The Press., 1895-03-14

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Radcliffe Hicks move to ferret out and stop useless state expenses, also to cur tail some that have grown unnecessarily, will put burden of work upon the appro- priations committee, of which Represent ative Converse of Stafford is chairman, but it is good move and will have hearty sympathy. MT. Hicks said:
 "When every successful business man, and even every prosperous manufacturing company in Connecticut to-day is obliged to examine carefully into his or it's ex- penses, reduce salaries and wages where practicable, and exercise the greatest econ- omy to meet the new order of business ill this country, 1t would seem proper that all the officers of the state of Connecticut should also exercise similar economy in the expenditure of the state money. You will find upon examination, that the an- nual expenses of the state of Connecticut have increased in the last eight years over $500, ,O0O, and without having contracted for or performed any extraordinary work. The towns and cities in the state of Con- necticut owe now about $2O, ,O00,0 ,00O, and they are gradually increasing that indebt- ness yearly instead of reducing it, so that it takes million dollars annually out of the pockets of the taxpayers of the state of Connecticut to pay simply the interest on what these towns and cities owe. This is $40Q, 900 more than we pay for the en- tire support of the unfortunate poor and indigent of the state, and nearly as much as all our public schools cost us. This is $10 to every man with a family of six, and, as in many cases, people pay no taxes, the burden only becomes more On- y11<N1 1SNV %hn to AP the state.
 "There arc some expenditures in the lastreport of the comptroller which seem perfectly outrageous. You will find that it cost over $30, ,00O to pay the running ex- penses of the senate in 1893, over $ ,000 for every member; while the; running ex- penses of the house of representatives with 200 odd members and transacting more than three-fourths of the legislative business of the state, cost only 1928, GOO. You will find, by reading the comptrOll- CTS report, that it cost over $20,OOO to print the report of the labor, bureau of this state, while you will find that to print the report of the bank commissioner, it cost about $3,5OO. It is safe to say that $15, 1000 of the public money might just as we'll have been spent in fireworks as in printing that report.
 'You will find, on examining the re- port of the comptroller, that the salaries, fees and perquisites of some of the oflc- ials of this state are something fabulous. One man, occupying not a very high or der of office, is said to have an annual in- come of over $15, 5,O00; and many men in the last few years, in this state, have been receiving annually thousands of dollars from the state treasury for seFHisessofza very ordinary kind"
 Judge Cowell of Waterbury said he had found the state's expenses had increased skiold per capita since 1860. In some departments it has increased more, par ticularly in the militia.
 MT. Newton of New Haven: "I hope the resolution will pass"
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