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Show The ballot will be split up into sections, one for national offices, offi-ces, one for state offices, etc. Democrats and Republicans will not be listed in separate columns, col-umns, but will be listed alphabetically alpha-betically with each other under the resective offices. No party emblems would appear ap-pear on the ballots and it would be impossible to vote a straight ticket. Candidates would be voted vot-ed for by placing an X in a square to the left of their names and the party of each candidate would be indicated to the right of his name. Governor's Emergency Powers Repealed Two Senate bills, G and 7, by Sens. Ward C. Hulbrook (D-Da-vis) and Rue L. Clegg (R-Salt Lake) . were signed by the governor. gov-ernor. These new laws repeal the governors emergency powers which permitted him to order state departments to reduce their operating budgets should state income drop and which permitted him to use any state revenues for public relief. Top House measures to receive re-ceive approval during the week were HB-71 to appropriate motor mo-tor vehicle registration funds to the road commission; HB130 by Rep. E. K. Olson (D-Carbon) . to grant World War 2 veterans special income tax exemptions; SB-35 to permit second, third class .cities and towns and li- j braries to establish retirement systems: HB-02 and HB-G5 to make Sl.OOO.OOO in liquor profits available to counties, cities and towns and to create a city and county liquor control fund; HB-3o. HB-3o. the perennial fertilizer which was compromised to gain approval, ap-proval, and HB-5 which would permit Utah cities, other than Salt Lake, to levy a special tax in 1917 and 194S to establish public building reserves, j Activity in the Senate include consideration of new apppoint-ments apppoint-ments by the governor, passage of SB-21 by Sens Ward C. Hol-brook Hol-brook (D-Davis) and Claud Hirischi (R-Washington) which would increase terms of juvenile judges and require guardians of children taken into court to pay costs of child care and SJR 6 bv Sens. Sol. J. Selvin (D-Tooele) (D-Tooele) and Mitcoell Melich (U-Grand ) which proposes a constitutional amendment to empower the legislature to regulate reg-ulate salaries of its own members mem-bers by removing the present $000 biennial stipend. House Kills Lobby Bill The House during the week was not too adverse to killing measures. The bill to control lobbyists and their activity, HB-60 HB-60 by Rep. Frank Bonacci (D-Carbon) (D-Carbon) , was defeated by the Republican majority which adopted an unfavorable commit tee report after Mr. Bonacci had concluded an eloquent but vain ! plea for support of the bill with the remnrk: "Well, I've had my I say. Go ahead and kill the bill." SB-66 by Sens. Hirschi; H. 'Grant Vest (D-Uintah); Melich; i Elias L. Day (R-Salt Lake) and j Grant Midgley (D-Salt Lake) which would have permitted Ltah Banks to close their doors on Sat-days, Sat-days, was defeated by the so-called "cow county" representatives after passing with only a bare major-: major-: .ty in the upper house. Major political skirmishes of the week occurred when Republicans took the controversial labor bill from committee and placed it on the third reading calendar with-; with-; out report because the cominit-I cominit-I tee had held the measure more than 10 days, and when HB-71 by i highways and aeronautics committee commit-tee cu.ue up for discussion. Rep. Clifton G. M. Kerr (R- Box Elder j, House majority leader, and sponsor of Hb'loG to define labor practices on the part of employes and to outlaw secondary boycotts, moved that the bill be placed on the calendar and, acting under House rules, Speaker Rendell N. Maybe (R-Salt Lake) so ordered. However,, between Mr. Kerr's motion and the final placing of the bill on the calendar, Reps. (Mrs.) C. L. Jack (D-Salt Lake) and Bonacci, Bon-acci, minority members of the labor la-bor committee, fought in vain to have their "unfavorable" minority report attached to' the bill. How ever, the Republicans argued that the stand of every lawmaker would become apparent when the measure mea-sure came up for consideration on the floor. GOP House Majority Split HB-71 which would have appropriated appro-priated all motor vehicles registration registra-tion funds to the B and C road fund of the state road commission and which would have stripped the publicity department of its revenue source, split the GOP House majority ma-jority wide open. Members, headed by Rep. Daniel S. Frost (R-Kane), objected strenuously stren-uously to the measure. He not only wassupported by other GOP members, mem-bers, but also by the Democrats. It became apparent that the bill 1 would never pass unless a compromise com-promise was reached. As a result it was made a special order and the compromise was worked out by Rep. Mark Paxton (R-Millard). Under the compromise, the publicity pub-licity department would receive $300,000 annually from motor vehicle ve-hicle registration funds. The bill passed on final vote with 35 yes, 24 no, 1 absent. Upshot of the decision found the Senate with a bare quorum of 12 members (these were times when as few as 13 were seated in the chamber) Thursday, Feb. 6, while its public institutions, committee visited the Utah State Agricultural College at Logan. Appointments Voted On As if to make up for the listless Thursday, the Senate went into (Continued on Page 5) By .lames Conrad Members of the 27th Utah Legislature really got into the swing of things during their I fourth week of sessions when they approved adoption of a new style "headless ballot," voted to repeal gubernatorial depression emergency powers and appropriated appro-priated $801,500 to finance Utah's Centennial. If approved by the governor, Utah's new "headless ballot" will for the first itime in history permit voters to cast their vote for the president and vice president. presi-dent. No electors will be listed. Dome - - (Continued from Page 4) ?xecutive session the following lay and not only rejected the in-:erim in-:erim appointment of Wendell Grover to the State Public Welfare Wel-fare Commission, but approved a revision of the second reading calendar cal-endar to throw several important measures dealing with state government gov-ernment up front for early consideration consid-eration this week. They left two anti-racial discrimination measures at the head of second reading, largely because they result from interim committee action, and listed list-ed under them bills concerning control con-trol of public welfare funds; repealing re-pealing the property tax through which counties provide 15 per cent of the welfare fund; eliminating the Publicity and Industrial Development De-velopment Department in its present pres-ent form ; providing a basic budget for institutions of higher learning learn-ing and setting up the State Water Board. Soon after announcing its rejection re-jection of Mr. Grover, the Senate received a communication from Gov. Herbert B. Maw appointing Heber Bennion Jr., Manila wool grower and member of the State Tax Commission, to the State Finance Fin-ance Commission in place of Gordon Gor-don Taylor Hyde, chairman. Mr. Hyde was not expected to be reappointed, re-appointed, but the presentation of Mr. Bennion's namecame as a surprise. sur-prise. It proved popular on first impression and observers began speculating that Arthur McFar-lane McFar-lane would be appointed to the tax commission. Mr. Grover's interim appointment appoint-ment runs out on March 1, and Senate action in his case indicates that another new name will appear ap-pear for appointment to the six-year six-year term beginning on that date. Senate action during the fourth week continued to concern minor measures as a rtfle, although it set up some important matters for final consideration this week. Among them are fish and game bills, one of which would raise the residence- hunting and fishing licenses li-censes fees. Hunting licenses for residents would be upper from $4 to $5, fishing for men and women will go to $3 from $2 and for men and $1 for women, and non-resident fishing fees would be boosted to $5, the same license fee to be charged for all hunting save deer, in which case the fee would be $30. |