The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-03-14

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OF their salaries. TIE Fire Marshall
wanted more assistants and salary In
creases. A Department OF State Po-
lice with an indefinite pay roll was
proposed The Long Hospital mod
estly asked for a 'psycopathic depart
ment." with $4,000 for a building
and So. 200 for maintenance only
100000 was asked for new normal
school. but Rural School Commits
sion" was urged 20 make a survey
OF school conditions. al $1,000. al
though the State Beard OF Education
is supposed TO furnish all such In
formation. Call was made for a
state Board OF Electrical Crane In
! spectors," with three members al
I g.. 900 per Senator English wanted
/ $4,000 10 buy ground for a negro In
dustrial school. For Live stock
Sanitary Board" s35 900 was asked
and the Lieber Department Of Con
servation asked for 100000 year. Of
which $4,000 goes TO the Director. p"
with as many assistants and az such
salaries as the commission sees Mt 10
provide. The State Moving Picture
Board" was 10 have a chairman al
s. 500. and two standing members al
$4,000. with a total appro pTiation OF
$4,000. The state Board OF Pardons
called for clerk. with salary 10 be
fixed by them. A State Motor We
hicle Commissioner was asked. al,
1900 The state Employ iaent Com
mission" wanted $4,000
County officers we're right up with
the procession. led by the officials OF
Marion. St Joseph and Lake counties
While most OF the demands OF this
class were for individual besefciaries.
IL was proposed 10 put all county com
missioners on salaries. ranging in ten
classes. from $500 to 81 600. and also
10 make county commissioners road
supervisors in their own road dis
tricts. at Sc per day additional. and
90 cents per mile mileage County
superintendent wanted an increase
OF salaries. and also 10 be allowed 10
I charge livery for the use OF their Own
vehicles. and 10 have an assistant at
50 per day. The county surveyors
asked an increase OF salaries. and In
counties OF over 24O. 900 wanted TO sp
point a "rodman, nagman. chairman
and stenographer" az 81 per day each
and an assistant engineer" at s.
| The pay OF road workers. whose
work has been a standing Joke fol
years, was increased from 81 to $3.50
per day; and teams from $3.50 TO s.
Court reporters made a strong erort
for salaries OF $500 County coun
ell men asked for per diems OF from
s. TO 500 and memb ers OF township
boards for $40 per meeting.
Old Claims Revived.
Old snags. that have been turned
down heretofore. Ike the sale OF the
Marion county court house. and the
Hord claim for S60.0oo. were revived
and presented the latter being passed
by the Senate But the most popular
crafts were high cost OF living
stunts. II was demanded that all T.
legal allowances during the war b.
legalized and future rates be put on a
war basis The mos; bsre-faced Of
these was the call for 60 cents a day
for boarding prisoners In 5sils. which
the virtuous State Board OF Accounts
had authorized in writing. although
the law limits the charge 70 80 cents
This steal has been worked in the face
OF the fact that board at the women's
prison has cost less than Is cents a
day all through the war. and the
prisoners there are better fed than in
any jail in Indiana To make Il worse
Republican Judges in Marion county
have persistently sent women TO the
jail who. under the law should have
gone TO the woman's prison. saddling
a. cents a day OF unnecessary expense
on the taxpayers. for the benefit OF a
Republican sheriff. Attention was
called 10 this during the last cam
paign, but the Indianapolis News and
Star suppressed IT, and this scandal
Gus defiance OF the correctional laws
OF the state IS still going on. The
state Board OF Charities and Correc
tions IS apparently as completely
cowed by Goodrich schrecklichkeit as
the State Board OF Accounts.
sherifs Want Graft.
Another proposed sherins graft
was on mileage; House bill ESQ. pro
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