People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-11-03

NARY YEARS.
W 0rlds Fair. ........ 5000 90
For invasion Of cholera. 1000 %
Erroneous appropriations to deafand
DUMB institution, at 0lathe, and
which will revert back into the
treasury ....................... $685. o.
University interest fund .......... s.S0l 81
Agriculture college interest fund lS,4l2 81 |
Normal School interest fund ..... 26,Sll 80 |
IOtal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S2l5,O2z "
None of the above bills appear in any
former year with which comparison is
made, and, therefore, should not be
charged to the Populist administration |
is fair comparison.
LIBERAL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
There was appropriated for the i'm
provement of the buildings of state in
stitution, steam and electric light |
plants, sewers, etc, S3l5, 800 which |
assistant state treasurer, George NJ |
Seward republican says is more than
five times as much as is ordinarially
appropriated for that purpose. As Pop
ulists we plead guilty to the charge
of favoring public improvements, and
taking care of our state institutions.
Out of this S315, 500, four fifths of it,
which is the amount appropriated over
ordinary years, or s242, 400, was saved to
the state because it was spent in build
ing up the state and her institutions,
while under former administrations the
politicians have managed to get up
Legislative Investigations" etc, by
which they disposed of this surplus APP
preparation.
ITEMS SAVED BY THE POPULIsT ADMINS
TRATION.
The state printing has cost the state as fol-
| lows:
For the two years under Republican
rule ending June 80, SS7........... S2l2,55j OIL
For the two years under Republican
| rule ending June 30. 1859 .......... 2l3,Sl9 0!
| For the two years under Republican
rule ending June 80, lS9l........... Do, $40 So
| For the two years under POpulist
rule ending June 80, 1898 -. 1i2,O97 Is
E. H. Snow, the present state printer
saved tor the two years ending
! June 30, lS9l over Cliff Baker for
ISL, (Which | take as a basis for
what VIII be saved in the next two
wears ........... ........... ........ sO,lS CT
| The state mil tia as recognized saves
the state over 5000 pes annum,
making in two years .............. 1900 90
| Fees OF secretary Of state Tor TWO
years which is now turned into the
state treasury by virtue Ola Popu-
list law of lSDl ............ OF. 1000 on
| Also fees OfauditOr which have aver
AGED $50 50 per month AMI which
in two wears will amOlnt TO ...... 1882
Also the bank cOmlnss or"r Office
has made sayin 3; suansOn turned
into the treasury m fees monthly,
S213l4 while Brelen,hal has aver
aged Si0S.l6 per m0ntn. y Florence
| in favor of the IOpulist a1minls-
tratiOn Of Sl5j02 pr month saved,
or for 2 two ara ..... O.. .... 3,24O IS
! Ben {. Rich ,cniel clerk OF the pOpu-
list house OF representatives OF 1871
and his assistant, cost the state
S7725O while Frank l.. Brown chef
clerk Of the republican house Of
| representatives OF l'9j ana MS
, assistant cost 81 ,S9Ll0, making
Of -. ...............- -. LIS G.
A. G.. Stacey secretary of the repub-
lican senate of 1921 and his assist
ant cost the state Sl22l, while W.
L Brown, secretary OF the POpulist
senate of 1893 and his assistant cost
r $3.50 making a difference, in favor of
, the Populists Of 49,. .....:........ AL o.
Total ............ .......... ..... slO2,2l7 6
There has been quite saving on tht
engrossing and enrolling forces of thu
! legislature since the demand for re
: trenchment by the POpulists, but "a
the records on this point do not appear
to be complete it is difficult to obtair
the exact figures, but suffice it to sa!
that it amounts to several Thousand
dollars saved to the state. There ar,
also savings being made by almost al
of the state institutions which are to-
numerous to mention.
Auditor Van Prather has alsomade
Il large saving over former years by re
ducing claims for fees made by sheriff
for taking prisoners to the peniten
-. tiary. For example: If a sheriff wa
d away from home forty-eight hours h
would formerly charge per diem fo
six DAYS, which was allowed, but fo
i which he is now allowed only tw
DAYS. Also, allowances have bee
made for roundabout trips to the pen
'e Tertiary, while now the auditor take
the map and counts up direct rout
~ to Lansing, for which pay is above
d only.
IN SUMMARY.
of Tltal repub lean deficiency bills. slSS,61
,otaI other Items ......... 4,t9l
" Total appropriations not made on
cy ordinary yeas ............... 2l3 W.
b. Total over dpprupr atoms Tor pub
:, tic imp OveIneniS. 242,4O
~ Items SAY by the POpulls. adj
IS ministratiOn. ................. luz zli
Total .................. AIS .lC3
Notwithstanding the growing
% mands of the state each succeedil
vear aad Notwithstanding the fact tn
" there was considerable money apr
On priated at the legislative session
o. 1898. which would not have been do
, :. - but for the stubbornness of the Repu
/, Il leans. yet have the very great plei
81 ure of announcing to the people of t
oo "a state of Kansas that the Peoples par
"a has and will save to them by the {
piration of their present terms Of off
. @ the sam OF S126. 1894 on the ite
3 % above mentioned, to which should
added all the savings made by oil
80 state officers and state institutions,
! 20 amount large enough to increase. Il
0 W sum to SSOG0dl n Gstfsf 70
The results Of the labor necess,
to compile the above statistics are