The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-01-22
MILLER SCORES CITY
FOR SCHOOL POLICY
Calls Cut of S27,O00,O0O an
Attempt to Shift Respon-
sibility to State.
PALMER ACTS AssAILED
Ex-senator Sutherland aud
Executive Speak at Bar
Association Meeting.

In addresses delivered yesterday pc
fore the state Bar Association on gov
ernnnental problems. Gov. Miller scored
the city government Of New York ior
failure to provide sufficient funds 10
operate the city schools, and former
United States Senator George Sutherland
Of Utah criticised the administration Oh
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer LOT
throwing economic law Into the scrap
heap" and turning price control over
to the constabulary."
Gov. Miller asserted that the BoardSof
Estimate in eliminating an item OF $2t'-
600, 900 from it's budget for the opera
ton of the schools was attempting to
shift to the State the responsibility that
belonged to the city.
THE Board OF Estimate appropriated
only enough to run the schools unti'
summer he said. con the theory that
somehow or other the schools would run
because they would have TO run, and APP
parentlv hoping that Il the locality did
not attend to It the State would"
If the State were to undertake the
maintenance of educational systems GOV.
Miller pointed out that. due TO the CEN
tralization of wealth and property in
New York city, this municipality would
really pay not only for the maintenance
of its own schools but would help
through taxation to maintain in large
measure the other schools of the State.
Gov Miller spoke at the association
In, he of n
Forty-fourth street. Senator Sutherland
smoke at the evening session in the
Hotel Aston.
While Senator Sutherland did not
mention Attorney General Palmer by
name. he referred directly to the recent
administration by the Department of
Justice of the so-called anti-profiteering
regulations and enac.inents. The Gov
eminent officers. he said, made extrava-
CANT promises: there were threats,
prosecutions and penalties, without the
least avail in affecting prices.
prices did not fall" Senator Suther-
land said. con the contrary, they rose
mounting in perverse and insulting dis
regard of the hopeful specuiations OF
the Department Of Justice"
Both Gov. Miller ard Senator Suther-
land protested vigorously against the
uNuf'tllpH W luilttluIS ny vic
of Federal Government at the expense
OF another. Both deplored the constant
increase of boards, bureaus and COM
missions leadings to an increased cost Of
government. and the unde~nrlrn~ Of
the traditional scheme in which judicial
executive and legislative branches have
separate powers.
I'VE have been building IN huge adj
nnlstrative agencies from the munici-
palities to the State and Federal Gov
eminent" said Gov. Miller until we
have reached situation in this COIN
try where If it were not for the power
OF taxation all of our governmental
agencies would be bankrupt. And we
are only solvent because the power
10 tax IL the power to destroy, and the
power of taxation is actually being ex
ercised now 10 an extent almost Of
destruction"
No less severe in his criticism. Sens-
tor Sutherland insisted that the one
law upon which all bureaus and COM
missions are agreed Is the law of ex-
pansion. Defying efforts to confine
them to their original limits. these
boards. according to the speaker, adj
to their power and to the number of
their agents..