| Show lower house kills kill S senate bill no 90 senate bill go 90 originally dratted drafted to require county commissioners to publish monthly reports ot of their proceedings tor for the information of 0 the public but amended in the senate out of 0 all semblance to its original self expired in the house late sunday the victim of a persistent lobby that pursued it over a thorny path throughout the session in the waning hours ot of the twenty second session a tired and peevish house hearkened harkened bark hark ened to the er erho echo ho ot of the county commissioner lobby and struck the tu ducting acting clause li use although amended to require only that the commissioners supply copies ot of the minutes minutes ot of their meetings to papers in their counties without expense to the county tor for publication a majority ot of the house decided the public could consult the records ot of the commissions it if they wanted to know what these bodies were doing with public funds rep victor C pett ot of juab county one ot of the counties alleged to have participated in the drive to kill the measure moved to strike the enacting clause A bare majority sustained him and the measure had the questionable distinction of being the last bill acted upon by the lower body and the last one to be killed it did not die however without a gallant tight fight by rep moses L hot hoi brook of davis county to have it enacted into law mr air holbrook told the house its purpose was to promote better government and to give the public accurate e information as to how the county commissioners were conducting public of at taira to give official information as to how public funds were being ox expended several representatives Int ID informed formed ormed the house that their county commissioners ners were opposed to the bill rep holbrook then disclosed to the house that a number of counties in the state had contributed funds to au an organization that had been active in fighting this bill and there was every reason to believe that a large part of these funds had been used to finance a lobby that had worked unceasingly in the legislative halls to kill this very measure ile he added that it if the bill were law such expenditure of funds would be stopped or at least the public would know how much was being spent and what tor for but the influence of the lobby apparently wa was s too strong and the measure went the way of other measures designed to promote better government and throw the spot light of publicity on the doings of 0 public officials |
