The Glenwood post., 1904-09-17


building that matter. in public building the
country.
Board Of Equalization.
The reference made above exception to the
Board Equalization. Under Orman administration
this was the star office of the building For the last four
months of that administration not record of meeting
of the board kept For months before that
ords were kept briefly and careessy that is mpossi
BILE to find what done No effort whatever
made to set down amounts of bills allowed and there is
way of telling by a comparison of these books
with those the auditor when whether particular
bill allowed by the board
All that is changed Records kept of all meetings
and of the business tranaced and records of all the bills
allowed and the creditors and the allowed to
each Any tell now. by comparing the books with
the auditors just when particular bill allowed
and when paid to whom and for what In department
has the promise to conduct busnesslike administration
been completely kept than in this. and in one,
perhaps the land Office is the with its
decessor greater.
Printing Department
In department has the actual saving of cash been
the printing department The
das of the previous administration
with the printing 100000 had been paid for printing
one 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 is in the
matter ordering printing well other things
The last Legislature used nearly $150oO WORTH and this
in of the amounts paid for House and Senate jour
nails and session laws The biennial reports which
ordered officials of the administration paid
for after the present one came in- amounted to about
100000
Aside from these the expenses printing
the first nineteen months of this administration.
pared with the corresponding nineteen months of the
vious administration, in round numbers sSoooo
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
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
dered longer full of extras"
There many departments. and their work is
varied that it impossible to condense into short letter
any inellgible account of their work Suffice it to
that the engineers Office the and fish commissioners
Office and the office of the Board of Stock Inspectors have
had their work doubled than doubled by egs
ation 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 makers and sellers Of filled cheese and oleo butter
that the state really enforce the law in regard
to these things The boiler inspector has had large in
of business The inspector of mines with totally
insufficient force has done incredible amount of work.
and the mines general in much better physical
don than they two The bureau of mines
and the horticultural department in addition to their
lar work. have made exhibits at the st. Louis fair that
have attracted and still attracting to the state
of visitors. Every department in fact, has made
standard of efficiency. and in every the people
poyed take professional pride in the work they doing
The law department and the adutant generals,
extensive that only reference be made to them AS
for the attorney general be stated that in addition
to the tremendously important cases-Kansas
Colorado and Meyer the State-he has had fifty
work, and performed it with good deal
than fifty per in the counsel
poyed about ninety per cent of his
for the and has disposed Of than
vious attorney general.
What the adjutant general has done may be seeh of
every one Even Messrs. Meyer and Haywood would be
ready admit that he of the national guard
Colorado of real soldiers that they have done
things" and done them thoroughly and efficiently.
When the record of this administration is made up
January will difficult in fulflment
pledge made by the convention that nominated it's
bers in business economy in general efficiency in honest
public service.