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Show Grist From the Legislative Hopper The first verbal bombshell exploded explod-ed 'in legislative halls this week when Senator George M. Miller of Carbon county sought to force an investigation investiga-tion of the business connections of Paul H. Ray, Salt Lake City attorney, at-torney, appointed to succeed Senator Sena-tor C. Clarence Neslen, resigned. It proved a dud. . . Far-flung objections to the changes proposed in the state workmen's compensation law by the Child bill have resulted in the bill being rewritten to a large extent with the idea of making it acceptable accept-able in at least a degree. . . . The joint session on liquor control brought out widely divergent viewpoints. view-points. It showed too that the adherents ad-herents of private licensing were most amendable to compromise. . . . Moves to set aside consideration of the liquor problem until all so-called bread and butter measures are passed pass-ed upon and meeting with strong opposition from those who believe the people are desirous of having the question settled pronto. . . . The state legislature will be made omnipotent in taxation if constitutional amendments amend-ments proposed in the house are approved ap-proved by the current session and later by the electorate. . . . Freak measures have been noticeably absent ab-sent during the current session the only approach according to the unmarried gentry being the senate bill taxing bachelors. . . . The pul-motor pul-motor has been successfully applied to several near defunct measures thus far, notably the child labor resolution and the militia bills, a |
