The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-13
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Knapp VIII Urge Higher Sal
aries for Officials.
He Would Increase Pay of
States Employees.
$4,000 TO ALL ELECTIVES
recommendations Prepared for
the Legislature.
Teachers May Be Placed on
One Pay System.

General salary increases for state
employees and a minimum $4,000 a
year salary for all elective state Of
ficials are recommendations to be
made to the next legislature by Fred
w. Knapp, state auditor. Knapp will
also urge that men employed in state
schools and institutions be allowed to
draw but one pay check. He will de-
mand, also, that an equalization be
made in salary schedules of appointive
officers and of assistants in elective
offices.
The Knapp recommendations are
now being prepared, and will be sent
to the governor for transmittal to the
legislature. Sweeping changes in
practically all state departments af-
fecting pay checks and methods of
payment will be made. Knapp will
seek in his report to head off the
practice Of college professors in draw
ing several pay checks for single
months service.
Affect Many Offices.
One of the most important salary
changes urged by Knapp will be the
state pay for elective public officials.
He will ask that a minimum salary
of $4,000 a year be allowed all elective
state officials. His recommendation
will affect the offices of secretary of
state, state auditor, treasurer, super
intendent of public instruction, super
intendent of insurance and state
printer. The salary increase would
not affect Knapp personally or his
office force, as the new schedule would
not become effective until 1921.
Present salaries of the secretary of
state, auditor, superintendent of in
surance and state printer are $4,000
year. The superintendent of public
instruction receives a salary of $4,000,
while the state treasurer is paid $500
a year.
THE present salaries of elective
state officials are grossly unjust and
unfair in view of the pay received by
| a numbe- Of men appointed by cleo
tive officials said Knapp. 1.-The
state manager receives $4,000 a year,
| members of the public utilities COM
| mission $4,000 a year, and members
| of the board of administration $4,000
| a year. Assistants in several ap-
pointive departments receive $2,400 a
| year, while assistants in elective offices
receive $1,000 year"
More Pay for Clerks.
Knapps campaign for more pay
will also extend to scores of clerks,
| stenographers and men and women in
subordinate positions. He will ask for
| these persons a general increase in
keeping with advanced cost oe living.
| present schedules are most unfair
| in view of the grab system employed
| by every department during a legis-
| lative session." said Knapp. THE
wage and salary schedules should be
| entirely revised"
For the college professors who draw
extras" for lectures, Knapp would fix
a one-pay system. He would provide
a statement on each pay check to the
| effect that the person receiving the
pay has received no pay for other state
| service, does not expect further pay
| and will make no further claim.
When the legislature comes tc
town it is confronted with a showing
of the college pay rolls said the
auditor, but the legislative members
do not know that many of these mer
| are permitted to make experiments OIL
| deliver lectures and receive many 'ex-
| tras' from various state funds. Every
person in the state service should re.
! ceive a stipulated salary or wage anc
the system of extras should be elimi-
mated. 1t is unfair to taxpayers an6
to state institutions and Department.
which are unable to provide employees
with extras in order to increase in.
| dividual revenues"