Show liquor law maws request holds legislators last week the legislature was pret ty much of a sparring match among the democrats while the republican minority sat by and occasionally heckled attention was centered on liquor matter since omar khayyam celebrated the press ing of the grape and upon giving governor herbert B maw a contingent fund of half a million or so the subject of liquor being what lt it is was mostly kept behind doors that just swung enough now and then to give a glimpse of a an ammer orial struggle that this legislature seems bound to perpetuate insofar as its powers permit the senate saturday decided as the house had done before to give the liquor commission mm on more capital S sol ol 01 selvin the sage little senator from tooele thoele sort of nut shelled the argument by saying the question here is simply whether we are going to make liquor a revenue producer or whether we are going to control the use of liquor governor maws budget request for a contingent fund that he has enjoyed managing for the past f foai out years met with a vigorous rebuff from crom a subcommittee of the joint ap committee maybe I 1 its ts an indication that governor maw the control over the 1945 legislature that he had in 1941 and 43 at any rate rale the subcommittee sub committee recommended om mended that the contingent conin gent fund be renamed and given into the control of the state board of examiners composed of the governor the secretary of state and attorney general this report brought forth lucri argument both for and against and the upshot of the argument come to earth yet efforts to get bar mony among the democrats having apparently fadlem saturday clifton kerr ithe the tremonton Tre monton house republican leader said As a member of the minority party im getting tired of trying to serve as referee of a democratic caucus but despite failure of the legislature to solve either of these thes e problems they did pass quite a few bills of minor nature touching general state problems only incidentally with only two weeks of legal tenure left to them the members had not yet solved school financing broad postwar post war planning legislation appropriations to state departments institutions and services or special apar appropriations |