People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-08


bonds to the amount of $4,000 which
the state treasurer refused to register
warrants for on the ground that the
Indebtedness of the county exceeded
the statutory 10 per cent limit. Mr..
Mckinley said that Superintendent
Gaines told him that the office of the
treasurer was exceeding its authority
by doing any such thing as refusing
to register the warrants.
Mr.. Mckinley said: 40 make a
long story short, l was given to under
stand in few days that the warrants
would be registered il there was 1915
in cash put up. | don't know to
whom. Well, l borrowed the 800
Here Mr.. Mckinley produced a note
dated October 81, 1894, payable on de-
mand to the Merchants National
bank of Topeka, and signed by n. D.
Mckinley, as an evidence of the fact
that he borrowed the money as he
testified. In response to questions
the witness stated that he haC secur-
ed the money on that note and sent
1t to the state house.
Mr.. Mckinley testified that Grant
Gaines, brother of Superintendent
Gaines, and bond clerk in the Office.
also clerk of the board of school fund
commissioners, told him that 1915
would have to be put up to have COM
pleted the transaction and at a time
after the warrants had been issued
and taken into the Office of the treas
urer. The witness testified that he
did not know who got the 1919. Mr..
Mckinley also testified that he had
been approached with demand for
money on another occasion, in con.
nection with Wichita county bonds,
by Grant Gaines and O. O. Osborn.
son of the eX-secretary of state. and
at present a lawyer in Topeka. He
also testified that Grant Gaines had
asked for a "divy" of the commits
ions. Mr., McGinley's commissions
would have amounted to 1920 or
$1,000. Gaines wanted One-third of it,
and was paid 1925 after the zeal was
contaminated. Young Osborn also
wanted a "divy," Mckinley says, and
he paid him $500, because Osborn rep
resented to Mckinley that the bonds
would not 60 through unless he was
included in the rake-Off. Gaines also
represented that the bond business
could be facilitated if he was paid
properly out of the commission. The
total amount paid to Gaines, Osborn
and to some one else, Mckinley says
was nearly $1,000, leaving Mckinley
about $500 after the PopsagOt through
with him.
Mckinley testified that he was also
"bled" by Grant Gaines and o. o. Os.
BORN in the Hamilton county purchase
which amounted to nearly $4,000
The witness had particularly forgot
ten the amount he gave up, but
thought it was 500, perhaps more.
Asked as to his opinion where the
first 1875 went to, Mckinley said:
"My impression and my belief is that
Grant Gaines never got a cent of that
money. However, Gaines said to me
one day: "Time is flying and oppor
tunities are passing, and propose tc
embrace it when l have one.' Gaines
also told me that he had to divide the
money, but he did not say with
whom"
Asked who brought him the inform
alton that 1915 would be required be-
fore the bonds would 90 through, Nc.
Ginley said: "That l decline to state
as he is prominent business man in
Topeka, and / do not care to drag
him into this controversy. He told
me that the money was to to the
state treasurer's Office