Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-05

| the state auditor to approve only such
vouchers as are in accordance with the
law.
1t asserts that these committee bills
and vouchers are unlawful on their
face because OF the excessive number
Of persons who are shown 10 have
travelled al the expense of the state
In the case Of the voucher for 50, 500
payable to F. H. O'Hara, il IS contend
ed in thu bill that it is based upon sen
ate resolution No, 81, which is held TO
be unlawful in that il resurrected at
the very close OF the legislature Of
1918, the vice investigating committee,
two members of which are no longer
and were not az the time of the resur-
rectiou, members. of the senate.
Senate resolution NO. 54 was passed
June a. The $500 voucher was
drawn June Is. The Fesurrected com
mittae. even if lawfully reconstructed.
has been in existence only four days.
and there is DO record of its having
met or transacted any business IN this
brief interval. according 10 the allega-
lions IN the bill
The voucher in question reads.
To r. f. O'Hara, Dr.. for salaries,
reports, and other expenses in c0nnec-
tion with the investigating committee
appointed under senate resolution No
% of the 4sth general assembly. and
continued under. senate resolution No.
81 of the #9th general assembly
$500 Approved Barratt O'Hara,
Lieutenant Governor and President of
the Senate"
The group Of vouchers for expenses
amounting TO nearly 5000 in maintain
ing the Chicago office Of the president
of the senate and senators in May and
June 1919 is objected to in the bill
ON the ground that these vouchers
we're drawn prior to the passage Of
any resolution authorizing such eXpen-
ditures. that they were not committee
expenses. that they are approved only
by Barratt OHara as president of the
senate and not by q committee chair
man and the president of the senate, as
is required by law, and that the reso-
luton purpOTting to give authority for
such expenditures, and which was
passed on June 80. 20 day after the
date appearing on the latest dated
of the vouchers, is itself unlawful and
invalid
The bill sets forth that your orator
S formed and believes that the presi-
dent of the senate is about to pur-
chase additional furniture and pay ex-
peuses OF an Office and otherwise ex-
pend the money of the state, irrespect-
i've OF the illegality Of said resolution,
and that. unless restrained by this
honorable court, the said fund appro-
priated by senate bill No. 438 will be
entirely spent for purposes contrary to
law
Protest Chicago School Quiz.
Mr. Fergus charges that senate res
olution No IS alleged to have been Of /
fered by Senator Ettelson and creating
a committee TO investigate the Chicago
school board with power to draw on
the committee contingent fund of the
senate, was not presented on the floor
of the senate on June 70 or any other
day, and in fact, was never passed but
that the president of the senate, in
spite of this fact, alleged that he had
examined the senate Journal OF June
10 and had found the same should be
corrected by inserting senate resolu- /
ton No. Is and that, there being no OBJ
lection, the journal was ordered cor
Teeted in manner stated by the presi- |
dent
The bill further protests as illegal /
numerous warrants paid a large num- /
her Of CLERKS. do0rkaeDers. stpn0gra- /
piers, bin distributors, ventilators, /
secretaries sergeants-at-arms and 9th /
er sapernumeraries, whose positions /
are not provided for by law"