Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-10-12
LOOT iIIH[ TREASURY
STUART SHOWS UP REPUBLICAN
STATE OFFICIALS.
Openly Violate Provisions of the Statute
In Taking the Census to Give Employ
ment to Clerks Who Are Forced to Con-
tribute ts the Campaign Fund.

section l4l OF the code (McClaln's) pro.
vides that the executive council shall be
composed of the governor, auditor, Sec
rotary and treasurer of state.
Section 14S provides, that the eXecu-
tive council shall cause suitable blanks
to be printed for the purpose of taking
the census.
Section 100 provides that the town
ship assessors each census year shall re-
turn to county auditors such enumera-
tlon of facts as are necessary for the
compilation of census abstract, and that
the county auditors shall forward to the
secretary of state abstracts of this in
formation and
Section 152 provides that the secretary
shall cause an abstract of these alb
stracts prepared by the county auditors
TO be recorded in book and published
m such manner as the executive coun-
Gil may direct.
1t will be observed that the census re-
port is to be prepared under the direc-
tion of the executive council, and that
the work of the secretary of state under
the law is comparatively small, and
consists only of furnishing an abstract
OF the abstracts supplied by the county
auditors.
IS
Yet, at the commencement of Jack
sons administration the foregoing pro-
visions of the statute were openly vio-
lated by an order Of the executive coun-
ell, and the council has ever since
continued to disregard the law. The
county auditors We're directed by the ex-
ecutive council to instruct the assessors
20 make their census enumeration in
duplicate, and instead of requiring the
county auditors to make abstracts of this
information according to law, the
county auditors were directed to return
TO the secretary of state the whole mass
OF information furnished by the asses
sOrs. But for this violation of law by
the executive council this work would
have been done, as it should have been
done, in the county auditors offices,
without one dollars expense to the
people. It is certainly proper to inquire
why this new plan was adopted by the
executive council in violation of the
statute. No honest reason can be given.
The members of the executive council
were under oath to conduct their offices
according to law, and the change of
method was in direct violation of the
law, and it increased the expense thous-
ands of dollars. If the plan adopted
had been honestly followed out, even
then it would have unjustly relieved
the county auditors OF the burden sof
doing portion of their official duty for
which they received salaries. It would
have thrown upon the state the burden
of paying clerks for tabulating the
CenSuS-a burden that the law places
t p,,+ ' tI,a o ,mnt;:1o au .uh;
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s mmoa e ono sdme couia 40 nave 3een pro
And 1i Is1 hsnests a. 90 r Per thousand
The executive corno;1 f.;,aa =. -,