills before them on the same or related subjects both sen- sen senate senate ate and house have resorted to the appointment ot of committees to consoli- consoli consolidate date and harmonize related measures The Tho house has thrown an all proposed salary Increases f for r state county and mUnicipal employees Into one commit commit- tee The senate has tossed all war postwar planning proposals Into another As the new week opens both houses have fUll calendarS calendarS' The senate started oU off with thirty measures ready for final action and the house with twenty Arid brave Is s the man who Will predict what will happen to any or of them |