Show Under the Capitol Capi l Dome I By Bf WILLIAM T. T IGLEHEART I Utah State Press Association The Th and swashes of ot contending currents mighty near swamped the state stat I legislature this last week as they dunked into the troubled liquids of or orne me the state liquor control laws Jaws nigh I themselves in school financing I out deep waters of election law changes I tentatively waded the shallows or old age assistance and actually made no declarations of a positive character that I will either cither beach or submerge any voter of o Utah I Clifton Kerr the bishop from Tremonton and Ward Holbrook the j I quietly Intent senator from Davis had bad hadI I tho fireworks of an Intended blowup of the liquor commission stolen tolen from j them by Governor Maws Maw's release of an nn attorney generals general's opinion that every or almost every law on the tho books had hadI I j been bent If 1 not busted by wholesale sales sates of intoxicating beverages The Adams of Pleasant Grove Grovo a house liquor com com- committee committee committee with Kerr as ranking Republican Senator HolbrooK n a less reg reg- regular regular regular ular but more pugnacious anti commis alon slon clique in hi the tho senate Both wanted to and did vocally castigate alleged sins of commission favoritism omission and downright malfeasance by the states state's dispensers of drinking liquor That gun gun- gunfire gunfire fire hasn't subsided s and probably wont won't for fot another twenty days Everybody thought when this twenty- twenty sixth session started that the main idea was going to be to pass some laws that I will wUl provide a better place in which to live for the th to soon be returned G. G I. I Joes and Jennies To date it Is regretfully reported only two or three inconsequential measures out of or the total of or bills put in have been passed to even let the men and women in the service know where Utah Is True there arc are quite a number of proposals pending for post war planning and the hoped lor construction deriving that will furnish the hoped-for hoped employment But at the end of the two-thirds two mark of this session none of or them have been put into law For the past number of years the school people and all those concerned with tho the education of Utah's best crop have been determinedly trying to solve the question of financing Utah's fine educational program in a way compatible with both the educational desires of the people and the ability to pay of the taxpayers None of or the measures cal cal- calculated calculated calculated to accomplish those desirable ends have even gotten beyond committee consideration And as the twenty-sixth twenty session got Into its third forty-third day Monday both houses had sifting committees to tell ten tile tho lawmakers which bills bUls they could or could not further consider and act up up- on Seven senators and seventeen representatives representatives representatives or better the majority of i I I j I I I either cither can tell from now on out ut what laws the tho lawmakers will have a chance to pass upon I Moot questions q of civil service retire retire- retirement retirement ment privileges tax ta ceilings post war I aviation highways appointments to var var- various vart various t ious lous state commissions salaries sale of or liquor by the drink or otherwise con con- control control control of livestock on the public domain fishing and hunting opportunities the th care caro of inmates In public institutions institution these these- and a lot more of or equal interest are aro out on the limb which the sifting committees can decide to saw off ort or orI orI I j leave dangling Of course if It the legislature decides to get at all of or this business they can canI make some mighty worthwhile deter deter- I But so 60 far as ns the record now shows MOWS the possibilities have ar lr outdistanced out out- outdistanced t distanced accomplishment Governor Maw finds himself in a not enviable position because even the joint appropriations committee gave g a v e his money bill last week presented scant courtesy What the tho senate will do with his recommendation of appointments seems destined for equally Impolite con con- consideration Partisan politics again last week Jumped jum ed into law making consideration In talking about liquor legislation fiery young Senator Mitchell of Moab declared that the story tory now should be Morals and the Governor rather than oa ae during the late campaign Morals campaign Morals and the Mayor Representative Tom Rees tee loquacious Salt Laker put in ina a bill that would do away with all political parties by simply forbidding any and andall andall andall all state or county or municipal em em- from holding office In partisan organizations Friday was the last day for the In Introduction In- In Introduction introduction of new bills without either getting netting the tho consent of either cither house bouse or suspending the rules and few bills can cnn be expected to get such favored treat treat- treatment treatment treatment ment with the result that the bills bUts thus far presented will have to be about enough if U 1 not more mor sol tol So I But the spade committee work has been done on most of them with the result that both houses are now In a position to dispose of bills just about as rapidly as the sifting committees release t them bem m to the floor for consideration i |