The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-18
He DIDN'T Get IT.
Samuel Jamison Says Some One
Else Got His Voucher.
Was Paid $3.50 but the $50
Went to Another.
MIR. MASON EXPLAINS.
Says He Can Account for Nearly
All People in Question.
Most of the TWenty-four Were
Put on Regularly.

Samuel Jamison. in whose name $3.50
was drawn from the state treasury for
alleged services as a house employee, has
been found to live in Kansas City, Kan.
He was entitled to not more than $3.50
pay, but the warrant register shows
that he drew $50 the second pay day,
$50 the third, $50 the fourth, and $50 the
fifth, a total of $3.50.
John w. Radford, state grain inspec-
tor, was in Topeka last evening and
said he had had a talk with Lamison
about the matter. Jamison told him he
had drawn only $3.50, and that if the
warrant register showed another $50
drawn in his name, somebody else got it
on forgery.
The warrant which appears to be
Crooked is the one issued on the date
of the second pay day. This one was
not cashed until after all the others. The
$50 warrant. issued on the third pay
day, and which covered the entire time
from the beginning of the session, and
the $50 warrant issued on the fourth pay
day, were returned to the auditors Of
25. The $50 warrant issued on the sec
ond pay day, and the $50 warrant issued
on the fifth pay day, were returned to
the auditors Office on March 16. The
show that the one issued on the second
pay day was not cashed in state treasury
till March z, while the last one issued
was cashed March 6. The endorsement
on the back of the first one is slightly
different from the others. but if it is
a forgery an attempt was made to imi-
tate Jamison'S signature.
State Auditor Wells has returned from
Erie, and the investigation of the
vouchers Of the house employees was
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made on the vouchers of the senate en-
ployes.
Some comment has been caused by the
fact that warrants were paid for Sena-
tor George H. Fullington of Clay coun-
ty, although he was sick and not pres
ent during the entire session, and has
since died. but there is no evidence of
crooked work in connection with them.
Clayton B. Fullington. a son of Sena-
tor Fullington. was clerk of the senate
committee on engrossed bills, and was
present during the session. He drew all
but one of his fathers warrants, sign
ing his own initials after his father S
name on the warrant register. The last
warrant was mailed to Mrs. Fullington
at 1dana, their home. The vouchers
show that not only was Senator Full
ingtons per diem drawn amounting to
$3.50, but also his mileage, $2S. so, and
postage, $50. Some of his friends did not
think Senator Burlington would have
drawn these last items and this led to
an investigation, but the books show
that it was all straight though why he
was entitled to mileage when he did not
come to Topeka. it is difficult to under
stand.
w. P. Mason, chief clerk of the house.
says that he has personal recollection of
the places filled by most of the "a per-
sons whose names were on the payroll
but not in the house journal, as publish
ed in the State Journal yesterday. He
says:
1.-THE first one, Ed Brennan. I cannot
recall anything about.
Maggie Bass was a lame girl who
was put on at the urgent request of
Colonel Veale. He told me she had been
promised place by some of the state
officers, but 1 refused to put her on the
list without the endorsement of the
steering committee. She afterwards got
the endorsement and was put on the list
of employees.
Ida G. Cowley was the clerk of the
committee on live stock.
Nv. M. Cliff was a committee clerk,
but do not recall which one.
George Campbell is ex-senator
Campbell of Labette county. He was
appointed by Representative Won
Trebra as clerk of the committee on
state library.
IS. K. Dannevik was Representative
Nations committee clerk on assess
ment and taxation
Miss Clara Ebright I think lives
here in Topeka. AS recollect she