Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-02-26
USELESS JOBS
ARE ELIMINATED
OVER 81, 100000 SAVED TO OHIO
STATE TREASURY BY APPRO-
PRIATlON BILLS.
MOVING week At THE CAPITOL
Departments Returning to State House
in Order to Cut Down the $4,000
for Outside Rentals.
lRY Denny Donovan.N

Columbus, O.-More than 81, 600, 900
is saved to the state treasury by the
first appropriation bills submitted to
the General Assembly this session. AS
framed by Representative Frank H.
Reighard of the House Finance and Ap-
preparation Committee, it authorizes
an expenditure of $4,000, 900 for the
four and one-half months beginning
February Is and ending June 80, this
ear. For the period between February
Is and July l, last year, two weeks
longer, the total expenditures of the
various state departments was $780,
97l. It is probable that the measure
will be rushed through under suspen-
sion of the rules in order that the
state departments may be supplied
with the necessary funds to continue
operation.
A special appropriation bill for the
coming four and a half months is nee
essary because the appropriation year
has been changed to start July 1.
Efficiency Considered.
Chairman Reighard said that the
million-dollar economy had been eff
fected mainly by eliminating useless
jobs and cutting down e~xtravagant
maintenance and expense charges.
However, efficiency had been the first
consideration in framing the bill and
the work of no department will be
hampered, he said.
Typical of the general economy plan
is the bills provision for the State
Highway Department. Approximately
SIS, 900 is slashed from the depart
ment's payroll. Four division engi-
neers drawing an average salary of
$2,250 each are stricken from the list
as well as FIVE others drawing $1,000.
Harry Bradbury, Cleveland detective,
who edited the Highway Departments
magazine at a salary of $1,000, is cut
off while Markers private secretary,
H. S. Atkinson, is cut from $4,000 to
$1,000. Needs Of every state institu'
ton for money to complete new build
ings are met by the bill. The Kent
State Normal, for instance, gets $100,
600. For salaries and wages of officers
and employees at the nineteen state
institutions the State Board of Admin
istration is allowed $544, 1862.
70 Change Offices.
Gov. Willis contributed to the econ
omy program by announcing that some
of the state Offices which now pay higt
rentals for quarters in Columbus sky
scrapers will be requested to return tt
the State House, where extra room has
been secured by a readjustment of de
partments. Starting with his own of
fee, the governor said he had arranged
to have Budget Commissioner Pulling
tons office moved into n of the
larger rooms in the Executive Depart
ment and the room thus vacated madt
to accommodate the State Oil Inspec
ton Department, which now occupies
a three-room suite in the new Haydel
Building at an annual rental of 1916
Likewise the Office of the Commission
er of Soldiers Claims will be moves
into n of the room occupied by tn
Adjutant Generals Department and tn,
vacated room turned over to the Stat
Fish and Game Commissioner, VIII,
also occupies an expensive suite in tn
new Hayden Building. Other arrange
ments, the governor said, are bein,
planned for cutting down the $1,000
now spent annually in rentals for thes
state departments outside the stat
house.