| Show NEWSPAPER MEN ASK legislation vo coir bills endorsed by the ulah press association have been introduced in the legislature one is merely an amendment which takes from city ce c ecila the right to publish city ordinances by tacking them on a tree and making mandatory the i of ordinances in newspapers so that bill citizens may be corne acquainted with them city councils in price have always published ordinances in one or both newspapers but in many towns the tAx pars have little chance to find what ordinances are being passed A new measure regulates the size sze and length together with the number of subscribers and the length of publication before a newspaper amay kiy airry legal publications and bets the pr price ice for legal publications another measure permits newspaper is to exchange advertising space spate at regular rates for miledge on common ir tiers lers within the at state itte since the government took oer the railroads no advertising has beu dono done and just before retiring mcadoo recommended 1 that such contracts be made the most important measure sponsored by the newspaper in n la is one providing for the publication in full each month of the proceed proceedings tags of the county commissioner with on an itemized account of all billa bills allowed taxpayers want to know how their money I 1 is scent spent and that is the only way they can find out pew few of them can go to the courthouse to look at tho the records and if it a large percentage did lid it would interfere with the work ork of the bouny clerk in waltine waiting on them the cost will be small in comparison to the saving in many counties the tho news advocate cm cin support the bill with good con conscience clence for there li 1 now nj no suspicion of any crookedness in this county on the part of county officials and there has not been for several years but time w was as when a little light on the subject would have saved the county thousands of dollars and that time may come again utah Is almost the only state in the union does not compel the publication of the full proceedings of all bodies handling public monies |
