The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
COST STATE OF KANSAS
JUST $4,000 FOR TIPS
STATE EMPLOYEES MUST QUIT
GIVING TIPS-AT LEAST AT
EXPENSE OF THE STATE.
Raises Limit on Meals-State Auditor
Davis Will Allow Those Who Are
Hungry to Eat a Dollars
Worth-Nation Thought
Six Bits Enough.


Kansas just $4,000 during the year
1911 for tips" distributed by state Of
ficials and employees to railroad ana
hotel employees. That's what the rec
ords in the office of State Auditor
w. e. Davis show.
But this year not cent will be
spent by the state for tips DAVIS
has provided against that. He has is
sued a set of rules for the benefit OF
officials and employees who travel FOR
the state and it says regarding tips:
"Tips or gratuities are recognition
of special service, not an actual ana
necessary expense for the service IT,
self and will not be alfowed."
Auditor Davis said recently that
the travelling expenses OF state ell
ployes for the year amounted to SSo'-
600 and that $4,000 of the amount was
given away. He thinks that is an item
of sufficient importance to be saved
and he proposes to save 1t.
Auditor Davis has raised the limit
for meals for state employees TO one
dollar His predecessor, James M.
Nation, started something of a reVolu-
ton a year or two ago by making a
ruling to the Effect that he would aud
it no expense account upon whlch
dining car meal costing more than sew
enty-five cents appeared. Nation salu
he had never spent that much for
single meal away from home and that
he thought he was just as good as
any other state employe. But Davis
thinks there are times when nothing
less than a dollar will cover the Dill,
and he has raised the limit.
But if the state employee takes two
meals in succession on a dining car
he must go back to the Nation limit.
The two meals must cost not more
than S1.50. The state employe may
divide that amount up any way ne
sees fit, but that is the limit for TWO
successive meals. And employees ana
officials boarding trains before or at
the meal hour for short trips Will not
he allowed meals on trains and II such
items are turned in Davis will reduce II
to the meal rate at the hotel or res
taurant where the last stop was maze.
The auditor will not allow bills for
hack, cab or other special conveyance
where street car service is available
No expense within the state for hotel
accommodation in excess OF $3 DAY
will be allowed and no expense at any
point in excess of the known rates TOT
such accommodations at that point
will be andited Three dollars a day
is the limit for hotel accommodations
in Kansas.
If the state employee rides in a Pull
man in the day time he must pay MS
own hill; the state will not pay 1t un-
less it is on train carrying nothing
but Pullman coaches and. 1t is SHOWN
that it was necessary to ride upon that
train.
It is also going to be necessary to go
through lot of red tape to get money
spent on trips outside the state made
nv institution officers. They VIII be
considered by the auditor only when
thew are accompanied by a letter OF
authorization from the head of the IN
stitution and bearing the endorsement
of the governor.
All accounts containing large or num-
erous items for auto and livery hlFe
must carry a full explanation for the
necessity of such expense. All unus-
nal and extraordinary expense items
must be fully explained
On TOP of all that the state employe
must furnish receipts for all his ex-
penditures while travelling for the
state or on state business.
Now. how would you ike TO be a
state official-a state employe?