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Show UNDER THE CAPITOL From a post-session vantage -point, it appears the 29th Utah Legislature is in somewhat of a 6-month recess. Actually it adjourned sine die at the end of its 60th day last Thursday all even with Gov. J. Bracken Lee on tax issues but it has a promise that it will . be called on to resolve the , school tax problem before the ; year is out. I Within 24 hours after adjournment, ad-journment, Governor Lee said he is planning to get a study of i the uniform school fund completed com-pleted and to call a special session ses-sion "in the fall" to set up a "proper" classroom unit figure. He was about as upset over the appropriations bill, but insisted in-sisted he could fit the budget to revenues by vetoing several items in a supplemental bill forced out of the Legislature. In the closing days of the regular reg-ular session, the lawmakers put through a new school bill to fix a classroom unit figure of $3500 against the present $3300. This got the same veto treatment as the $3600 bill passed previously, and the governor's action was sustained in the House. First, however, it was overridden in the Senate on a vote of 16 to 7, exactly the two-thirds majority required. As a result of the action in the House, the goernor got his way on the school tax issue after af-ter being ignored in his request for reduction of income and sales tax. In both veto messages on school bills, the chief executive stressed the need of a study to determine just what the classroom class-room unit figure should be. He wanted it left as at present, a study made and a special session ses-sion to determine the final amount. "Even if it should go to $4000," he remarked, "we at least could be sure the amount is based on fact." Particularly was the governor govern-or bitter about what he called the "pressure school lobby." In his closing statement to the Legislature upon its adjournment ad-journment he said: "It is to be hoped that in future years those individuals and groups who are interested- in legislation which is of concern primarily to them selves, will recognize the hanai-I hanai-I caps and, after presenting theinr problems, will permit the members mem-bers of the Legislature to deliberate, delib-erate, debate and decide these problems without undue pressure pres-sure or strain." Study of the uniform school fund and the minimum classroom class-room unit will be the responsibility responsi-bility of the Utah Legislative Council. This organization will not be set up for a few days yet, with Speaker of the House Clifton G. M. Kerr (R-Tremon-ton) and Senate Pres. J. Francis Fowles (D-Ogden) yet to name the five representatives and five senators to serve. In addition, each of the House leaders will specify a member at large and the governor will name his representative. rep-resentative. Governor Lee will urge that the council study possibility of placing the state's responsibility to the State Teacher Retire- |