Show I COMMISSION COMMISSI FOR OR OGDEN Ogden Utah Uth Feb 24 1010 tHO Editor Examiner I see sec in your our Is Issue Issue Issue sue this morning a speech made by byS S President Taft Tatt In regard r to a n commis commission commission sion zion being appointed to regulate the finances of oC the government go of or the tho United States Slates I believe such a n com corn commission commission mission would he 10 a good bood and proper thins for Ogden Osden City and Weber coun cOlin counS cOlinI S 5 I 5 belIeve bellco belle that such a commission would make wages for fOI themselves and nave thousands of dollars to the tho taxpayers It would have hae been hotter bettor betterto to have had that commission some four years rears ago a o then the city would not he bo In the hole holo today toda wo would not have so ninny many miles of or use lo ies s nirl walks built hullt and paid for by bythe b bythe the city that has hns not been used by bytho bythe bythe the tho people and is as useless at the tho present time as ns a Malan falan Heights has for electric light and they the all cost about 11 II cents pet pei square quare foot or about for every eory fifty foot Coot lot but tho the real estate man says sa s the city elt will get et that all nil back I venture a suggestion that some somo of those lots Jots will not soil sell for enough In the next ne t ton years ears to pay for the tho walk That ThatIs Is one reduction that would have sav sar saved sa ed cd thousands of dollars to the taxpayer er ere There Is other savings that are just as 15 s essential i there Is not a I de dc department In tho the city nut lilt what could bo he run a groat deal cheaper than It ItIs ItIs itIs Is or has bas been bein n for four years rears Every Ever public officer has to have deputies stenographers etc alt all drawing salar salaries salarIes ies los from the city ell and county It Il used to be the tho city recorder did the work alone when hen Ogden had as much busi busl business ness hess as os It has hns now How Is It It costs about three times as much to run that office as it Il did during tho the boom lays days of Ogden I take this as a sample sampie and a fair one as all the others are run on the tho same basis The Tho engin engineering engineering coring department has had bad a force of men employed by b the tho city and I have seen scon them thorn hunting for the same street corner a dozen times during the sum summer summer mer Iner Now ow tho the street superintend ont eat nt has to lo have a n clerk and two or orI I three assistants We e used to lo toe tho the mark better bottaI alone The dog tax ax I collector Is I the only officer t that does not have haO deputies I am amnot amnot not nol sure about the poll tax collector I and anel Janitor I had nearly forgot Bill DIU he lie ought to have one or two at a 11 salary sala of 00 The county officers are arc the same samo only ani more so The Tho sher sheriff sherIff sherIff iff has I elle about live five or six deputies s and turned In as ns fees last Jast month I think cost paid balance due The clerk cleric has Las a n host of deputies I do not lot know how much he turned In but hut venture to say sa not enough to lo pay hir hiI hired ed cd help heip There arc others Still Stilt tho the county Is out of debt If those ex cx expenses expenses were wore reduced tho taxes might be reduced In proportion so I think thinka n a commission would be he a good thing thins for Weber county and Ogden city to find out what the do IJO to earn their salary and to stop sop creating of offices flees to give some favorite a 11 job I I aux nUl satisfied that the affairs of the tha city and ani county could be ba run for two thirds of oC what It costs c now no and nd that would ouid reduce taxes Then by Increasing assessed value of the wealthy wealth to compare with the poor we wo would be all nU happy and prosperous Yours CITIZEN tj |