The daily banner., 1919-08-11
HARRINGTON TO ATTEND
GOVERNORS CONFERENCE
Will Read Paper on Executive Bud
get Plan at Eleventh Annual Ses-
sion of Governors Conference.

Madison, Wis, Aug. S.-State bud
gets, the growth and consolidation
of State administrative boards and
the expansion of the national guard
system as a basis for national de-
Tense promise to be among the prin
cipal topics to DE discussed at the
eleventh annual session of the COVER
nors' conference, according TO Secre,
tary Miles c. Riley, of this city. Mr.
Riley has just announced the com
plete details of the conference pro.
gram, the chief features of which
will be presented in Salt Lake City
August 1924.
! The sessions will open in the Nor
mon Tabernacle Monday, August 18
with addresses OF welcome by Cover
nor Simon Bomberger, of Utah, and
Mayor w. Montgomery Ferry of Salt
Lake City. To these Governor John
G. Townsend, Jr., of Delaware, will
respond.
Discussion of the State budget will
be taken up on Tuesday, August 19.
Gov. Emerson C. Harrington, Mary
| land, will read paper on the eX-
ecutive budget plan which has been
tried in Maryland for the past -four
years. Gov. E. l.. Philipp, Wiscon-
sin, will read a paper on the legisla-
/, tive budget as used in Wisconsin. At
the afternoon session Gov. S. X. Nc
keIyie, Nebraska, and Gov. ID. w.
Davis, Idaho, will offer papers on
! the consolidation of administrative
boards. In both of these States the
cabinet system has been the general
plan for consolidation.
| JNo1rnc1oTy', cncsinn will h0 given
over to a round-table discussion OF
after-the-war problems, including a
resume of legislation enacted at the
1913 sessions Of the Legislature. On
Thursday afternoon, August 21,GoV.
! William C. Sproul, PennsylYanla,w will
| lead the discussion of the subject,
Expansion of the National Guard
! System"
The remaining days of the confer
ence will be devoted to trip thru
| forecasts that the conference will be
ernors and, including the ex-gover-
noEs and other officials, the attend
ance is expected to be about Is.
| How Wisconsin saved more than a
million and a half dollars, despite
ulSA pI1CSS, Ill LuC 1ctoI 1Ou4 JOchA
will be explained at meeting of the
secretaries of State of all the Ameri-
can commonwealths. They have
been invited here August 27 and 2S
to discuss the advisability Of a State
| purchasing agent.
| Wisconsin, having been oDe of the
pioneers in the employment of such
State official and with results con-
hoc nc
| to explain to the officials of other
| States the details of the accomplish
ment. Governor Emanuel L. Phihpp
who conceived and put through the
efficiency" program in the purchase
| of State supplies, and M. F. Blum
| field, the purchasing agent he ap-
pointed, and who actually carried
out the plan, will be am0ng sthe
speakers, together with other state
officials and business men yet to be
announced.
| Governor Philip was elected to Of
flee in 1914 On a platform that in
lcluded a busines setficiency palnk. A
successful business man himself, he
selected Mr.. Blumenfield as State
purchasing agent because CT the lat
tiers having been buyer for Vari-
Gus large corporations for number
of years. Then began the attempt to
demonstrate what could be accom-
plished for a State through up-to-
date business methods, an undertak-
| ing which the administration claims
has amply justiged the continuance
of the plan and its adoption by other
| States.
A mimeograph and multigraph de-
partment, used by all the State de-
partments, was installed, with re-
sultant saving of $4,000 claimed.
Careful buying at the right zine and
place with goods to be delivered f..
o. b. Capitol instead of f. o. b. Madi-
son, is declared to have saved ST.
6995 in carriage alone.