The New York herald., 1922-01-06
GOVERNOR SEES Way
TO Save $2,5OO,OO0
Scientific Buying by Cen
tral Bureau Needed by
State, He Says.
SCORES PRINTING RING
Urges Competitive Bidding
to Reduce Needless
Expenditures.
TAX CHANGE TO BE MADE
Injustice and Inequalities to
GO-Bills Being Drawn to
Garry Out Plans.
TAX CHANGE TO BE MADE

Special Dispatch TO THE New YosK HrRIp
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany, Jan. q.
In his determination to break he
grip of the printing ring, which has
had a monopoly for twenty years or
more, Gov. Miller will demand amend
ments to the laws dealing with State
printing which will open the way for
actual competitive bidding.
by eliminating Implications and use
less printing we have saved $500. .000,"
the Governor said. Another 100000
will be saved by this means. Another
100000 or more will be saved if we
have real competition in bidding.
"My recommendation is that the
Board of Estimate and Control be en-
powered to classify departmental print
ing and to receive bids for doing the
work by classes so that some of it may
be done in Albany some in New York. or
Buffalo, or anywhere. The effect of
the present law is that all the printing
Is done by one firm In Albany. There
is a good printing plant at the State
Hospital In Utica, but the State now
limits the kind Of work that can be done
there. / have recommended that such
limitation be removed"
Cities Must Begin 80 Save.
The prison department. does certain
kinds OF printing at Sing Sing and the
other State institutions, but there again
the law restricts what can be done. The
States own restrictions are all in favor
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to the private firms. The J. p. Lyons
Company of Albany for years has done
! most of the State printing.
Municipal governments must stoI
trolling up the SNOWFALL" of public ex.
penditures. Gov. Miller said, comment.
ing on his demand that the cities and
| counties must fall in line with the State
/ and begin to save. II he has his way
! there will be big cat IN municipal
| expenses in the next two years.
1 II have recommended an inquiry or
! this subject to discover what are tht
! real causes of the municipal extrava.
gances," the Governor said. II have &
notion local governments. 7 mean par
! ticularly town and county governments
have gone on rolling up the SNOWFALL un.
observed. without public attention beini
focused upon them. and think :
critical examination will disclose grea,
many defects that can be remedied."
BY applying scientific buying to th'
| States business the Governor estimate.
! that another s2,500,000 will be savet
! the taxpayers.
II have estimated 1t is reasonable I,
\ expect that as minimum 10 per cen,
can he saved on the States eXpendi
lures Of about $23,O00.060 for supplies.
| the Governor said the purchasing Il
| pretty we'll done now considering tf'
| lack OF system.
The largest single item of oxpens,
| for supplies Is $l3,000.000 for the insti
| tltions" he said. "That is done hy q
great many persons and a great variei,
of articles are used. As an example W.
| found sixty different kinds of soap ar:
used at all kinds of prices. We selected
some forty standard articles needed IL
! the institutions and found that th'
| total paid for those articles was abou
| S3,000.000. The variety in prices be
tween the higl, and low was $350,00o.
Eve have found a difference of 2.
| cents pound in the price of butter ant
! 81 a barrel on potatoes, all in one month
! in the various institutions. 1t show.
what can be done. The state depart
ments have no nGthods whatever i.
purchasing; 1t Is entirely indiscrimi
nate. The great thing Is To consolidat,
the purchases and to buy in quantit,
for all under Standardization and con
soldation."
Plan Reforms In Taxes.
Bills are being drawn to carry on
4 some of the Governors proposals an,
will be introduced next week.
Inequalities and injustices in III,
States taxing system will be shown IN
the report of the Davenport Commission
which has been at work since las
spring trying to codify and revise tn,
tax laws, the Governor said. adding tina
some of the more pressing reforms
needed should be taken up this session
but ample time given for consideTjng
| others.
Senator Davenport to-day said hi,
committee had found that the presen
state tax system was not only mesi
of intricacy. difficult and expensive II
/ its administration, but that great in
equalities of burden between differen
classes of persons and property existed
1--WE find there are some classes o.
business enterprises which are burdenet
far more than others. We find vas
inequalities and injustices of assessment
of taxes all over the State. We fine
! corporations In the same class which ar,
being taxed unequally, and that the bur
den on real property of the State. tn,
property of farmers and home owner
and rentpayers. as well as business rea
estate. Is being greatly overtaxed, whil'
many persons and much property arr
getting away scot free. We propose
plan of equalizing. simplifying an,
greatly reducing the expense of admin
istration of our tax system. 1t is
matter OF vital concern to every citizci