, 1890-12-24

NOmhlA-NSS ANO - W NhOh was NCicEIcu
the report on the Grant investigation
recommended the following appropra-
tons be made to discharge the indebted
ness of the state to NJ. N. Grant:
LIST. To cover miscellaneous ex-
penses incurred from March
81, 1890 to Nov. s.. 1S9O......S 65 90
I'd. To ooyer expenses incurred
for attorneys fees.... 100 90
Sd. 10 cover expenses incurred
for rent of furniture. .. 100 IS
4th. To cover expenses incurred
for clerical work from March
81, 1890 to Nov. s. $500. 1913 70
9Th. To cover general expense
incurred from March 81, 1888
to March 81. 1890, twentY-four
months at SIS a month. ........ I,S00 90
Item No represents moneys paid or
due to G. W. Stewart and D. W. Gill for
clerical services perform ID from March 81,
1890 to Nov. s. 1890. We believe this
amount to be a fair and just reimburse
ment for actual and necessary expense in
CURED in discharging the duties imposed
by law upo the Office of auditor. The
special joint committee, whose reports we
have under consideration. recommend
unanimously that appropriations be made
to cover like expenses to be incurred BY
the present auditor. viz: The sun of
$3.50 to cover the period from Nov. s.
1890 to Jan. l, 1891 and the sum OF
81. 200 per year thereafter.
Auditor Grant, in his report to this leg
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81 400 per year for the use of his success
sor. Auditor Smith, in his report in
1886, recommends an increased ~appropria-
for this purpose. Siace that time the
duties of the office have vastly increased.
Item No. 8, amounting to 81, 800 COW
ers the two year period ending March 81,
1890. This sum represents 81, 200 actu-
ally paid out by the auditor to G. W.
Stewart for necessary clerical work in the
office and 5000 asked to be appropriated
in addition to make up a total compensa-
ton to said Stewart of SIS per month for
such work. We do not recommend the
payment at this time of the sun of
81, 200 claimed for moneys paid out for a
similar purpose from March 81, 1886 to
to March 81, 1888. for the sole reason
that it does not appear that the au-
dltOr made a proper and timely effort to
have this amount allowed by the tenth leg
lative assembly which met in 1888 and
which properly should have disposed OF
this claim.
The same objection does not apply to
the claim for the two year period ending
March 81, 1890. for the reason
that the auditor properly and sea
sonably presented the claim to the elev-
enth legislative assembly, and that, after
full Investigation by the auditing commit
tee and other members of said assembly,
a bill was prepared and introduced con.
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preparation for such. The chairman Of
the ways and means committee to which
said bill was referred. failed or refused to
report the same to the house and provi.
sion for h payment of this Indebtedness
was thereby defeated.
We are entirely satisfied, as was the
auditing committee of the last preceding
legislature, that the claim is a perfectly
just and proper indebtedness OF the state
and that it should be paid.
A vast amount of additional and up.
usual work was imposed upon the auditor
by the legislatures OF 1886 and 1888, and
no provision was made to cover the extra
work and expense.
The auditors duties as insurance com
missioner, member of the capitol com
mission and member of the board for
leasing school and university lands, were
very arduous and exacting, and in fact
were almost doubled in the aggregate
as compared with previous years.
The bill introduced in the last assembly
proposed to turn over the insurance fees
paid into the auditors Office instead of
making an appropriation for a stated sum
and for this reason no bills were presented
by the auditor. The appropriation then
proposed somewhat exceeded the amount
now claimed. The appropriation asked
for is not unusual or extraordinary, similar
appropriations having frequently been
made By former legislatures for like
claims.
All of which is respe stfully submitted.
J. E. HIrrLE,
ORA HALEY,
RAN MERRILL,
ED THORPE.
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