Show AUDIT SYSTEM IN THE DISCARD Other Innovations and Extravagances Extravagances Extravagances of Public Printer to Be Investigated SCANDAL GROWS EACH DAY DA DAI I EYES OF CHAIRMAN LANDIS OPENED Washington Feb 6 Concurring in inthe inthe inthe the recommendation of Acting Public Printer Rossiter the president today canceled the contract of the govern government government ment with the audit system y teri and ordered its ejection from rom the government print printIng printIng printing Ing office at the end of six days ays The audit system Is the corporate name of ot the cost ascertaining method which was installed more than a year ear ago by Public Printer Stillings Under its operation the government has paid about for the thee privilege of cal calculating calculating calculating the tho cost of government print printing printing printIng ing and binding System a Gold Brick Representative Landis of Indiana chairman of the joint committee which is Investigating the government print irig office says s s that the audit system as asit asIt asit it has been Installed and operated in Washington is a gold brick thinly plated with the genuine stuff We Ve have paid for this brick said Mr or Landis and before we throw it out w are go going goIng going ing to extract the modicum of ot value It If Itis I is in gilded glided with I mean that you cant canu can run thO th government printing all its departments and its em without using some method of or cost ascertainment So if there tl re are any good features in the audit system we are going to keep them for we hav have paid for them many times over Oer Lid to Come Off Mr Landis is authority for the state statement statement statement ment that the joint Investigation com corn committee committee purposes to take the lid entirely off and delve to the bottom of ot the many charges some of them definite and dis distinct distinct distinct others of a public rumor charac character ter ten which eventuated yesterday in the suspension by the president of Public Printer Stillings and his hi succession by W V S Rossiter of the census bureau Mr Rossiter has been directed by the president to make an Impartial survey of conditions there and to recommend methods for reducing the office to a business basis This task an extremely arduous and complex one he plunged into today and his judgment tonight is that in about three weeks he will vill be beable beable beable able to submit an intelligent report to the White house This afternoon he male mafle a brief preliminary report recommending recommending recommending mending discontinuance of the audit system Printing Office Elegance Among Ain ng the charges which the joint Investigation committee will inquire into pursuant to the suspension of ot Public Printer Stillings js s that th t his administration tion has compassed remarkable extravagances extravagances Chairman Landis who visited the government printing office today tod y to call on Mr Rossiter found himself ushered into hUo surroundings which a multimillionaire fancy In the public printers offices were costly pictures appointments of elegance little In keeping with a I I printing and binding plant The com corn committee committee with the help of Ms M lJ Rossiter will Ill endeavor to find out why roughly speaking It has cost the government 50 to turn out a job which commercial houses would do for 15 16 The commit committee tee may inquire into such reports as these That 45 cents a pound has been paid for qualities of inks worth less than 20 cents a pound that the storerooms of the government printing office contain at it the present time more paper stock than under other administrations was used up in half a dozen years that so great reat was the pomp with which Public I Printer Stillings surrounded himself that persons having business with him I were frequently required to make malte ap appointment appointment a day da ahead and never could gain his presence without running the I fire lire of or uniformed lackeys and thread threading threading ing a maze of ot scarlet tape tapeS S |