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Show State Legislature Has Completed Little Legislation After 4 Weeks continuing question of deers for the hunters and brouse for the sheep and cattle (or which). There seem to be anywhere from two to twenty schools of thought on any or all of these proposals. Then you've got the liquor commission's commissions or failure of commission (depending (de-pending on the point of view), the department of agricultures desires to extend their domain to everything from the number of cows to bulls on public land, to assumption of control over all soil conservation enterprises. And the gamut of subjects before be-fore the legislature runs on to an. unbelievable number. Rep. Selvoy J. Boyer (D. Spring-ville) Spring-ville) took a lot of wind out of the organized labor sails in the house early in the week's pro- When they quit lawmaking at the end of the fourth week of the twenty-sixth session of the state legislature the members counted their tangible achievements, achieve-ments, in the matter of laws passed and killed at only about ten per cent. Ten per cent that is, of the more than 300 bills and resolutions introduced. But that is a somewhat misleading figure because in reality it takes in the neighborhood of 100 hours in preparation, committee consideration, consid-eration, lobbying persuasion and plain ordinary horse-trading to one hour of debate on the floor to get a bill passed. And the 100 hours have already al-ready been devoted to many pieces of legislation that will have an important and controlling controll-ing influence on the way the people of Utah will live and carry -on their various affairs for the next four years. For instance, the joint committee of labor and industry devoted a great deal of time, profitably, in ironing out a compromise on the bill respecting re-specting extension of benefits under the Workmens' Compensation Compensa-tion and the Occupational Disease Di-sease acts. They recommended a boost in minimum compensation compensa-tion from $16 a week to $22.50 a week. V. C. Jensen, (D. Ogderi) and his committee have approv-ed approv-ed those recommendations. They will probably be accepted intact this week. Other negotiations and.com- promises are ahead for the major controversial measures yet to be presented. .Such as elections and voting, post war planning for employment and public construction, con-struction, budgeting of the state's income (and there really 'is a stickler!); taxation (another (anoth-er brutal word m these days) ; highways, social security affairs and that always diverting and the tabling of nine and the recommitting re-committing to committee of a like number of bills. ceedings when he squelched Rep. Frank Bonacci (D. Helper) and his effort to permit public employees em-ployees and agencies to bargain collectively by saying "are we to lose the spoils' system and freeze every public job in Utah?" The house agreed with the Democratic Democra-tic floor leader. No collective bargaining for the state or other public employees. A lot of other civil service proposals pro-posals are quite apt to meet a similarly conclusive fate. But the county firemen did win a victory their plea for recognition recogni-tion was granted." Senator Mitchell Melich (R. Moab) chalked up a couple of credit marks by his successful sponsorship of the emergency measure permitting the contm- j I ued employment of women m , I above-ground mining operations. The aggressive and articulate I Republican floor leader m the l house, Rep. Clifton G. M. Kerr of Tremonton, abetted forceful ; speaker W. R. White in cutting off debate that has resulted m |
