Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-03-14
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Without any desire to criticis'
Governor Crawford except for wha'
he may have done in the premises
toward creating further dissensior
in the ranks, the News has steadily
contended that the governor tool
an untenable stand in censuring pre-,
ceding state legislatures for estab'
fishing a contingent fund for the use
OF the executive office. 1t was pre-.
dicted that sooner or later this over
straining to pluck applause would
react-that the fund was necessary
that il had been used to good pur
pose, that il was in no ems an
extra payment or prepayment; that
no good could come from so obivi.
ously foolish an agitation.
Fulfllment of the prophesy came
sooner than was expected. 1t came
in senate bill No. 264, introduced by
the committee on appropriations
IA bill for an act appropriating
money for clerk hire and incidental
expenses of the Office of governor for
the remainder of the fiscal year
ending Jund 80, 1907 The sum
sought to be appropriated was $500,
reiterated in the body of the bill as
intended "to provide clerk hire and
expense for the Office of the gov
ernor for the remainder of the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1907"
When the bill reached the house
the appropriation committee unani-
mously recommended It's adoption.
Representative Cable, of Lincoln,
county, chairman of the committee,
explained to the house that the
appropriation was necessary because
there was only "some $40 in the
fund"
Representative Parmley, of
Edmunds county, who has an ear
for figures, at once raised the point
that according to the state auditors
books there was in this fund on
January s, 1908, when Governor
Crawford took charge the sum of
x912.65, and wanted to know what
had become of it in the meantime.
Mr.. Cable, taken aback, consented to
postpone consideration of the bill
until the following Monday.
Meanwhile Mr.. Crawford got busy
with Mr.. Parmley for his objection
to the appropriation, but the gentle
man from Edmunds had the facts.
In the argument that ensued, in the
presence Of Mr.. Cable and others, he
presented the matter in such a light
that il was agreed among those
assembled in the executive Office for
consultation that further efforts to
pass the bill should be abandoned.
On Monday, when the bin was
reached. Mr.. Cable arose in his seat
add with peniience as we'll as resent
Esenf in his voice explained to the
krn.< that he had taken the word oil
asycsher relative to the condition Of
ts~ fund that Mr.. Parmley's figures
smr@ eyrrect, that the bill should be
killed.. The house took him at his
gegd xfsd sent the measure to its
Qyage ~ > unanimous vote.
Tk3 further facts in the case are
e.,as a she clerk hire and expense
fsoa ggsesei 10 Governor Elrod fol
s,.s AAesl year ending June 80, 1906
4S.Sd0ge ~, s2o9.6s was unex'
sesAsa ssx reverted to the treasury
III As appropriation for like expen
...s 4 sh.e governors Office for thu
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