The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-09-17
rapidly increased by the accumulation

pubic printing ana btndtng has L.
creased in the same period $4,000
Extra help for the Senate and Horsc
for the last three sessions. and paid
without warrant of law, $4,000 The
incidental fund for public officers dur.
ing the same period has increased $751;.
900. The cost of operating and main.
tanning our charitable institutions has
increased 100000. Extra fire mar.
shals for three years cost the State
$4,000. The cost Of record books has
been increased $4,000; extra help in
the Auditors and Land Office, paid
without warrant of law, $4,000 Our
three penal institutions have been oper-
ated at loss of $4,000. Extra cost,
not including extra servants. of The
last two legislative sessions over 1896,
the only time the Republican party
ever controlled the lower House. Sl07,-
900. This party has created more than
200 new Offices and positions in State
and county, most of them with salaries
and expense accounts.
COMMISSIONS.
Kentucky has commission to regu-
from Dan to Beersheba; and when 1t
is not called a commission 1t is called
board. We have the Railroad Com
mission. the Prison Commission. the
Insurance Rating Comm !Ssion, the
Board of Control, the School Book
81 II,
mission. the Geological None Such
Commission, a battalion of fire mar
shals. company of foresters and a
squad Of hotel suspectors.
The Board of Control is composed
of four members, with salaries total
ing $4,000. The Prison Commission
has three members and salaries of ST.
200. The two Fire Insurance Rating
Commissioners, with salaries of $4,000
All Of these have clerks. stenographers
telephones and other home comforts.
The members of these high-priced COM
missions are at work in Frankfort al
most a whole week in every month,
and are paid on an average of $4,000
year for twelve weeks work. One
real commission on the job during
working hours and working days could
do the work of all, increase the eff
cheney of the public service and save
the taxpayers of Kentucky thousands
Of dollars. The two members of tho
Fire Insurance Rating Board have been
seen in Frankfort so seldom that their
~, ic Of tho ia
est alarm, lest another insurance bill
is to be sprung upon an unsuspecting
and defenseless public.
Cash balances approximately twice
as large as those kept by the proceed
ing Republican administration have
been maintained by this administra-
ton and deposited with favored bank
ing institutions, instead of reducing
the cash balance by promptly retiring
warrants. AS shown
by the monthly cash balances on the
money deposited with these banks.
which draws Pc per cent interest, your
present administration during the last
three fiscal years should have collected
$63 900. They have only collected $751;.
900, a loss to the State of $4,000.
In the Department of Education,
which the most rigid econ
omy was promised, We find the most
violation of every sound prin-
ciple of public accounting, the most
reckless expenditure of money for the
personal expenses of its. chief officer
and the willful violation of statutory
Of accounting. The pres
emit Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, and who is his party's nominee
'or Secretary of State and who styled
himself THE Wizard Of Finance" has
presented and caused to be paid for
expenses on alleged visits to
he County Superintendent Offices the |
following sums for fiscal years: 1912, |
1913; 1913, 1926: 1914, $2.S32. in
,luding such items as 1896 for one |
month. | charge that this officer has |
lot been out of Frankfort on the !
States business one-half of his time.
md that therefore he has charged the |
State for expenses more than $50
lay for every day he has been on its
business, and on an average OF $40 a |
lay for every working day in all the
ear. With the average hotel in Ken
lucky charging no more than $3.50 a
ay, and the county seats not averag-
ng thirty miles apart, it is impossible
hat these sums could be or were ex-
,ended. Not only this, but with the
of the last few months when
his public official was a candidate,
hese sums uave been paid with
ut itemized accounts being filed. with
ut bills, vouchers or receipts and,
,orse still from June. 1914. TO Janu-
ry, 1915. they have been paid in direct
collation. OF the following law of the
tate of Kentucky, passed session of
Ola:
BE it enacted by the General AS
sembly of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky
1. That all State officers, members
of boards, members of commissions
or employees who are now or who
may hereafter be authorized by law
to receive from corporations, the
State treasury or from any fund APP
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