The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-08
TO AID WHITMAN IN
STATE PAYROLL CUT
Department Heads Promise to
Eliminate DeadwOOd in ST.
600. 900 Reduction Plan.
HEARINGS NEXT MONDAY

ALBAsY. Nov. After several con-
ferences with Clinton r. Horton. chair
man of the Senate civil Service Com
mit,ee; Chairman Henry NJ. Sage OF the
Senate Finance Committee and acting
Chairman Simon Adler OF tho Assembly
Ways and Means Committee Gov. Whit
man has arranged a preliminary pro-
gramme for the Governors budget con-
ference at which the budget for the next
fscal year will be prepared.
The first of the open hearings Will he
held on Monday. November 10. In the
large room OF the Executive Chamber.
The Governor will preside and with him
will sit Senator's Horton and sage, AS
semblyman Adler and William a. OR,
secretary to the Governor. The con-
ference will he assisted by two udget
experts. Charles $. Hervey. Deputy
Comptroller Of New York city. who was
in active charge OF the framing OF the
city budget completed a week ago. and
W. II Hoiton. Jr.. an expert attached
10 the Bureau OF Municipal Research.
These Invest gators have found many
conditions which they describe as funda-
mentally opposed TO a businesslike ad-
ministration'
Commissioned Charles s. Wilson or
the Department Of Agriculture will he
the first department head 10 undergo
the quizz!ng process. Al an executive
session of the committee llft Friday
Commissioner Wilson displayed every de-
sire to cooperate with the conference.
The Banking Department will next
come IN for Inquiry with Supt. Eugen"
l. Richards on the stand. Supt. Jesse
). Phillips VI the Insurance Department
will fo.low by the end OF the week
the committee hopes 10 take up the De-
partment OF Taxes. OF which Martin
Sake is commissioner.
Supts. Richards II Phillips have
indicated their willingness to help
the conference In every way and
II II understood that COMMISSIONS
SAKE has devoted considerable atten-
ton to the subject OF a new budget and
will make valuable suggestions for the
promotion OF efficiency and economy IN
the management OF the Tax Depart
ment.
To determine to what extent depart
ment p~ayrolls can be cut down with
on, impa.rlng efficiency and what
change should u. made to weed GU
the "~deadwood" that has accumulated
In mos, state offices during recent years
is the primary purpo Of the Gov
errors conference inquiry The toia
cnnual pay roll of the state Is about
$50. OO0. 900 end il is the belief OF tbs
conference experts that fully 10 pc
cent. or about 1000, 600. can be Topped
on with a. actual Improvement 10 tn
public sci ice. II is not OF course eN
pected that rch a great reduction II
the payrolls can be effected at once
but +; is believed that a good h~eg,nnir!
can be made This year OF the 100
State employees II has been found tha
fully 1000 6: not more occupy useless
or duplicating positions the abolishnren
! o! which would -csult In better work
ing conditions throughout the state.
Thirty-two Jobs.
The department of Agriculture alone
for instance, has an appropriation 70
, salaries and exp 'es for 1913 o
si33.l40 and the Civil Se-vic. Com
mittee's experts have reported that o
this amount s46,4io represents salarie
for about thirty-tv-o positions whic
are unnecessary.
The payroll - the Banking Depart
ment l. about $4,000 and OF the l0
surance Department about s315 .0O'
while the Tax Department pa. roll ag
gregaies about s225.oo0. Suggestion
: for considerable reductions IN all thes
' payrolls viii he made.
Reorganization o! WORKING cohulllon
IN many departments and state inst
II tutions, elimination u. unnecessary pos
= tions. entralizaIion OF authority an
e responsibility and removal OF many IL
n justices arising from dIscrepa ncies !
= The dd 'stment OF salary lists Will /
= the chief aims Of the conference. II
o expected that Gov. Wh.tman's plan fC
< open hearings on the budget. giving a
persons Interested a. chance to appes
II and be heard. Will result in doing ava
i entirely IN the future with the old ~
2. tom of score: budget making In the hac
" room Of the F.Necuu e Chamber.