Show MILLER GOES AFTER FRED PRICES PRICE'S SCALP SCALF Offers Bill to Abolish 0 Office of oi State Statistician and J His Bureau COMBINES WITH ANOTHER S Proposes That Work Be Done js by the Board of Equalization tion and Secretary Senator Albert crt E. E Miller started starLet out r yesterday for tor the tho scalp and ancI pelt of oC Fred w W Price state statistician by lIy 1 offering a a. bill to abolish that office S. S ah and and- 1 combine the work worl with that of or the tato board rd of or equalization Thursday Commissioner Price of or the f hui bureau au of or statistics was reappointed L h by Governor Cutler Cutter and there did not seem eem to be he nn any hitch in the senate until un un- p til UI Senator Mm Miller r orr offered the tho bill which If Ir It becomes a law would de- de J o. o Fred Frei Pride and md wI wipe po out the thee e d department IH which he ho has conducted 55 u Mr Ir h came before the tho committee corn com on appropriations said Senator Sena Sena- tor Miller explaining hl his t eleventh lc hour bill and antI a asked l ecI for tn n appropriation of or This meant f for fOt l. l contingent expenses Tho The committee com corn told him It Il was too much and would oUd have ha to be bo cut lie He told us wi that he ho would rath rather r see us abolish A 4 i the theoffice office than cut his appropriation i I have IHle taken token him at nt hi his word and ancI andt t wilt try to abolish th the tha office T r think t 4 t tho bill will be indorsed by the till whole committee on appropriations t 1 4 I e e. In S- S That this was wu not the t t attempt 11 I to get the scalp calp of or Fred Price was f 1 shown hown recently when an attempt wa was c. c made mado to combine the bureau of or statistics sta sta- ta- ta with t the office ollice o of state auditor Senator Williams 1 chairman lof of the thel l' l r appropriations committee blocked the tho f move and nil all for seemed emed Jo el lovely until the Miller hill hili came in I Mr Price was d d at the action ant and anel when shown a n copy COP of or tie the tieS S. S hill hlll could not understand it ft lie Ire denied de do- nied that he lie told Senator Miller he be would rather roe fee ee the office abolished than to see the appropriation cut hiat hat I told Senator Miller and I S the was this said Mr Ir 1 Price That rather than cut off on the I c contingent expenses Ule they might as aswell t. t well weH abolish the Why h pottage potage alone costs cost 1200 annually clerk hire hireL L costs something rent costs r f stationery costs something in fact the office has been run at a very ery ry low expense and the work has been hami ham- ham i p red b by lack Jack of oC funds fa- fa t cy v T Text tt of nf the hc Hill 1 f T The text of the bill 1111 is as follows 1 f r Section 1 A state tate bureau of statis statistics tics is herel hereby created and established and Eind the said bureau shall shaH bo be under the control of or tho the state tate board of Ion tion rhe The secretary of the state board nion InC of if equalization shall he be officio cx the nie commissioner of said mid 1 1 state slate l te bureau of or off itU Section 2 That Section 4 of or Chapter J 1 55 55 Laws of or Utah 1901 be and the same Is hereby repealed Section S 3 That the secretary of the state tate board of or equalization who h by this act Is made cx ox-officio the commissioner com corn ml missioner o of the state bureau of statistics sta eta shall in iii addition to his salary as ns a member and secretary o of the said Mill state board of or equalization receive an annual compensation of or three hundred hun hUH I dred dollars Section 4 t. That upon the approval al of or this act the term of or office of or the thel I I present commissioner loner o of said state I bureau hureau o of statistics stati be he and the same I 0 Is her hereby b terminated and anti the present commissioner of said state bureau of or statistics f on on 01 and after such approval shall hall not have any legal legat ex existence tence |