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Show Liquor And State Funds In Spot Light In Utah Legislature Last week in the legislature was pretty much of a sparring match among the Decmocrats while the Republican minority sat by and occasionally heckled. Attention was centered on liquor (controversial matter since Omar Khayyam celebrated the pressing press-ing of the grape) and upon giving giv-ing Governor Herbert B. Maw a contingent fund of half a million dollars or so. The subject of liquor, being what it is, was mostly kept behind be-hind doors that just swung enough now and then to give a glimpse of an immemorial struggle strug-gle that this legislature seems bound to perpetuate insofar as its powers permit. The senate Saturday decided as the house had done before, to give the liquor commission more working capital. But they removed by amendment some of the restrictions restric-tions the house had placed upon liquidation of this capital that is to be used for the maintenance mainten-ance of a liquid stock. Sol Selvin, the sage little senator sen-ator from Tooele sort of nut-shelled nut-shelled the argument by saying: "the question here is simply whether we are going to .make liquor a revenue producer or whether we are going to control the use of liquor". Proponents of the respective points of view have yet to disclose where the argument will wind up, or when. Governor Maw's budget request re-quest for a contingent fund that he has enjoyed managing for the past four years, met with a vigorous vig-orous rebuff from a subcommittee subcommit-tee nf the ioint aDDrooriations committee. Maybe it's an indication indi-cation that Governor Maw hasn't the control over the 1945 legislature legis-lature that he had in 1941 andj 1943. At any rate this subcommittee subcom-mittee recommended that the contingent fund be renamed and given into the control of the state board of examiners composed com-posed of the Governor, the secretary sec-retary of state and the attorney general. The wail against this report led by Senator Lorenza E. Elggren, Salt Lake Democrat very much irritated Ira Huggins, the Ogden Democratic dean of the senate who is, chairman of that subcommittee and his voci-v voci-v ferous cohort Selvoy J. Boyer an- ' other Democrat, representative from Springville. The upshot of this argument hasn't come to earth yet. Efforts Ef-forts to get harmony among the Democrats having apparently failed, Saturday -Clifton Kerr, the Trerr onton house Republican leader apparently wearied, said: "As a member of the minority party I'm getting tired of trying to serve as referee of a Democratic Demo-cratic caucus." But despite failure of the legislature to solve either of these problems, they did pass quite a few bills of minor nature, touching general state problems J only incidentally. With less i than two weeks of legal tenure ! left to them the members had tot yet solved school financing, broad post war planning legislator;, legisla-tor;, appropriations to state departments, de-partments, institutions and serv-.ce serv-.ce ;, or special appropriations. The dapper Loganite, approp- i i-iating Adrian C. Hatch in the house, warned that the special requests embodied in bills now pending total $9,250,000 or thereabout, there-about, far more than anybody yet sees money for. Of course no legislature goes without a little fun. The curly haired and vigorous blonde representative rep-resentative frrxn Summit, Lawrence Law-rence RasmuiMMi, told the house . a while ago tht It would certainly certain-ly be a shame if the members left ' their sense of humor at home after the houae had been chided for levity, ifc the senate went out full blast n the polygamous bull act. The bulls and their amours were ufrread all over the reriord. The iw now restricts 'em. But who enforces the law remain:; to ht min. Torn Argylc, Davis county Damocrat, o6 time nemesis of game poachtMf was still wondering wonder-ing what's .;! to happen to the propo:.rJ revision of the big ! ja;)io control torn minion. 1 Tom .one;;, the .Sari Juan county coun-ty stock man, dmon:;trated ;;uc-ecas! ;;uc-ecas! ully tin uje.eulence of his Blue Mountftiil lnibs at a dinner ho save off U". record at tin: state fair ero'ind.;. Tom's lambs di'Jn't win uit fctate fair ribbon:;. rib-bon:;. They wire too vell and del iclously dismembered. Klisha Warner, ii;v:;!tj;rlns; senator from Payson put up a well documented plea for the Inclusion In-clusion of the Central Utah Vocational Vo-cational .School at Provo Into the ntate vocational training program. pro-gram. He hail come nearer than anybody yet In getting real consideration con-sideration for that Institution. Most legislator:) will be utile to tell their con.stltuerit.-i the true KlKnlfleance of the Geneva steel plant, when they et home he-cause he-cause they naw It themselves on Ww;hlnntoni Hto'thday. They vill undoubtedly declare that every Utabn must pull for the continued operation of Hint 17.00, 1)00, 000 enterprise uRcr the var. |