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Show iWOULD CREATE BOARD of iiiuira Thornley Bill Proposes to Bring Changes in State Commissions. Radical changes In the state's live-stock industry are proposed in a bill Introduced in the upper house yesterday by Senator Sena-tor J. W. Thornley of Davis county. The bill proposes to abolish tho board of sheep commissioners and the live stock board and combine their functions In a newly-crea newly-crea t ed sta t e board of an i mal i nd u si ry. "Bv this combination," said the introducer intro-ducer of tho bill, "the stale will save something like $11.0f0." Two years ago tho sheep commission received an appropriation appro-priation of about 522,000 and the live Mtock hoard an appropriation of abut $29,(11)0. In this bill for the combined board we ask an appropriation of only 510,000. "Moreover," continued the senator, "I believe the bill, with the smaller appropriation, appro-priation, will increase the destruction Of predatory wild animals and will prove more efticlent to both sheep owners and cattlo owners than the distinct boards ever were. I am introducing the bill at the request of both sheepmen and cattlemen." cat-tlemen." The animal industry board would comprise com-prise three citizens of the state engaged in ithc live-stock Industry, each to hold office for four years. The commissioners would receive '$1000 a year each. The commission would have a secretary at a salary of $1500 a year. The sLato livestock live-stock iflsnector would receive ?1S00 a year and would work, with his deputies, under the direction of tho animal industry commission. com-mission. Deputy inspectors would get $f a day and assistants $3 a day. One feature of the hill provides for the abating of predatory animals in the state. Supplementing: this feature, Senator Thornley also introduced yesterday a bill increasing the tax bn sheep and goats from 5 to 8 mills, and the tax on cattle Horn 4 to 6 mills, this tax to be paid into the state fund for the payment of bounties on predatory animals. The senator sena-tor also introduced a bill compelling railroads rail-roads to make reports of the shipment into the state of skins and pelts of wild animals, this being aimed to detect attempts at-tempts to collect bounties in more than one state. There has been much of this in the past, the stockmen nay. The animal industry bill makes detailed provision for the fighting of predatory animals and for the reporting and eradication eradi-cation of disoase among live stock of all kinds. ' The bill went to the live stock committee. |