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Show LAWMAKERS PUB FIR ECDNOMt Governor Blood Sits In With Leaders of Legislature. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 14 Economy is the watchword watch-word at the present session of the state legislature. Friday, the state senate passed an amendment to the appropriation bill, cutting $5,000 from the cost of the legislative session, originally passed pass-ed at $50,000. The amendment proposed pro-posed by Mrs. Burton W. Musser places the appropriation at $45,000. Ntps Outlined Saturday, Governor Henry ' H. Blood met with a group of leaders nf the legislature to work oiit t'iio preliminary plans for studying revision re-vision of the state government, as previously touched upon in his message to the legislature. It was decided at the meeting that the president of the senate and the speaker of the house shall appoint three members from each house to study the problem of reorganization re-organization with a view of eliminating elim-inating unnecessary boards and commissions. I. For the first time in Utah's legislative leg-islative history, a woman has been placed upon the appropriations committee of the lower house. The distinction of pioneering in this line has fallen to Mrs. S. Grover Rich, a member of the house from Salt Lake county. |