Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1914 — POINTS OPT PRINTING WASTE [ARTICLE]

POINTS OPT PRINTING WASTE

Representative Barnhart's Committee I’rges Revision of System. Washington, May 2.—Declaring that there is an enormous waste of money for public printing, Representative Barnhart, of Indiana, chairman of the committee on printing, in a report submitted to the hbuse today urged thorough revision of the laws governing government printing, which- he asserts woujd mean a saving of about $1,000,000 a year. The report recommends legislation to effect printing reforms all the way from reorganization of the government printing office to the buying of envelopes., The report asserts that there are 1,500 tons of useless printed matter now’ stored at the capitol, and that in six years 6,049,410 useless volumes have been printed. Representative Barnhart has drawn up a bill which proposes to make the government printing office responsible to the congress, with the joint committee on printing empowered to reduce duplications of printed documents, etc.