People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-08-04
Special Attorney Fees.


ment was decided upon in order to
give opportunity for another special
attorney fee for some assistant to
Boyle. This is pettifoggery. In
the first place the same opportunity
would have been offered for employ.
ing an assistant attorney had the
other course been pursued-that Of
arbitrarily assessing property not
scheduled.
But since the Mail has opened this
question let US look into it little.
Judge David Martin and David
Overmeyer were paid $500 for
assisting Boyle in defending Webb
McNall in the insurance cases
against him-eleven in all. The
opposing attorneys in the same
cases got $4,000 from the in,
Surance companies.
The record shows that Gov.
Leedy used good portion of his
contingent fund in fighting the ex-
tortions Of corporations. What did
Gov. Morrill, use his contingent fund
for2 Governor Morrill, exhausted
his contingent fund in trying to gel
Populists out of Office, and not a
dollar of it was spent in a fight to
compel corporation to obey the
law. He not only exhausted his
contingent fund, but he called for a
deficiency appropriation of thou
sands of dollars for the same
purpose.
The insurance fight, as well as the
famous stock yards fight, was pre-
cipitated upon the state within a
period of a few months, and it would
be impossible for the attorney gen.
eral to attend to all of them, even
though there were not more than a
half dozen corporation lawyers in
each case to fight against. No one
man living could hunt up the author
tiles alone, to say nothing about
preparing briefs, taking testimony
and pleading the cases.
For Richards benefit we give be.
low the record of the Morrill, "busi.
ness administration" in special
attorney fees compiled dy the Kan.
sas City Times, from the state
auditors records,
He drew upon his contingent fund
for SO, 269 to get Bill Rogers, a regent
Of the university out of a $500 lob il
order to give it TO the law partner Of
j. r. Burton. He asked for an appro
priatlon Of over $1,000 extra to cover
the expenses Of that case.
He paid s2,02S out of his contingent
fund u remove Senator Householder
from the office Of chairman of the
board Of charities and have him in
vestigated, and called upon the legis.
lature for a deficiency of S57O.l5 Il
cover the same case.
Thus it can be seen that the Re.
publicans thought 1t more proatabl,
investment to pay $1,000 for remov
ing a few little fellows from a pil
counter than 70 pay SO, 100 for maxim,
eleven corporations respect the law
And it must be remembered in thi
connection that one of these institu
tions was the Clarkson rate bureau
that cost the people Of the state, ii
excessive insurance rates, ever 500,
900 year. .-
Governor Morrill, also paid $3.50 on
OF his contingent fund to Attorney
Peters and Nicholson, Republican
lawyers for the purpose OF Dustin,
from Office John Breidenthal, VIII
has done more for financial stabilit
In Kansas than any man In the state
He paid $3.50 out Of his contineen
| fund to Milton Brown, a Republica
lawyer, for defending the present RI
publican candidate for secretary {
state in a suit brought against hiI
by Mrs. Lease for cruwding her out {
a place on the board OF charities.
He paid WAS. Bird, a Republica
lawyer of Topeka, $500 out Of his col
tingentfund for assisting the attorne
general in the Wait case.
He paid 800 to Joseph Reed,
Topeka Republican lawyer, for assis
ing the attorney general in a sma
case in Kansas City, Kan.
He paid out Of his contingent fun
$500 to the state board Of pardons Il
playing whist for week in tn
Ananias club at Topeka. He pal
Harry Bone, a Republican lawye
s3l1 for helping to get a Pop out {
| Office. He paid Charlie Lobdell 81.
out Of his contingent fund fol appoin
ing an investigating committee to g
a Populist out of Office. He cou
have done the woIk in less than II
minutes.
He paid Syl Dixon s5lS for junke
ing around with an investigate
l committee and taking McKinl,
. train of wheat to the st. Louis en-