The New York herald., 1922-10-12
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the bill. and so the log rolling process
goes on / claim 10 have stopped the
log rolling process, l claim to have
proved that it is possible for the Gov
ernor and the legislative branch TO
work in harmony.
1T was not necessary for me to veto
items OF the appropriations bill | did
not make the bill The Legislature
made it. But the legislative leaders ana
/ agreed upon the principles which
should govern both of US. They keps
their promises and l was able to sign
the bill as ii came TO me.
while / assert that l have not
undertaken 10 infringe upon the author
ity of a coordinate branch of the gov
ernment. still ! claim that l was not
entirely out of the picture as Mr..
Smith confesses he was. confessing that
he is unable TO control the machinery
of government work. confessing that
as Governor all he was able to do was
to SIT in HIS big chair and see the
wheels go round.
He is now asking to be restored TO
a job which he says he cannot perform
unless the people give him different
tools. l have not asked for different
machinery. / assert that it Is possible
to make the existing machinery work.
l assert that the existing machinery
has worked The people are satisfied
they are getting service for the money
expended. The mounting cost OF gov
ernment has been stopped"
Nature and Government.
Government is not like a Ford car.
Gov. Miller went on to say, because it
can't be made fool proof and human
nature isn't changed by amending a
constitution. Constitutional amend
ments won't make government by favor
or log rolling impossible, but the right
kind OF Governor will do it, and in his
opinion the machinery will work pretty
much according to the men who are
running It.
At this point he went back to point
out that while Mr.. Smith had worked
for a new constitution in 1916, Tam
many Hall, Ito which he (Smith) ~
subservient." did all il could to defeat
the constitution in 1916, a notorious
fact. while he himself (Miller) had sup
ported the plan and had voted for it
at the polls, The plan was beaten in
1915 by the people, rot by him (Miller)
so that wouldn't do as an alibi for AL.
'It was resurrected by Mr. Smith
when he was Governor merely to pro-
vide an alibi for his own failure of per-
formance," said Gov. Miller. II went
into Office feeling that it was more i'm
lortant to make the machinery at hand
work than to devote myself exclusively
10 the task of getting different machin-
cry. / was elected to administer the
state Government. not to point out to
the people how they could improve their
system Of government by constitutional
amendment. 1 have made its machinery
work"
The Governor turned then to meeting
Mr.. Smiths charge that Gov. Miller was
juggling the figures of the States
finances to prove an apparent saving.
He wasted no time in denouncing Mr.
Smith--no personalities whatever sim
Ply precise refutation and definite criti-
cism concerning statements and occur
rences. He said 1t was serious charge
hut he didn't call Mr.. Smith villain
for making the charge. That is not
GOV. Mlller's way and all the kings
horses and all the kings men couldn't
change this mans tendency to stick TO
the point. He took up the report OF the
Comptroller, signed report, and called
the Comptroller for his witness as Mr..
Smith had done. for II appears that
financial statements resemble n Holy
Writ in that most anything can be
proved out of or by them.
HIS Stdbtlheul, e'lIu the IONtIlbT,
shows that the appropriations for
which revenue had to be provided the
first year of this administration were
roughly s136.00O 900. as against sl45.-
CGe.000 the last year Of Mr.. Smiths ad-
ministration. Yet he said that juggled
the figures. lie says the total appro-
rriations for his two years are fifty odd
million less than the total appropria-
tons for the present two years. And
10 get that figure he has to include the
S10,0oo. 900 appropriated at the extra ses-
sion as revolving fund to enable the
Fuel Administrator to see that the peo-
pie In this State are provided with
fuel the coming winter.
''He says I belong 70 the school of
constitutionalists who think property is
above personal rights. When the inter-
ests of all the people of the State were
at stake. when there was opportunity
for profiteers and gougers and hoarders
I'm coal / asserted the principle that
property rights were not superior TO
human rights, and we have a practical
demonstration of that principle in an
effective statute which will enable a fuel
administrator 20 prevent such abuses.
"He says the total appropriations un-