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Show SENATE HEARS I HIS OF BILL Peters Explains Purposes of Measure, Sent Back to Committee S.r,T LAKE, March 5. Represen-I Represen-I live t . V. MojBhanh's bill, designated j to make members of the public utlll- ' ties commission of t'Lah removable at ' ihe pleasure of tin governor, was recommitted re-committed to the committee on com-' tneree and industry by the 1'tah sen-ale sen-ale yesterday. The senate took this action in the full knowledge of the fact thnt the bill Is thereby consigned to i!m death, and that along With K will go the bill to make members of tho Industrial commission of t'tah also removable re-movable at the pleasure of tho gqv-ernor. gqv-ernor. This bill, like the utilities bill, has already passed the house, t p - s SEN M I Two other similar measures, by the same token, that have already passed the house will, it was Intimated pass thu senate in the next day or two. These have for their purposo the rn- . I .. ...111 U'-a U --wi'fnAt- r.t Cl-ir. ill .1 I ,i win it cue H'in iiivi ,j in- state engineer and the state hoard of I health member. Under the present law the state engineer is appointed foi l six' years, and the secretary of the stale board Of health, who also State health commissioner, for sc :en years The salary of the atato engineer and the state health commissioner is in j each case $4,000 a year. Similar stl-l pend paid t.i each of the members; of the public utilities commission and i of the industrial commission. House bin Nn. r.. by Mc Shane, has! been for some time on the calendar, I and a few days ago It was set as a spt clal order for yesterday afternoon. I When it was called, and before It had D4 en read In full. Senator J. XX. Peters, Republican floor leader, asked the Indulgence In-dulgence of the senate for a short time. POLK V I- GHGED. "We have reached H point," h said,' where we must decide on a policy In practical political science." The senator from Box Elder then re- I viewed the history and purpose of the M Shane bill. He pointed out that in I tho study of problems of political' isclence there was not always a math- ematlcal solution. In fact, it could, hardly be said correctly that political science Is the correct name for the practice of good!, government, since what might be good government in one nation might easily be bad government govern-ment in another. Bejiator Peters showed that In pre-revolutionary pre-revolutionary times the governors of I the various colonies possessed and ex-I erclsed an arbitrary power which mads the c itizens of the newly formed republic unwilling to give the governors gover-nors uf states any great powers In modern days, he said, the tendency had been rather to restore: to the go -ernor some of the executive powers "f which thev had been shorn by the old dread, until In up-to-date states, he asserted, the governor Is again given giv-en practical)) unlimited power in the administrative and executive fields. Governors with such powers had won national and even international lame. and no instanced such governors as Charles Evans Hughes, Woodrow YVil-6n, YVil-6n, Hiram W, Johnson. Robert St. Ia Pollette and he ventured also to name James M. ' Jos. "So far," said Senator Peters, "It has been the intent and purpose of 'he present legislature to give tho chief xeciitlVe of the state Just such powers" pow-ers" The senator continued by rending from the introduction to the governor's gover-nor's message to the present legislature. legisla-ture. wh n he had urged careful legislation, leg-islation, and said thai up to this point the legislators had carried out the program sometimes called the administration admin-istration measures, having found them after examlivttion to be progressive.! far-reaching and sane. SKETCHES ACCOMPLISHMENTS. The senator th6n sketched some of :he accomplishments of the present legislature, and measures tliat arc psased fr practically certain of passage. pass-age. The legislators, he said, had In- ivestigated the structure of tho state I government, had cut out much dead timber, had consolidated overlapping bonds, had inaugurated the depart-j ment of registration, had made changes In the, educational board. I had sought to co-ordinate the work) of a number of comparatively irre-1 sponsible employes of that board, so! as to make them responsible to thej executive head, would probably pass, a nonpartisan road commission bill; had (just passed a measure to provide for i roads. Thev had reduced the land i board as nn administrative office to! jone member in the same Intent and) With the same motive and Interest, i h'hey h:ul established the department of finance and purchase, which the senator believed would bring about a I new era in slate administration ' |