Show w der ah Z C 10 fa a 0 one more week and the twenty third utah state legislature becomes statute recorded history the curtain spelling fluis finis to lawmaking activities for another two years ears Is due ue to fall next thursday it will unless the ofte of tea used aused dece vice of turning back the clock 14 I 1 again resorted sorted le to in order to gain additional hours for legislative acion that father time will be halted in his tracks is almost certain it if the lawmakers hope to find opportunities to consider evon even a sma small 11 fraction of the new laws pro posed in the multitude of measures introduced such action will bring the sessions close to a week from saturday in the opinion of legislative experts last beeles weeks highlighted activities centered largely in the passage by either the senate or lower house of several controversial bills a modified homestead tax exemption and income tax raising acts by the house and low cost housing and public owned utilities financing bills by the senate these are hollered believed due for rough sledding in further consideration by branches still to pass upon them the homestead tax exemption bill passed by the house lowers dowers the proposed 2000 in value exemption to tax raising measures aiming to restore revenues lost by the exemption propose to lower exemptions in individual income taxes from f i om aw to for single persons from 1200 to for married persons and from to for dependents the first I 1 per cent of the tax on the first net taxable income is placed at instead of 1000 as at present rates rate are carried up to a maximum of 0 6 per cent instead ot of the current curlent 5 per cent the income tax bill also taxes the incomes of non residents exempting stocks bonds and notes against corporations outside the state but which might be held in trust in utah passage of the tax measure was followed by defeat of a bill proposing to divert a year from liquor sales profits to the state high school fund the senate by a close vote passed the controversial bill under which cities and counties of the state with more than thoin may set up housing authorities and undertake slum clearance and low cost housing projects in cooperation with the federal government ern ment any such authority in a first class city must be composed of two members of the utah apartment house owners association a banker a business man anan and a representative of labor no one with an income in excess of a year can rent a project dwelling the senate enate also passed the agricultural cultural al f aari air a 1 trade rade practices bill already approved by the lower house it exempted livestock and livestock products from the bills bill provisions aa it stands the measure a seeks stabilization ot of the price of farm products at a minimum mum of cost 0 of f production plus 8 6 per cent it outlaws certain unfair practices as well another controversial measure removing the tax from oleomargarine made from domestic fats fata and oils and Jou doubling bling the levy on that made from imported products pro ducis wife wat passed by the senate earlier in the week the senate killed II 11 B no 68 a men measure sure al aiming I 1 lollI in to simplify procedure for fj financing I 1 publicly owned o wn ed utilities and I 1 passed S B no which according to its sponsors tends to curb municipal officers from undertaking projects before the cost 11 1 known the hause passed a bill banning fireworks and prohibiting the firing of toy pistols etc using explosives plo it also approved a measure prohibiting any person holding a governmental job paying 1000 or more annually from holding office in any political party the latter Is expected to encounter stiff opposition in the senate the lower house relegated to oblivion two measures iea measures which had continued on last page under the capitol dome continued from page one passed the senate after much debate it killed an all amendment to the present syndicalism anti an net which would have liberalized the law in fit respect to labor meetings it also defeated S B IS 13 under which a person falling failing to settle a judgement jud gement for personal injury or property damage following un tin automobile accident would be deprived of his drivers license and rc plates until the claim hail had boon been adjusted or financial responsibility shown by taking out of liability insurance or posting of a i real estate bond the hie legislators bl began egan their next to list last weeks deliberations lay with vw approximately BOO bills still to bo be considered it is certain that a major portion of these will ille die in ili sifting committees these committees now have haie before them nil all tint but about a score ot of nica only four remaining on the house houge calendar board and approximately a dozen on the senate calendar londar la in ili the hands haties of these committees are such important bills as those pertaining to payment of compensation for ual disease victims tin the wages fanges and hours regulation bill biats all ls ai the direct primary law and providing tor for a non judiciary natural gas patent medicine and occupation tax ti bills old age assi assistance assistant stane e bills 11 appropriation bills and many others governor henry H blood has 20 10 measures and vetoed one V total of measures exclusive of oe i evolutions and memorials have boon been introduced thirteen bills have lia boon been passed by bi both houses uirt its as yet et unsigned by the govern goern or ol eighteen night cen have haie been killed many ime have have been passed by one house but bill upon by the hie other |