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Show By Uarda McCarty Business as usual and plenty of it has been the rule in both branches of the current Utah state legislature despite failure Governor Herbert B. Maw's governmental gov-ernmental re-organization bill to reach the salons last week as expected. In fact, the legislators kept nose's to the lawmaking grindstone grind-stone by introducing many and sundry bills during the past two weeks. Eighty-nine saw the light of day in the senate. The house was not far behind with 69. Only one measure has passed both upper and lower branches, H. B. 3, permitting Ogden to continue r with one city judge. Many of the introduced bills seek establishment of new commissions. com-missions. Others ask existing : state departments to assume ad ded duties to make departmental changes. Some carry appropriations, appropri-ations, while a few require additional addi-tional tax levies. All in all, the legislators are preceding along familiar lines and in so doing giving little heed to the sweeping department - commission changes and eliminations proposed in Governor Maw's re-organization program. Among the more important measures seeking departmental changes are five bills replacing the present public welfare department de-partment with a 3-member, full-time full-time public welfare commission; abolishing county administrative boards, transferring the division of old age assistance to the new j commission, and giving it jurisdiction juris-diction over state schools, hospl- tals, prison, and helf-help associations, associ-ations, children in custody of the juvenile court, and all other welfare wel-fare activities. The bills follow recommendations made in the Governor's re-organization message. mes-sage. Other measures introduced during dur-ing the first two weeks of th? session would create a state course of study committee to recommend re-commend school textbooks and changes in courses of study; housing hous-ing authorities to undertake slum clearances; state board of forestry for-estry and fire control; state meat inspection service; state board oi pharmacy; state barber board; state apprentice council; zoning commission and board of adjustment, adjust-ment, and a legislative reference bureau. Creation of these bodies maj or may not fit in Governor Maw'f re-organization plans but theii introduction shows that the legislators legis-lators are not awaiting submission submis-sion of the re-organization program pro-gram before airing their individual indivi-dual legislative desires. There wa; every indication, too, that th lawmakers sought to clear th way for speedy consideration oi the chief executive's proposals a; embodied in the measure to be presented early this week. The Miller bill repealing allocations alloca-tions of $800,000 annually tc cities and counties for streets and roads was withdrawn witt the understanding that a substitute substi-tute will be considered after tin re-organization program has beer placed before the legislature. Bill: introduced provide for uniforn traffic laws, abolish primary runoff run-off elections, ask local option or sale of liquors by the drink, adopl wage and hour regulations foi intrastate business; exempt al house furnishings from persona property taxes, provide industria compensation for victims of oc cupational diseases, fix a tax foi noxious weed eradication, set uf life insurance cooperatives anc reserve to the state, minerals ir state lands and in navigable wa ters. Second week activities of Sena tor Stanley N. Child included in traduction of S. B. 38, providing tor the licensing of Doner makers and repair men and the setting up of safety standards for installation instal-lation and operation of boilers. He also co-authored S. B. 74, To. and 76, providing for slum clearances. clear-ances. Senator Ed H. Watson was made chairman of the committee on state and municipal affairs in committee shifts following resignation resign-ation of Senator Gordon Wegge-land. Wegge-land. He introduced five bids. S. B. 31 provides compensation for attorneys appointed by a court to represent defendants. S. B. 32 creates a legislative reference refer-ence bureau. S. B. 40 requires regular city attorneys and engineers engi-neers to serve metropolitan water districts comprised of only o'r municipality. S. B. 4 9 authorizes and appropriates $100,000 fo-:: fo-:: establishment of an experimental coal processing plant. S. B. S9 -'requires school and other districts to bear a proport ior.ate share of jthe cost- of rr.re, -ti:ie taxes. : Senator Cha'les V. Sper.-e in ! i Continued on Page S) UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME (Continued from Page 1) troduced three measures. S. B. 55 provides for payment of state employes' wages semi-monthly. S. B. 57 prohibits . consumption or liquor in or near public dance halls. S. B. 50, co-authored, establishes est-ablishes a-state miners' hospital in connection with the Utah state sanatorium. As chairman of the health and labor committee he' introduced S. B. 33, providing) industrial compensation coverage1 to Utah employed persons injur- j ed by accident arising out of suchj employment in another state, and S. B. 67, providing industrial compensation for victims of occupational oc-cupational diseases. Senator Grant Macfarlane was taken off the committee on public institutions in committee shifts. He introduced S. B. 37, restricting restrict-ing practice of plumbing to licensed licen-sed plumbers throughout the state. The bill was defeated. Senator Mrs. E. E. Ericksen, appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Sen-ator Weggeland, was assigned to membership on the following committees: com-mittees: education, health, and labor, public institutions, social relations and relief, and state and municipal affairs. She intro duced S. B. 56, leasing certain capitol grounds land to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers for a pioneer memorial building. President Wendell Grover co authored eight senate bills. Three relate to slum clearances. Five create a 3-member, full-time public welfare commission to replace re-place the present state welfare department. He also introduced S. B. 73, requiring a $6,000 license fee for stores furnishing, selling or using stamps, coupons or tickets tic-kets in merchandise sales. The following committee assignments as-signments were given Salt Lake county representatives: Grant Midgeley, chairman revision and enrolling, banking, judiciary, municipal mun-icipal and county affairs, public service, and revenue taxation; Quayle Cannon Jr., corporations, insurance and real estate, labor, mining and smelting, judiciary, and reference; John C. Leavy, chairman resolutions and memorials, memor-ials, corporations, education, insurance in-surance and real estate, judiciary, reference, and industrial school and school for deaf and blind; Robert F. Perry, banking, fish and game, public buildings and grounds, public health, public service, and state training school; Thomas Dix, chairman salaries, fees and contingent expenses, banking, labor, mining and smelting, smelt-ing, public welfare, and industrial school and school for deaf and blind; Royal B. Garff, chairman state prison, fish and game, highways high-ways and aeronautics, judiciary public service, public welfare, and salaries, fees and contingent expense; ex-pense; David H. Thomas, education, educa-tion, corporations, manufacturing and commerce, state prison, elections, elec-tions, insurance and real estate and state training school; J. Harry McGean, chairman public service, elections, judiciary, manufacturing man-ufacturing and commerce, municipal muni-cipal and county affairs, and University Uni-versity of Utah and Utah State Agricultural college; J. I. Nichols, chairman municipal and county affairs, labor, military affairs, public service, public welfare, -e-venue and taxation, and insurance insur-ance and real estate: ParTicll Hinckley, chairman public buildings build-ings and grounds, insurance and real estate, public health, edura-' lion, Utah state hospital, and University of Utah and U. S. A. C; Mrs. C. L. Jack, chairman, Ulnh state sanatorium, appropriations, appropri-ations, hanking, labor public health, heal-th, and public welfare: Mrs. V,-j bert Jensen, chairman public welfare, wel-fare, banking, education, clorlions. I revenue and taxation, and Utah state hospital; . George W. Reid chairman judiciary, fish and game, highways and aeronautics public service, and state prison; William Ingleby, chairman insurance insur-ance and real estate, corporations, judiciary, labor, public printing, and public welfare; Thomas M. Rees, chairman reference, appropriations, appro-priations, judiciary, public lands, public welfare, and University of Utah and U. S. A. C.;' C. E. Matthews, chairman banking, education, edu-cation, highways and aeronautic", mining and smelting, revenue and taxation, and state prison; Milton Bodell, chairman industrial school and school for deaf and blind, traffic safety, revenue and taxation, taxa-tion, irrigation, labor, mining anri smelting, and Utah state sanatorium, sana-torium, and N. E. Hainesworth, chairman public health, labor, mining and smelting, revenue and taxation, public service, and state training school. Representative Cannon co-authored H. B. 20 providing for reconstruction re-construction of sub-standard urban ur-ban areas by private redevelopment, redevelop-ment, and H. B. 29, providing for payment of annual license fees by vendors of oleomargarine, cigarettes cig-arettes and cigarette papers. Representative Leary introduced H. B. 47," providing for resident fees at the University of Utnli and Utah State Agricultural College Col-lege for students entering the state for defense program military mili-tary duties. Representative Perry co-sponsored H. B. 63, providing locnl option sale of liquor by the drink. Representative Dix was another co-sponsor of this measure. Representative Garff introduced H. B. 29. also authored bv Mr. Quayle. Representative Thomas joined Mrs. Jensen and Mrs. Jaric in introducing H. B. 6S. providing provid-ing for the education of physically physical-ly handicapped children. kenre-sentative kenre-sentative McGean introduced' II B. 3S, clarifying statutes on elin-i tol mortgages. He also introciuc-; cd II. B. 61. providing for dev. i-j opment of smokeless fuel. |