Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-25

and $4,000 year and would combine
the auditing under one head.
| Here is a State Office which Is UNI
| necessary. 1t is business PROPOSE.
| ton for the State and the work could
| be done by one clerk in the State au-
| ditor's office
| 4 have no doubt that IL any mem.
Der should investigate AR. Carver's de.
| pertinent you would find him busily
| engaged in work. but that work could
| By done ny one clerk and pretty good
| printer in place like Augusta, for
! Instance, could be secured at rea-
/ =onah,e rate If wages. 1t may be said
| Tat the auditing Of printing accounts
| Is a technical matter and that money
can be saved to the State If this au-
| dtting is done by d practical printer.
| THIS may be true. but it is true to only
a limited extent. AS a matter of fact
| there is nothing very technical about
,dit!ne printing bills. | never set
! stick of tyre in my life and T think
that | ecu q audit roll Of accounts of
this nature as wei as a practical print
e. Of 10 years experience. You could
procure Il practical printer and save
the state $4,000 per year The other
bill. No 1e9, simply adds more dignity
to the office, makes it superintendent
of printing and provides for bureau,
probably in the new part of the State
House"
S. II. Kimball of Rockland stated
that he was q member of the invesui-
eating committee at the session Of the
Legislature four years ago when the
State printing matters We're consider
ed. He was familiar with the estab-
lishment of the office of the auditor of
State printing.
Il have nothing to say about the
present auditor Mr.. Carver, as he has
done wen" said Mr.. Kimball, but dc
not think that the necessity for the
office any longer exists. When the au-
ditor of State printing was appointed
it was with the understanding that
he should hold the office temporarily,
or until the ois.ce of State auditor was
filed. There is a general feeling that
the office has outlived it's usefulness as
another office has been created to take
over the work. The Legislature should
repeal the law. Bill 1873 is q re-itera-
ton of the law and is simply an act to
dignity the present office of auditor
of State printing.
Scott Wilson of Portland said that
it seemed to him that new conditions
had arisen which did not exist when
the office of auditor of State printing
was created He thought that it would
be a good idea to lay off an unneces-
sary Office and concentrate the audit
ing under one head. All the work
could be done under the direction Of
the State auditor and the auditor could
select a printer to do the work. 1t
+l,,l1 tl,.
Sary office.
Hon. j. F. Bass OF Bangor stated to
the committee that as far as he has
been able to learn this office is an I'M
necessary department The general
opinion in his section of the State was
that the auditing of printing should
be done in the State auditors depart
ment and should be consolidated with
that Office.
T. n. carver, auditor of State print
ing. opposed the bill. He said that the
business of the office cannot be run
more economically than it is at the
present time and that the mix up Of
the work of his Office with that Of
state auditor will retard both.
Auditor Carver further commended
that the work cannot be done in less
space than all the room that the State
auditor now occupies: that five sixths
of the work of his office Is not audit
ing but administrative; that the mix
ing of purchasing department with
that of auditing is violation OF ths
best principles Of business; that the
State auditor should not be required
to pass finally on bills Of his own con-
tracing; and that the auditor should
be free to exercise his function with
out having previously committed him.
self by having incurred an expense.