The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-04-15
Taxpayers Share of Burden
Is Nearly Fifteen Hundred
Dollars a Day
PRINTING BILL REACHES $500
Per DAY FOR THE JURNAL
Total Cost Will Reach the Enormous
Sum Of $4,000 ut Least Before the
Case Is Ended - Some of the
Items.
OH. d. Paulson.)

(H. d. Paulson.)
Bismarck, N. D., April 15.-Approx-
imately $25,000 is the cost of the trial
of Judge John F. Cowan of Devils
Lake now in progress before the
high court of impeachment up to to-
day, that being the amount of ex-
penses incurred by the state up to
the time Of adjournment today, when
seventeen days of actual work in the
dal of the issues involved have been
mad.
The question Of cost is one that
has been discussed very generally for
some time past, and estimates as to
the amount that would have to be
paid In the trial have been at great
variance. The figures Indicating the
cost up to the present time can be
taken as fair basis on which to
estimate the total cost.
Up to last night the state auditor
had issued warrants for only S12.-
968.23 OF the total amount that IL
has cost the state, but this sum will
be increased quite heavily next Mon
DAY, which is payday for the men,
bers. employees, etc.
For the prosecution there were a
TOTAL OF 152 witnesses who received
compensation at the hands of the
STATE, the amount paid these being
$5,o84.O7. OF the 152 witnesses. only
ABOUT seventy were placed on the
stand to give evidence, the others
having been called here either on
the charges that were thrown out by
the senate, or upon charges which
1t was supposed that they would or
could testify to.
TO the members Of the senate, the
daily payroll is 1886, being s. for
each member. The mileage paid the
senators totaled 93.1707O, and this.
together with $4,475 In salary. makes
total of $6.653.70 paid by the state
for the jury in this unusual proceed
ure
The daily payroll for the EMPLOYEES
OF the senate is only $50, while the
dally stamp bill amounts to about
$2O more, making a total Of 500 a
today. W ~
For the publication of the daily
proceedings, the printers bill will
aerage about 5000 daily, and this, to-
gether with about SIS daily as the
amount that is paid the court re-
porters, makes total of $4,475 as the
cost up to and including this day.
Members of the board of managers
have received salary since the ad-
journment of the legislative assem-
bly,, March 3, and this salary, togeth-
er with that Of a clerk, totals S1,595
to date.
The daily salary Of the counsel
engaged In the case. both prosecu-
ton and defense, is 1920. OF this
amount 500 is paid to the defense,
with $120 for the prosecution. There
was also an allowance for the coun-
sci for the prosecution between the
time Of the adjournment Of the legis-
lature and the convening of the i'm
peachment court, making a total of
approximately $500 for the attor-
neys up to today.
These several items make up a to-
tai Of $26.007.77 as the cost of the
trial up to the time Of adjournment
today.
With this cost already incurred,
and with prospects that there will
be at least two more weeks of the
trial, with a strong possibility of
three, 1t can be readily seen that the
cost Of the trial Wilt not be anything
less than $4,000.
What Has Been Done.
Today practically marks the con-
clusion Of the third week Of tho trial
Of Judge John Cowan Of the Second
judicial district, with unusual and
very interesting developments mark
ing the progress of the trial this
week. The defense is now engaged
in the task of introducing evidence.
having subpcenaed in all. about sew
enty-flve witnesses up to the present
time. with indications that there will
be others.
To estimate the length of time that
will be required in which to COM
plete the trial of Judge Cowan is
practically impossible and out of the
question. 1t had been expected by
counsel for the defense that 1t would
require about week in which to
introduce the entire evidence that
will be placed before the court Of
impeachment on behalf Of the accus-
ed jurist, but this depends very
largely upon the length and thor
oughness of the cross examination.
Some idea of the manner OF cross
examination can be gained from the
questioning of the witnesses placed
on the stand yesterday afternoon,
which proved to be quite lengthy, and