Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
Bill Was Advanced Some
what in Senate Yesterday
Object Is to Hold Down
Public Expenditure for
Public Business.
10! THE POOR
LITIGANT AGAIN
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Sims, Goes to Committee
Peoria Citizen Would
Place Bounty on Fibbing
Tradesmen.

The things that did not appear on
the surface of the legislature yesterday
were more numerous than those that
obtruded themselves upon the public
gaze or the public ear. The only thing
out of the ordinary in the morning ses-
sion of the senate was the invocation
of Dean Scarlett in the absence of Rev.
Bertrand Cocks the chaplain. charged
with the spiritual we'll being of that
body.
The really most interesting feature of
the days proceedings in the senate
was the advancement of Senator Stap-
ley's bill to hold down public expendi-
lures. The general purpose of it is to
gather up the loseness with which
business has been conducted for some
years and requires that all money shall
sbe spent under the direct authority of
law; that if an official wants to go on
junketing trip, he may not charge up
his expenses to the state: that the peo-
pie may know who has spent the mon
ey and why it has been spent. Some
Of the essential features of the bill are
as follows:
THE state shall not be liable to pay
to any officer of employee of any of the
several departments and commissions
of the state, any claim or account for
expense or expenditure of any such Of
ficer or employee, except in cases
where the provisions of this oct, have,
prior to making any expense or expen-
diture, been fully complied with, and
then only in the cases and to the ex-
tent as herein provided
Before any officer or employee shall
perform any act or render any service,
in connection with either of which any
expense or expenditure is to be made
which might become the basis of a sub
sequent claim to payments from public
funds, it shall be the duty of such Of
ficer or employee to cause the board of
public welfare to approve such con-
templated expense or expenditure. Such
board shall refuse to approve same in
any case in which it deems that the
contemplated act or service is unneces-
sary and that the doing of same will
not be of benefit to the state.
III tdotS Niltlt tic dOIuS VI liit at
or service so approved by the board
involves travel of employees or officers
upon railroads, it shall be the duty of
the employee or officer to obtain from
such board railroad mileage book or
books. which shall be furnished by the
board, with sufficient mileage for use
upon such travel. Upon completion of
such trip or travelling, each employee
using such books shall account for
mileage used and return unused por-
tion to the board. All rebates or re-
turns from railroads on account of any
unused portion of such mileage books
shall be collected by such board and
turned over to the state treasurer.
Items of expense accounts relating
to hotel bills and living expenses of
such officers and employees, shall not
be allowed to exceed the actual amount
expended therefor, within a maximum
limit of not to exceed the sum of Four
Dollars $4,000 per day for each day
any officer or any employee actually
incurring any such expense as instance
to the matters by the board of public
welfare authorized to be done as above
provided
"No other items of expense or expen-
ditures shall be allowed for payment
from state funds, except such as shall
be shown to have been actually and
necessarily made to the end of an eff
ficient performance Of the act or the
rendering of the services. in each case
authorized as above provided.