The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-15
Tt Is a Great Step in
Reform.
HAVE BUT FEW PLACES
No Money to Pay For the Extra
Clerks.
Only One and a StenOgrapher
Will Be Employed.

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incipient booms by the decision that
they win not employ any extra assist
ants for the state board Of control, but
will see howzthe board manages to get
along with one clerk and a stenog-
rapher.
1t is said that Iowa has clerks,
| stenographers and bookkeepers working
in the offices of its board of control.
and that the state of Minnesota has Is.
Section of the board of control act
says:
The board of control shall employ
competent secretary who shall receive a
salary of not to exceed $1,000 per year,
and may also employ a stenographer
and such other clerks as may be nee
essary to carry out the provisions of
this act"
The legislature appropriated $4,000. for
the clerks, and $500 for the stenographer,
! but 1t forgot to put IN anything for the
extra clerks the board might want to
employ Consequently there is no fund
with which to pay extra clerks. They
would have to wait for the next legis-
| lature to get their money.
Nevertheless there has been a strong
pressure brought to bear on the COVER
nor and the board to create the job of
| bookkeeper at $500 and storekeeper
at $1,000. It was thought that this size
of salary would just about suit several
people whom it was desired to take
care Of" But it's all off now. Governor
Hoch said today:
Hoch Says 1t Is Grand.
While there is no doubt that the
board will have vast amount of work
to attend to- they win. at the start, any
way, try to get along with the clerk
and stenOgrapher. l feel that the es-
tablishment of this board is one of the
grandest things the state ever did. 1t
puts the state institutions in the care
of a board which has its headquarters
right here, where we can get at them,
and know what they are doing. The idea
that the state should be content to al
! low a board without any headquarters,
or books, or records of any Importance
! to spend hundreds Of thousands of dol
I lars every year seems preposterOus to
me, and yet some of, the members of the
| legislature fought the board of control
all last winter.
| Il believe we have the right kind of
men on that board They have just
completed their trip of visitation to
4 other states. to see how they handle
/ the work, and every one of the mem
! bers refused to let the expenses of the
4 trip out of my contingent fund. 1t
/ isn't very often that you will find set
/ of men who will do that much just to
/ prepare themselves to give the state a
good administration. These three mem
i bers will be in Topeka most of the time
when they are not visiting state institu-
tons
Il have left the matters of appoint
ments of heads OF the state institutions
until the new board is ready for bust
ness. Nothing has been done yet to-
ward selecting any of these superin-
tendents''
See About bookkeeping.
Secretary johnson of Oskaloosa and
State Accountant Gafford left Topeka
yesterday for Des Moines to inspect the
! methods of bookkeeping which are in
use by the Iowa board of control, from
which the Kansas board was modelled
very closely The law makes sit the
| duty of the state accountant to pre-
/ pare the books for the board of control
and get it started off in the proper
manner.
The first duty of the board of control.
when it assumes office on July 1. will
be to order complete inventory to be
made of all the state property at every
/ state institution placed in its charge.
/ This shall be made of record at the
/ office of the board, and each month the
superintendent shall file a report show
ing all items lost, worn out or destroyed.
The new law also provides that prior
! to July I, 1905 the board must deter
mine the monthly salaries to be paid TO
/ all the employees in all the state insti
buttons. 1t is likely that the board viii
/ simply adopt the schedule of apprOpria
/ tons which WAS made by the last leg
islature. These schedules were prepar-
i ed by the superintendents of the insti-
buttons.
That the board will have to do con-
siderable bookkeeping is indicated by
the following provisions of section Is Of
the law:
The board shall keep at its ofice in
! Topeka, a complete system of books
and accounts with each institution.
made by the legislature for the support
/ of said institution, and every expendi-
ture made shall be entered therein. and
shall show every contract for supplies
soft
and which books and records, so far as
the same relate to contracts for sup
plies. shall be open to public inspec
ton"
keeper to look after this work, it has
/ been contended that the board needs
I some one to take care of Its contract
/ business. The board will have to keep
| q small grocery store on hand, as the
new law provides that sample Of ev-
| erything purchased must be kept in the
/ Office at Topeka and a portion of the
/ same sample sent to each institution,
/ so THAI everybody may know that the
board is getting what 1t pays for
Horticulturists Are Worried.
Governor Hoch and the executive
council will now have to find a place
to put this new state department IN the
| state house.
Omcers and friends of the state hor-
| ticultural society are pleading with
Governor Hoch not to interfere with
| the present location of the society in
the basement of the north wing of the
capitol, where the Society has made It's
headquarters for the past eight years.
1t has been rumored that the executive
council, at it's next meeting will move
the horticultural society to a large room
on the fourth floor Of the building, Civ
ing the present horticultural room to
the adjutant general, 50 that he will be
close to the state arsenal, which is in
the same wing. This would leave the
rooms now occupied by the adjutant
general free for the board of control.
The council is very anxious to get the
control. and the members Of the board
are looking with longing eyes upon the