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Show BUDGET SYSTEM IS GIVEN HEARING House bill No. 35, by Representative D. D. McKav of Weber, providing a budget system of expenditures of state money, was under consideration yesterday at the regular meeting of the Joint senate and house committee on appropriations'. The bill will be given further consideration at the regular meeting of the committee at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Francis V. Fitz Gerald, secretary to Governor Gov-ernor Simon Bamberger, appeared before the committee and submitted data which the governor's office gathered on the budget system proposition. He explained to tile committee that the system has been adopted In a dozen or more states and that It was heartily indorsed at the recent meeting of the governors' conference confer-ence held in Washington. D. C. The proposed Utah measure Is drawn after the Maryland law and makes the governor the budget commissioner. Heads of all departments are required (o furnish estimates of needs and the auditor is required re-quired to furnish revenue data upon which the governor shall frame his budget bill. The legislature may reduce or eliminate any item in the budget bill, but may not increase the amount of any Item. One of the main objects of the budget system Is to conserve the state's finances and another is to eliminate lobbying for departmental appropriations. |