The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-21
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 81.
TWELVE PAGES.
Republican Practice VS.. Republican
PrOfessions.

&DOfVOO VI G0bI1aASAAO " AAO -
in line with the economical traditions Of
the democratic party.
Frugality in the expenditure OF public
moneys Is a cardinal article of the demo-
cratic creed. The policy of the party, in
state and nation, has always been against
the multiplication of offices, the payment
of excessive official e~mOluments, and the
maintenance OF prodigal government.
The republican party, on the contrary,
following in the footsteps of Its progeni-
tors, the federalists and wings, has always
followed a policy OF Profuse expenditures.
High taxes and lavish appropriations,
with their natural concomitants of ex-
profligacy and corruption, are invariably
features of republican rule, whether in the
nation or in the states.
Some recent illustrations of these re-
publican tendencies it may be profitable
70 recall at this time.
The Fifty-frst congress, now sitting at
Washington-the first which has been re-
publican in both branches since the con-
gress elected in 1S~S0-signalized the first
ten months of its existence by creating
1,161 Offices, involving an annual increase
In the government pay rolls OF Sl,235,0 900.
And Mr.. Tom REEDS congress was not
content with this large addition to the
public burdens. During the same period
OF ten months it added Sl35,Oo0 TO the ng-
gregate salaries attached TO offices already
in existence, making a grand total of
81, $4,000 added in ten months to the
governments salary list. 1t has never
been shown that any necessity existed for
the increase of a single dollar in the ex-
penses of federal oficialism.
A review of the expense account of the
last republican house of representatives
which sat IN Indiana-that OF isis in
teresting at this time. That eminent ex-
ponent of peanut politics, Mr.. WARREN G.
SAYRE of Wabash was speaker of this
house, and ruled it with an iron hand.
This house cost the people over 81 900,
although it originated only thirteen bills
which became laws, and those bills were
purely of a local nature.
Bills are engrossed and enrolled in the
house which originates them. The thir-
teen bills which the house clerks of 1887
engrossed and enrolled do not comprise
one-third as many ines as are contained
in the election bill passed by the last legis-
lature. Yet the republican house main
tanned, during the whole session, at s. per
day, five engrossing and three enrolling
clerks, making the engrossing and en-
Hi - -,oD HT1 ooa% tha $780,
ers 500.
Besides these sinecures there were I'M
der the principal clerk OF the house a read
ing clerk, file clerk, register clerk, roll
clerk and supply clerk, thirteen in all,
drawing s. per day, except the reading,
file and roll clerks, who received so extra
each, by resolution, at the end OF the ses-
sion. w. II. SMITH, better known as
'LYING BILL SMITH," was principal clerk,
and in addition to his IS per diem he was
allowed by resolution $500 for indexing
the calendar and 500 for sending out
documents" BY resolution the principal
clerk was authorized to draw acquisitions
on the public printer for printing and
stationery and to supply the house with
everything necessary. SMITH, under this
authority, went into the Wholesale Sup
ply" business with a Supply clerk" at So
per day TO receive and distribute public
plumber.
On file at the state-house are the house
warrants and clerks requisi ions for such
articles as decorated pitchers, )" $3.50 for
a students lamp" "S64.S3 Tor brushes and
brooms." "SS.45 for soap" directory of
city of Indianapolis, So" The requisi-
tions on the public printer call for knives
by the gross, pocketbooks, stationery. etc.
Some of the chief officers, it is said, laid
in a supply Of stationery sufficient TO last
them a lifetime. One thing certain, none
of the large quantity OF supplies" ETC.,
bought for the use Of the house remained
in the capitol after the legislature adj
lourned-not ever the directory and
students lamp. The indexing of the
calendar, for which SMITH obtained $500,
can be lone in one day, while the 500
"for sending out documents" il not a
steal was nothing less than a gift. for there
were no documents to send out.
Under the assistant clerk, whose duty it
Is to make the journal of the house and
act as warrant clerk, there were employed
thirteen men at 81 per day. At the close
of the session the house voted an extra
allowance of $50 to several of them. The
assistant clerk also came in for a "fat
take" OF 500 for indexing the journal Ia
Job worth So, and another allowance for
"~closing up" the journal was voted him
by a strict party vote. The national con-
gress is e-xtravagant enough, yet the sen
ate journal is made by one man. One
clerk and an assistant prepare the house
journal.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Indi-
ana house of 1887 resolved to 90 into a
dead lock by refusing to act with the SEN
ate, thirteen committee clerks were main
tanned during the session at s. per day.
One VI. o. mckinney received s. per
day for services as sergeant-at-arms of the
committee on election of the u. 5. senator.
He kept on drawing pay long after Mr.
TURTLE had been elected; in fact, to the
close OF the session.
Fourteen boys were carried on the pay
roll as pages, each receiving s. aday. Two
of these pages were sons of republican