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Show I DISTRIBUTION OF POLITICAL OFFICES Salt Lake, Dec. 19. Holdover mem bers of the city commission who met last week find decided on the appor tioumcnt of the city departments, glv j i ing the water department to W. H Shearman und the department ol larks and public property to Hebet M Wells, have no decided to pre pare a slate of department heads and appointive positions which, unlet their plans are changed through ir. fluence ol public opinion, will be put through at the first meeting of the new commission without consulting the two new commissioners who lane office January 1 This lineup of the commission, kl is learned, was effected at a recent meeting at which the three holdover commissioners and B city ofilclal prominent in Democratic politics and close to the city commission, who ex pecta soon to retire, were present This Democrat, who has worked with. he prc-sent city commission advlsln? tho members on many points, is authority au-thority for the statement that '! holdover commissioners do not pr Dose to consult either Wells or Shear .nan. the newly elected commission rs. with reference to filling the ni-pojptlve ni-pojptlve offices after the first of the 's-oming year. The custom In making department al appointments heretofore has been ?cr the commissioner at the head ol each department to make his rocoir mendatlon and then for the commit slon as a whole to confirm the ap pointment. In this way each of the commissioners has practically fillei the offices under his Immediate su pervlsion with men of his own selee tlon. If the present plan of the hold over commissioners is carried out however, It will simply mean thai Mayor S. C, Park and Commissioner R. P, Morris and H W LftWrenct mako all of the appointments wltn out regard for the wishes of the iu-v, oinniissloners or else that the pros cut appointive officers will remair n their places, inasmuch as they arc appointed to serve "until the munici nal election the next following and I intil their successors are duly ap pointed and qualified " |