The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

the same. Do you for an instant believe il
could be brought about? / think not.
| We would 90 to our respective homes
| some of us would take our statutes-and
we would say, let us see what that 'de-
pository law" says, anyhow, and we read
in the first section that the treasurer shall
| deposit daily in bank or banks to be des-
| ignated by the board of commissioners, all
public moneys, and that the banks shall
paw interest on the average daily balance
| of the month at a rate to be agreed upon;
| and that the bank or banks shall give
| bond; and that on the first Monday of each
month the bank or banks shall file state
ment with the county clerk showing the
| daily balance for the month and the ac-
| crued interest thereon. Then we come To
the second section and we read: 1.-The
| provisions. so far as the same are apple
| able of sections 3, 4, j. 6, z, 8 and 9 of chap
ter IS, session laws of 1876, so far as the
| same are hereby made applicable TO the
| provisions in ehis act You say: What
! is that? and you read it over again and
| for the life of you cannot tell what it does
meafi But you say, "Well / will look up
those sections, and proceed to do so. You
! find they are a part of a depository law
| for counties having p, 000inhabitants. You
read section and find that it provides
that the treasurer shall file with the clerk
! a duplicate deposit ticket etc. Well, yon
say that is business. Let us see what sec
| tion 4 says, and we find that the clerk
| shall charge the bank account with the
deposit. All right. We read section 5
| and we find it a repition. in part, of section
/. So we read 8, ami il says that all checks
of the treasurer on the bank holding the
public money shall be cOuntersigned by
the county clerk. That is another good
section but it will take a little work, we
say. But let us look at section and we
find that il provides that we shall charge
the treasurer with the amount of this
check, so countersigned, and credit the de
pository, and we say that is all right but 1t
means too much work entirely, Then we
read s, and that is the section quoted be-
fore, where the clerk shall cOuntersign his
receipts and charge the treasurer with the
amount, and you say, that settles 1t; why,
this law will require me to do everything
the treasurer does, in addition to making
the tax rolls and doing all the county
business, why that will take two more
deputies They do not pay me near as
much as the treasurer and they put all
this work on-that is not fair-I Will not
do it. So you 90 back and read section
again. and while you do not make any
more sense out of it that you did at first or
second reading, you decide that owing to
the enormous amout OF additional work
it would be necessary for you to do that
the provisions of same are not appllca-
ble'' and you renounce the resolution you
voted and pledged for, and in consequence
continue in the old rut. Well, what is TO
be done? 1t seems to me, Mr. President,
that there is only one way out" and
that is to put the Office up in the rank TO
which it bel ngs-that of first place-fOr
there and through it originates and ends
all matters touching the interests of the
people. And then in addition let the
legislature blot out all the conflicting, all
these applicable, ali these do it this way,
and all these do IL that way sections, and
place in lieu clear, plain, simple,
straightforward, unconficting statute set
thug forth the duties of the clerk in no
uncertain tone. Will they do it? Or will
they pass an additional section covering
some point that will be in direct conflict
with some other section now on the
statute book, as has been the ruler ]
wish TO see. but urge upon each of you
the daily balance" as the correct method
of keeping accounts with the treasurer.
w. NJ Adams offered a resolution of
thanks to Mr.. Patterson, for the paper,
which was adopted. 90
The association adjourned to meet this
morning at o'clock.
At p. m. today the association will take
in the city by electric cars as far as the
cars reach. They are billed for Fairmount,
packing houses, and Riverside.
CLERK NOTES.
L. G. NIustoe of Kingman, is far reach
ing.
Ben Fag IN of Ellsworth, claims to be
Irish, but no one will believe it.
E. E. Beeler, the corpulent clerk from
Ness, is lending weight to the sessions.
N. ID. Greebe, according to some of the
members, is the orator of the association.
w H. Carnes of Sumner. is one of the
first termers, but does not jump at his
shadow
c. T. Hawkinson of Mcpherson, is deputy
at home and dandy clerk at the annual
meetings.
NJ II. Evans of Marion, says his stock in
the famous springs is not as mercurial as
railroad shares.
II. e. Patterson, or "Pat'' for short, is
referred to as the Irish member at large,
but he makes dandy president all the
same
w. E. Davis comes up peacably from
Stevens county. He says the Sam Woods
characteristics don't reach every one out
west
Auditor of State-elect Hovey, of
Thomas county, is among the clerks. He
is treasurer of his county and may want to
see how the county clerk of Thomas is
going to keep tab on him at the roundup.
Secretary Atkinson, of Cherokee, for a
zinc man is a hustling clerk. 1t may be
better to say that although he is rich
zinc mine owner he does not fail to keep
things strictly correct in the little county
of Cherokee.