Show H STATE MONEY BILL BILLi i r IS V VARICOLORED COLORED 1 I Royal Purple Tints Mingled I With Gory Red in Appropriation Appropriation Appropriation Measure ENGROSSING CLERK ERRS I Item of Slips in and Is r I. I Eliminated by Unusual Process For the thc third time the general appropriation appropriation ap ap- ap- ap bill was returned from from the house to the senate before It was waN read ready for Cor the final Unal signatures s Th TJi ThA I last Jast time It wa va was returned It was checked from Crom title to finish by mem-I mem mem r bers of or the joint committee and the result was that an appropriation of for tor or the salary lIar of oC the state 7 1 statistician was ruled out Clerical errors on the part of oC one W of or the en engrossing cl clerks was the I reason rea rei- ar a- a r rr son given for or the Insertion of oC the Item Hem Q but an Inspection of or the original bill hili f. f showed that If IC ever an error errol Is 4 ex excusable ex- ex X- X s cu ble that one was The practice f of oC the clerk celk of the thc senate In recording i amendments to the printed bills has n.- n. lf been en to make the additions and Interlineations Inter Inter- 1 as well as the erasures In red Th The clerk of the house ha has used f purple for foi the same mc purpose In the I t cast of oC the appropriation bill hili many manyi i o of the pa pages es rival rl th the coat worn b by byr bythe I r i the thc Joseph u of Old Oid Testament fame ame ri t in that amendments to am amendments i have havo been heen made mado repeatedly b by the joint committees from the house and Jt senate Sel In man many items Hems it has been I for fOl the necessary secretaries to paste slips over some o of the Items that have bo been n under contention and in still other othor Instances after acter Items have ha been ruled out or amended b by one bod body of the le legislature they have been underlined under uner- ned lined In red or purple Indicating that the house or 01 senate has refused to a agree ree with tho the views of the other branch All the Orne Irne that tho the bill doing Icing awa away with the office of state statistician statistician clan cian cian- cian was under discussion slon the tho matter of salary for foa the he office In the appropriations appropriations bill stood In the balance The first thing that happened to the Item was to kill It Jt entirely h by a red line drawn through h b by the senate cl clerk rk Then the house put it back hac I. I by ly drawIng drawIng draw draw- Ing some me purple lines JInes under the tho red ones Next the thc amount of the salar salary salary sal sal- ar ary was changed and that meant some red lines line through the purple underlines underlines under under- lines Jines an and some more moro carmine handwriting handwriting handwriting hand hand- writing between spaces and on the thc margin There were some more purple purple pur pur- pie lines and at last the colored vari-colored paragraph was er co covered l with n n. slip of white paper which was finally marked out rilO 1 llo Item item went In III Well the ell the answer was that some some- 1 time between midnight ht anti and the hour Ati jf of dawn lawn yesterday y morning an engrossing engrossing en en- gro grossing ln clerk guessed that some of tho the purple underlines meant that the Item Hem of for salary of state statistician should remain in the bill and It went In Committees checked the tho document and decided that It should como come out Some o of the members said raid the difference We Ve will have haye no state statistician and the state tate will find an extra In the contingent fund two years hence Another expressed the opinion that Ina Inasmuch much as the governor had not yet signed the thc bill abolishing the office of state tate statistician there was a u. possibility that If the le legislature I lature wanted to do awa away with the office It could be he made certain by eliminating the para para- graub F Ho How Itow to do It was wa the next question Some were In favor of erasing the Item from tho the page and others held that such action would be Irregular if not Illegal and that questions question's might arise arke I I. I Other members of the thc committee were In favor of oC having tho the entire page pago engrossed engrossed en- en I grossed again This however would take time and make malc nece necessary ary the rebinding rebinding re- re binding of the huH bulky document Campbell to II UK Ht ut Secretary Campbell came to the rescue roscue with u no sU suggestion that he hc rule out the Item with a a. red lino line and the 0 secretary o of the the- house put his purple 1 mark under that The suggestion went and andIO so IO did the bill hili Tho The delay was more than an hour Then the governor wanted to read the bill before he signed it and Senator Herschel Bullen missed th the the 4 10 10 train so so it will be at least one day later before before before be be- fore some of the people of Logan Log will hear original extracts from the Sen Senators Senator's en- en ator's ator famous speech against dation in the tho Seventh legislature of Utah That long appropriation bill cost the state tate about 31 31 extra for the night work of the engrossing clerks One I of the senators thought the clerks clerIcs had drawn enough h overtime money but the others dl disagreed and the checks were made mad out |