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Show j! $100,000 to advertise the state is be-I be-I ing urged by several groups interested interest-ed in the upbuilding and development develop-ment of the Beehive state. They declare de-clare the "crop" is more valuable in accruing dollars and cents than some of Utah's major industries. . . . The United States congress will soon receive a legislative memorial asking ask-ing that government agencies having hav-ing to do exclusively with western matters be transferred to some western city, Salt Lake City prefer- red. "Go west, young man" is still a lively sentiment .... The senate defeated the bill proposing to establish estab-lish a state police department. The solons voted 13 to 10 against taking the highway patrolmen from jurisdiction juris-diction of the state road commission commis-sion and liquor law enforcement from the liquor commission .... It will soon be moving day for Governor Govern-or Blood. Legislators approve bill enabling Mrs. Thomas Kearns to present the state with the palatial Kearns mansion at 603 East South Temple street. Salt Lake City. Ap- The Twenty-second Utah state legislature is running a neck and neck race with its immediate predecessor pre-decessor the 1935 session in the number of proposed new laws and statute changes introduced as senate sen-ate or house measures in the lawmaking law-making branches. The advantage up to the close of the fortieth day when the time limit set for introduction of hills expires if greater number proposed is an advantage lies with the preceding session, which at its close had set a new Utah legislative record of 546 measures offered for consideration during its 60 days of lawmaking. At the close of the time limit in 1935 240 bills had been introduced in the senate and 274 in the lower house, a grand total of 514. At the corresponding period this year senators sen-ators were responsible for the introduction in-troduction of 249 bills and the representatives repre-sentatives for 242, a grand total of 491 23 less than two years ago. Nine bills were introduced in the 1935 house after February 20 by un- animous consent required after expiration ex-piration of the time limit. Twenty-one Twenty-one were introduced in the senate. It is predicted that this number will not be reached during the current session. It is, therefore, fairly safe to conjecture con-jecture that the Twenty-first session's ses-sion's record-breaking 546 measures propriate that the state's chief ex-I ex-I ecutive should live in a house that I silver built .... "Utah, We Love I Thee" will be the official Beehive i ! state song as soon as Governor i I Blood signs the Lund bill passed by I both legislative branches. All to- . gether now, Utah, We etc., etc. from ! coast to coast. J will stand for at least another two years. It far exceeded in number ! the bills introduced at any previous ! session. The average for the 10 years i since 1917 is 190 house bills and 152 ! senate bills. Measures receiving the signatorial approval of Governor Henry H. Blood exceed by an even dozen those signed by him at a corresponding period in 1935. He had then af- fixed his signature to only three, while this year he has signed 15, ' including eight approved up' to Saturday during last week. Measures passed by both legislative legisla-tive branches and signed by Governor Gov-ernor Blood since the last "dome" report place a number of widely varying statues upon the Utah Law hooks. One so-called "labor bill" approved , by the chief executive prohibits employers em-ployers involved n a strike deputizing deputiz-ing employes as peace officers. Another An-other in the same category requires a person to register with the state industrial commission before accepting accept-ing employment during a labor strike, Other governor-approved measures meas-ures include one allowing operation of branch banks Within the counties of parent banks. Two others prohibit pro-hibit voluntary dissolution of corporations cor-porations and foreign corporations until proof is made that fees, taxes, etc. have been paid. Another extends ex-tends to six years and makes retroactive re-troactive the present one-year statute of limitations in cases of action against public officers for misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance non-feasance in office. The governor also signed the bill allowing operation of previously registered motor vehicles until midnight mid-night of February 28 of the year following registration. A house concurrent memorial to congress asking submission of a constitutional constitution-al amendment giving congress the power to regulate hours of labor in industry also won his approval. Utah bankers have gone on record as opposed to the proposed tax on interest bearing bank deposits as embodied in S. B. 184, one of the several revenue raising measures introduced as "committee of nine bills." Several financiers appearing at a public hearing on the bill denounced the proposed deposit tax as "impractical, "im-practical, unsound and discriminatory." discrimina-tory." They declared that banks would be financially unable to absorb ab-sorb the tax and that it would be left for the depositors to pay. Many small accounts held by children, widows apd aged persons would be affected, they argued. Another objection by the bankers was to divulging confidential information infor-mation concerning their depositors' accounts, as would be required under provisions of the proposed tax. Senators agreed to disagree with the lower house on amendments to H. B. 11, which provides that employers em-ployers shall pay employes in money or checks on regular stipulated and bulletined paydays. The agreement to disagree came when the house refused to concur in senate amendments to the bill, doing do-ing a bit of disagreeing itself. The bill was returned to the solons, who refused to accede. This resulted in appointment of the first 1937 conference con-ference committee. There are likely like-ly to be more of these committees. "Intensive cultivation" of Utah's "tourist crop" through approval of the Holmes senate bill appropriating |