The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-02
PAY FROM GOVERNMENT
ALLOWANCES FOR OFFICERS ON THE
GOVERNORS STAFF.
Charges the Sentinel Is Expected to
Make-President McI1inIey's
Compliment.


spring several bills for services rendered
were contracted and paid for by the State
! to persons who were at the same time draw
| ing salaries from the state treasury. An
agent of the paper spent the afternoon yes
terday porting over the records and vouchers
in the adjutant generals office, and besides
the regularly audited accounts of disburse-
ments for supplies furnished and labor per-
formed he found the following accounts
entered as paid:
May 2S-Coionel Russell B. Harrison, one
| months service as colonel, detailed by Gov
! ernor, 1921. g.
June 25-Winfeld T. Durbin one months
service as paymaster, S291.67.
July 1-Colonel c. e. Wilson, three months
salary as military secretary, $S7501.
July l3-James K. Gore, two months sal
airy as brigadler general, on duty under call
Of President from April 20 TO June %. $916.66
July l3-B. A. Richardson, same as above
July 25-W. 7. DSgrbia one months sal
| july Nv. L. Durbin, paymaster, amount
due following persons for services in pay
ment OF troops: X. ). Schenck, $50; w. N;
DDur1ndln, $l5o; c; < McCugough, $40; Harold
Sonntag, $25. Hotel bill, William Durbin and
Schenck. $3.50; stamped envelopes, 1872 20;
Schenck, Mccullough and W. N. Durbn
came from Colonel Durbins bank in Ander
| son for the occasion.
Aug. 9-Colonel L. C. Wilson, one months
services as military secretary, $29l.67
:. The ne claim lS that is expected to be made
| ceive money for extra service performed
While receiving a salary from the State.
| The assumption, of course, is that the bills
! are paid by the State when as a matter of
| fact the State simply advanced the money
and paid the bills for the United States
! government.
While it is expected that all the members
| of the Governors staff will be included in
| the general denunciation, the main conten-
ton will be that the quartermaster general,
adjutant general and private secretary to
regular state pay roll, are debarred from
| receiving money for their services at Camp
| Quartermaster General Richardson referred
to extracts from the military laws and
regulations of the Indiana National Guard,
| 1885, which provide that
THE Governor shall appoint one quarter
master general and one adjutant general,
each with the rank of brigadier general,
who shall both be a part of the active
| militia-and each officer shall be entitled to
pay at the same rates IN every respect as
the corresponding grades may at the time
be entitled to in the United States army,
| and subsistence"
THE GOVERNORS STATEMENT.
1t has always and is still the opinion of all
the state officers that the services performed
at Camp Mount last spring, being under
the call of President Mckinley, were for the
federal government and not for the State.
All the bills for salaries, before being paid,
were approved by the Governor, and as he
Is in many respects responsible for them,
he was asked to give his version of the
matter, and the following conversation en-
sued;
Governor, the Sentinel, 1t is reported.
will publish the statement that Adjutant
| General Gore, Quartermaster General Rich
| ardson, Col. Charles E. Wilson, Col. w. I.
| Durbin, Surgeon General o. S. Runnels and
Col. Russell B. Harrison as members of
| your staff were paid certain extra amounts
| for services rendered in equpping and send
| ing to the front the Indiana volunteers Will
1 nln Cfo fo xzno owe fIsassf f4f5 ~,
| matter2'
I'm answer to your question. said the
| Governor, II have to say that Colonel Har-
rlson was sent to Washington to look after
| the interests of the State of Indiana in the
mastering and equpping of her soldiers.
He was given months pay for services
| thus rendered. Colonel Durbin was asked
to pay the Indiana National Guard before
give 100000 bond. He worked night t and
| day with his force of experts from his bank,
thus enabling the State of Indiana to pay
| all the National Guard before leaving the
State-the only National Guard in the
United State paid before leaving their
| homes. Colonel Durbin received a small
| compensation for these services. DR.. Run
| nels, surgeon general on my staff, was di-
rected to prepare hospital tents and all
necessary arrangements in the way of cots.
| trained nurses physicians, medicines and
such delicacies and nourishment as were
needed by, sick soldiers. During the return
Of the Indiana National Guard and the bat
| teries there were cared for in this hospital
four deaths. When the regiments returned
| to be mustered out of the service the num-
Der in the hospital had been reduced to
| seven. / directed the surgeon general to
| close the State hospital, as ample time had
| been given these regiments to prepare and
care, for their sick men. Colonel May
| pleaded for a continuance of the State
| hospital, stating that it impossible for
the United States government to render
they were receiving at the hands of DR.
Runnes, his assistant, physicians and
| trained nurses. He wired the secretary of
war, stating that this hospital had been
prepared and so successfully managed that
he earnestly recommended the War Depart
sent telegram asking the State of Indiana
to continue the care of these soldiers, and
giving assurances that all the expenses would
be paid by the United States government.
So well has this matter been managed that
the President of the United States said to
me on his trip through the State recently
that there never had been any complaint
by Indiana soldiers nor of Indiana soldiers.
QUARTERMASTER'S SERVICES.
CAS- to Quartermaster General Richardson
he received two months extra pay. For
two months he worked night and day in
aiding in furnishing supplies to the Indiana.
National Guard in purchasing equipment
and assisting in getting the Indiana volun-
teers ready for the service. The response
bility he assumed, the work performed in
aiding the State thus to get her troops
promptly to the front was a valuable serv-
ice, every dollar of which will be paid by
the United States government. The adjutant
generals Office likewise was engaged for
| two months in aiding the United States in
the mastering and getting the soldiers to
| the front. There were times when sixteen
| extra clerks worked in the adjutant gen.
| erals office without one cents cost to the
| State of Indiana. The United States will
| pay all the extra allowance given to Gen.
Gore without any additional expense to the
! State of Indiana. Colonel Wilson received
| eXtr pay for his services. Newspaper re-
| pOrters and men who visited the Governors
| office found Colonel Wilson at his desk often
| after midnight, working night and day.
| They will fully applaud and Justify the
extra pay for his services. Newspaper re-
the work of the Governors office can only
| be understood by examination of the
! work performed by this office
Il am informed that the auditor of the
treasury at Washington, who is auditing
war claims, reports that the expense for
extra work in mastering and equipping In
diana soldiers IS less than any other State"
The Governor was then asked: THE claim
will be made that these officials. whose
names you have mentioned, and who are
regular recipients of salaries from the State
of Indiana, have been paid extra amounts
from the State of Indiana and that the ex-
pense Of it will fall on the State Is that
true?"
GOVERNMENT WILL PAY.
1.-The men who are receiving salaries for
services from the State" said the Governor,
will receive not a penny extra from the
State Of Indiana. The extra services rem