Show under the capitol dome A new allt all t time me record for in introduction ro of 0 bills resolutions an ami d memorials was set by tho the P present r 1 ent legislature before adjournment last week by the time the legislators almost all of them had departed on 1 I a trip to southern utah and tha boulder dam the house and senate senat hoppers had been tilled filled to over flowing with documents proposing to enact this new law change that existing one provide tor for state constitutional changes memorialize the national congress or something else requiring action by the house or senate condolences congratulations congratulate ions and the like the previous record was established by the legislature ot of 1917 when measures were introduce td ed the first utah legislature in 1896 lasting 30 days longer than ea e A present one was satisfied with measures introduced the tha total or of introduced measures may reach the GOO mark it legislators take advantage of the opportunity to otter offer new measures thru suspension of 0 rules thus getting around the limit st set for introduction of bills resolutions and memorials mortals nit committee meetings and public hearings bearings with short afternoon aly nl sessions are giving way this week to morning and afternoon sessions tor for the consideration or of already introduced trod measures All powerful sitting sifting committees have taken over all hills resolutions and andr memorials in both house and senate these the committees 7 members an in the senate and 12 in the house of re representatives presen tat ives will fix the calendars each day thereby deciding what measures will come up tor for consideration from day to day this means that 19 legislators vill viii decide the fate abeto to a large degree of 0 whatever legislation is enacted during the two weeks remaining in the present session many measures are expected to die in the sifting committees they will never teach reach the house or senate for final passage or rejection sixty five bills resolutions and memorials have up to monday been passed by house and senate of this number 12 have been approved by both legislative branches the house has passed 31 and the senate 22 measures leaving 53 for further consideration by either house four measures have been defeated two in each house eleven have been withdrawn in tile the senate and 7 in the lower house fifty bills have been passed in both houses tight eight of these have passed both houses twenty five have passed tho the house and 17 the senate the two most important measures passing both houses are the senate joint resolution providing tor for ratification by utah of the national child labor constitution amendment men dment and the resolution paving the way tor for a constitutional amendment men dment exemption from taxation homesteads up to 2000 in value perhaps the ithe ewt ant important of the bills passed in the senate are am the individual and corporation income tax bills and the traffic safety measure in the house tile the most tar far reaching may be the state stores liquor bill and the metropolitan water district measure governor henry IT bloods message at the opening of the current legislature Is growing day by day it i be regarded as the basis upon which sane sana and helpful legislation may be enacted while his budget message forms the groundwork for fol much in the way ot of worth worthwhile VIalle taxation legislators returned monday from their journ southwards resolved to devote ev v ery possible working minute to strictly legislative matters which means prolonged sessions and elimination mi nation of 0 longwinded long winded debates and the like with the national relief and public works program still in the mai making ing utah legislators are arc faced with tile the task of 0 how to make this ste states tes te S statutes conform with thu adminis thallon setup it can burlly bt b accomplished ct complis hed without ohp th federal 1 iio i crim rian an accomplished la a 1 the liquor 1 buor problem Is not nn yet vit c it or of the wo a and will not be lint I tile the has had ats ta say good authorities look tor for a baale ba le royal between the two brandies branches on oil the licensing ot of by the drink sales by hotels and restaurants and clubs three quarters of 0 a million dollars will be ba available tor for governmental continued to page four our under the capital dome continued from first page purposes if a bill introduced in the alic senate last week Is passed by both hocq houses it puts into use governor moods refunding plan postponing payment ot of tile the initial du on oil the bond issue floated at tile the last legislative session un tit til 1940 and makes this sum suin available without taxation one thing thine la 14 certain utah will have underway in the near future many additional miles ot of highway as a result ot of tile the current legislative work danger bancer explosives this in effect was a warning sounded bounded by george A critchlow for more than three years r state ta taic ic commission er in ati analyzing alii ing various taxation measures now before the twenty first utah legislature for consideration mr critchlow an acknowledged authority on tax matters revealed ifill dan danger ger in several proposed taxation laws danger of the most aruto sort that it if exploded by being enacted into statutes would react to the detriment of tile the state as a whole although a they might favor some special group the numerous factions bloes blocs or what have you were beamed blamed for the condition in which the legislature now finds itself as regards taxes in particular sir mr critchlow backed by hundreds if not thousands ot of big and small bilM business ness me men and taxpayers generally see in taxation measures sponsored in house and senate 42 aimed to penalize through I 1 a additional dd I 1 taxes some particular group industry or business these the tax expert shows were introduced not to raise revenue tor for governmental purposes but bill to confer advantages upon one group or another either cither by way ot of exemptions in favor 0 of the sponsoring group or penalties against competitors according to the former tax com lioner this sort of taxation Is dangerous to the states interests at large their revenue raising adjuncts j U ale is ostensible on the surface are in reality submerged in advantages accruing to some favor favored p d group and invented solely tor for th the e purpose of 0 securing support for to the bill these are in fact he says introduced to relieve sonic some group of a portion of its tax load at the expense of some other group business or industry according to mr critchlow the only way in which recovery may be achieved Is to subordinate private interests to tile the interest of the whole to enact tax legislation of a i general nature after junking all special taxes and concentrating up on m measures affecting all classes ot of property he cites as measures general in their application the inome ome tax the state sales tax tie the corporation franchise tax and the ra a solino soline tax tas |