BIRD ID HODGES HUE
HID ON COMMISSION
Will Supply Problem of Economy and Efficiency in State Government.
COMMISSION NOW COMPLETE!
Delegates Browning and Moss Represent House of Delegates and Senator Drewry the Upper Branch of Virginia Legislature.
Richard Evelyn Byrd, of Winchester, former Speaker of the House of Delegates, and LeRoy Hodges, of Prince George County, were yesterday appointed by Governor Stuart members of the Commission on Economy and Efficiency created by an act of the last General Assembly.
In accordance with the act, the commission is composed of five members, two appointed by the Governor from the State at large, one appointed by the President of the Senate and two named by the Speaker of the House of Delegates. Senator P. H. Drewry, of Petersburg, and Delegates George L. Browning, of Orange, and J. Calvin Moss, of Lynchburg, have already been appointed. The commission is now complete.
Of the numerous commissions created by the last General Assembly, this one is regarded as among the most important. It had its inspiration in the financial stringency that the budget makers of the Legislature faced at the opening of the session, when it appeared that unless additional revenues were secured the State would face a $5,000,000 deficit in 1916. While the deficit was obviated, the sentiment for greater economy in administration survived, and to this commission was irrevocably opposed.  Trust the trick of drafting an economy program. 