Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-31
REPLY TO MALLORY
Patterson Says the Superintend~
ent of Pontiac Reformatory
Is All Wrong.
HAVE BEEN CHANGES OF SALARIES
Which the Legislator, MOTIFS, Accord
ing to ''UnquestionabIe
Authority" ,r

Springfield, Ills, March 31.-Repre-
sentative Patterson last night addressed
an open letter to Governor Yates in
defense of the report submitted by him
Patterson as chairman of the house
committee to visit penal and REFORM
atory Institutions. In this report Pat
terson stated that Superintendent Nal.
lory, OF the Pontiac reformatOry, re-
fused to show him certain pay rolls of
his institution. When this report was
made public Governor Yates wired
| Superintendent Mallory; asking. him If
he had refused to grant Patterson's
request. Mallory replied that he had
not. After quoting the telegraph
messages which passed between Gov
ernor Yates and Superintendent Mall
lory Pate: son, in his letter to the gov
ernor, concludes as follows:
Patterson Submits Some Correspondence.
Regarding the above l would re-
| specially sumbit the following: On the
! first day of my visit TO the Pontiac re-
forma tory, Feb. %, L asked Mr.. Mall
lory for his pay roll figures for July,
1901. and Feb. 2S, 1903. He said
should have .hem on the following
day; but just as l was leaving on
March L he told me he was unable 10
give me the figures, but could only
give me the number of employees. He
promised, however, to send on the
amounts by letter shortly. l heard no
more from him. and SO on March 10
sent the following telegram:
Telegram and Reply Thereto.
| March 10. 1908. Hon. NJ. NJ. NAL
/ lory, State Reformatory, Pontiac, HIS:
/ Please send be as soon as possible COM
plete salary list, names and amounts
/ for January, 1901; also January, 1908.
/ [Signedl
JOSEPH NJ. PATTERSON
I'm response to which l received the
I following letter:
Illinois state ReformatOry, Pom
J tiac, Ills. Nj. NJ. Mallory. General SUI
perintendent, March Is, 1903: Hon. j.
! NJ Patterson, Springfield, Ills.-Dear
/ Sir: In compliance with your request,
/ herewith submit the following state
ment: Our pay roll for July, 1901.
numbered 1O2; for February, 1908, 1O4.
/ Salary paid employees has not been in
| creased and l herewith enclose an APP
| plication blank which will show how
the compensation for eIiip1oyes.fS fixed.
Purchases for Supplies.
"In reference to purchases for sup
plies 1 desire TO say that the groceries
/ are bought in the open market at as
/ low q figure as possible. The clothing
| is made in our own tailor shop, and
| the cloth from which it is made is
! bought upon competitive bids from
different concerns making the quality.
which we want. The fuel is let by
contract for one year to the lowest
bidder. The meat is purchased on con-
| tract, the same being let for One-quar-
| ter to the lowest bilder These bids are
submitted to all the packing concerns.
and they are sent in sealed and are
| opened and awarded by the board of
| managers. In refernce to the concern
| from Which we buy our supplies there
is no distinction, and we buy where
we can do the best in Il business-like
way for the state.
All Payments Made by Check.
lin looking over our appropriation
| bill you will see that there is but
very little difference in the various ac-
| counts as compared with the appro
| priation received from the state two
that all payments, no matter how
small. are made by check and dupli-
cate vouchers. Yours very truly,
IN NJ. MALLORY,
"'Geperal superintendent