The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19
HIT AT H. ]. ALLEN
Board Of Control Makes Attack
on Ottawa Editor.
Claim He Was Not Consistent in
His Attitude.
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ALBAUGH IN THE LIST.
Grant HOrnaday Is Placed by
Side of Other Two.
Besides This Board Wants to
Regulate Salaries.

concealed IN the FOAuInlHOuS ACRlAS
Of the first annual 1000 page report Of
the state board of control, there is a
subtle thrust at Henry Allen. former
chairman of the board of charities, and
the man who led the fight against the
board Of control bill. It seems a queer
place to air political grievances
The members Of the present board of
control have been hunting up Aliens
record, and print it right out in cold
type. They find that in the year 1902,
when Henry Allen was chairman of the
board, the following recommendation
was made IN the annual report:
political influence has entered too
largely into the control of state chart-
table institutions. Let the board be
absolutely forbidden the privilege OF
recommending people for employment
with the exception of superintendents'
who shall be appointed by the board,
and make these superintendent wholly
responsible to the board for the char
acter of their employees and the grade
of service. A law in line with the above
recommendation would be similar 10
that recently enacted by the state OF
Iowa and which has already been fruit
full of good results"
In making this quotation from the
! 1917 report I1CA4y <1AAUA , mann -
mentioned, but it is easy to supply that
| deficiency. It is evidently the object Of
| the report to put Allen on record, with
the implied question. Why did Allen
fight the board of control bill, which
was copy of the Iowa law. and pro-
vided for the things which Allen rec
commended in 1922
The new report of the board OF con-
trOl does not stop with Henry Allen. 1t
] Sif record Morton
/ Albaugh and Grant Hornaday, 1orrnef
chairman of the board of charities. NO
! names are used in either case, but the
date of the report from which the quo
4 tation is made is given.
Morton Albaugh,Who was president OF
the hoard in 1885, makes the following
statement in his annual report:
1T would seem that the time mas ar
rived in Kansas when the state charita-
ble institutions should be divorced from
politics. Those who secure and hold
their positions through what is termed
t sinfluence' seldom contribute to the bet
/ ter discipline or successful management
In the wear 1900, when Grant Horna-
dav was president Of the board, this re-
| port was made:
1 grinder the present regime, with every
political upheaval the institutions are
torn up by the removal of officers ana
employees from superintendent down, to
make. room for partisans of the success
fuI party and much inexperienced help
must be employed Nearly every state
now has bipartisan boards OF -l- chaIl-
ties. and we sincerely hope the next
legislature will not adjourn without
passing an act as indicated above"
Want to Raise Salaries.
one Of the most important recon-
| r,endations of the report is that the
legislature make blanket approprla-
tion for salaries, and leave 1t to the
| board of control to fix the salarles At
whatever amount the board thinks the
| service rendered Is worth. 1t is set
| forth that the same position should
command similar pay in each instltu-
| ton and in order to equallze the situa-
ton, it is urged that the lower salaries
D7 A. nresent there is a conflict in the
llaw The board of control bill says that
the board shall fix the salaries OF en-
Moves at the institutions, but the legls-
| iature proceeded to make specinc ap,
nropriations for the various positions I:
| tbe institutions so there is nothing lef1
for the board to do.
1rhe appropriation bills appropriated to
! some institutions a steward at $teo,
| clerl. at S72o. and an assistant clerk al
Soeo. At another institution a stew
ard at $780, a clerk at $500; at another
steward at s72O. and a stenographer and
guide at 5000; at another a steward al
$500: at another no steward but clerk
and StG0OREaDI0l a. Forof c---N
other nothing was appropriated Ao1 q
clerk. steward or stenographer.
The report goes on to say;
"After our appointment, we OBJ
ta1ned a list of employees, and their sal-
s~ias from each institution, and also
ss,1ca T,Ilv l. 1905, we have spent q
great deal of time trying to adjust sa /
erfeu as far as we could within our
li,7itations We feel that we have the
,,.,x,er under the law to m ak9 The
salaries of the stewards. clerks ana
~tenozra pliers above mentioned uni
form If the same can be done without
| IN i,1sfice but the ones receiving the
higher pay are earning every cent ap-
Dropriated and their salaries should
not be reduced while the salaries OF
the lower ones should be raised to har-
monize with the others.
Report Is in Four Parts.
The report. which was placed ir
! the hands of Governor Hoch yesterday
is divided into four parts.
part / Is a complete compilation sn6
INTERPRETATION of all the laws and de-
cisions of Kansas and opinions of fhs
| attorney general, relative to the con
trol of state charitable Institutions
Thts compilation was prepared by h
g. Bowman, the lawyer member Of III
i bcard. and will be bound as a separat.
work. in addition to being incorporated
IN the report
Part 2 is in the nature OF summary
of the general work Of the board sine
its appointment.
part 8 relates entirely to private in
stftrfions which are under more 0
!. less supervision from the board OF con
troll.
part contains the reports of tn
nine institutions. The reports OF thes
. institutions will each be printed sepa
1 | rately in pamphlet form, in addition t
3 being placed in the general report
Y The report shows that the numbe
of employees and monthly pay roll q