Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26
Salary. Employees


teen state institutions. including the Asy
lum for Incurablc Insane, Hastings; Hos
pital for Insane, Norfolk; Hospital for In
sane, Lincoln; Boys Industrial School
Kearney; Girls Industrial School, Geneva
Home for the Friendess Lincoln; Industrial
Home. Milford; Institution for the Blind
Nebraska City; Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb Omaha; Institution for the Feeble
Minded Beatrice; State Penitentiary, Lin
coin; Soldiers and Sailors Home, Grand
Island; Soldiers and Sailors Home, Milford:
Total appropriation for 1891, $l,26S, ,061; bal
ance on hand November 30. 1892, S26S. .397. .43 !;
4 appropriation for 1893. $9lS. .535; balance No
vcmber 30. 1894. $40 055.6O; appropriation
for 1895 1913. .297.S5; balance November 80,
1896. 1920 5000
These figures evidence the rapid increase
OF expenses in the care of the states wards.
, or the 1891 appropriation. 1899 ,G63.57 was
expended November 80, 1892, much of which
was expended for buildings and improve
ments. Since that time but very little
. building has been done by the state. six
hundred and seventy-eight thousand four
hundred and seventy nine dollars and forty
cents of the 1898 appropriation was expended
November 30 1894, and $7i3,65l.O2 of the
1925 appropriation Is now expended. There
are seventy-seven employees in the capitol
building in the various offices and in charge
of the building and ground who receive
monthly 81 1888 or SS523996 annually.
BONDS.
"Since November 30. 1894, the following
bonds have been registered in this office:
% Precinct and township bonds......:.. $500
City and village bonds.................. 63,25O
School bonds. l9j,96>
Total ............................. .S7l7.2lS
VALUED POLICY LAW
The auditor is very severe on the valued
policy law which he declares to be unjust
to Insurer and expensive 10 insured He in
sists that the bombastic resolutions of politi-
cal conventions are mo guarantee that they
are right" Continuing he says:
mo contract that is entirely in the hands
OF one of the Parties TO the contract, regard
less OF the conditions or interests of the
other, can be equitable and fair. The value
in policy law applies to stock companies
only and all mutual companies are exempt.
hence the extreme zeal on the part OF some
who profess to be so ardently Interested in
mutual insurance for its perpetuity. | in
sist that It is rankly unjust to environ the
business of any man with special embarrass-
ments and give to his Leighbor, who is en-
gagged In a similar business, the greatest i'm
mnnity theTefrom The figures demonstrate
ccncluslvely that the value in policy law
would have been no miSnomer II 1t had been
entitled the premium on arson law. InsuT-
ance rates have necessarily advanced under
this law and the rumber OF reliable stock
companies has constantly decreased by their
withdrawal out from the state well de-
this is an oppressive and unjust law there
cannot be single substantial fact produced
to cOntrovert. The citizers OF Nebraska are
paying thousands each year to keep in force
q law that is of the greatest possible benef:
to the hrebug'
AS TO THE SUGAR BOUNTY.
Concerning the payment OF the beet-sugar
bounty in warrants, Auditor Moore says:
After having examined carefully the act
providing for a bounty on beet sugar and
chicory and consulting counsel and fully ex-
aminlng the authorities Of other states, /
concluded that although no specific appro-
priation was provided by the legislature to
pay the bourties therein, provided that the
act was definite and specific enough to carry
with IL an ad yalorem appropriation. and
that when 1.-The manufacturers Of the sugar
and chcory had fully complied with the law
aud that fact was properly certified to this
office, II was my duty to issue warrants for
the amounts so found TO be due and on the
18th of December, 1895, | issued warrants to
the Norfolk Beet Sugar company foP SEA-
100 and the Oxnard Beet Sugar company of
Grand Island for Sl5.s7l.S5. and on the 18Th
of January, 1896, | issued another warrant
10 the Norfolk Beet Sugar company for So
GlO,60 All OF the above claims were ior
beet sugar manufactured from the crop or
1895 and from beets for which the company
paid s. per ton. The total OF the warrants
thus drawn to the two above named COM
panies is SAC 262 i5, and January H. 1896,
Issued a warrant for S622. 81 TO the German
Chicory company OF O'Neill for chicory of
the crop OF 1895, making the total OF all
bounty warrants issued by me SAG, ,SS5.2 .26. Re