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13 Utah B. Bull. 1 (1943)

handle is hein.barjournals/utbabult0013 and id is 1 raw text is: The Utah Bar - BULLETIN Official Organ, The Utah State Bar When the whole democratic system is threatened with extinction because of its alleged inefficiency, the lawyer can engage in no more useful work in defen6e of democracy than to cooperate with his fellows in an earnest effort to eliminate waste, lost motion, and monkey wrenches, from the judicial machinery established by the people and for the people. -FRANcis E. WINSLOW. VOL. XIII JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1943 Nos. 1 & 2 Accomplishments of the Twenty-five Legislature in Improving the Administration of Justice in Utah L. M. CUMMINGS AND D. RAY OWEN, JR. The Twenty-fifth Legislature of the State of Utah which adjourned Sunday, March 14, 1943, enacted so many meas- ures which are of special interest to the practicing attorney that it is considered profitable to review them in this article for the benefit of the members of the profession in this state. Many of these enactments were sponsored directly by the Utah State Bar. Others, although having the support of the organization, were directly sponsored by individual senators or representatives who were in many cases members of the Bar. Those interested in judicial reform will commend the work of this session of the legislature, although representatives of spe- cial interests who were unable to secure the passage of their pet measures found occasion to criticize it as a do nothing legislature. Others charged that the legis- lature was so far controlled by lawyers and by the State Bar that it was unable to find time to favorably consider their proposed bills. Much of this censure is unwarranted. The accomplishments of the legislature were many and its enactments were, with few exceptions, carefully considered, sub- tantial and lasting. Among other things, the legislature resumed its proper constitutional function by appropriating out of the general fund directly to the various state departments and institutions. It reestablished a prop- er check upon the chief executive by re- quiring for the expenditure of funds so appropriated, the approval of the State Board of Examiners. It enacted law preventing the unauthorized shifting of funds by the chief executive from one account or department to another. It did everything within its power to return the administration of public welfare and relief to the sound basis of assistance in proportion to need, by eliminating the fixed pension theory from relief adminis- tration. It appropriated sufficient money from the Liquor Control Fund to liquidate the bonded indebtedness of the State. It

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