Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-15

clerk, sSSs.S3; treasurer examiner, $500;
liner, 5000.
Bernice Jackson. wife Of the state superin-
%tendent. stenographer, $266.64.
G. F. Porter, brother of the secretary, leg
~islative repairs, $3.50; legislative supply
clerk, 1925.
Mrs. e. S. Philbrook, sister of Secretary
Porter, matron at Geneva, 1888.
Maude Parker. sister-in-law OF Judge Sui
Ivan. stenographer, 1916.
F. f. Cornell, cousin of the auditor, extra
help" s25.
d. d. Lynch. son-in-law of Senator Allen,
clerk for Commissioner Wolfe, s2,O24.91.
C. D.. Griffin, son-in-law of COMMISSIONS
Wolfe, holds a place at regular salary at
Kearney. Mrs. Griffin also draws salary.
U. G. Cornell, brother of the auditor,
draws pay from the State university.
G. w. Cornell, brother of the auditor, trips
to New York to examine insurance COM
panies.
Superintendents in Line.
Besides this list, which is of necessity
incomplete for the reason that the rela-
tionship of some of the employees cannot be
! ascertained, every superintendent OF an in
| s~titution has looked out for places for his
own near relatives. r. R.. B. Weber OF
the Geneva institution has paid S. NJ. Weber
$103.Sl for placing children in homes" and
has issued another voucher in the same
name for furniture and bedding Warden
Leidigh OF the penitentiary has looked after
the Leidigh family so well that four mem
bers have drawn vouchers from the state
in connection with that institution. At the
Grand Island Soldiers Home Commandant
j. w. Wilson has managed so that "a. A.
Wilson and c. C. Wilson have drawn good
slices from the state treasury. while SUI
perintendent Fowler OF the Soldiers Home
| ut NiIfnrH ha. ha,, -.
his own wife on the pay roll as matron of
the institution. At Omaha the same sys-
tenn is followed, so that the official there
who has charge of the salary list provides
places for his own relatives.
This system reaches into every branch
controlled by the fusionists. Senators Beal
and Mutz only did what the others were
doing when they placed their boys on the
legislative pay roll and MUTT followed a
good fusion example when he got a place
for his daughter, Mamie MUTT. at the Be-
atrice institution. The lieutenant gov
ernor, during the recent session of the
legislature, asked for the privilege of nam
ing a page, TO be paid for by the legis-
lature, and when the favor was granted
he appointed his own son 10 the place.
George Corcoran, in the attorney generals
office, has been careful to see that other
Nf'DN ~ NAN ullllN ave DttIl
fattened at the public crib and has incl
d~entally swelled the exchequer OF a print
ing office at York, owned by the family,
by diverting in that direction a consid-
cradle amount OF state printing.
simply IA Fusion Habit.
Nepotism seems to have been a falling
of the fusionists from the very first and
some OF the republicans who were the most
careful to look after their kinfolks when
the political pie was being passed turned
over to the fusionists in later years. Judge
Maxwell paid his son and his daughter from
the fund allowed for clerical help when
he was on the bench. A. X. Goudy, while
state superintendent, employed his own wife
in the office and turned silver republican
because the combined job could not be pro-
longed beyond a second term.
The late Congressman Greene provided
for a son-in-law at Washington and a mem
Der of the Greene family was put on the
pay roll at the Kearney institution. Super
intendent HoXie of Kearney asked the legis-
lature 10 pay Mrs, Hoxie a salary as matron
OF the school. Even c.. C. Pool in the au-
ditor's office a couple of years ago excused
the drawing OF a fraudulent voucher by
saying that his wife helped him to do the
extra work.
The fusion family monopoly does not stop
with the payment OF salaries 10 those who
are capable of signing vouchers. In many
OF the state institutions the best rooms are
occupied by the relatives Of the officials
and so far as possible they are utilizing
the items living expenses" in the way
that is the most profitable. Last year there
was one case where a family Of eight mem
6ers Was living free at the expense OF the
state on the strength OF a Job held by one
OF them, In this way the mother OF Sec
rotary Porter is boarded free at the Ge-
neya institution.
There is no end OF the cases OF this sort.
the fusionists who received the fat Jobs
having forgotten all about the rank and
hle Of the party-the workers who were