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Show WANTS TO ABOLISH OFFICE. Miller Would Save SI 8,000 by Cutting Cut-ting Out District Attorneys. Seven District Attorneys will bo seeking seek-ing now positions at the end of. their present terms of Representative Miller of Emery county succeeds In putting through a bill ho Is now preparing. It will be introduced In the Houso In tho next fow days. "My bill." said Mr. Miller lost evening, "will Envo the Stato $1S.C00 nnd will give us better prosecution than wo get now, 1 ts chief recommendation la Its economy. Tho Stato not only should, but must, reduce re-duce Its expenditures. My plan Is to have all felony cases prosecuted by tho Attorney-General. Ho already has one assistant, as-sistant, and I would allow him two more. These, with tho assistance received from iho County Attorneys, .should bo sufficient suffi-cient to handle nil the criminal business of tho State. Tho office of District Attorney At-torney wan created by the Democrats at a time when thoy wanted more Jobs, it Is an unnecessary office, and costs tho State a lot of money." There aro seven Judicial districts In the State, and oach of them has a District Dis-trict Attorney. In the Third district, which IncludsB Salt Lake county, tho salary sal-ary 1b JSC00 por year. In tho Second, or Ogdcn, district It Is $2000. Tho other five got SluOO per year. |