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Show Under The Capitol Dome i By J. J. Cahoon Utah State Press Association As the regular session of Utah's twenty-fifth legislature draws to a close this week, it becomes more and more evident that the most important measure, politically speaking at least, was a bill, which failed to pass. Hie measure was S. B. 164, de-' signed to reduce the dictatorial powers of Gordan Taylor Hyde and his finance commission, and in the bill's death especially the manner man-ner o'f its demise lies a tale of political "horse trading" which will completely dominte the Utah gubernatorial gu-bernatorial race next year. For the death of S. B. 164 at the hands (D), Salt Lake; Jack tD), Salt Lake; D. H. Jensen (D), Emery; W. C. Jensen (D), Weber; Loveridge (D.) , Utah; Meador tD), Grand; Men-ill (D), Salt Lake; Midgley (D), Salt Lake; Jean Z. Murdock (D), Davis; Noble (D), Cache; Pe-dersen Pe-dersen (D), Weber; Penrose (D), Salt Lake! Basmussen CD), Summit; Reed (D), Salt Lake; T. M. Reese (D) Salt Lake; Roberts (D), Utah; Robinson (.D), Rich; Sabin CD), Carbon; Schenk (D), Cache; Sor-enson Sor-enson D), Salt Lake; and Walker (D), Salt Lake. Against: Brinkerho'ff (R), Wayne; Cannon (R), Salt Lake; Christen-sen Christen-sen (R), Sanpete; Frost (R), Kane; Hatch (D), Cache; Hintze (R), Salt Lake; Jenkins (D), Weber; Jones (R), San Juan; Kerr (R), Box Elder; Mabey (R), Salt Lake; Mars-den Mars-den (R), Iron; Mozley (R), Salt Lake; George C.: Murdock (R), Beaver; Myers (R), Garfield; Niel-son Niel-son (R), Sanpete; Paxton (R), Millard; Mil-lard; J. E. Rees (R), Morgan; Smith (R), Daggett; Staples (R), Sevier; Stevens (R), Wasatch; Stringham (R), Uintah; Ward (D), Box Elder; El-der; Whittaker (R), Piute, and White (D), Weber. Absent and not voting: Larsen (R), Duchesne, and Milliman (D), Juab. of the house of representatives has brought a Democratic split which virtually will be impossible' to heal next year, while the Republican, Re-publican, forces at first disappointed disap-pointed when the measure failed to reach the governor's desk now realize that the death of S. B. 164 on the house floor brought greatly increased hopes for a Republican victory in 1944. Political issues, which thus far in the session had made themselves felt only in legislative bills, flared into vitriolic and personal attack on Maw led by Senator Lynn S. Richards (D), Salt Lake, in the senate, and Representatives Frank Mozley and Quayle Cannon Jr., Salt Lake Republicans, in the house. Mozley started off the fireworks when he arose on the floor o'f the house immediately after the defeat of the finance bill and sarcastically moved that the house thank Maw for his "personal lobby" against the bill referring to a Democratic caucus at which the governor appeared ap-peared and opposed the bill during the noon recess just prior to the house action on the measure. The following day, in the senate, all started calmly enough until Richards rose on personal privilege after Senator Alonzo F. Hopkin (D), Wasatch, said he was glad that the governor had taken a public stand when he used his constitutional veto power to disapprove S. B. 5 the alien property bill instead of killing kill-ing the measure as he did the finance fi-nance bill. Richards then, verbally attacked Maw, calling him a "Df. Jekyll" and a "usurper of power." He said that constitutional government in Utah had "flown out the window," that state departments were constantly con-stantly fighting among themselves, and that the legislature had legislated legis-lated away its constitutional powers when it passed the reorganization measures requested by the governor gover-nor in 1941. Following Richards' attack on the governor, Representative Eras-lus Eras-lus S. Gardner (D), Washington, took the house floor to defend Maw, terming Richards' charge that Governor Gov-ernor Maw had maneuvered to defeat de-feat of S. B. 164 "one of the blackest black-est lies ever told." Gardner said that all three members of the board of examiners Governor, attorney at-torney general and secretary o'f state had been invited to the caucus cau-cus to give their views on the bill, which proposed to incorporate the members of the board of examiners into a six-man finance commission. The governor, however, was the only one of the three to accept the invi- tation. During his talk, Gardner attempted attempt-ed to spike other anti-Maw rumors and he charged Cannon with spreading false stories about the governor's having spent state funds to influence elections in various counties. Cannon accepted the chaHer"1 and took the floor to accuse ' the governor of "misspending" $150,000 in state funds. Cannon charged the chief executive with transfer- ring money from the motor vehicle registration fund surplus to foster "political" make-work projects in Beaver, Washington, Millard, Uintah, Uin-tah, Iron, Duchesne and Emery counties. The Salt Lake Republican declared the governor had personally personal-ly directed the spending of money with the aid of the Democratic county committees in the seven counties. S. B. 104 is dead, but its ghost will haunt Utah politics during the next 20 months, with both Republicans and anti-Maw Democrats attacking attack-ing the governor for his alleged attempts at-tempts to influence legislative votes rather than, as Mozley put it, "to face the responsibility of a veto." The true power for and against the bill in the house was shown, not on the final roll call on passafe of the measure, but on an amendment proposed by Representative Grant Madgley (D), Salt Lake, to emasculate emascu-late the bill by removing the six-man six-man commission proposal. After this amendment had passed, 34-24, even the former backers of the measure voted against it In the amended form. Vote on the amendment, with "for" votes being against tho bill, was as follows: For: Anderson (D), Utah; Bell U), Salt Luke; Cowles (D), Carbon Car-bon Durham (D), Salt Lake; Du-vull Du-vull (D), Salt Lake; Klliott (D), Utah; Grow it (D) , Utah; Hale (D,) Salt Lake; Iialhulay (D), Tooele; Holt (D) , Halt Lake; Iii(;leby |