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Show SENATE FAVORS FORDNEY BILL Committee Appointed to Take Up Reorganization of State Offices SALT LAKE. Jan. 15 By a vole of 12 to I, the Utah stale senate yesterday yester-day (kcidnl to ask congress to pays the Pordney emergency tariff bill The vote came after lengthy debate on high tariff.- in general and the bill, now before the national congres?. There were five absentees in the voting, vot-ing, those men making the trip to Logan Lo-gan lo inspect the Ptah Agricultural college Argument against the memorial camo from George Ii Uern, Democratic Democrat-ic floor leader, but be voted for it later after he had been assured that the Fonlnev hill a an BJhOTgenC measure, the force of which expires Within tan months Senator Elizabeth llayward recorded the onl dissenting vote. The two reappon lonnmnt bills, ie-pgrted ie-pgrted out of the committor on revision revi-sion and priming, were, BSSlgned lo the committee on public affairs, oi which Senator Peters, author of one bill. Is chairman, and Senator Dern, author of the other, is secretary. Senator Jensen's measure, appropriating appropri-ating 186,000 for legislative expenses, naa returned from the house and sent to Governor Mabev who signed It later in ihe due .BATTALION COMMISSION REPORT The report of tbs Mormon Battalion commission was filed with the sen.it. mil house yesterday In compliance with Ihe law creating the commission, 'that it shall report its proceedings I during the first week of each biennial I legislature The commission now has on hand n .total of $72,357.92 toward tho goal of I $100,000 it must secure before the ; $100,000 appropriated by the legists line l available lor the erection of the monument The contribution come I from ten states, Ihe District ol Colum- biu and from Canada The world war I interfered with the campaign lor j funds, the report stales, and but for thla interference, it la said the 1100,- Hi cessarv .tli cadv iv mild hav e been contributed Senate bill No 6, introduced yesterday yester-day by Senator J. W. Peters, would amend the compiled laws of Utah, 1917. so as to provide for a redisricting redisrict-ing of the county school districts ev-erv ev-erv ten years The oilgiual law pro Vlded that each of Ihe school districts should be divided into five parts, rep resenfative of the population, bin n did not provide for a redlst rict log of (these districts The districts in many cases in l'tah coincide with the coun ties in boundaries, but nol always Some counties contain more than one, district According to the bill, the board of! education Of each county school dis trict of Hie lirst clasp shall continue lo consist of five members as provid- I ioi i ii rue uriKitiHi inw i ne aim-nti I ment, however, calls for a redistrict-ilng redistrict-ilng and. consequent 1 , it an member pf the board becomes a non resident by this roilisl rioting, a new member of Ihe bQBVd tO succeed hilll shall In chosen at the next succeeding election, 'but he shall remain a member Ol ihe I board uutil his successor has qualified. quali-fied. REORGANIZATION PLANS "Adminlstrai ion measures," us they ( have eommonlv been called, but really suggestions to the members of the jstate legislature for legislation that i will help to solve problems existing : in state government, were submitted to a committee of house and senate members yesterday at a conference in the board room at the state Capitol While the measures were presented to the house and senate committees in the form of prepared bills, it wa pointed out that in each esse the final decision and the responsibility as. to' enacting such proposals into law rcsl-i ed with the legislators themselves The committee, requested by the : governor within a few days of nisi election to undertake the work, was maua up or ronrier senator Frank Lv ans. Dr, George Thomas, state super intendeni of public Instruction; !' K Calllster, new speaker of the nouse; Mark Tuttle, state auditor; 11 K. stef Fenien, James T. Hammond, former! secretary of state and now member of the state board of equalization, I Hamilton Gardner, Harold Fabian, K. j IL Judd and Senator Harrison E. Jen-" kins. In the governors office yeater I day, in addition to Hie above were present Thomas L Mclvav, prerldent ! (oi 'he slate scnait , Senator .1 Peters, Republican floor leader In i..- senate; Senator George II Lcm, Democratic floor leader, and Representative Repre-sentative W. W. Seegmiller, Jamei livers, Jr., O. V. McShane, WUfordl Jltav. R J. Douglas and A. R. Mcln 1 i tyre- With this department ?s the central cen-tral feature, ihe plans submitted call ior die reorganization ot ih sijie gov-.1 eminent bv consolidating man) oi ih. state boards and by reducing the per-jionnel per-jionnel In others, while at the same time fixing responsibiili of the of ' fleers. In a general wav (be Import Ot ihe:-e proposed changes has al ' uady been outlined in the press WHAT BILLS ARE Nearly all of the bills which will originate in the house, and which have had their inception in the advls I OF) committee appointed by the governor, gover-nor, call for abolishment of state boards und bureaus and consolidation of much of the work of several of the. commissions now in existence. Here I are the bills scheduled for introduction introduc-tion in the house. 'mroduc- A bill to abolish the state publicitv and development board, repealing e U00 4501, 1601 and "r t sion laws of 1917 ,es A bill tp abolish the commission for adult blind and place -he work don, bv ' ;"' 'ndor the schoo" for! t" deaf dumb and blind , bl11 Providing for the abolish I mnt o the p0si()on of JtatghSt ;ft""1 '""iH-'.or a. aein. (ho Unaei the stale dna r i lion. ?? , A bill abolishing the office of ,.,, ; thsstata iWltSSKuffi p'm' Um wort in .1,.. h"ZTot J "fwttn ol staU. making IdlnS secroury of statt or a clerk in .ha, I otfice ex-officio Bscretarv of ? I - ""'"'n. Th'cUlion'i: I "U Rot otherwise affected. " '",! A bill abolishing the slate bOAriNM park commissioner?. I.. ' A bill abolishing the oitice of , rector of Americanization ! A series of a halt doten bills l?' iProvWo. for the rn urrllnatlon of '7,2 1 '"in studies now t.msht In bo'h 'sjaj 1 nlver.MM 0 rrah at)d the rtai JM( ricultural college nn-J creallif CJ board to be known as the bo'i Sal?! educational en ordination, conglitsH, J, of the superintendent of Pub"e jwta-i fit ruction, one member of the UJl'aj J " .m- ni.'Thcr r.f 'he Ait cultural college faculty and lour to IP Tk, PPOlnted by the faculty, all lo '"E'tab without salary, but to Lave actual flF) Penses paid I " ' ' .. |