The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-09-15
STATE POLITICS

building matter. in public building
country.
Board Of Equalization.
The reference made above to exception the
Board of Equalization Under the orman administration
this the office of the building For the last four
months OF that administration not record Of meeting
Of the board For many months before that
ords kept briefly and carelessly that is imposs
Bile to find out what DONE No effort whatever
made to amounts Of bills allowed and there is
no of telling by comparison of these books
with those auditor when whether particular
bill was allowed by the board not
All that changed. Records kept of all meetings
and of the tanacted records OF all the bills
allowed and the creditors and the amounts allowed to
each Any tell by comparing the books with
the auditors Just when particular bill allowed
and when paid to whom and for what In no department
has the conduct businesslke administration
been completely kept than in this, and in
except perhaps the lard Office the contrast with its
decessor greater.
Printing Department.
In department the actual saving of cash been
great the printing department The greatest scan
da of the administration had been in connection
with the printing; 100000 had paid for printing to
firm during the biennial period Prices had been
allowed for articles at from four times their
actual market value.
When the Legislature is in session it supreme the
matter of ordering printing. well other things
The last Legislature used nearly 100000 WORTH and this
of the paid for House and Senate jour
nails and session The biennial reports which
ordered by officials of the previous administration but paid
for after the present in. amounted to about
$4,000
Aside from the for printing for
the first nineteen months of this administration COM
pared with the corresponding nineteen months OF the pre-
vious administration, were in round numbers $4,000
against $4,000 reduction of sixty two and onehaf per
cent and saving of $4,000 Prices have been reduced
to level with those paid by large private concerns or
corporations There is total absence OF graft in
the states printing affairs No longer does the state
$50 Thousand for manila envelopes and the bills rem
dered are no longer full Of extras"
There many departments and their work is so
varied that 1t is impossible to condense into short letter
any Ineligible their work Suffice 1t to
that the engineers Office the game and fish commissioners
Office the of Stock Inspectors, have
had their work doubled than doubled by legis
ation. and that of them is making record for
faithful and efficient which will be hard to match
In future. The dairy commissioner has proved to very
makers sellers of filled cheese and oleo butter
that the really enforce the law in regard
these things The boiler inspector has had large In
of business The inspector of mines. with totally
insufficient force incredible amount of work,
and the mines IN general in much better physical con-
dition than years The of mines
the horticultural department addition to their
lar work. have made exhibits at the St Louis fair that
attracted still attracting the state
OF visitors Every department in fact has made new
ployed take professional pride in the work they doing
The law department. and the adjutant generals
extensive that only reference be made to them AS
for the attorney general may be stated that in addition
to the two tremendously important cases-Kansas VS..
Colorado Meyer the State-he has had fifty per
cent work. and performed 1t with good deal more
than fifty per cent decrease in the extra counsel
poyed that he about ninety cent of his
for the state. disposed of than
vious attorney general.
What the adjutant general has may be of
every Even Messrs Meyer and Haywood would be
ready admit that has made of the national guard of
Colorado body real soldiers and that they have done
things" them thoroughly and efficiently
OF this administration is made up
January will be difficult to match it in fulfment of the
pledge made by the convention that nominated its
bers in business economy general efficiency. in honest
publIc service