Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28
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"Another new Office was created
with salary Of $1,000 a year, called
state accountant The object Of the
office is, first, to provide a snug berth
for some neutrality-suspicious. a member
Of the Legislature that created it.
Secondly, the duty Of the accountant
is to receive $1,000 a year for examln-
ing the books Of state officers who re-
ceive $4,000 ayear, to see il they
are straight, Nothing like BUSINESS in
running the affairs Of government"
NO RAILROAD LEGISLATION.
In telling why there was no rail-
road Legislation, he says;
"rhe railroad lawyers that are al
ways sprnkled through the legisla-
ture are too well up in their business
to permit anything Of that sort,
'In nothing are the people Of Kan
sas more outrageousy imposed upon
and robbed than in the matter Of In
surance. A bill was introduced, or
perhaps several Of them, that were
very binding upon Insurance. COM
panies. Not one of them passed The
insurance lobby was too influential"
He then calls attention to the fail
IRE of the Legislature committees to
investigate the Kansas City stock
yards, the state penItentiary manage
ment and the state insurance depart
ment, and the failure to pass con-
gressional apportonment bill.
much credit is claimed for the leg
slsture, because it abolished six judi
icial districts, although it created six
officers more expensive in their place.
But IT is claimed that the act is not
constitutional; that there is no power
to legislate q judge out of Office. The
act is to be tested before the supreme
court. So that even this saying may
not materialize,
THE MISCELLANEOUS STEAL,
"But the elimination and summing
up of all scandalous Legislation is to
be found in the miscellaneous appro-
priatlon bill, the last act passed. 1t
is freckled with steals. Every fraud,
steal, extortion bogus claim, illegal
charge is found there. The only
wonder is that two or three steals,
but more legitimate than any that
were allowed, we're cut out,
'But the summing up of all the
scandals is the allowance of the claims
of the Dunsmore rump house
"We have not space to enumerate
the scandalous allowances made in
this bill.
Gas a fitting wind-up Of the legis-
lature, when it adjourned, hundreds,
perhaps thousands Of dollars worth
of state property was raked up and
carried away by members, officers,
clerks. dupes, pets and hangers-on, in
the way Of paper, pencils, inkstands,
mucilage, bottles, erasers, rubbers
and other articles purchased for the
use of the legislature, to be used as
needed. 1t was equal to raid Of
bandtti upon frontier store.
EXPECTS CRITICISM.
1--WE are we'll aware that we shall
be assailed and denounced for this
criticism by those who have profted
by the late session. We shall be ac-
cused Of all manner Of unworthy mo-
tives. and denounced for furnishing
ammunition to the enemy to fight the
republican party. If this legislature
represented the sentiment Of the re-
publican party, then it needs to be
fought, aud deserves to be defeated.
Recent reverses should have taught
the party something. 1t should have
striyen to avoid the blundArs and ex-
cesses Of the party lately hurled from
power, instead Of going more deeply
into the work of plumber. II this
was to be the rule, better that the
calamity party should have elected
it's state ticket and Legislature, and
have borne the odium.
If the people are to be deceived,
imposed upon and plundered, it does
not make 1t easier to bear that repub-
lIcans are the perpetrators What
avails it to defeat the calamity party
and then permit little remnant of
that party TO coerce the legislature
into all manner OF schemes Of plum
der for the benefit chiefly of calamity
ites2 1t would have been better to
have let improvements at the public
institutions remain at q stand-still
for two years longer than to have
submitted to such disgrace. II cal
amity recklessness ard plundering
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