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Show i j . " ' h . ; ' ' I j I FIVE-STORY, $160,000 WAREHOUSE, on East 21st South will be competed in early spring. tder ilte By James Conrad Harmony is still the watchword watch-word of Utah's 27th Legislature. With more than two weeks of law making behind them, members of the current session on Capitol Hill have shown definite defi-nite trends toward ignoring party par-ty lines in the interest of the state.' The spirit, too, has reached relations of Gov. Herbert B. Maw with the legislature in respect to the appropriations bill After submitting his budget message on the eleventh day, the chief executive sent word to the joint appropriations committee that he would be willing to regard its requests in preparing his appropriations appro-priations bill. It is reliablj' reorted that his exel ilency even went so far as lo su" ha would accept any legislative le-gislative recommendations that mignt be made in the way of a con'ingent fund. Two. years ago it will be remembered, the appropriations ap-propriations committee spent a great deal of the session debating over policy on the contingent fund. It finally wound up by taking the half million dollar fund away from the governor, placing it under the board of examiners ex-aminers as a supplemental fund and submitting the appropriations appropria-tions bill on the final day of the session. Should the committee avoid a fight on policy this year, it may be able to introduce the bill as early as the 45th day. as provided in the joint rules, according to many observors. Legislators' Problem, Not Governor's In spite of the Governor's budget bud-get message, in which he outlined outlin-ed departmental expenditures which were $7,000,000 under departmental de-partmental requests, he made it clear that there are many proposals pro-posals that he supports. He explained ex-plained this stAnd by saying that if 15. William -R. Wallace, president pres-ident of the water users, was looking for a sponsor for his measure to make the water users board of direptors an adviser to the state engineer on intrastate water matters. As the compromise measure came out, it concentrates all water wa-ter and power development on interstate and intrastate waters in Utah under a board of 15 members, of which the state engineer en-gineer would be executive officer. offi-cer. The remaining 14 would include in-clude two from each of seven water districts, to be appointed by the governor with confirmation confirma-tion of the senate. Appointments would be made from a list submitted sub-mitted by the Utah Water Users' association, which would hold a connection to the at'tairs f the board in an advisory capacity. This measure, which was introduced in-troduced by Sens. Melich. J. Wel-ton Wel-ton Ward (D-Box Elde-- David Jones fR-Utah) and H. Grant Vest (D-Uintah), has the blessing bless-ing of proponents of the conflicting con-flicting original measures and was prepared by a joint comm't-tee comm't-tee of house and senate members.. mem-bers.. Bill-rntroducing Record Continues Meanwhile, both house and senate continued their first-week first-week record for introduction of b-'Ps. Senate measures totaled 128 bills. 13 joint resolutions and one concurrent memorial. In addition ot the important water bill and the publicity department de-partment measures, other important im-portant pieces of. upper house legislation included numerous tax bills, two welfare measures and a sale by the drink proposal. Major tax bill was that proposed pro-posed by the Utah State Tax Study Committee which would equalize all assessments in the state on real property at 50 per cent of market value. This measure is part of the tax program pro-gram being prepared to finance the state school program to be affected under the recently approved ap-proved constituional amendments amend-ments providing for a minimum per school unit program of $3000. Another tax measure would finance a basic budget plan for institutions of higher learning to be financed from the uniform schol fund. Schools would receive re-ceive funds on a basis of $100 for each lower division student; $175 for each upper division student stu-dent and $200 for each graduate student. In addition, funds for maintenance and operation would be distributed on a per square foot basis. Still other tax measures propose pro-pose to eliminate sales tax tokens, tok-ens, to drop school lunch taxes derived from liquor tax profits into the general fund and to return all motor vehicle registration regis-tration fees to the road commission. com-mission. Welfare Rills Disonssed On welfare, a bill by Sens. Ward C. Holbrookj (D-Davis) and Rue L. Clegg (R-Ralt Lake) would place a maximum on all grants and require liens on recipients' re-cipients' property other than their home and lot, while a sec ond measure, by Sens. Sol J. Selvin (D-Tooele) would place a maximum on all grants and require re-quire Hens on recipients' property prop-erty other than their home and lot, while a second measure, by Sen. Sol J. Selvin (D-Tooele) would place all welfare grants strictly on a basis of need. Tt would require recipients to get rid of all property other than their homes and lots the home-are home-are on and would provide fot liens of homes of recipients where welfare payments ;.,-e used in part to pay mortgages. Only bill to receive appnwal of both houses during the f'rst two weeks, except for one or two resolutions, was HB-2 by Rep. Maurice Anderson (D-Utah) (D-Utah) which would permit the Utah Vocational School to use its dedicated credits to pay operational op-erational costs until June ,'i0. 1947. Major House Rills Outlined Other house hills were intro-(Continiied intro-(Continiied on Page Eight) "It is the prerogative oi the legislature le-gislature not mine" to determine if and where the state is to expend ex-pend is services. He specifically referred l3 the University of Utah Which he said should be expanded into a graduate school. Whether or not this should he done, :ie said, is a job for the legislature lo determine, de-termine, "not me." On other measures there appeared ap-peared to he perfect harmony between be-tween the chief executive and his bipartisan legislature. Ho expressed support for the bill to clarify the filling of vacancies, which is top political issue in Salt Lake County. On the other hand, he has outspokenly oppos-eilminate oppos-eilminate the State Department would remove the engineering commission from under the bud' getary control of the finance i commission. Publicity Commission Under Fire The governor was also bitterly bitter-ly opposed to a pair of bills introduced in-troduced in the senate by the Tax'Study committee that would eliminate the State Department of Publicity and Industrial Development. De-velopment. One would do away with department funds and the other would transfer its duties to a publicity director under the governor. The latter bill, inci-dentlv inci-dentlv js being held up by some legislators who are of the opinion opin-ion that an unpaid advisory should be named to guide the publicity dircetor. Governor Maw, however, is confident the hill will never reach him, maintaining they will die in one of the houses. If they do reach him. however, he has promised a quick veto. These are some of the most outstanding examples of differences differ-ences and tend to the belief that only in isolated instances will the governor and legislature legisla-ture clash either on political or public philosophies. Compromise State. AVater Board Bill Probably the most outstanding outstand-ing example of harmonious action ac-tion around the legislative halls has been the creation of a state Water Board bill. Here was an issue in which two sides had been lined up for a terrific battle over the so-called so-called "Melich" and "Wallace" bills. Sen. Mitchell Melich (R-Grand (R-Grand has prepared a measure leaving the Utah Water Users' association out in the cold and divorcing water development from the state engineer's depart-' depart-' ment and giving it to a board Dome - - (Continued from Page One) duced by title only having been introduced previously in the senate. Major house bills, however, how-ever, would provide for establishment estab-lishment of a state boxing and wrestling commission; would grant cities the power to build and construct, and charge for such operations, sewers and sanitation san-itation systems; would create a state education fund to improve, higher education through a five-cent five-cent tax per ton on the state's resources and would provide for distribution to cities and counties coun-ties of a portion of the state's liquor profits. |