The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-18
Governor Stubbs Gets Down to
Business.
Cost of Reform Small Compared
to Benefits.
TWO CASES ARE CITED
Where Savings Total $6,OO'
Per Month.
State Treasurer and State
Printer Reforms.

Governor Stubs today rolled up his
sleeves. girded up his loins and waded
into the high tax controversy with
Senator Curtis in earnest He made
| base hit, an upper cut and a touch
down.
After a brief preface, in which he
| quoted one of Senator Curtis charges,
he submitted statements from the
| state printer and state treasurer show
ing savings in the total sum of 5000
per month in these two departments
alone as an offset in the shape of
benefits to oppose to the talk of the
cost of reform
The Stubs statement and exhibits
follow:
Benefits of Reform.
Senator Curtis in a personal let
ter to Kansas man recently said:
Tt is true that reform and betterment
usually cost money, but 1 doubt if the
governor, or his friends, can ever ex-
plain to the people why the cost has
been SO great in Kansas and SO little
benefit derived from the so-called
changes
GAS example of how much re-
form does cost in Kansas the actual
results of the operation of the reform
laws in putting the state printing
plant and the state treasury on a buSi-
ness basis will prove that in these two
departments alone there has been an
actual saving of nearly $4,000. if not
quite, per month during the past year,
and these two propositions are only
fair samples of what the reform laws
that have been written in Kansas are
worth to the people of this state
"W r. sTUBBs."
Saving in Treasurer's Office.
"Office of Treasurer of State.
Topeka, Oct. 16, 1909.
cow. r. Stubbs, State House:
MY dear sir: Your letter asking
me to state the amount received by
the state for interest on deposits of
state funds in the various state de-
positories for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1909, received.
'tIn reply will say that the amount
VERY Truly Yours,
MARK FULLY,
-tState treasurer"
Topeka, Oct. 16, 1909.
Governor W. r. Stubbs:
Replying to yours of October 12, in
which you ask me to state the cost of
the state printing during the four
years that I have been state printer,
and also an estimate of what the cost |
would have been under the old rate,
and what will be saved to the state
during the present biennial period, as
with the cost under the old |
rate I would say:
First-That if the same amount of |
had been done under the old |
system, as was done during the first |
four years of state ownership. the cost
20 the state of Kansas would have been /
$19S, greater than it was.
Notwithstanding the amount of |
printing that will be done during the |
biennial period ending June 80, 1911,
by the amount done during the first |
three months of this period, the saw
ing to the state for the two years, as
with the cost of the same |
amount of printing under the old sys-
tenn, will be at least 100000.
To substantiate the truth of these
I respectfully submit the
following report:
During tie biennial period
ending June 80, 1903, the state
expended for state printing,
as shown by the auditors re-
ports for the years 1901. 1902,
and 1903, the sum Of. 1892 III 80
Tor the biennial period ending
June 80, 1905 the state ex-
pended, as shown by the aud
itor's report, the sum off,. 196O1502
daking the total expenditures
under the old system for the
last four years prior to state
ownership $3sS 1877. OF
During the first biennial period un-
er state ownership, namely, from July
, 1908 to July 1, 1907. the state eX-
ended for state printing the follow
Eg amounts:
;tate printers salary-S2, 500
per year 5, 600. 90
labor 100000
Contingent fund Observation-Disclosures. IL O00. 90
'aper and binding stock. $4,000. 90
.ots on which to erect the
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