The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-12

legislature to raise Governor BdAIey
salary during his term of office. The
WAYS and means committee in the
house also realized that the governor
could not keep up the executive resi-
dence and live on his salary. There
fore the legislature gave Governor
Bailey a thousand dollars more with
which to run the executive residence
than had been formerly appropriated
The next governor will receive sal
airy of $1,000 a year and will there
fore not need as large a maintenance
appropriation. This salary was an in
crease from $4,000 and could not be
made available for the present occu-
pant of the mansion.
J. NJ. Nation, assistant auditor, said
that he asked Attorney General Cole
man if the appropriation for main
covered household supplies and help,
and Mr.. Coleman held that it did.
Assistant Auditor Nation was in
cline6 to ignore the references of T.
simply trying to divert attention from
himself.
The facts are" said Mr.. Nation,
the work of the state board of rail-
road assessors is separate from the
work of the auditors office, but the as
seSsment always has to be looked af-
ter by this office. 1t is a big job to
make up the railroad assessment rolls,
and it has to be done speedily and
carefully. For this reason the legis-
lature makes an extra appropriation
of $500 for this work, to be expended
under the direction of the state
auditor Mr.. Wells appointed
me to look after that work
and held me responsible for it. He
evidently thought I earned the money
or he would not have approved my
vouchers. Another thing: Mr.. Kelly
knew what those warrants were for at
the time they were issued. If he
thought they were wrong it was his
duty to refuse to pay them, but he
Il u I, L, -.
wrong-doing on the part of myself,
Governor Bailey or anybody else in the
past it was his duty to expose it at the
time and not wait till charges were
made against him"
1t is understood that Mr.. Nation en-
ployed extra help in the auditors office
to assist in making up the railroad as
sessment rolls, but he did not claim
credit for this.
The allegations made by Kelly against
Morton Albaugh We're not as an official
but as chairman of the Republican
about it today Mr.. Albaugh said:
Mr.. Kelly was secretary of the state |
committee when this contribution was |
made and was fully cognizant of the |
every cent of it went to pay committee |
The contribution involved |
no pledge of legislation on my part. |
never received any contribution for |
which / made a pledge of legislation. |
The Orient contribution may have in |
volved such a pledge on the part of Mr.. |
Kelly. l know nothing of that"
1t will be remembered that Kelly's |
close friends, Senator Burton and D. /
w Mulxane, were two of the Orient |
directors.
1t will also be noticed that Mr.. Kelly |
does not directly say that Albaugh re-
ceived a $4,000 contribution from the |
Orient. He only insinuates it.
State Treasurer Kelly, driven to des- /
peration by the exposure of his crime, |
instead of attempting to defend him
self, tries to besmirch others in an en- |
1eavor to divert attention from him
self. Governor Bailey, Morton Albaugh,
State Accountant Rowett, Assistant |
1t the Topeka asylum. and the regents
Of the State Agricultural college are |
he objects of his attacks. Mr.. Kelly's
idea seems to be that the ac-
of others of wrong-doing
would mitigate his own offenses.
Kelly made his charges in a letter to
General Coleman, in which he
asked for an opinion as to the validity
some of his newspaper friends to Mr..
Coleman to get copies of the letter, but |
n this instance the attorney general did
not fall into the trap Kelly had set
kellyS idea seems to have been to
have the letters come from Coleman'S
office so that he could not be charged /
Win giving the information out. MI
Coleman, however, refused to give out
The letter. Kelly saw that it was made
public, but he refused to give it to the
State Journal
Coleman, synopsis of which was pub
ished in the State Journal Tuesday, he
says:
Il wish to call your attention to
chapter 125 of the laws of 1901, relating
10 corporations. Section L of that act
amends special session laws of 1898. By
of section l with the sec
lion in the special sessions laws of 1898
for the payment of fees to the
state treasurer, you will note that the
amendment laws reduce the fees on ap-
Dlications for charters
This amendment was brought about
by an arrangement which Morton AL
oaugh had with the attorneys repre-
senting the Orient railway, who were,
At that time, contemplating charter
for that corporation under the laws of
this state. Under the 1898 law, the fee
required to be paid by their capitaliza-
ton would amount to about $4,000 to
the state. The amendment law let the~
in for little less than $2O,-
BOO. Mr.. AIbaugh's arrangement with /
the attorneys representing the Orient
railway was to the effect that he would
have an amendment to the old Bush 1
law, and used his influence to have 1t
become a law, so that this amount of
money could be saved to the Orient rail-
way
Mr.. Albaugh's contract with these
attorneys was that, if he succeeded in l
passing the law. he was to receive $4,000, +
for which the state central committee,
of which he was chairman, was to be
The amendment passed both
houses of the legislature and became /
law. The company made an applica-
ton for a charter and received it, but /
there never was but 81, 500 of the money
went to the credit of the state central
This can be shown by the
treasurer of the state central commit
tee.
Il wish to call your attention to the
items drawn from the main
Ienance fund of the executive residence:
jan %. 1908, w. J. Bailey
To Walter Sperling, silverware-$ 12S. 40