The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-23
COE AND PENNY
INDORSE ACTION
Think Plan for Uniform SyS-
tenn of Accounting Is
Good One.
PROBATE SYSTEM is POOR.
WAYNE COUNTY CLERK SAYS
THIS NEEDS IMPROVEMENT,
BUT LOCAL CIVIL RECORD sYs-
TEN SATISFACTORY.

Although County Clerk Penny and
County Auditor Coe were not in at
tendance at the meeting of the clerks
and auditors associations held yester-
day in Indianapolis, they approve Of
the course taken by these orgganiza-
tions, in officially approving the In
dianapolis Merchants association for
a uniform system of accounting in In
diana.
Clerk Penny stated this morning
that although there was a need for re-
forms in the conduct of the states
business, as a whole, he did not feel
that Wayne county was suffering from
the present condition of affairs, al
though admitting at the time there was
one in use, that of filing probate mat
tiers, which should be changed. The
method used in recording civil actions,
he said, was good one, but not so
much could be said concerning the
method of handling probate records,
which system has prevailed in the
Wayne county clerks office for years.
is brought, all records pertaining to
this case are filed together, making it
a very easy matter for any one inter-
ested in them to review the entire
case from the start to its completion,
without delay or bother. But the
same cannot be said concerning pro-
| bate records. Persons desiring to
trace a probate case are soon lost.
Wills, petitions and bonds, real estate
papers and account current relating to
any case, are filed separately, and it is
with much difficulty that all facts are
gathered together.
There are about ten thousand such
cases on record at the clerks office,
and to classify all such material would
be the work of months, and under pres
ent conditions it is thought inadvisa-
BILE to attempt a change until the leg
islature acts definitely on the proposed
uniform scheme of accounting.
A committee was named by the
clerks and auditors at the Indianapo-
lis meeting, whose duty it will be to
adopt some uniform bill which will be
presented to the law makers for &C
ton. All the good points will be in
| corporated and the bad ones eliminat-
ed.
The members of the committee are
Thomas Nugent, Daviess County, chair
man; J. N. Mason, clerk Allen county;
w. E. Harlan, clerk, Madison county;
Leonard Quill, clerk, Marion county;
William Richards, auditor, Madison
county, and Albert Sahm, auditor, Ma
rion county. A meeting of this COM
mittee has been called for tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock in the office of
w. c. Nusbaum, American Central
Life building, at which time copy of
the merchants bill will be studied in
detail.
This committee is empowered to call
a meeting before or Immediately fol-
lowing the opening of the legislature,
in order that the two associations as a
body, may approve of the measure; but
since the entire proposition was given
thorough consideration yesterday, this
meeting is unlikely, as the associa-
TONS confidence in the men named,
was freely expressed before the discus
sion was completed.
Clerk Penny thinks that the PROPOSE
ton, taken as a whole, will be of much
benefit, even though the passage OF
any uniform bill will mean many great
changes in the methods of conducting
Wayne county's business.