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Show Utah Voters To Weigh I Amendments i Eight proposals for amend-1 ment of the state constitution) will be confronting Utah voters when they go to the polls for the November 5th election. Five of I the proposals were adopted by the recent special session of the j legislature. The 1945 Legislature approved proposals to increase county attorney's at-torney's terms from two to four years, enable the state to tax; federal lands, and enable the I state to tax federal property in the state. New Proposals Listed The five new proposals are: 1. A proposal that the state set a statewide property tax and with other funds available supply 75 percent of a $3000 per classroom class-room unit minimum program. 2. A proposal that the Legislature Legis-lature be given the power to, Utah State Hospital, State Train-and Train-and other institutions not speci-mg speci-mg School, Industrial School determine the location of the fically located by the constitu-1 tion. This power is requested for the purpose of determining whether or not the state should acquire the army's abandoned1 Bushnell Hospital as a site for a state institutional center. 3. A proposal that all income and corporation franchise taxes tax-es be used to finance this minimum mini-mum program. 4. A proposal that salaries of state elective officials may be I increased or decreased at the : will of the legislature without requiring an incumbent's term of office to be completed. 5. A proposal that salaries of supreme court and district judges, judg-es, as increased by the ' 1945 legislature, be made effective Jan. 1, 1947, through elimination of constitutional prohibitions. In connection with Bushnell the lawmakers approved creation of a six-man legislative committee commit-tee to make a complete investigation investi-gation of all factors involved in the Bushnell proposal and to submit sub-mit its report to the next legis-lataure. legis-lataure. The committee was granted $10,000 with the limitation limita-tion that it not be used unless the people approve the constitutional constitu-tional amendment empowering the legislature to re-locate the institutions. This legislation was contained in Senate Bill-1 which requires gubernatorial signature before becoming effective. |