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Show State Lawmakers Get Down To Real Work After Four Weeks to examine all proposals and some of those reports are beginning begin-ning to sift pack to the whole committee. While partisan politics hasn't been much in evidence on the floor of the houses unmistakable evidence of the interest of party organization in the. doings of the legislature is seen in the frequent appearance in the cap-itol cap-itol halls of Roscoe Boden the Democratic state chieftain and his Republican opponent Vernon Romney. It is more than a guess that their current interest cent' ers more in the appointments Governor Maw is recommending to the senate for confirmation than in most of the actual legislation, legis-lation, Some of the governor's major nominees for state jobs are now known to be under very close scrutiny and furthermore, the results of the last election where Governor Maw dropped so far I behind his ticket, have induced The lawmakers really went to work making laws this fourth I week of the twenty-sixth legis-j lature. While the only major! measures passed by both houses were the liberalization of the workmen's compensation act and the occupational disease act introduction of the governor's post war planning and construction construc-tion bills and virtual completion of the new school financing measures bring into legislative view almost all of the important controversial proposals the twenty-sixth legislature is expected to deal with. The senate and house" had one of their to be expected altercations alterca-tions when the house demanded the upper body rescind its action ac-tion in naming a sifting committee commit-tee and the senate figuratively thumbed its nose at the house for suggesting such a thing. So the Senate sifting committee commit-tee of seven, headed by Lorenzo E. Elggren (D-Salt Lake) will hereafter have complete say as to what bills are brought to the floor of the senate whether those be house or senate measures. Many a well intentioned proposal will have its head lopped off right there. And inasmuch as the house has a hundred more bills before it now than it did two years ago at this stage of the proceedings there's certain to be some wailing wail-ing and gnashing of teeth. The Governor's post war bills which would enable counties and municipalities to share in possible poss-ible state and federal funds for planning and construction, permit per-mit the state publicity and industrial in-dustrial development commission commis-sion to assist communities in setting set-ting up small manufacturing and industrial enterprises met with the party big-wigs to a more determined de-termined attitude in patronage matters, A reconstitution of the current methods of providing funds for the state's educational system is seen in the series of five bills that will be introduced this week by the Governor's committee on school finance headed by speaker speak-er of the house Rulon R. White. The measures will provide a more equitable method of apportioning ap-portioning funds, a simplification simplifica-tion of the present formulas under which funds are distributed distribut-ed and likewise provide a committee com-mittee to continue a study of Utah's entire system of taxation with a view to providing the next legislature with a groundwork for legislative action. rather cordial response in most quarters. His suggested appropriation approp-riation of $2,000,000 to the state board of examiners for these construction and planning activities acti-vities may strike some snags. Pension and pay measures for public employees are numerous and far reaching embracing everybody on the state payroll from the governor to the school janitor. It's too early to predict what will happen to them but if the usual economy bloc starts doing much arithmetic the more social minded legislators are in for some difficulties, because all of the bills call for some state as well as individual contributions. contribu-tions. The house set up a uniform uni-form salary committee, Jos. L. Newey (D-Ogden) to harmonize such measures. Senator Grant Macfarlane (D-Salt (D-Salt Lake) succeeded in having the senate pass his bill for a poleomyelitis hospital with a half million dollar appropriation, the largest to get by either house so far. Of course requested appropriations ap-propriations exceed by far estimated esti-mated revenues and the Governor Govern-or suggested budget. How to bring these all into line is the more nearly sixty-four millions dollar question confronting the joint budget committee now in the throes of daily sessions. They have appointed sub-committees |