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Show THE UTAH LEGISLATIV E The most severe cuts in any budget budg-et ever prepared in the history of Utah are urged in the report of the "committee of nine" presented to Governor Blood and each house of the Utah legislature. The committee of three senators, three representatives representa-tives and three appointees of the governor, named to study the organization organi-zation and operation of the state government, in view of the present stringency in state revenues, brought in the results of their work, which was to work for a balanced state budget. A reduction of $1,500,000 from the total of over 0,000,000 requested re-quested by departments and institutions institu-tions as required to operate for the next two years is proposed. To accomplish this the committee recommends cuts in all salaries averaging av-eraging fifteen per cent; placing per diem ' members on various boards, suspension for the biennium of such institutions as junior colleges, includiing the Branch Agricultural College at Cedar City, the state fair, the juvenile courts and eliminating eliminat-ing all appropriations for charitable or group-service institutions. It is also recommended the combinatljn of the functions of the state securities securi-ties commission, the state chemist, the state board of agriculture, the department of registration, the state training school and others with other oth-er departments and institutions which it has been deemed necessary to retain. Should the revenues fall, as some expect they will, below such estimates, esti-mates, the committee recommends that power be given to the governor to reduce expenditures of departments depart-ments or institutions so that they will come within the actual revenue. A measure which would memorialize memor-ialize President-elect Eoosevelt and the coming special session of congress con-gress to enact a copper tariff of not less than 10 cents a pound was introduced in-troduced in the house. The memorial memor-ial sets forth that the deplorable condition of the domestic copper industry in-dustry and the great distress thru-out thru-out the western states is largely due to the dumping of cheap foreign copper on the domestic market. Two bills designed to aid in the liquidation and reorganization of insolvent in-solvent building and loan companies were introduced in the house by Rep. Caine, of Cache county. One measure provides that a building and loan company, battling with financial fi-nancial difficulties, could reorganize reorgan-ize with the sanction of two-thirds of its members. The second bill enables en-ables members of a building and loan company, which had been taken tak-en over by the state banking department, depart-ment, to decide on a course of procedure pro-cedure either liquidation or reorganization. reor-ganization. Under the present law a company in the hands of the banking bank-ing department has no choice but to proceed with liquidation. Complete copies of the following proposed laws, can be secured from your representative in the legislature. legisla-ture. Introduced in the house : H. B. 81 Strengthening the bad check penalty. H. B. 82Liability of hotel keepers. keep-ers. H. B. S3 Exempting Utah low temperature made gas from taxation. taxa-tion. H. B. 84 Relating to default of state land contracts. H. B. 85 Delinquency of taxes. H. B. 86 Issuance of tax deeds. H. B. 87 Exemption from jury duty. H. B. 88 Pertaining to building and loan corporations. H. B. 89 Reorganization of defunct de-funct building and loan associations. H. B. 90 Amending sections of Utah statutes pertaining to building and loan associations. H. B. 92 Special improvement taxes. H. B. 93 Cadavers for school of medicine, University of Utah. H. J. M. 3 Tariff of 10 cents on copper. n. J. R. 9 Survey of workmen's compensation act. II. J. R. 10 Minimum wages for women and minors. II. B. 68 Fixing time statutes take effect. II. B. CO Certification of statutes. stat-utes. H. B. 70 Adopting and legalizing statutes. H. B. 71 Legalizing statutes for publication purposes. II. B. 72 Bonding the sale of clgaret.s and cigarot papors. II. B. 73 Sale and disposal of convict-made goods. II. B. 71 Relating to manufactured manu-factured goods by convicts IT. B. 75 Quarantine of diseased poultry. H. I!. 70 Capital of banks, loan and trust companies. II. B. 77 Cerlil"eles of title for registered motor vehicles. II. I!. 7S R-euiring registration or motor vehicles. II. B. 7!1 TeensIng of motor vehicle ve-hicle operators. II. I!. SO -Cost of proceedings brought by poor persons. Intro'lurel In IN? pen-to R. V.. (','-.";,! corporations as public utiliti- s. ! S. W AilJ,,.;.,.,..,,, or fire losses. loss-es. S. Tl. Kt T-:s!im,.p of ,T |
