The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-17
USED QUEER PLAN
TWenty-fOur Unauthorized Per-
sons on House Pay Roll.
No Record of Their Appoint
ment Appears OH Records.
SOME WERE IN TOPEKA
Nothing Can Be Found Out
About Others.
Evidence of CroOkedness Con-
tinues to Accumulate.
SOME WE'RE IN TOPEKA


ployes last winter for which no author
ity appears on the house records
Nearly all of them were put on the
pay ioll on the third pay day.
Some of these were undoubtedly legal
and proper but there are others con-
cerning whom it seems difficult to Sc
cure information. For instance there
is E. Ritter, concerning whom the
State Journal published a statement
several days ago. Mr.. Ritter has yet
not come to the surface to tell whether
he received the $40 drawn in his name
on a warrant dated February q, or
whether some one else got it, as in the
Sid Brakeman case. There has been
an erasure on the auditors warrant
register, the same as in the case OF the
Brakeman warrants. and the signature
written over the erasure is not at all
like the other signatures of Ritter's
| nama-
1t is a we'll known fact, also, that D.
| W. Wheeler was clerk of the committee
on enrolled bills and had an extraordi-
nary amount of work to do during the
rush of bills in the last days of the SeS-
sion, but there is no record of his ap-
| polntment in the house journal, so far
as can be ascertained from the index.
Those in whose names warrants were
drawn as shown by the warrant regis
! ter in the auditors office, but who do
not appear in the house records, so far
as is shown by the index, are the fol-
| lowing:
Ed Brenner. on the pay roll first on
February II for $50. Drew $50 on Feb
ruary 21, $50 more on March 2, and $24
on March IL.
George Campbell first appears on the
pay roll on February 21 for $50 He also
drew $50 on March and s24 on
March IL.
S K Dannevik got on the pay roll
February IL for $50, and $50 on each of
the next two pay days.
Clara Ebright appears on the pay roll
] on February for $50, $50 each of the
next three pay days, and $24 on the last
one.
George M. Eagle drew s120 on Febru-
ary q. $50 on March 2. and S24 on March
II.
Lorraine NJ. Kinney drew $50 the third
pay day and $50 each of the next two.
F. r. Matthews started in with $50
/ the second pay day, and drew $50 each
of the next three, and $24 the last one.
E. Ritter, whose case has been cited
before, drew $120 on the fourth pay day,
$50 the next, and $24 the last.
| A Thomas drew $50 each pay day
from the start through the fifty days of
the regular session, but did not draw
S24 in the last payment for the over
| time.
George Wiley gets on the pay roll
just once. He drew $24 the last pay
day.
The following each went on the pay
same amounts as Brenner:
Maggie Bass.
IDA G. Cowley.
NJ. W. Cliff.
| L. Eastman.
Della Housinger.
NOYella HeuSel
| w. B. Mclaughlin.
/ Eugene MerritheW.
| Will Roughton.
| D. Bx Shuey.
Claud Tressel.
G. L. Webb.
! D. H. Wheeler
| John Workman.
1t will be of interest to know just
| how all these people got on the pay
| roll without authority for their being
| there appearing on the house records. 1t
will also be of interest to know how
many actually did any work.
| From the disclosures in the cases of
Representative EnrigGt's appointees, R.
Y. Williams and w. S. Harris, it ap-
pears that some of those authorized on
the house records did not come to To-
peka, and that in Williams case at
least, some one else drew pay in his
name after he was supposed to have re-
signed.
Representative Enright says that he
did not know r. Y. Williams drew any
pay after w. S. Harris was placed on
the payroll. The matter, he says, was
in the hands of the house steering COM
mittee. Mr.. Enrights latest statement
is as follows:
Il am not positive, but I may have
drawn four vouchers for Williams. I
| think without reference to the records,
that he drew pay for 40 days, and that
Harris was to supersede him. If he
| drew another voucher, it may have been
| the mistake of this committee. I have
no way of knowing about that. I drew
Williams vouchers to accommodate him
but if his name was left on the payroll
by mistake, he may have found it out
and gone to Tojeka and drawn his last
voucher himself
Mr. Enright is correct in his surmise
that he drew four vouchers for Will
Jams, at least he receipted for four
vouchers. He is mistaken, however, in
his theory that Williams came to To-
peka and drew the fifth warrant. The
signature of Williams name, both on
the voucher and on the warrant regis
ter, is entirely different from Williams
signatures on his other vouchers, to
which he swore before a notary public
| in Kansas City, Kan.
Governor Bailey will appoint no agent
to represent the state in Washington to
try TO get any claims bill for the state
through congress, especially the Guam
trell raid claims. Governor Bailey does
not believe it would be possible to get
such bill through congress
Judge S. r. Peters, of Newton. who is
a candidate for governor of the National
Military home at Leavenworth, has been
in Topeka and talked with Governor
Bailey while here Judge Peters has the
endorsement of Senator Long and Con-
gressman Murdock for the place. but il
. does not go by political endorsements
The place has been offered to Sidney g
Cooke. of Herington. a member of the
board of mana gers Of military homes
and the report comes from Lesven-
worth that if Cooke turns it down it
| on f0 q New York man.