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Show Among tho now ofllcors proposed In new measures so far Introduced In tho legislature Is a jwultry pommlsslon, n, mlno Inspector, with two doputlos and a clerk, a stato veterinarian, a bollon Inspector, a board of commissioners to promote uniform legislation, a board of plumbing Inspectors. Seventy-two now bills had been Introduced In-troduced In tho legislature at tho end of tho twelfth session. It Is a striking strik-ing coincidence that on tho twelfth day of tho last session tho number of bills was oxactly tho samo seventy-two. seventy-two. But at that tlmo forty-flvo of tho measures had been Introduced in thq houso and twenty-Bovon In tho sonato, This tlmo tho houso Is tho industrious body, having put In flfty-threo bills to tho aonato's nlntoon. Tho labor organizations and others aro taking a great lntorest in tho Initiative In-itiative and referendum bill, which is Boon to bo introduced. A petition la already In circulation which haa secured se-cured about 5,000 signatures In vor-lous vor-lous parts of tho stato. Tho referendum referen-dum 1b growing In favor among tho labor unions and thlfe may explain why they aro so anxious to oxtond tho same prlnclplo to stato legislation. |