Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-10

Boyle in the insurance cases against
Superintendent McNall. The rec
ord of their own party is such that
they cannot make any political cap
ital out of the Martin Overmy er fee.
The two gentlemen received So
100 for the eleven cases they were
in. The opposition lawyers in the
same cases received close to $50, 900
This fight, as well as the famou.
stock yards fight, was precipitated
upon the state within period of a
few months, and it would be i'm
possible for the attorney general to
attend to all of them, even though
there were not more than a dozen cor,
poration lawyers in etch case to
fight against. No one man living
could hunt up the authorities alone
to say nothing about preparing
briefs, taking testimony and plead
ing the cases.
But it is the comparison that can
be drawn bet geen the disposition
of Leedy's fund and Morrill's
fund, and caused them to abandon a
light along that line. Governor
Morrill, exhausted his contingent
fund III trying to get populists out
of office, and not dollar of it was
spent in fight to compel corpora
ton to obey the law. He not only
exhausted his contingent fund but he
called for deficiency appropria
tion of thousands of dollars for the
same purpose.
lie drew up IN his contingent fund
for SO, 269 to get Bill Rodgers, a
regent of the university, out of a
S400 job in order to give it to the
law partner, of J. Il. Burton. He
asked for an appropriation of over
81, 600 extra to cover the expenses
of that case.
He paid S2,O28 out of his contin-
gent fund to remove Senator House.
holder from the office of chairman
of the board of charities and have
him investigated, aud called upon
the Legislature for a deficiency of
$57O.l5 to cover the same case.
Thus it can be seen that the re-
publicans thought it a more profita-
BILE investment to pay 81, ,9O9 for re-
moving few little fellows from a
pie counter than to Fay SO, 100 for
making eleven corporations respect
the law. And it must be remem-
bered in this connection that one of
these institutions was the Clark
sons rate bureau that cost the peo-
pie of the state, in excessive insur-
ance rates, over 100000 year.
Governor Morrill, also paid $3.50
out of his contingent fund TO attor-
neys Peters and Nicholson, repub-
lican lawyers, for the purpose OF
ousting from Office John.Breidenthal
who has done more for financial
stability i'll Kansas than any other
man in the state.
To Gust rlrs. Lease.
lie paid $50 out of his contin-
gent fund to Milton Brown, re-
publican lawyer, for defending the
present republican candidate for
secretary of state in suit brought
against him by Mrs. Lease for
crowding her out of place on the
board of charities.
He paid w. a. S Bird, a repub-
lican lawyer of Topeka, 5000 out OF
his contingent fund for assisting
the attorney general in the Wait
case.
He paid 800 to Joseph Reed,
Topeka republican lawyer. for as
sisting the attorney general in
small case in Kansas City Kans.
lie paid out of his contingent fund
5000 to the state board of pardons
for playing whist for week in the
Ananias club at Topeka. lie paid
Harry Bone, republican lawyer,
1911 for helping 20 get a pop out of
office. He paid Charlie Lobdell
sI26 out of his contingent fund for
appointing an investigating CON-
mittee to get populist out of Office.
He could have done the work in
less than ten minutes.
He paid Syl Dixon S5l1s fer
junketing around with an inyesti-
eating committee and taking a Nc
kinley train of wheat to the St
Louis convention. lie paid John
Jones of Topeka out of his contin-
gent fund sl77 for pulling corks for
an investigating committee.
He paid $297 out of his contin.
gent fund to Otto Eckstein, a re-
publican lawyer of Wichita, for re-
citing selections from Shakespeare
10 the investigating committee dur
ing their social sessions. lie paid
Alexander Warner out of his con-
tingent fund 1912 for serving on an
investigating committee and telling
the people about the viciousness of
the silver money system of Mexico.
He taxed his contingent fund
Sill for ii. E. Pile for services in