Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-16

order or not. every bin that is intro
duced here that is worth printing is
going to be printed You will notice
that the committee on reference OF
bills has suggested in several in
stances that so many copies be
printed; and, if you introduce bill
and feel that it is important enough
TO be printed, YOU can get it printed
regardless of whether this order is
passed or not. If you introduce u
bill that you do not care to have
printed, and / am suspicious of it.
| can get it printed: so that all OF
these bills that are of any i'm
portance are going to be printed
anyway.
1 want to call your attention to a
class of public bills which would
come under even the amended order.
You noticed that this morning the
gentleman from Rockland (Mr.
Thompson) introduced a bin to in
crease the salaries of certain county
officers in his county. Well. now,
before the Legislature is over, you
are going to be flooded pith bills of
that description. Every State and
county officer in the State of Maine
is going to have q bill introduced 20
increase his salary. Now the bill
that was introduced by the gentle
man from Rockland called for an in
crease in the salary of the Clerk
OF Courts of his county. The title
to that bill itself is enough to call
your attention to the fact that the
Clerk Of Courts of Knox county
wants an increase in salary, and
you can go and attend to it at the
committee hearing. 1t is not neces-
sary to have that bill printed. Wen,
if this order Is not passed, that bill
will not be printed unless the
gentleman from Rockland. or some
body else feels that it should be.
If 1T goes to the committee and they
Export ought not to pass, lit never
will be printed. and the State will
save that printing bill. If they re-
port that it ought to pass, the
printed bill will come upon your
desks at about the same time that
The report is made. If the Clerk Of
Courts asks for an increase of five
hundred dollars when ne only eX-
poets two hundred dollars, that bill
would be printed lnder this order,
and if the committee reported that ne
only ought to receive two hundred
dollars. there would be a change in
the bill and 1t would have to be
printed second time.
Now the cost of printing these
bills is not so very much. I made
some investigation in regard to the
cost under the original order with
out the amendment and | found it
would cost the State quite a num-
Der of thousand dollars With the
amendment adopted the cost would
be considerably less but / did not
have time to figure what it would be.
Now a bill like that which ] mention
costs the State five dollars and
some cents for printing the usual
five hundred copies. 1t is q small
amount compared with some other
things passed in this Legislature
but when the bill gets up to three
thousand copies, the cost instead of
being five dollars and some cents
Is sixteen dollars and some cents;
and when the. bill is large enough
so that it takes more than two
pages, the cost increases, though
not in proportion to the number of
pages. Still. the cost is greater be-
cause they add the cost of ASSEMBLE
ing. trimming and binding; SO that
you can see something about what
the saving would be. You can esti-
mate it as well as I can.
Later in the session we will not
have time for matters so small as
this. The saving, will admit,
under printing in the usual way
might be considered small. 1t
would not be great enough to build
the Kennebec bridge nor to finance
the University OF Maine, but it
would be greater than the amount