Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-20
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News of State
Interest.

| week.
Hon. Bernard Kelly has leased resi-
dence property in Emporia and it is.
said he will change his residence from
Topeka.
The supreme court has about 1,600
cases vet to examine before the work oil
certifying cases to the appellate court is
completed.
The sound of the shovel is abroad III
the lower part of the capitol. Men are
at work clearing cut the accumulation
of filth and dirt.
The investigation of Wait, membor
! of the state board of charities Will prob
ably continue the greater part OF the
month as witnesses are subpoenaed to
appear before the committee on the
22nd of April.
Quo warranto proceedings have been
| instituted in the supreme court on be-
half of the state of Kansas by Attorney
! General F. B. Dawes to secure posses.
SIGN of the Office of state bank commits
sioper now occupied by John W. Breid-
enthal and to which Hon. 9. 5. Jobes,
of Attica has been appointed by Gov
ernor Morrill,. The hearing of the case
will be had during the May term of the
supreme court if there are NO dilatory
| tactics.
The state treasurer paid off bonds to
the amount of $36,500 issued March 6,
1875, for the purpose of repelllng In
| dian invasions. The bonds matured
March Is, but were not paid at that
time owing to the fact that the money
appropriated by the last legislature was
not available on account of the law not
having been published in the official
state paper. The publication OF the
law has removed all barriers to the pay
ment of the bonds and the transaction
is completed. So far as the transaction
was concerned it did not involve the re-
moval of any sum of money from the
state treasury. The bonds were paid
by the transfer of the money to the per-
manent school fund from the general
revenue fund. This operation in itself
was very simple, but it cancels S36,5O
in z per cent bonds and increases the
amount of money to the credit OF the
permanent school fund.
AS state mine inspector Mr.. Gallagher
drew a salary of $4,000 a year from the
state. but as has been customary the
last few years the last legislature allowed
him deficiency appropriation OF ST., 500.
This appropriation was IN the mlscel-
laneous appropriation bill which has
provision in it that the auditor shall
paw out only such amounts as may be
necessary on itemized vouchers of the
various claims. Mr.. Gallagher pre-
amount of the 81, 500 appropriation, but
the assistant auditor told him he must
present an itemized voucher. Mr.. Gal
lager again called for his money and
presented a statement of expenses for
travelling, expressage, hack hire, livery,
postage and other things amounting al
together to $2,367.65 The assistant
auditor thought the itemized statement
should show where the mine inspector
travelled and how he used the postage
as is shown by the vouchers OF the other
departments which are now being au-
dited. Assistant Auditor Cook refused
to-pay out the 81, 500 until an itemized
statement was presented according to
law. Assistant Auditor Cook says as
long as he is in charge of auditing state
accounts he proposes to see that the
vouchers are properly ltemized, no mat
ter from what department they are pre-
scented.
Governor Morrill,, in an interview, has
replied to an attack upon him made by
a Methodist preacher of Atchison. The
attack was upon the policy of Governor
Morrill's administration in relation to
enforcement of the liquor laws in the
cities of the first class Governor Nor |
rill denies that prohibition is failure |
in every city in the etate; that SO far as
he is informed, joints are open in but |
three cities Atchison, Leavenworth and |
Wichita, and in the last named city they |
are not verv wide open. The governor |
continues: II am willing to face con-
dition and to admit what my predeces-
sors have not had the courage to do, |
and that is that the law cannot be en-
forced where local public sentiment is
against it. We cannot deny facts; and
it is fact, and Mr.. Brumbaugh knows
it, that the prohibitorv law, under pres
ent local conditions, cannot be strictly |
in a few weeks. but the COM
munity would be plunged into quarrel
that would be of infinitely more injury
to the city's welfare that the few sa-
looms that are run. am friend of
the prohibitory law, and would like
to see every drinking place in the state
closed; but 1T has been the experience of
fourteen years that it cannot be done.
We can only do the best we can, and
that. believe, the officers of the law
are doing. First build up local senti-
nent in favor of the law and then go
after the saloons. That is the practical
wav to enforce prohibition. I already
have complaints from Kansas City. Ev-
Dry day get letters telling me of the
protest against the enforcement of the
law and informing me that business men
are leaving the city to avoid increased
taxes made necessary by the absence of
the saloon revenue. You see, that is
where tbs shoe pinches, and if Mr..