Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-04
BOARD OF COyTROL AFFAIRS
Attorney General di5Ses an Opinion on
Knotty Points.
TRUSTEES SHOULD PURCHASE SUPPLIES
Cone=e for the Blind mt Vinton Will
He Seriously CtrippIed by
Certain Provision of
the Inv.
UsTEes SHOULD PURCHASE SUPPLIES

DES MOlNbS IA, June 3.-lSpeclal lei
egram.)-The law creating the State Board
of Control requires state institutions to
make estimates to the board before the
fifteenth of each month for supplies for the
following month. The board does not as
sumo control of the institutions until July
l, and the trustees have no authority after
that. This leaves the institutions without
any supplies for the month OF July unless
the present trustees have authority TO buy
these supplies in advance and leave them
in the institution for use during Jlly.
In an opinion given to the Board OF Con-
troll today, Attorney General Remley holds
that the trustees have authority to do so and
should do so. General Remley also replies
to several other questions propounded by
the board, tending to liberalize the law and
makes its action possible. He holds that the
college for the blind at Vinton cannot spend
more than SIC, 900 for furniture, books, maps,
compensations of principal, teachers and
other employees, although an allowance of
s35 per capita per quarter is made for cur
rent expenses. He says this money cannot
be used for the purposes specified in the
$40, 900 appropriation. The Board of Con-
troll says this will seriously cripple the insti-
! tuition.
On LincoIn's Star.
Iowa men will be appointed on Brigadier
General Lincoln's staff. Aside from the two
aides-de-Camp, there are several appoint
ment for details to be made by the a%djutant
general of the United States, but the recon-
mendations of the brigadier generals count
in such details. General Lincoln says he is
going to make it his endeavor to have Iowa
men in the army detailed to these offices.
For the details as brigade q~uartermaster and
commissary there are Iowa men who have
appointments in these departments: M. M.
Marshall and d. E. r. Hutchins, of this city
in the commissary department and Lieuten-
ant Colonel c.. w. King of Fort Dodge in
the quartermaster's department.
General Lincoln said today that he would
endeavor to have Lieutenant e. f.. Ely de-
tailed to act as assistant a~djutant general
on his staff. Lieutenant Ely, although q
regular army man, is an Iowa soldier. He
was formerly a member of the Iowa Ma.
tional Guard and went to West Point from
Iowa. He has been in the regular armJ
service for about ten years, being a lieuten'
ant in the Twenty-second infantry. He ha!
been at his home town. Iowa City, detailed
as military instructor in the State university
for several years. y"
George G. Henry Of Burlington will b,
one of General Lincoln's aides-de-camp. HI
has rendered his service to the general as
volunteer dlue-ue-9dHlp1 " pay HIS oWn Ca
penses. General lincoln has accepted tn
tender. Mr.. Henry9is the son of DR.. Henry
a prominent physician. He is a man o
wealth, who has Travelled extensively. H
received military training at college.
Harry Polk of this city will be the othe
aide. General Lincoln expects his assign
ment to duty as brigadier general tomorrow
The Western Mutual Life OF Chicago toda
began suit against the Underwriters Re
view, an insurance Journal published in hi
} city, for $25, 900 damages for an, alleged libel
C. E. Hill began suit against the Roc
, Island railroad today. in which he ask
$40, 900 damages. Last September he wa
run over while working for the Rock islam
as a switchmana and had both hands and on
arm taken off. He says that he was gettin
81, 900 a year as salary from the compan
and that he expected to work for it at tn
, same rate for the next forty years Of hi
life, and for that reason asks for $4,000
e The petition is one of the most unique eve
u filed in the local courts.
The sum Of 500, 274.77 was drawn by tn
Iowa paymaster today to be paid to I'll
S Forty mi Iowa regiment at Camp McKir
t ley tomorrow. This makes $75, 274.T whic
has been given the Iowa troops as pay IL
their services to date. The Fifty-first low
regiment leaves for the front tomorrow
. fully uniformed, equipped and paid. TT
II Forty-ninth goes Monday. Every soldi'
a sent out by Iowa to the front has gone vii
= a new regulation uniform on his back, ne
regulation shoes on his feet, fully arm'
and euuipped in every way.