Show AT THE STATE stafe CAPITOL WHAT OUR legislators are DOING liquids liquid s rev represented resented by liquor and water held heid the center of the lawmaking stage during the sixth week of the twenty first utah legislature the first beverages of hard and I 1 semi hard varieties held the spot flight liblit in the house of representatives ifor for practically the entire th session of last week net result was passage by a substantial majority 41 to 19 of the state stores liquor bill with all semblance ot of private sales banished the second aqua pura was in the forefront but a brief half hour this was long enough however to pass the long talked of metropolitan water bill and thereby enable governor henry if H bood to advise the federal reclamation bureau of the favorable action in time to save millions in governmental appropriations for the proposed deer creek project the measure empowers cities to participate in water corporation and irrigation projects a com companion bill to two others still pending most important of senate activities luring during the week was passage of a hill bill to bermit the carrying out of governor bloods bond refunding plan under which the legislature e can raise alse in state re revenues denues during the biennium without it vying levying any additional taxes the chief executive suggested that the bond ir issue ane f in 1933 he refunded so I 1 that the initial payment be not duel due jintil antil 1940 such action would release of a million dollars earmarked for bond redemption and interest payments to the general fund of major import in speed speeding inz up legislation egl was the appointment ini in ouse and senate of so called silting senator eldred M I 1 royle roie of utah prunty heads beads the up 4 cpr npr ji douse house committee of seven and mrs reva beck bos boone one house democratic I 1 floor leader the lower cranch committee ot twelve these committees will fix daily calendars and nd be responsible in large measure for further legislation A concerted statewide movement tn ti confine taxation to general tax measures insures with tile the junki ic of ninny special stecial tax measures gained decided momentum on Cail capitol itol hill as representatives 1 re of industry and business but iness bi and little demanded abolitz abo abolition liti n of tax tat measures favoring special groups at the cost ol 01 0 others income corporation franchise sales and gasoline taxes s were classed as general dozens of 0 measures introduced touching P poetically every subject matter capable of legislative action will ill probably never see the light of day dav again as far as final voting is concerned they will die in the sift ing committees comm included will be many tax bills and resolutions proposing state constitution changes four senate bills one house bill and one senate joint resolution were passed in the imper oner house last week athey they were 8 proposing propos inc an amendment to the state constitution 1 d legating delegating the requirement that i cities of the first and second class ibave have seo sen arate school districts SD authorizing the tha issuance of refunding z bonds whenever better rates or mere convenient times of payment are of feied er ailing ii ling the tr ante tr to carry oll govenor bloods refunding plan S B 17 reducing the legal rate of int interest r st on loans from 8 to 6 per pel cent lie HB B permit permitting tinz financial fi nacia institutions under supervision of ol 01 state banking and insurance departments to make loans and advance credit in accordance accor with the federal housing act 5 revising the state statutes relating to political conventions and primaries and 6 forbidding any public officer of state or federal government or e cm aloye qualifying tor for elective public effice until his position has been re linquish ed and forbidding public officers or employed emp loyes serving as delegates to political conventions the lower house passed tarse tl re bills as follows HB 63 f fixing the number of cars hauled in a freight train in utah at 70 and 14 for passenger trains HB 41 the state stores liquor control bill as drafted by the governors committee of 49 with amend ments including banishment of at all private sales even in hotels rants and clubs and 11 B the metropolitan water vater district measure ine asur senator W 17 hamn on 0 moab doted yes on oil all mca guies passed I by bv the senate last week excepting 1 SE 6 he voted no on this bill 1 representative evin nf ft cleveland voted yes on till all bills i macd ed ir in ibe hone dumcy the ast I 1 I 1 week birten aa A 1 I 1 I of d nolo no ell anthe the train frain kongth lana bill HB A 03 3 no en tho the state stores I 1 continued on last pagel v IKI 7 FAT AT THE STATE CAPITOL C A P ITO L continued from page 1 i liquor measure and yes on HB representative Emil Gammeter voted no on the train length bill dano no on the state stores liquor bill and yes on HB 1 senator hammond cintr t two bills billas baay state c ate sch fiort ora ianis of volpe 70 per Fc liali I 1 I 1 child ot of aza vh iliin ni S astr its ts py I 1 f tax ot of 10 mills SR 20 0 places ea t li assessments of mines in the hands ol of the state tax commission a and nd re quires assessments at full cash valenti mr conw tanes introduced 2 21 1171 by ye request quest it if requests all a ji gover goveia mental age agencies n cies to cooperate on a measure comparable to HB i blanket tax reform act i mr gammeter introduced what ts known as a gross sales tax bill it impo imposes s es a franchise tax on corpora eions according to the volume of bu business sl lone done in the state |