Show COUNTY the revenue bill which has been occupying the tims time and attention of the state senate for a week past morning noon and night sessions provides for the abolition of the county collector s office or rather the consolidation of tho the offices of collector and treasurer under the latter name dame but no official is to be legislated out of office as by special provision the present officials are allowed to continue in office until the end ot of the terru term for which abich they were elected this will prove a step in the direction of economy as the treas frers even of the best counties in the state have not had enough 0 to do to confine them to any official headquarters the collector has given bond to cover every requirement r for the handling and control of all moneys it is ii his business busine Ss to handle and control them and the only benefit a treasurer has been in the past was to handle the same funds for a brief time for which ile he was also required to give an enormous bond boad and for which he was invariably paid an insignificant calary the territory paid half of the salaries of the collector and the assessor in the past and the state should continue to do so BO and now the county clerks and sheriffs and Attorn attorneys eyb are required under the constitution to perform ser vice s for tha tate jn in criminal bridal I 1 nr e rt business and should also b be paid by the state a portion of their salaries criminal prosecutions are state affairs and it is well to so conceder them otherwise there would be comparatively few criminals criminal punished some counties could not stand the prosecution to a finish of one murder trial it would eat cat up the entire revenue of the county we think this would especially be the case in certain frontier counties where the assessed valuation of property is low the revenues small and the criminal population large in such counties the lawless cengr congregate to escape arrest and if the county were required to prosecute and bear the expenses they would remain comparatively secure |