Omaha daily bee., 1898-10-23

The auditor claims to have instituted a re-
form in the Office in the matter of paying
off the officials and employees, whereby the
state was saved thousands OF dollars inter-
est. 1t Is fact, however. that the reform
he pretends to have instituted was really
brought about by Eugene Moore. The old
practice was to pay the salaries in advance,
and Moore made change so that the vouch-
ers were issued about eight days before the
end of the month in exactly the same man
ner as the business is done now. Under
Moore's administration of the office the
only advance payment that was habtually
made was the item for the governor house
rent, which was always drawn three months
in advance by the reform governor" Cor
nell has been glad to adopt Moore's method
of paying salaries, but has claimed 1t as
his own reform" Part Of the popocratic
campaign is based on the fact that they
copied some of the methods of Eugene
Moore, and that they applied the BARLEY
steal of $1S0,101.75 to the "extinguishmen.
of the state debt" With such q system of
bookkeeping it is no wonder that the cam
paign figures fail to agree. 1t is noticed,
however, that the other officials have made
Cornell come down from his high perch. and
that the auditor now issues his cards with
the side left blank that formerly was COW
cred with mass OF incorrect figures.
Hard Rap at Heal.
The Galloway Independent, the leading
populist paper of Custer county, shows up
the Mutz smiling committee" in good
shape, and the roast is all the more sig
nificant when it is remembered that the
] editor OF the Independent, e. M. Webb, was
member of the last legislature and knows
many of the inside facts in the deal that
resulted in foisting the $4,000 committee
onto the taxpayers. The Independent says
We are not opposing Beal because of the
! mileage he received-eyen If he did have q
pass. That is too small matter to cut any
| figure. His connection with the famous
soft Snap Committee" which sucked So
900 from the state treasury. filling the poclS-
! cts of each member Of the committee with
! some $1,000 each, should be sufficient tC
| condemn him in the eyes of all men who
| believe that "a public office is a public
| trust" and that public official should serv,
! the public, instead OF creating for himse
"a private snap" Beal was the daddy o
the soft snap committee" He was the char
! who engineered the scheme through the sen
| ate and the account stands. as near as W,
can ascertain:
Gain to Beal and committee. SIC. .00
Loss to the taXDavers. Observation-Disclosures. 10 00
That the scheme was Matched out to fur
nish soft snap for Beai and his asso
ciates upon the committee is amnlv urovel
by the manner in which the ''investiga
tions(?) were conducted and in 49, "bene
fits(?)" received by the state from the hene
fciaries of this $4,000 steal.
Lincoln Local Notes.
Mrs. d. A. Campbell has returned fror
st. Louis. where she went to attend tn
directors meeting of the National Fedora
tion of Musical Clubs She is sectiona
vice president of the federation and has jus
been made the national librarian.
Miss Mary Miller. daughter of f. O. Mil
Ter. the Rock Island commercial agent in thi
city. died yesterday Of heart trouble fror
which disease she has been a sufferer 10
} several years. The deceased was 10 year
| OF age. Funeral services will be held fror
the family residence Sunday afternoon at
o'clock.
Library day was celebrated this evenin
. at the city library by an informal receptio
from Z until 10 o'clock. Books of differer
classes were grouped around on tables wher
all might inspect and in the children's ROOF
there was a special effort made to interes
not only the children but their mothers q
well in the good reading to be had free.
Now that II has been definitely decide
that the Second regiment will he mustere
out next MONDAY the committee having l
. charge the suread and reception to he ten
: dered them by the people Of Lincoln has de
) cided TO give the entertainment at the caDi.t
on Tuesday evening. The program as no
arranged will begin with a good supper I
be followed bv a short musical nroqram an
} an informal dance fer those who eniov sue
| entertainment.