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Show Hill TAKEN UP AT UEETIIIG Legislative Committee Considers Con-siders Plan Worked Out by Special Advisers , for Government of State PLANS which . Lave been worked out by the advisory committee which Governor Charles K. Mabey selected after -Itltf-W MHt 4tT"4 heiefTrp?lrf tttlt tow-" of the itate government will be reported re-ported this afternoon ta a legislative; committee ronsisttng of President T homas K. McKay of the senate, Speaker K. R. Ca Ulster of the houe. Senators Harrison 1-2. Jenkins, George Iern and John Peters and Jtepre-sentatrves Jtepre-sentatrves W. W. Heegmlller. O. K. McHhane. Royal Douglas. Luther M. Howell. W. A. Knight. A, R. Me In tyre, and Wilford Day. The. meeting will be held In the board room In th capitol. - Tha nmmlttea which prepared tha, plan, and which was chosen by Governor Gov-ernor Mabey soon after his election as his advisory board, comprises JinicO T. Hammond. Hamilton Gardner. Gard-ner. K. K. Steffenson. Dr. Oeorge Thomas, Senator Harrison E. Jenkina, Frank Kvnns, Mark Tuttle. K. K. Calllster. Harold Fabian and Albert Judd. This committee was asked td prepare a plan to simplify the administration ad-ministration of the state government In order to effect efficiency and economy. . HAS WORKED HARD. ". The committee has devoted a great amount of time to the preparation of the plan, and In so doing has called in many prominent men to aid. Tha cabinet plan has been considered, with a number of others, and tha reorganisation re-organisation as the committee ha! planned for submission to the leg Is lative committee has cut the forty two commissions and boards down ta ten departments, aa printed In The Telegram yesterday. Accompanying tha report will ba twenty-six bills, which will cover all the legislation It Is believed necessary to carry out tha plan proposed. While no Information officially could be obtained as to tha proposal! changes. It Is understood that soma of the commissions that now number five members are reduced to three, and in soma Instances to one, while the consolidation of other boards will materially reduce the number of officials. One of the hoards which has been cut. It Is said. Is the state land board, and this has lan reduced from fiva members to one; the state board of equaliEaTtonTrom four to three; tha Mate superintendent's force. In tha matter of vocational education alone Is cut from severs) directors to one. Changes In the matter of tha governing govern-ing of the state university and of a agricultural college are planned for which the committee believes will work to the betterment of the two institutions. FOR CONSOLIDATION. There will be coordination upon tha part of the health department with other departments which cover a similar sim-ilar field and a consolidation of thts department with several others which It Is said will makeXoxraorceWL-"ctency makeXoxraorceWL-"ctency anoT economy, j The crop pests commission will als i he abolished. It la said, and the work which is now handled by this branch of government will be turned over to tha several cooatfea, where the boards of commissioners and county a gems will handle the matters now covered by tha commission. The food and dairy departments and the- state livestock commission. It Is said, will be consolidated and tha work now done by several inspectors will be handled by a fewer numler, aa one set can. it Is said, do the work new covered by the two. The state fair association will, it Is understood, be consolidated with the two boards and the secretary of the fair association. associa-tion. It is understood, will be commissioner commis-sioner of agriculture, a department thnt is one of the ten. While it Is stated thnt the work of tha committee has been carefully planned it la expected that at tha meeting this afternoon when the two committees get together there will be changes made In the plan, hut it is intimated that these changes will ba . f'-w. ft Is expected that the bills which , have been prepared for the reorgan- f Co ntl n ued ' on pageJM REORGANIZATION (Continued from page 1.) ia-ition wt'l be ready to be introduced In ihp two houee on .Mrnl;ty. It ia underatooil at the capitvl today i that the stnte banking and etute chem- int departmenta will remain aa at present: pres-ent: that the state industrial com mi s- eion will In all probability he cut o lone member: that the aecretury of the I state securities, commlaaion will abolished and that the work of thia commission will be turned over to the eTctary of state |