The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-02

situations was reduced from $50 to s24
month, and the cut in the pay of en-
ployes from $500 to $40 a year.
The total appropriations for 1890 and
1891 were: For 1890, sl,4O6, O1299; for
1891, 81, Isl, 19457. The total appropri-
atoms last session were: For 1892, 81
264, 1928 and for 1898, s1,1so, 400. 81.
Deduct from the sum appropriated Tor
1890 the state house appropriation,
s1T4, 95L IS, and it leaves the appropria-
ton for that year 81, 231 ,O61.01 deduct
from the appropriation for 1891 the APP
preparation for state house, S1S9, Ss4.
aud it leaves the appropriation for that
year Sl,112, 1867, showing the appro-
priations made by the last legislature
to be in excess of those of two years
ago the sum of sSS, OIL so for 1892, and
$1S, SIS. 9s for 1895.
The senate also made a number of
small appropriations for 1898, amount
ing in the aggregate to $50, 800, for adj
ditions to several of the incomplete
public institutions which seemed neces-
sary to meet the increased attendance,
in which the house refused to concur
For two years more the unfortunate of
the state are left to continue in their
unhappy condition in crowded, poorly
ventilated and uncomfortable quarters
The old soldiers of the state are asked
whether the appropriation for more
room and additional comfort was not
needed at the orphans home. They are
also referred TO the liberal Judgment of
the people of Kansas as to whether or
not workshop and some method Of
employment ought not to have been
provided at the reform school for the
active, bright, though hayward, boys
who are placed there for reformation
by the laws of the state, whom it Is the
policy of the state to send out into the
world with methods of industry and in
formation and ability to earn an honest
living and become useful and law-abid-
ing citizens, or whether it is not false
economy to keep these restless, active
spirits confined in idleness during their
period of incarceration, and then turn
them out to return to their old habits
of vice and prey upon society until
some act, the direct results of their lack
of proper and judicious training for an
industrious and useful life, shall land
them in the penitentiary.
Alliance leaders make the remarlIa-
BILE statement that the last Legislature
was compelled to appropriate SS50,O0O
for deficiencies caused by extravaganza
of the previous republican legislature.
The only appropriations made that
could in any way be classed as defici-
encies were the following, which show
the average relative truthfulness of al
lance figures:
Care of Agricultural college funds. 81 $3.50
Executive and judiciary bills $500. 25l942 "a
Soldiers home ......................... 6375OO
Industrial school for girls .......-..... 100000
State printing ............-......-..-.- 'UVjOOV
District Judges. $4,000
REGENTS, trustees, etc ............. $500 90
State Normal school --.....-..-....... sOOOo
Conveying prisoners to pen........... 100000
Total $40 SIS. 90
These appropriations were for the
compensation of officers, appointees and
institutions of the state that were au-
thorized by law two years previous and
no provision made for payment or sup
port that year.
The soldiers home was established
after that session of the legislature,
and of course could not have been pro-
vided for by that body.
The industrial school for girls was
also put in operation since the session
of 1859.
Then comes the state printing bill
These deficiencies always do and always
will continue to occur biennially as
long as the present method of doing the
public printing continues. 1t was for
printing caused and ordered by the sit
ting legislature, for which provision, if
made, could only be a mere guess. As
to the 10000 item, SIS, 300 SIS of the sum
was for printing for the state board of
agriculture, large part of which was
for the reports of the secretary of the
board. The farmers of the state may
pass upon the advisability of that APP
preparation.
Had the house of representatives
passed senate bill No 1, which passed
the senate early in the session, was
sent to the house and there buried
through that bodv's failure to pass
needed legislation, this problem of pub
lie printing would have been solved
This bill fairly reduced the price in
comparison to the amount of printing
done now with TIE work required when
the present prices were fixed by law,
and very materially reduced the amount
OF printing authorized by law for the
various officers and institutions of the
state
The items for regents, trustees, etc,
had been omitted in the enrolment two
years before, having been passed by the
legislature.
Conveying prisoners to the peniten-
tiary are accounts that from time to
time are filed under law, and aecumu-
late in the auditors Office, by the sher-
ifs of the several counties, and to whom
the state pays these expenses
There might at this time be some
thing said about the wasteful and I'M
necessary expenses caused by the house
in initiating and causing extravagant
Investigations and trials in order to
wreak vengeance upon individuals who
had thwarted some of their designs.
The Coffeyville investigation was not
inaugurated to ascertain the truth, but
to punish, at state expense, one of their
number who had betrayed their secret
organization-the Videttes- The i'm
parchment trial was brought about in
the house because certain of their
members had been prevented from rob
bling their fellow-citizens in western
counties. So on the list might be ex-
tended, showing that with no pretense
OF honesty this reform house but deemed
that body an inquisitorial organization,