The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-28
Reported to the Public Ac-
counting Board That They
Are Warning Trustees to
Lay in Big Supplies.
PLANS SUCCESS IS
INCREASE IN ORDERS
Township Officials Given to
Understand That Next Year
They Will Be Bound Up in
''Rea Fape.'

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Indianapolis, July 28.-School sup
ply statesmen throughout the state are
said to be working q smooth scheme
on the township trustees in the var
tous counties. The public accounting
boasa. has received word that these
agents ~ going about telling the
tSusAess that they had better lay in
large .snDulfes Of everything that will
- ase6edin-tf1eir schools for the next
two e thces. years. because by next
wear tAe public accounting board will
have evulUtlifng IN shape to look into
everything the township trustee does.
Not Working We'll.
whether they have caught any OF
the trustees By this plan is not yet
known, but II is not believed that they
have been able to do much. The
agents tell the trustees that the pub
S1ic accounting board Is preparing a
mass Of affidavits which the trustee
will be compelled to sign when he
makes q purchase and which the ac-
0oanGants will examine when they ex-
anime his office. This. they point
out, wlil complicate matters and make
It mach more difficult and cumber-
some to transact the business of the
Townships. and that II the trustee
wishes to avoid this difficulty and an
noyance he had better buy a larger
amount Of supplies this year SO he
will not have to buy any next year.
OF course. II the plan works. it will
mean largely increased orders for the
supply houses and more business for
the agents.
Arc Preparing Blanks.
It Is trne that the accounting board
10 preparing blanks for the use of the
trustees In making purchases Of all
kinds which will be put in use as soon
as the accounting board is ready to
begin it's work of inspection of public
offices. They are not, however. of
such . nature as to scare any honest
trustee.
Some time ago Governor Marshall
said he believed IL would be well to
have trustees make an affidavit ev-
cry time they buy anything to the eff
l1eCt that they did not pay more for
1.-THE article than they could have
bought the same article for else
whore. This, he believes, would pre-
vent any graft in the purchase Of sup
pKes. m evil that has been all too
common IN Indiana. 1t is likely that
this vial be one of the forms of affi-
davit that the trustees will have to
Sign, for 1t Is understood that the &C.
counting board will incorporate It in
IT. set Of papers for the use Of trus'
tees.
What Dehority Says.
The public accounting board does
not intend to send any word to the
trustees throughout the state in re
gard to the scheme the supply agents
Iare trying to work, but Chief Account
ant Dehority says he hopes the trus
tees will all turn down the PROPOSE
ton.
The accounting board has found
1IUoA1 k4AsGu ny q llnduC1A1
because the legislature failed to ap
prcpriake money for the support o.
the board The appropriation act car
ried money for the salaries Of the
members and employees of the board
but II did not carry any money to pa,
for office furniture, books. stamps
stationery or other things of thai
kind. whatever the board gets o
this hind the governor will have tt
pay for out Of his contingency fund
Il has been found, also, that the gov
ern0r's contingency fand will have Il
furnish $1,000 toward paying for tn,
new barn that is being erected at tn.
Michigan City prison In place Of tn,
one that was destroyed by the storm
some months ago. There was som,
insurance on the barn but not enough
to finish Tho new one, and even q
ithat the attorney general has rulet
that the insurance money cannot b,
used in the erection Of the new BARI
without special appropriation. l
must 90 into the state treasury as
general fund and be appropriated.
NOTICE TO BIDDERS.
Proposals. for supplies for the us
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