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Show memorials urging Congress to extend the present Commodity Credit Corporation purchase program to cover the entire 1947 wool clip and to tell the town of Dragerton house by house rather than as an entire town. Senate action also included the passage of a bill providing for "headless ballot," despite heavy opposition from Sen. Dexter Dex-ter Farr (D-YV'eber), and bills to allow banks to remain closed on Saturdays, measures strongly opposed by Sen. J. Francis Fow-les Fow-les (DWeber). In addition, the upper house passed and sent to the lower house measures to extend ex-tend the retirement system for municipal employes to second and third class cities and towns, and a bill permitting the state fish and game department to acquire ac-quire additional game bird refuge ref-uge lands in Box Elder county. A resolution proposing a constitutional con-stitutional amendment allowing the legislature to set salaries of legislators failed to get a necessary nec-essary two-thirds majority and Sen. Val H. Cowles' (D-Carbon) bilJ to require registration agents to canvass voters was willed, 4-15. Labor Bills to Be Discussed Public hearings scheduled this week might well decide the course of some bills, particularly particular-ly labor measures introduced in the Senate and House. Labor leaders and their friends, including in-cluding Gov. Herbert B. Maw, continue to insist that there is no logic in attempting to curb labor in view of the labor-ini-dustry peace Utah has known. Sens. Wat-wick C. Lamoreaux (D-Salt Lake), H. Grant Vest (D-Uintah) and Rue L. Clegg (R-Salt Lake) and supporters of their bills insist, however, that now is the time to take steps against jurisdictional strikes, secondary boycotts and other practices they would outlaw with their bills. Senator Clegg followed up last week by introducing intro-ducing a resolution proposing a constitutional amendTnent to outlaw the closed shop. By James Conrad Last week both houses have moved rather slowly and cau-' cau-' tiously. with some senators expressing ex-pressing concern over the slow pace adopted in the upper house. It was ' Pointed out during debate de-bate over whether or not to make the Ogden junket, that 173 measures, including 149 bills and 24 memorials and resolutions, had been introduced in the first three weeks, one-third of the session, and that only 17 measures meas-ures had received action on the floor. Between 40 and 50 bills were on the second reading list. .'801,500 to Centennial Commission Legislation to pass both houses during the third week was headed head-ed by a bill by Senate Pres. Al-onzo Al-onzo F. Hopkins (D-Rich) to appropriate $861,500 to the Utah Centennial Commission. Only dissenting vote in the Senate was cast by Sen. Mitchell Melich (R-Grand) who was turned down in an attempt to amend the bill so that the return on a $500,000 revolving fund, included includ-ed in the appropriation, would go to a state water board fund. Dissenting votes cast in the House came from Reps. Keith Browne (R-Salt Lake), Merril K. Davis (R-Salt Lake) and S. Wayne Clark (R-Tooele). Of considerable interest was the House vote on two senate bills to repeal the governor's emergency powers in regard to state finances and the emergency emergen-cy relief fund. The 21 Democrats Demo-crats demonstrated their power as a minority group by voting as a unit against one of the measures, consequently eliminating elimi-nating an emergency clause to make the act effective upon approval, ap-proval, which requires a two-thirds two-thirds majority, indicating that the House may not override the governor's veto should he so act on the bills. "Boden Bill" Passed Also passed by the two houses during the week was the "Boden Bill" to clarify filling of vacancies vacan-cies on county commission and Also introduced last week was a measure by Senator Lamoreaux Lamor-eaux and Sen. Lorenzo E. El-ggren El-ggren (D-Salt Lake) to legalize pari-mutuel betting at horse race meets, but limiting the meets to five days, except for a 10-day meet at the State Fair. Senator Melich offered a measure meas-ure to move Davis County from Judicial District No. 2 to No. 3 and Sanpete County from No. 7 to No. 6 and cut one judge each from District 2, 3 and 7 while Senator Clegg and Sen. Orrice C. McShane (R-Beaver) introduced intro-duced at Senate resolution asking ask-ing appointment of a four-man committee to investigate the state liquor commission. A four-year school at AVeber college and $1,125,00 for a new site and buildings for the '.college '.col-lege are sought in measures introduced in-troduced by Sens. Farr, Fowles, Holbrook and Ward. 3 Anointments Considered On the matter of appointments. appoint-ments. L. B. Johnson of Rich county and Harden Broadbent of Heber City, now a livestock specialist at the Utah State Ag-gricultural Ag-gricultural college, held the lead for the vacancy in the State Agricultural Commission, occasioned oc-casioned by resignation of Don E. Kenney, and Arthur McFar-lane McFar-lane was prominently mentioned mention-ed as a "replacement for Gordon Taylor Hyde on the State Finance Fi-nance Corrimission. Also likely to be replaced is Justin E. Hurst, chairman of the State Liquor Commission, who has asked the governor that he not be re-appointed. In the House, major legislative legisla-tive activity was lacking during the week. Action on bills was of minor nature inasmuch as highly controversial measures such as the Clegg labor bill remained in . committee. , The first legislative measure to be signed into law by Governor . Maw during the session was HB-2 by Rep. Maurice Anderson (D-Utah) will permit the Central Cen-tral Utah Vocational School to use its dedicated credits for operating op-erating expenses. |