Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-19


unless intended as an intimation that my
expenses should be $11, 561.23, which sum
is already seized upon by some of the state
papers as the coreect amount. For what
ever reason however this allusion may have
found place in the report let it be known
that nothing can make the sum any larger;
at this high water mark, innuendo and
| Imagination are exhausted and Josiah
| CIRCUIT as an expense maker is unavoida bly,
allowed rest.
| However, treating military expense as
| official and applying to Governor Dilling-
ham the same rule, given by the commit
tee for me, you must add to 1920, his ac-
| tual official expenses, the sum Of 1892, be
ing what he allowed the Guard in New
York, making $5412 and also add the fur
ther sum of $3619, the balance of whole ex-
pense of trip, after deducting allowance to
the Guard and you have $9031; but this
does not complete the sum under the com
mittee's rule, for each enlisted man " ao
went to New York with him paid for one
thing or another out of his own pocket,
and so an item comes to view the same as
that covered by House Bill No. $40, which
upon the same basis of estimate as given in
the report for me would be 1929, which
added to $9O31 makes a total of $14, 270,
against $12, 561 found and intlmated by the
committee as my total expenses; and $12,-
O54 of this sum was actually paid by some
one for Governor Dilling hams trip to
New York with Guard in 1889; sub
ed as follows: 1914 Governor and staff;
1892 two days pay allowed the Guard;
$2660 popular subscription; 1919 assess
ments paid by the companies of the Guard,
and $5239 individually paid by the mem
bers of the Guard; being the same char
acter of expense as suggested by the COM
mittee as the basis of House Bill No. 345.
This calculation however is notright and
is only carried. out to illustrate the find
ings of the committee; the relative e1ecu-
tive expenses of our terms should be
1920 and $500 as already stated, and upon
this basis let the reckoning stand.
The committee was requested to consider
and report that many important invita-
tions of public character had fallen to
the lot of my administration, and that
these, together with the Spanish war, had
uravoidably and necessarily increased Of
fetal expenses very considerably, and to
an amount not less than $500. 1t was also
asked that it might be considered and re-
ported that $2015 had been passed to the
credit OF the state during my term and at
my solicitation; and also that importuni-
ties for Guard organization, after the
Vermont regiment left for the war, had
been refused, and the expense of such an
organization and muster in 1898 saved to
the state, which cannot be considered less
than 116 zoo hut these SnpUoSti ions
not regarded important.
Therefore, since economy of administra-
ton seems to be the nip of the in,estiga-
ton, you may well know Just how
much, as Governor, really cost the state:
and whatever I directed out of the treas
ury officially more than I directed into it,
shall be considered the cost. Then from
$500, total official draft from the treasury,
deduct $2015 which sum / solicited, re-
ceived and turned to use in connection
with permanent state improvements; and
further to put my ad .ninistration upon an
evener with the other administrations
within the period of investigation; also
deduct the sum of $500 as unusual expense
because of the war and then, really, as
compared with ordinary administrations,
in all around general expense way you
will see that | cost the state S2654.
Governor Dillingham; raised by popular
subscription $500 which went toward ex-
penses of his trip to New York and saved
the state so much money: what / raised
went into permanent state improvements,
and, expenses similar to his were provided
for by private contribution. The state
thus having full benefit of the $2015, I ask
credit as above stated.
The committee was informed that Gov
ernor Dillingham; took the Guard to New
York in 1889 and allowed it two days pay,
as military expense, but this statement
received no attention and no intimation of
it appears anywhere in the report, but we
are carefully told of the prudence with
which he executed many public functions,
paying the expense from his private purse;
and that the Gettysburg trip was author
lied in the Acts of 1888, and so am led to
say that every public function suitable for
the state to undertake, if accepted by the
Governor, and all necessary expenses in
Cured in carrying out such a function are
authorized under the practice SO long
sanctioned in this state, as much as though
directed by special act. Such matters have
always been left with the Governor and
after understanding the subject all seem
to recognize authority for what the Gov
errors have done.
I wish, also, to say that I see no excel
lence in governor because he pays or
asks his staff to pay the expenses of a
state function. If it is the governors pri-
vate function let him pay the bills, on the
other hand, if it is a State function and
conducted by him officially, let the state
pay the bills; in other words, the state
should pay it's own bills, and in such mat