The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-28
HITS Them HARD.
New Salary Bill Is a Novelty Of
It's Kind.
Makes 1t a Felony for Officials
to Increase Remuneration.
SLASHES SALARIES
The State Would Save 81, 300
Every Year.
Must Not Engage in Other Bus
mess While in Office.
Lively Time Over Provisions of
Bill Anticipated.

salaries for all the state officers and
employees whose pay is not now hxeo
by statute
The bill increases some salaries. but
/ it decreases others. and abolishes|
eleven jobs. The net increase in sal
aries is sS.26O; the net decrease is
$3.50. So if the bill goes through as
reported by "Bill'' Hackney's commit
tee, the state would save $4,000.
1t is likely that there Will be big
fight when the bill comes I'D on the
floor of the house. Some of the mem
bers will try for still further reduc-
tions; others will no doubt endeavor|
to have the pay of certain positions
increased.
The bill fixes the pay of the warden
of the penitentiary, the secretary and
stenographer of the state board of
health and the stenographer for the
oil inspector, which positions were not
provided for in the appropriation bill.
The committee has affixed a section
making it a penitentiary offense for
any state officer to get more pay than
the law allows.
Another new provision of the law
is the one which specifies that a state
officer must not engage in any other
business while acting as state officer.
i Ills Will AFFECT the state OIIlCGIS WHO
edit newspapers, own stores, or carry
on any outside line of work. IT would
seem that this provision is a little too
! drastic. 1t might have the effect of
limiting Office holding to the profess
sional politician, who simply moves
around from one political job to an
other
Summary of the Law.
In the governors Office the title of |
the executive and pardon clerk is
ole.
ant private secretary. He is allowed !
$1,000 for, executive clerk and $500 for |
assistant private secretary, which |
makes his pay the same he has been
getting.
The salary of the secretary of states
stenographer is raised from $500 to |
$500.
The position of special assistant
state auditor is created, at a salary of |
$1,000.
The salary Of the state treasurer's
stenographer is raised from $500 to
The $1,000 job of chief clerk for
the attorney general is stricken off the
list.
The state superintendent of insur- |
ance loses his $1,000 chief clerk. The
pay of his stenOgra pher is raised from |
$500 to 5000.
Four fremen at the state house are
given 1920 each instead of $500; the !
mum Der of janitors and lawn men is |
cut from eighteen to ten, and the re- |
naming ten are allowed $720 per year /
instead of $500 The position of
stricken off the list. This job has |
paid $500.
The salary of the stenographer of
the supreme court is raised from 1920 |
From a salary of $1,000 the state
librarian is cut to $1,500, and the two |
clerks in the library get their pay
raised from $500 to 5000.
In the State Historical society the |
salaries of the accession clerk and of |
the newspaper clerk are cut from 5000
to $720; the salary. of the assistant
newspaper clerk is raised from $500 to
S72o.
The salary of the assistant secretary
of the board of agriculture is raised |
from 81. 500 to $1,000; that of the stenog-
rapher is raised from $720 to $780,
The salary of the secretary of the
State Horticultural society is cut from
81 500 to 81, 200.
priations remain the same as at pres
ent.
Changes Albright's Force.
The bank commissioners force is re-
constructed. but the salaries remain the
same as at present. The new hill savs-
The bank commissioner shall receive
an annual salary of twenty-five hun
dred dollars In addition to the two
deputles,o one clerk and one stenographer
provided for by section APT of the ean ,
8 1
sioner is hereby authorized to appoint
one deputy, and one deputy (building
and loan) examiner. The bank commits
sioner may deputize the clerk provided
for in said section 427 to act as deputy
bank commissioner when necessary.
The officers and employees so appointed
snail receive the following annual sal
aries: Three deputies, eighteen hundred
dollars each; one deputy building and
loan) examiner, fifteen hundred dollars;
one clerk, fifteen hundred dollars. and
one stenographer and clerk twelve
hundred dollars. The legislature shall
appropriate sum for each year to
cover the incidental expenses of the
bank commissioners office, and such
sum as may be necessary to defray the
travelling expenses of the commissioner
and his deputies. All money actually
and necessarily paid out by the COM
missioner and his deputies for travel
ing and incidental expenses shall be
paid to them upon the auditors war
rants, to be issued upon sworn vouch-
ers containing an itemized account of
such expenses"
Some New Provisions.
The proposed law concludes with
the following new provisions:
''All officers, clerks and EMPLOYEES
provided for under this act shall de-
vote all of their time to the transac
tion of the business of their respective
employments, and shall engage in nd
other calling or business.
THE legislature shall provide nv
aDDroDriation such contingent funds