The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

have new city treasurer and have
thought 30 for 6, long while"
Mr.. Roudebush: II understand that
two men In this town hold warrants
for $1,000 each, both marked unpaid
for want Of funds, upon which they
ara drawing interest want to know
/ how they got these. They never passed
this board since have been member.
/ Clerk Stewart also stated that there are
no outstanding warrants Of that
amount. They probaly represent a
punching Of number Of smaller
warrants.
Mr.. Carver: Il think that we ought
/ to have a set of records of our own on
I this subject, so that we would know
I just where we stand
Just where we are at" interjected
President Mallory
Mr. Roudebush: 1--WE ought TO have
an auditing once each year..
Then a long wrangle followed about
the method IN which holders Of these
warrants get their interest, and Mr.
Wilson wanted to know where the city
treasurer got his authority to pay it.
President Mallory: THE finance com
mittee ought to get together and get
busy and make an Investigation.
In a rambling, unguided way the dis
cussion ran along for almost an hour
Finally Mr.. Roudebush made a motion
that an auditing committee of three be
to see what remedy can be compounded.
How It All Started.
What really started the rumpus, was
a series Of questions asked by thinner
man and Holsing as to the expenditure
Of certain sums of money, as $45 for
lumber, $40 for furnace fittings, etc.
without authority from the board. A
long list CT things Of this kind was
among the bills.
Chairman Wilson of the building com
nittee was looked to for an answer and
he said: "Thes expenditures were for
supplies and were of an emergency
character. They had to be had at once.
It would have been impossible to have
called the whole board together to con-
slider them.
Mr. Zimmerman: yes. it would have
been possible, and right and business
like to have called the board together
to consider a bunch of big items like
these. There are y members on this
board, and elected for this purpose. It
should not be left to two or three per
sons, good as they may be You and
7 wouldn't run our business this way.
The method is entirely too slipshod."
Mr.. Roudebush: whenever big
sums are spent, the bids ought to be
brought In before this board. I want
to see the stuff I want to say this
board should run itself. and should
not be run by two or three persons or
by the action of the last board I be-
live too that the Insurance committee
should let no contracts. The whole
board should do this. The committee
should decide what ought to be had,
and the board ought to then determ-
inc finally"
Mr.. Zimmerman then mentioned that
q. recent item was $40 for diplomas, or
140 diplomas at 81 each. He wanted
to know why the matter had not been
open to bidders and the lowest ac-
copied
Mr.. Whittemore: 1--WE had a stone
made. and the diplomas are now be-
ing made regularly from It, We have
been paying a dollar for each diploma
for good many years.
YES" replied Mr.. Zimerman, land
4 you have probably been paying over
4 every year for the stone as we'll as the
/ diplomas, and a top notch price at
that"
Here 7 see a bill for bluegrass
seed. Who authorized that2" was
/ Zimmerman's next shot.
Head Janitor Holloway said he had
been authorized by Judge Carver to
make the purchase.
''No. I didn't" replied Carver ct
told Holloway to SOW bluegrass on the
high school yard"
The battle kept on like this for quite
while. Finally Mr.. Zimmerman got
/ a motion passed that all emergency
| expenditures" shall be limited here
after to SIS.
It Was just Talk, That's AL
It showed up last night that the
1 loudly heralded plan to increase the
new Euclid school building from
4 eight to twelve rooms was only an
other building committee recomnen-
/ dation, upon which however the archi-
I tect had gone ahead and made up
/ new plans. This was Jared loose, how
ever, very rudely, and the building
committee instructed to halt and at
the next meeting of the board tell the
members Of the board Of any possible
/ change in the plans. In the course
/ of the Euclid school talk Mr.. Holsing
4 wanted to know why the promised
school building at Sixteenth and Van
Buren, streets was not built He said:
Was just a Sop.
at was urged that the board should
/ buy this tract for a building and the
people of my ward. the Fifth. voted
4 for bonds to buy it for that reason
ooh" said Mr.. Wilson, there was
/ never anything said about putting up
a building. But then it was all thrown
out just as sop so as to get the bonds
voted in"
Examination Changed.
Upon the recommendation of Supt
( Whittemore, the board OF education
+ last night decided that hereafter can
/ didates for places as teachers in the
| city schools would be examined in
but one of these three studies
zoology. botany, or geology. Hereto
/ fore all three were used in the exami-
/ nation. Mr.. Whittem ores point is
that a thorough examination in one is
better than a mere skimming over of