OCR Text |
Show Utah Stale Press Association By William T. Igleheari I Neither the senate nor the dem-I dem-I ocratic big wigs seem particularly particular-ly happy about some of them, es-1 es-1 pecially the transfer of Justin Hurst of the liquor control board to the welfare commission and John S. Evans from the road commission to the liguor control outfit. By the time these few remarks re-marks see the light of day, however, how-ever, those two confirmations are more than a little likely. Governor Maw hasn't yet vetoed ve-toed any bills, probably for the simple reason that nothing has yet been presented to him of a dubious nature. In other words, the bills pased this far have for the most part been good, decent run of the mine laws without right or left wing unpalatable taint. Educational financing is about taken care of. The expansion of the industrial commission laws with increased benefits has been carried. A lot of odds and ends from the licensing of fur dealers to better educations for cosmeticians cosme-ticians have gone on the books. Some of the perennial night- (Continued on Last Page) Under The Capitol Dome (Continued from Page One) mares like the oleomargarine bill, the " homestead exemption constitutional amendment, the rcvisal of the big game board of control and others have met ; varying but equally conclusive fates. And as it now stands the respective sifting committees of the two houses are more than likely to keep buried the lunatic j fringe of legislation which invariably in-variably attaches to every session. ses-sion. For instance, there is very i little chance at all that the s'o-l called severance tax on natural i resources will ever emerge from 1 committee. There is also, per-hap per-hap less fortunately, very little chance that some of the post war , planning legislation will ever get a test vote in senate or house. , I While the senate has sort of smouldered on without inspired leadership or particularly effective ef-fective organization, the house has been more vigorously and i dextrously directed by the firm- I ly pleasant speaker Rulon White " of Ogden. Speaker White, it should be said emphatically, has no axes to grind of his own, but the orderly conduct of the house within the rules and regulations has been notably more orderly than the somewhat extra-Roberts Rules of Order processes in the senate. Jim Nielsen, the veteran republican re-publican from Fountain Green told the house the other day that the twenty-sixth legislature will go down in history as the "Santa Claus Legislature" when they seemed inclined to get extravagant. extrava-gant. Tom Jones, the ruddy, genial gen-ial San Juan stockman, took an occasional whack at what seemed seem-ed to be legislative frills and fancies'. Tom Argyle, the fish and game expert from Davis, went down fighting on a couple of his bills as did Emmett Olson. Price dem ocrat and administration stalwart. stal-wart. Alonzo Hopkin, the Wood-I ruff senator found himself at week end sort-of in betwixt and between as appointment's committee chairman, because whatever his committee recommends recom-mends there'll probably be some floor arguments. But as they go into the last lap this week, tempers are pretty much unruffled because while some good laws have been passed pas-sed and some more will be, no really bad ones have been. Of course it might be alleged that some mighty good ones have been neglected. But that depends on the point of view. There are sixty members of the house and twenty-three members of the senate representing every cross roads in the state, and all the sorts of people who make those cross roads worth living in. The best bet is that the laws that have been passed and that will be passed in this last hectic week will make those places even more desirable homes. You can't ask more than that, can you? |