The Grit-advocate., 1904-09-16
STATE POLITICS

building or that matter in public building in
country.
The made above to one exception to
Board Equalization. Under the Orman administration
this was ONCE OF the building For the
months administration record of
of the board kept For months before
ords kept briefly and carelessly that mpos
BILE find out what done. No effort whatever
made to set down of bills allowed there
no way Of telling BY comparison Of these books
auditor when whether particular
bill allowed by the board or not
is changed. Records kept of all meetings
tranacted and records Of all bills
allowed the creditors. and the amounts allowed to
Any tell by comparing the books with
the auditors tust when particular bill allowed
and when paid. whom and for what In department
promise to conduct businesslike administration
been completely kept than in this, and in
except perhaps the land ONCE the contrast with its
decessor greater
Printing Department.
department has the actual saving of cash been
great the printing department The greatest
previous administration had been in connection
with the printing 100000 had been paid for printing to
one firm during the biennial period Prices had been
allowed articles at from four to ten times their
actual market value.
the Legislatures in session is in the
ordering printing well other things
The last Legislature used nearly $15OOO0 WORTH this
the amounts paid for House and Senate Jour
nails session laws The biennial reports which
officials Of the previous administration but paid
for after tho present in. amounted about
$4,000.
Aside from these amounts expenses for printing
the nineteen months of this administration
pared with the corresponding nineteen months Of the
vous administration, were in round numbers $3O,OOo
ssOOOO reduction of sixty two and onehalf per
cent, and saving OF $4,000 Prices have been reduced
to level with those paid by large private or
corporations. There is total absence of graft in
the states printing affairs No longer does the state pay
$50 thousand for manila envelopes, and the bills rem
dered longer full Of extras"
There many departments, and their work Is SO
varied that it is impossible condense into short letter
ineligible account of their work Suffice it to say
that the engineers Office the and fish
and the Office of the Board of Stock Inspectors have
had their work doubled than doubled by egs
laon and that Of them is making record for
faithful and efficient service which will be hard to match
in future The dairy commissioner has proved to very
many seers Of filled cheese and oeo butter
that the really to enforce the law in regard
to these things The boiler inspector has had large In
bushes. The inspector of mines with totally
insufficient force has done an incredible amount OF work.
mines IN general in much better physical
dtion than they two The bureau Of mines
the horticultural department. in addition to their
work. exhibits at the st. Louis fair that
have attracted and still attracting to the state
of visitors. Every department, in fact has made new
standard OF efficiency and in the people en-
ployed pride in the work they doing
The law department and the adjutant generals SO
extensive that only reference be made to them AS
the attorney general be stated that in addition
to the two tremendously important cases-kansas VS..
Colorado and Meyer the state-he has had fifty per
cent work. performed it with good deal llore
than fifty cent. decrease in the extra counsel en-
poyed has about ninety cent of his cases
state and has disposed of than pre-
vious attorney general.
What the ,adjutant general has done be- seen OF
every one. Messrs. Meyer and Haywood would be
ready admit that he has made of the national guard OF
body soldiers and that they have done
things" and done them thoroughly and efficiently.
When the Of this administration is made next
January it will be difficult to match it in ulfment Of the
pledge made by the convention that nominated its mem
bers business economy, in general efficiency in honest
public service.