The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-25
South Dakota.
PASS The SALARY Bill
SOUTH DAKOTA REPUBLICANS GET
TING AT TIE PIE COUNTER
IN GREAT SHAPE
RUN THINGS THEIR OWN WAY
Making the Rest of Their OppOr-
tunity in the Most Approved
Style of the Republican
Pot Hunter.
South Dakota.
RUN THINGS THEIR OWN WAY

POt Hunter.
PIERRE, S. D., Jan. 24-(speciaI)-
The attorney general today rendered an
opinion in regard to the issue of emer-
Sency warrants, in which he holds in
erect that the funds received from taxes
assessed and not collected on which the
warrants are issued, are to be handled in
the discretion Of the treasurer so long as
ne keeps In view the payment of the war;
rants when the same become due.
In the house today the bill to increase
the salaries of governor and judges met
several breakers, but finally carried by
three votes more than the necessary two
thlrds 1t was first amended to leave
out the Third, or Watertown, circuit to
meet the wishes of Representative Sew
ard, giving the increase to every other
circuit in the state. Further effort to
cut the governor from it's provisions
failed. Another bill passed was to fix a
tax of 90 cents per month per head on all
stock grazed in the state which is owned
by non-residents. The principal house
bills introduced were: Providing for
county wolf bounties; requiring eighteen
months residence for a divorce; to ap-
propr1ate $4,000 in money and 40 600 acres
OF land to Gary blind asylum and grant
ing power to deserted wife or husband
to mortgage or sell property after one
year
In the senate the principal bills intro
duced were to increase the salaries of
county auditors and treasurers and to
appropriate $S1 900 to persons and coun-
ties which furnished money to assist in
bringing the First South Dakota regi-
ment from San Francisco. A resolution
was passed memorializing congress for
federal aid for the School of Mines. and
the Oil inspection bill was discussed at
length and sent back to the judiciary
committee for an opinion as to it's le-
gality.
CALCIUM LIGHTS
The charges Of mismanagement m de
against Mr.. Ainsworth, the former Re
publican superintendent of the stat, re-
form school, are still being discussed.
The supplemental report made by pres
ent Superintendent of the Reform School
Tompkins to Gov. Lee and the board of
charities and corrections is as follows:
Gentlemen: AS required by law | sub
m1tted my report as superintendent of
the state reform school to the board OF
charities and corrections a short t,m3
ago. But as an officer sworn to do my
duty l cannot we'll let pass unnoticed
certain facts that have come to nv at
tention regarding the management OF
AinSworth.
14NN41GO tb6BEl1LlON.
When I was selected to take charge Ct
the institution 1 was met bv Mr.. Aims
worth in most hostile spirit and every
thing was done that could possibly b+,
done by him and his officers to prejudice
the children against us and make them
as unmanageable as possible. To be 81 e
cific, the children were told that we
would treat them very oruel. - that We
would work them to death;,' that they
would be starved and maltreated; that
they were to be penned in with a "nigii
board fence" and like remarks and in
formation calculated to brighten theuc
into a state of rebellion. The result WIS
that almost to a boy on our first day
here. they made break for liberty and
scattered over the country. However,
with the help of Plankinton citizens We
were able to recapture that day ali tho
who ran, excepting two, who were eau hit
some ten days later.
QUEER ACCOUNTS.
I was instructed by the board Of chart
ties and corrections at the meeting when
they made their settlement with Mr..
Ainsworth to pay to him from the first
cash receipts $6S060 claimed to be due
him on the final settlement. / have not
done SO and shall refuse to do so for I'll e
reasons that follow.
In the first place Mr.. Ainsworth did
not take receipts for anything nor turn
over any list of property or memoranda
regarding any of the school affairs VIXEN
ne left. There was considerable crop In
to the school and 1 had to guess to find
out in in any way I could regard,
that hg H tae fTa s. 81 Zoo lie feas n c.b
had been handled each year by him,
which did not go through the auditors
office at all, there was no cash book.
no day book, no ledger no journal, and,
in fact, not even memoranda of those
financial transactions left on the place.
This seemed most unusual to me, espe-
cdally as the statute expressly states
(Sec. TITO, comp. laws Dak.) that one
of the duties of the superintendent of
the school is that he shall keep in
his receipts and expenditures and Of all
property intrusted to him. I later dis
covered, however, that there was a
pocket cash book given to the secretary
structionS for him to keep it. That Off
cial knowing that it ought to be at the
school, turned it over to me. This book
covers the entire cash transactions of
this institution. There are entries made
on exactly seventeen pages. The first
entry seems to have been made in April,
made IN any regular order. Several pages
would be skipped and then the next
would be made several pages back Some
of the pages have no dates, not even TIE
year.
INCREASING HIS REVENUES.
Mr.. Ainsworth while here ran a news
paper and made something Of a speciality
Of the newspaper and printing business
He at once, when removed from the
same name in the city of Plankinton
and claimed it as a legal newspaper
from the start. He also took the sub
scription list and any account books
that he may have had in connection with
the printing Office with him. This cash
book does not show that the state ever
received 81 from subscriptions, advertis-
ing, CT job work done by the printing of
fee: Yet I have the proof that consid-
cradle money was paid on subscript' on,
ing, the plant, the fuel for fire, the
printers wages, the material, the boys
board and clothes, and the time Of the
editor was paid for by the state, but Mr.
Ainsworth pocketed the entire proceeds
from the printing office. Unquestion-
ably this money all belongs to the state,
and while. Mr.. Ainsworth does not seem
the law. at least for the past five wears