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Show Under The Capitol Dome By William. T. Igleheart Utah State Press Association SALT LAKE CITY (Special to the Roosevelt Standard) Planning Plan-ning for the postwar reconstruction reconstruc-tion and provision for employment employ-ment of returning veterans and displaced war workers were emphasized em-phasized by Governor Herbert B. Maw in his message to the Utah State senate and house of representatives which met last week for the first sessions of the Twenty-sixth Legislature. Among the projects Governor Maw recommended for post-war employment were the establishment establish-ment of small scale industries in the agricultural areas; highway construction, reclamation, public buildings, airport development and cooperation with other states in a "Build the west program". pro-gram". He likewise advocated a one cent increase in the gasoline tax to provide funds for the construction con-struction and improvement of secondary roads. As a means of matching federal funds for future fu-ture projects he asked the legislature legis-lature to grant the various political poli-tical subdivisions of the state authority to build financial reserves re-serves through current taxation. From preliminary outward ap-perances ap-perances the legislature seems inclined to go along with the Governor in the general outlines of his post-war proposals. How the lawmakers will respond to some of the detailed recomen-dations recomen-dations remains to be seen. In the first week, major legislation leg-islation introduced embraces such far ranging subjects as the non-partisan election of the judiciary, ju-diciary, increased pay for members mem-bers of the legislature, extensions exten-sions of the provisions of the workmen's compensation and labor la-bor relations acts, and appropriation approp-riation of $225,000 to the Daughters Daugh-ters of the Utah Pioneers for a pioneer memorial building, increasing in-creasing the salaries of the governor gov-ernor and other state elective officials of-ficials as well as increasing the salaries of city mayors, commissioners com-missioners and auditors. The state municipal league authored a bill directed particularly particul-arly at the country newspapers under H. B. 2 by Thomas M. Reese, D., Salt Lake, removing the necessity of including a list of warrants issued in the county auditor's annual published statement. state-ment. The only bill passed was in the senate where they ran through S. B. 1 increasing the pay of legislators to the new con-stitional con-stitional limit of $300 per year. No opposition is anticipated in the house. With five republicans out of a total of twenty-three members of the senate and fifteen republicans republi-cans out of sixty in the house, the minority party might be in a position to swing some legislation legisla-tion if the administration and anti-administration Democrats get into a tangle: Unitah Basin representatives in the state Legislature were reorganized re-organized on the following com- mittees State Senator, Grant Vest was appointed to serve on the following follow-ing committees; Education, Revenue Rev-enue and Taxation and Fish and Game, State Representative John P. Madsen of Duchesne county; Fish and Game, Highways and Aironauties, Irrigation, Judiciary, Judic-iary, Military affairs. |