The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-17
FEEL The KNIFE.
State Officers Find Printing
Allowance SIashed.
Mr.. COburn Must Do With Half
as Much.
OTHERS IN THE LIST.
Educational Institutions Must
Also Do With Less.
General Appropriation Is $780,
900 Instead of $4,000.

Formal notices are being sent to ala
the state officers, boards and institu1
tions Informing them the amount which
has been appropriated as their share OF
the $120,0O0 which the last legislature
voted for public printing
In consequence, there is a loud cla-
NOR of disapprovaI abroad in the lands
1t has been discovered that every state
official and every state department has
been cut down, some of them more
than 80 per cent.
The state board of agriculture, Mr..
Coburn's department. which sen1s cut
| agricultural reports, is cut from $751;
900 to $4,000.
Superintendent of Education Dayhon
is chopped down from $4,000 to $500.
The State Agricultural college. which
spent $4,000 in 1903 and 1904, will have
to struggle along on $500 in 1905 and
1906. The state university is cut from
$4,000 for the past two years to $500
for the ensuing two years.
The state printing commission, which
/! divided up the S120.00o among the vari-
! Gus departments, is composed of the
secretary of state, the attorney general
| and the state printer.
! In speaking of the work which has
been done. State Printer McNeal says:
During the two years ending 1904
| 900 for its printing. The last legisla-
! ture voted 1920 for the ensuing two
years. 1t is hardly to be expected that
/ the state printing plant will be able to
save $4,000 in the two years, and the
only way out OF the difficulty which thS
! state printing commission has been abla
| to discover is general cut in the
amounts which the state officers have
| been expending for printing in the past
We have notified each of the state Of
f1cers and institutions, and have re4
quested them to keep their printing ex-
4 penses within the sum which we have
right to allow or reject any requisitiou
for printing, and therefore has power
to enforce its requests. However. we
believe that the other state officers will
cooperate with us. OF course we have
4 had some protests, and expect lot
more. Some of the state officers say
!. that 1t will be absolutely impossible for
them to handle their business on what
We have allowed. There is this fact to
be borne in mind, however If the
printing plant under state management
is able to do work 25 per cent cheaper
than it has been done before, the state
officials will get the benefit. The work
is charged against them at actual cost
and therefore the money which has
been appropriated to them will go fur
ther than it has gone in the past. 1t is
probably safe to figure that the buying
power of the appropriations has been
increased about 25 per cent"
The total amount which has been ale
lotted to the various deDartmen.s is
only $102, ,000 leaving $4,000 for the leg
islative printing. In 1903 and 1904 the
Legislative printing amounted to s35.170.
so it is highly probable that the $4,000
left will be enough to cover all the
legislative printing. However, the
printing commission took the ground
that it was outside of its province to
dictate to the legislature what it should
sOend.
The following list shows the amount
which was expended by each state of
ficer and institution during the years
1903 and 1904, and the amount which the
state printing commission has allowed