Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-01-23
GUT AMOUNTS TO
JUST s978,303,22
Decrease in Appropriation Is
Bigger Than Predicted.
LARGE REDUCTIONS ARE MADE
New Bill Recommends That All State
Employees Be Required to Work
From 8 in the Morning
Until in Afternoon.
D. A. DONOVAN.
Special Columbus Correspondent.
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DA DONOVAN.
Special Columbus Correspondent.
Columbus, Ohio.
rYHE cut made in the 1914 appro-
priation by State Budget Com
missioner w. o. Heffernan is
bigger than predicted. 1t
amounts to exactly $97S, ,303.22. Be-
fore he began his pruning knife on the
bill it provided for an aggregate ap-
preparation of $9,511 ,6SS. 1t now calls
for $3.50, ,384.78.
The largest single cut was one of
$500,813 in the appropriation for the
state board of administration. The
next largest cut was one of $63,36S.0S
for the Xenia home. The state agri-
culture commission came next with a
cut of $63, 1885. Other reductions
were: State Industrial commission,
$43,174; public utilities commission,
$4,000; state library, s21,2S0; Ohio
State university, S34,6O0; Ohio univer-
sity, $3.50; supreme court, S4,S34.
The new bill carries these increases:
State house and grounds, $7,351; at
torney generals department, $S,421;
state board of health, SIT 7,429; depart
ment of public instruction, $11,706;
executive department, $14,051; state
civil service commission. S33,820.
Recommendation in Bill.
The new bill provides for the trans
fer of the state library to the Ohio
State university, the removal of the
state board of health from it's present
leased quarters to the Ohio State uni
versity, the abandonment of the flag
and relic room by placing the flags in
the rotunda and removing the relics to
the state archaeological. and historical
society at the university
The bill makes these recommends
tions: That all state employees be re-
kquired to work from in the morning
until 5 in the afternoon; that time rec
ords be established in all state de-
| partments; that salaries and supplies
| be standardized; that heads of depart
ments b. monthly meetings to Sc
cure team work; that the civil service
law be ri idly adhered to; that CEN
trail pure ng and distributing ware
house be ,tablished; that a help
your-state complaint suggestion bu-
reau be established; that fewer an
nual reports be published, thus effect
| ing an annual saving of 100000 a
year; that one composite appropria-
ton bill be passed instead of several,
as heretofore, such as the partial, de.
ficiency and general bills; that the
state house janitorial service be cen.
tralized SO that there will be less
| soldering on these jobs; that the
| practice of each department having
messenger service be stopped; that no
postoffice boxes be kept, and that the
Xenia home be turned over to the
state administration board
Turner Comes Back"
Notorious criminals supposed to be
serving time in the penitentiary are
virtually as free as other citizens oil
Ohio, according to the Comeback" oi
Prosecuting Attorney Edward c. Tur
ner of Franklin county in his bitter
colloquy with Warden Thomas of the
Ohio prison anent the management o1
the big penal institution Turner'S
statement is the warmest by far hs
has yet issued in the prison contro
versy. His reference to the men i'm
plicated in the legislative graft scan
dals, those whom he himself helped
to send to the penitentiary, is particu
larly interesting. OfIsaac Huffman 0
Butler county, former state senator
who was convicted of bribery sant
sentenced to three years in the pen
Turner says:
Huffman is supposed to be incarce
rated in the Ohio penitentiary. AS
matter of fact he is fairly comfortabl
quartered on farm, although l hav
never heard of his being a farmer.
The prison records show that Huffma
is down at the state farm at Orient
o., performing odd chores. Referrin
to Rodney Diegle, the former sci
geant-at-arms of the Ohio senate, VIII
was convicted of acting as a go-be
tween in the bribery scandals, an
another whom Turner aided in seni
ing to the penitentiary, Turner says:
Makes Numerous References.
"Diegle also is supposed to be il
carcerated in the penitentiary, ye
almost any pleasant evening last sun
mer and fall he might be observe
strolling along the streets on the Hill
top columbus West Side) or visitin
one of the engine houses"
The Franklin county prosecute
makes numerous references to not,
rious criminals who he says have bee
given what amounts to almost abs,
lutte freedom by the management {
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Suspicion Drugs In Pen.
In spite of the untmost precaution
used to keep habit forming drugs ou
side the penitentiary, there is su
, picion that a certain amount someho
is finding its way inside. 1t is b
lieved that in some manner now III
known certain avenues whereby th
drugs are gotten inside are as yet III
closed. Some time ago it seemed
certainty that no further drug of an
sort ever could get into the hands
the prisoners. Even baskets of foe
were ordered stopped before they g
inside the gates.