Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-02-08

ported to the senate and recommends
tions made for their correction. The
evils complained .of are minor ones in
many instances, in some cases not SO in
significant but the correction of them is
the object of the committee.
Recommendations for clerk hire in the
various departments for the ensuing
two years are made as follows: ..
Governors office e.............. .S4,5OO
Secretary OF state. e.............. 1900
State auditor 1000
State treasurer. .............. 1890
Attorney general. al................ 5000
5000
commissioner of agriculture $500. 2,4OO
commissioner of insurance .. 5000
supreme court clerk .... . 2,4OO
Reporter, per volume. me........... 800
1t is recommended. that the board of
railroad commissioners should elect a
secretary from their number who would
reside at the capitol, his Office expenses
should be paid from the maintenance
fund. The, appropriation for adjutant
generals salary is recommended to be
abolished. The expense account of the
guard should be paid from the
militia fund, the committee thinks, and
the MALTA appropriation should be re-
tained to keep up interest in the guard.
The office of commissioner of irrigation
should be abolished. A law is recon-
mended that accounts for transporter
ton Of convicts and insane persons
should be audited bycounty commits
siopers and published in their proceed
ings before being paid by the
state. The state fair appropriation is
recommended for repeal. The legislative
assembly. it is urged, should adopt a
contract system of engrossing and en-
rolling bills and the present system
abolished, Committee rooms for the
legislature should be obtained at the
capitol to save expense. The giving
away of chairs and other state property
by the legislative assembly should be
prohibited as it appears from vouchers
to be an expensive and questionable
practice. The expense of the state
board of equalization, S617.5O for the
past three years is without warrant of
law and the work should be performed
by the auditors Office force without
additional compensation. The attention
OF the governor and attorney general is
called to the vouchers on file aggregating
81 .2OO, for salaries and expenses of ad-.
lustment commission for settlement of
delinquent taxes. The expense of re-
turning fugitives from justice should be
paid by the counties where the offense is
below the grade of felony. The appro-
prlation for the educational library
should be repealed, as the appropriation
for the promotion of immigration. The
appropriation for the maintenance of
the capitol should not exceed $4,000 per
annum.s The payment for electric light
should cease as soon as possible, as the
amount of light does not justify the ex-
pense.. A lighting system should be
installed from the penitentiary, or if
that cannot be done. plant should be
installed in the capitol building. Inyen-
tory Of the property of the state in the
capitol building lis recommended to be
made and an account of all purchases
kept. It is found that state property
has ia the past disappeared from the
building without consent of the proper
authorities. The cost OF postage and
kilograms can be materially reduced, the
committee thinks, if care is taken to
restrict their use to state business only.
Hack hire by state officers is not proper
charge against the state in che opinion
of the committee. although such charges
have been made. Suit against the
bondsmen Of defunct banks for the
amount 81 money still due the state is
reco.n1ae ded 10 prevent bondsmen
taking adYantage Of the statute Of lini-
tations. 35s 5S,
Ifes retired secretary Of state has
failed to keep q book of supplies, as res
qnired by laws 81 to keep the records as
provided by section 81 of the code.
There u found tosbe 10 record ST the