The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-01-22
CUT AMOUNTS TO
JUST s978,3O3,22
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 5 In Afternoon.
o. A. DONOVAN.
Special Columbus Correspondent.

"HE cut maze IN the 1914 appr0
priation by State Budget Com
missioner w. o. Heffernan is
bigger than predicted. II
amounts to exactly $978,30322. 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 SS,532,3S4.7S.
The largest single cut was one of
$5OO,Sl3 in the appropriation for the
state board of administration. The
next largest cut was one of 500, 1868. .OS
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, 1890; Ohio
State university, $4,000; Ohio univer-
sity, $9,630; supreme court, $4,S34.
The new bill carries these increases:
State house and grounds, 1881; at
torney generals department, $S,421;
state board of health, $17 1929; depart
ment Of public instruction, $11,7O6:
executive department, $14,051: state
civil service commission, $33.S20.
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 its 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-
quired to work from in the morning
until 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 hold monthly meetings to Sc
cure team work; that the civil service
law be rigidly adhered to- that a cen
tral purchasing and distributing ware
house be established; that 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-
tion bill be passed instead of several,
as heretofore, such as the partial, de-
ticiency 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
postoftice boxes be kept and that the .
Nenia home be turned over to the
state administration board.
Turner Comes Back"
Notorious criminals supposed to be
serving time in the penitentiary are J
virtually as free as other citizens of
Ohio, according to the comeback" of /
Prosecuting Attorney Edward c. Tur-
ner of Franklin county in his bitter
colloquy with Warden Thomas of the I
Ohio prison anent the management of .
the big penal institution. Turner's
statement is the warmest bv far he /
has yet issued in the prison contro-
Fersy. HIS reference to the men i'm |
pllcated i'll the legislative graft scan
dals, those whom he himself helped
to send to the penitentiary is particu-
larly interesting. OF Isaac Huffman of
Butler county, former state senator,
who was convicted of bribery and
sentenced to three years in the pen,
Turner says:
thurman is supposed to be incarce-
rated in the Ohio penitentiary. As a
matter of fact he is fairly comfortably
quartered on farm, although | have
never heard Of his being farmer"
The prison records show that Huffman
is down at the state farm at Orient,
o., performing odd chores. Referring
to Rodney Diegle, the former SER
geant-at-arms of the Ohio senate. who
was convicted Of acting as a go.be- !
tween in the bribery scandals, and
another whom Turner aided in send
ing to the penitentiary, Turner says:
Makes Numerous References, .;
'Diegle also is supposed to be in
carcerated in the penitentiary, vet
almost any pleasant evening last sum
mer and fall he might be observed
strolling along the streets on the Hill
top Columbus West Sde) or visiting
one OF the engine houses"
The Franklin county prosecutor
makes numerous references to noto-
rious criminals who he says have been
given what amounts to almost abso-
lutte freedom by the management of
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