Show fiT Casually Observing with Cliff A legislative report from Capitol Hill READY TO MOVE I was told before I officially became a representative in the Utah Legislature that it would take about two weeks to get all the pumps primed and have the law-making machine in motion I can assure you that this suggestion was pretty nearly right although there appears at times to be a lot of time-wasting this isn't true many matters of business and policy have to be done by small groups before the body as a whole can get into After ten very interesting days I can assure my constituents that things will be moving In a high gear from now comment was written 21 while 1 was home for the FOR HE TO ATTEMPT A coverage of the first ten days would be rather lengthy but let me pay a well deserving compliment to the majority and minority leaders in the house of The who have the balance of power 35 to had the by virtue of the to select the speaker of the as well as the majority leader and majority The minority parly has a minority leader and whip May I make the observation that I am very Impressed with the fine men who are holding down these positions Our speaker is Ernest Dean a most able and efficient man who Is doing a whale of a job and has the confidence and of both MAJORITY Carl is a school man from and a very able and likeable Richard Salt Lake is the majority whip and is also well chosen for the assignment On the COP side Franklin G linn is the minority leader and a Salt Lake Ralph A. is the minority Both of these like the lead are friendly and willing to Sec back page Casually from page help us freshmen get on to the IN THE WAY of legislation that has been most of it deals primarily with clarification of existing or has added clauses that will make air travel more or puts a few more teeth in insurance and corporation laws The real weighty problems of i v i 1 reapportionment and many are still ahead of us and will bring hours of research by committees and long and healed debates before such bills are resolved into Utah I HAVE HAD many ask me this one question- about our I have only this answer too early to even guess with but this I have found house members are most to the need for a Junior Senator has found a similar feeling in the Senate Let's leave it like this we will be working all the way to get the door open for an and this again will depend on the answer to the biggest question on Capitol Hill which are we going to raise the nearly dominion that is being asked over and above what is fixed as funds used in the last two year period I SHALL TRY to glean a few interesting Hems each week from the proceedings and make a report to the readers of the Standard and those who reside in this area In the meantime if you are in Salt Lake Monday thru Friday and have time to drop up to the state I'd like to have you send me a message are plenty of messengers at and give me a chance to visit with you and perhaps introduce you to the house members Several local men and women have visited us the past two weeks THE LAST WORD If you can't be thankful for what you be thankful for what von 30 |