Morris tribune., 1911-11-10

public examiners department, new
forestry force, state highway COM
mission and department for the
testing of weights and measures. I
could not begin to enumerate the
small boards which meet occasionally
and draw their per diem from the
states strong box. The last session
of the legislature made fully three
hundred additions to the payroll, and
there are more to come. The other
morning standing in front of the big
marble pile, l saw this great army
straggle in by twos and threes. From
o'clock until near the noon hour
they passed through it's massive
carved portals, and as / watched them
thought of Bob Dunn's editorial. And
they told me, too, that fully seventy
five girls and women earned their
daily bread in this big building and
that their salaries ranged from 1000
to $1,S00 a year. Enough, you say,
to keep a bread winner and his six
kiddies in comfort. In the old state
capitol the activity was just as
marked, but the numbers were not SO
great.
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All this undoubtedly surprises you,
formation / will say that what l saw
was only fraction of that great army
employed in keeping the states ma
chinery running. 1t was the heads
and their assistants that were housed
in the two capitol buildings. The pri-
Yates were scattered over the state
and when Uncle Sans mails were in
adequate to the job a network of
wires served to keep them in touch
with the powers that be- That the
growth of the state has necessitated
vast additions to those needed for the
enforcement of the laws and the car.
rying out of its policies is admitted,
but there are many who believe that
selfishness rather than good business
has figured in the increase, and Bob
Dunn is only voicing their sentiments.
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Dame Rumor is still busy with the
name of Congressman G. A. Lindberg
in connection with the Republican
nomination for governor. The Sixth
district congressman, however, re-
fuses to give the talk confirmation.
He, however, has not entered any de-
nial. 1t may not be generally known,
but the Sixth district progressive is
credited down here with much of this
worlds goods and there are those who
say that if he wanted to get into the
game outside help in the way of fl
nances would not be necessary. He
has been much in the Twin Cities of
late comforting with local progressive
leaders.
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One of the features of the inquiries
for state lands received by State
Auditor Iverson these days is the re-
quest for information covering acre
age that has lake frontage. Moth
ing is required of the purchaser under
the present law other than that he
pay the stipulated price, and the fancy
of prospective buyers in consequence
seems to run to pleasure spots. In a
report just filed Mr.. Iverson says that
from May to October of the present
year he dlspos : of 102,75S acres of
state land at an average price of 1852
On acre. The whole realized the state
school fund the tidy sum of 2s79,-
261.37.
Some of Governor Eberhart's critics
have been fussing with his contingent
fund and they find that since Aug l
he has spent of the states money $27
for taxicabs, s1s1 in visiting county
fairs and other state points, several
hundred dollars in telegraph and tel
ephone tolls and nearly $125 for clip
ping bureau service. The latter tells
him what the country and city press
has to say regarding his conduct of
the executive department and the
states affairs. Some have been try
ing to hold that many of the expendi-
lures are illegal, but State Auditor
Iverson says it is the governors fund
and what he does with it will not be
questioned by him.
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Attorney General Simpson will soon
leave the service of the state to en-
gage in the private practice of law.
IF do say it myself" said Mr. Simp-
son, commenting upon his early de-
parture, "the state legal department