The New York herald., 1921-04-04
NO GRAND GRAB
TO FEATURE END
OF LEGISLATURE
All Special Appropriations
Will Be Subject to Econ
omy Knife.
PET BILLS ARE DOOMED
Drive On TO Save Some OF
Them Before Adjourn
ment, April Is.
PET BILLS ARE DOOMED
Special Despatch 70 THE NEw YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany. Anri 3,

Albany, April 3.
The LEGISLATURE begins tomorrow the
nnal drive toward adjournment Com
nittee calendars and the desks Of SEN
ators and Assemb!ymen are loaded with
bills which must be passed or tossed into
the waste basket.
But in spite OF what seems almost al
Impossible task leaders have gwen the
word that the getaway is set for April
I6. it may be a week later but the
closing rush has started. with is Gus.
tonary mauing and lcgronng as The
lawmakers scroinrle 10 rescue their Local
biils--the pet measures which mean ar.
preparations back hone, work for tne
local organization ana votes for tie mar
who brings horne tic state pap
Every indication Is tnat this is tc "
d lean year The "we boys" arc nerNols
over the outcome They see Gov. Nil
ler's pen poised above every litie appro-
priation bill ready 10 stab u TO death
one after another the bills for bridges
across raging brooks, extensions to State
buildings. funds for more roads and le-
pair work and all the others OF their
kind are fading.
The Governors economy policy is not
TO end with the passage of the annual
appropriation bill. which Is sil,oo0,oOO
below last years.
Old Tricks Are Taboo.
The old familiar trick or cutting out
the budget allowances and taking the
sums thus saved out Of the other pocket
by means of special appropriation and
allowances is evidently not contained in
( the Governors plan. The politicians are
finding out that the same rigid principle
which was applied to the budget Is TO
~
lowances.
The usual grand grab in the final rush
Of closing is not TO be the spring frolic
Of former years in the capital. Several
millions of special appropriations COW
cred in pending bills will not be passed
this year. Many of the requests will not
get beyond committee others may reach
the Governor to die on his desk.
Strictly applying the Governors de-
rnarfd for economy, the department heads
he has named are pairing hard on their
expenses. The saving process has really
0nly begun. BY the time another budget
70 prepared under the Republican State
adninistra tion the leaders are confident
there will be further economies through
out the Government which VIII mean 4
saving of many millions 10 the taSpay-
evs. The Governors policies VIII not
be in operation in many departments
until July J.
Charles l.. Cadle. Superintendent Of
Public Works. and the Governors first
appointee in charge of a big department.
estimates that he will be able 20 save at
least sl.000,0 900 in his Office during his
nrst year. The appropriation for the
office is more than 100000 less than
was requested by Mr.. Cadle's Demo-
cratic predecessor.
12 to Do Work OF ii.
The first important move OF the new
superintendent, after making a survey.
is to abolish the positions of seventeen
section superintendents and fourteen
lock masters who were duplicating work
but very little work Twelve assist
ant division superintendents took the
places of the thirty-ore who were dis
missed. and this saved 100000. Thirty
five buoy light tenders and 80 lock OPP
orators on the canals were put on part
time. All these we're political sinecures.
the favored Of tho local organizations
drawing pay even when the canals we're
frozen solid and out Of commission. This
saved $50. 900.
Bridge guards, numerous stenosra-
pliers whose services We're not needed
by the State and other supernumeraries
who were professional office holders have
been detached from the payroll Thou
sands are being saved every month in
the handling Of the departments equip
ment.
The new consolidated tax department,
the reorganized Industrial Commission
and the operation Of several consolidated
bureaus win become effective in another
thirty TO sixty days and every change
will mean saving.