Show important tax bax measure Is before legislators i washington county senator favors favor property exemptions in income tax bul bill by service taxes a joint legislative session on liquor sundry measures of 0 interest to farmers and labor in particular and a trip to the utah agricultural college at logan held the attention of 0 legislators during the fourth week of the twenty first utah legislature ending last saturday d ay the senate devoted practically all the entire week including a saturday session to discussion of the bill increasing individual income taxes the net result was the a 1 or of the orl original inal mc ure by I 1 inclusion nc lusion of per cent property lax tax offset or exemption and the jiing of another de feal ng a 1 dosal to include a 10 10 oratio i T y tiling tee fee T no ur per house aced the lit bl on en its third 4 it passed two I 1 billa bill and three senate johnr I eions I 1 tho thio house passed eight balli and I 1 adopted t ed senate joint resolution no 2 the last named pro proposes poes an a menan int to the state constitution to be voted on by the people at the next general election in Na november vember 1936 it approved by the electorate i it i imposes mooses a 4 mandate upon the nel next legislature eg asla s lure to enact a law exempting from taxation all homesteads up to 2000 in value signing of ct the resolution by the speaker ot of the house and senate president insures il its being placed before the voters voter tat est year arguments pro and con and final votes on an amendment by senator hammond showed a narrow margin ol of senatorial opinion in favor ot of including property offsets in the proposed nw new income tax bill A proposal to impose a 10 registration or tiling filing fee lost by a goodly majority in a viva voce vote the joint hearing on liquor control balls found boji oli stated sie oa and private licensing plan ad bents emphatic in their viewpoints the latter were apparently in accord as to acceptance of the holmes compromise embodying supervision 0 wholesale distribution by the state with private sales under local government licenses A move to delay liquor legislation until taxation and social welfare measures were acted upon was said to have bound much support among legislators senate umea measures passed and adopted during the week were 21 providing for the inspection of gasoline used tor for motor fuels SJ SI R 3 4 and 5 providing that thal tha 1 nt lot public instruct ion 1071 liall tira be elec elected red but appointed by the governor HB 5 fix fai g tho the hours of labor in underground mines amended to add a lunch period not to exceed 30 minutes and 2 mern memorializing memorial izing 1 angress ton on gress to elsta establish blish a national park in wayne county house action resulted in passage and adoption of the following measures SE SD 28 enabling the state fish and game commission to borrow money from the state land 1 board for public works projects passed previously by the senate S UIS permitting the federal government to buy lands tor for flood and erosion control also passed by the senate HB 3 9 limiting power of continued to page tour four IMPORTANT TAX MEASURE IS BEFORE legislators continued from front page tile the governor to call out the state militia la in case caie of 0 labor troubles a 1 mended to provide that production on premises policed by the militia I 1 be stopped until it had been v HB 1113 2 regulating production sale and licensing ot of commercial fertilizer HB 1113 19 applying weights tor for grades or 0 eggs sold at retail HB 21 cr creating eiting a redemption lon period on shares ot of stock in ir fr gatlon li companies arom rom 60 days to two years and providing lor for the payment ot of penalties costs and assessments sess ments HB 27 creating pensions tor for employed emp loyes of the utah state hospital at provo HB 28 le lating to cost ot of patient maintenance at the same institution and 2 the homestead tax exemption act making it mandatory mandator y tor for presentation to the pi iopa to be voted upon as a constitutional amendment men dment HB 37 and HB 38 fixing penalties tor for hit and run a and nd drunk drivers were defeated largely due to bellet belief that the senate 91 11 traffic bill passed last week and soon to come before the house w will III take lake caro care of the matters mattL rs thus tar far measures have been introduced in house and senate ald ng legislative expiry to beleve that the total wf wi exceed that ol 01 the last session by at 1 0 n o bills and approximately 70 of the introduced introduce billi billa are arc fix alix measures senator C clarence nealen resigned and Attorn attorney ev paul it II ray of 0 salt lake city appointed by governor henry 11 blood was seat ed in fix his place after heated labate brought about by a motion tor for a senatorial probe of 0 the new members business connections the motion was lost and T mr fr ray welcomed to the upper house benator en ator wilford day ot of iron county voted yes on 21 no on SJ R 3 4 and 5 and yes on 2 ile he was the only senator voting to register a negative ballot on el either 3 4 or 5 ile he voted no on 14 taxing cigars and smoking tobaccos cos and yes on the ham imond amendment to include property tax exemptions in the income tax bill ile he also voted yes on the bamberger lunch hour amendment to HB 5 senator senator days votes against the three senate joint resolutions were not explained on the senate floor ile he defended the hammond income tax bill amendment as tending to ease tho the burden ot of the taxpayer generally ile he voted against the miller resolution calling tor for the investigation vesti gation ot of the business connections of 0 the newly appointed senator paul H ray the iron senator introduced SD S bl 1371 1 enabling county commissioners to establish pure sugar beet seed districts speaker walter K granger ot cedar city voted yes on all bills and resolutions passed and adopted by the house except the landreaux Lano Lario reaux unicameral one house measure which was defeated representative F J bowler of gunlock voted no on the unicameral resolution and HB 9 and yes on all other measures passed except ile he was absent and not voting on this bill he was waa appointed on an appropriations subcommittee committee sub to investigate the needs of 0 the rate s tate industrial school and state prison a |