The sun., 1901-05-25
TO CUT DOWN TAX BUDGET.
NEW MOVE TO PIT THE CITY on A
CONNFRtTAI BASIS
Coicr WIN Hcip-Pisdges Himself to Seek No
once This Fall Municipal Estraragsnce
20 Bc Pointed Out 10 the Not'p business
and Professional nen Behind Movement.

number Of business and professional
men held a meeting on Thursday afternoon
and decided To begin an iuvesti cation Of the
nifairs Of he city that will show exactly
whore and how municipal expenses can be
decreased without gripping in any way the
public service Comptroller Coler was one
of tho men who attended tho meeting Every
man was asked whether he expected TO be-
come a candidate for any nomination on
any Of the tickets that will be in the field
this fail Mr. CUler said emphatically that
he would not be a candidate for an ofllce
on any " the tickets All the other men
who were present made the same pledge
William II King. President of the Merchants
Association, who was present, said yester-
day
Comptroller Colcr stated positively that
he would under no circumstance. be A candi-
dat" Of any party or faction for any once
jhi- fall The reason for this positive asser-
ton, voluntarily made by him, was that MS
cooperation m certain matters under dis
cuS-ion Wa, desirable, provided that he must
not he candidate. and this declaration was,
! believe. aNsDiutoy dnol on hint point
Tile meeting was Informal and was NOT
political one IN any way, shape or manner.
Il was merely 10 advocate the adoption OF
commercial system IN the Offices OF IN" city
dcpartmruts % Il the same lines az those pre-
,0iug iu any large railroad corporation or
manufacturing concern lhis Is a sequence
oC 'hr worl, carried on during the Ramapo
u."r-f.sltiru II was purely business, %
Agitulc ihr iunugur ntion u q system 81 econ
tny and The saving OF yunh' money, thus
reducing the tAA rate" OF THIS great munich
pG,i'v
We areuot H. politics. but we aro interested
IN me economic government OF our great
MIR Coler said thar he would not deny the
sts'ru.cu' made 10y Mr. klEg 1HE SJN has
tpIi ~ the advHntngrOus oilers that have
been made t. Mr tOlor by men who want
nm" tp devote hi- time to Wall Street. and the
desire - the Comptroller ~ make an enl 10
hi- puhtI,uI career for the present al least.
u Va- said last evening that tho Ilan ~
''c men who met was 10 have competent
man WITH corps of assistants make Chf"IiI
examination = all the city departments as
| such examinations are made OF business
houses, and to hud out the sources 81 waste,
auI 10 lay the whole uH''~r before H." public
iu rho form Of a report that should snow
Ilpu,v how much NOR" II costs the CITY 10
carry uu - business than Il would II a prI-
Nal' concern was doing the same amount
Of work Tia, report would De- directed
~rry" 90 show whore -uving might be made,
Hrd would b" useful iu obtaining ante
election r."dS%s from NE 'nndIa4l"- ~ all
o." IuTtlDe Tie movement would be un-
Ike any other that has been 7'9rled IN tho
yrr-'rt campaign. alo is Only OBJECT would
bee % -huV 'NHt fs"rn are WAYS IN which
much of the city Is money which i now spout
,puli be- saved
Il is thought that it would be possible
g. show lhtt tu" -r-i"m 81 purchasing sup
I'n'- D.. faulty. and that 10y simple rear
ran cement ~ mtu' ~ the departments there
would be- q sr"ht saving, There l. a 80 'e-
I"Nrd lu h" 4 large lr!d for tn" reduction
mont. aud boards A. an instance Of tho
possibility of thl- o. has been suggested INIT