Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1919-07-24
TO cREAsINo TROUSERS. ss,s
State Employees Pile up Big Travei'
ing Bills.

Topeka State Journal: When III
official or an employee goes on
trim for the state of Kansas, he must
keen his own trousers pressed. iha'
q tho information which has peeh
Unmarried to Maurice McNeill' a
snecial assistant attorney general
Inv Fred w. Knapp, state auditor.
MoNa,u presented an expense ac-
count Of $329.12 for ten days trip
n New York in the Felix Broker
case.
McNeilrs expense account revealed
several things which may be OF IN
terest to persons who are planning
wn-east vacation. In the first
MACE. a few days in "Noo Yawk'
certainly does whet fellows appe-
tite. Second, this beastly hot
sticky weather surely calls for lot
Of clothes pressing don't-cher-know'
And another thing, old top. McNeili
found on a second trip which took
him to Kansas City that fellow
can't be too cautious these days. 50
Mcneil played safe and hired a de-
tectiye for a couple of hours-at
state expense.
while on Broadway Mcneil spent
$3.50 for keeping the creases In MS
trousers. He charged the item on
his expense account-$3.SO one DAY
.ond $40 on another occasion.
Knapp was inclined to be reasonable
about McNein's grocery bill, but he
didn't believe the dear tax payers
were sufficiently interested to the
personal appearance of state en-
ploves to pay their clothes pressing
bills. So the item was reduced from
the bill.
While on his trip Mcneil found
the the profteers We're after the
dining car patrons. But New York
is their real rendezvous.
one evening when Mcneil went
back to the diner for little nourish-
ment. his check was S2.S5 for the
dinner. Maybe it was because Nc
Neil1 was from Kansas and the heart
less steward thought this state didn't
care for expenses so long as 1t had
bumper wheat crop prospect. May
be Mcneil was just that hungry.
Anyway, travelling certainly does
work on some peoples appetite and
Auditor Knapp was willing to take
a broad and generous view of the
matter.
Worse in New York.
In New York it got worse-both
the expense and McNeiIPs growing
annette. The expense vouchers show
that on June 81 Mcneil ate $3.50
worth of groceries. 1t was hot, sui
try day in Topeka and most Kan
sans were eating lightly and hunt
ing the shade. But the sea breezes
on Broadway seemed to have a re-
verse effect on the assistant attor-
new general. Mcneil ate $1.4O
breakfast, a $1.90 lunch and a "a
dinner.
June 80, Mcneil got up hungry.
His expense account shows he ate
two breakfasts that cost $1.6O each,
a modest S1.75 lunch and a 81 din
ner-$6.95 worth Of food for the
day
The exact purpose Of McNeilrs
trip was not quite clear. Broker
had been arrested in Kansas City,
Mo, and it was stated that the as
sistant attorney general went to
New York to look up some securities.
He left Topeka June % and returned
July 1.
A trip which Mcneil made to Kan
sas City-July 1910 cost the state
S45.23. trip to Salina June 12-15
cost 500 SO and Kansas City trip
June 90 cost $1246. On one Of
his Kansas City trips, Mcneil hired
a detective and an automobile for a
couple of hours. He got a bargain
counter rate Of Sc.
Other Broker Expenses.
r. J. Hopkins, attorney general,
also made a couple of trips in the
Broker case. One Of his expense
vouchers was for $55.13. Another
was for 1923.
The state of Kansas has also re-
tanned special counsel in prosecut-
ing the Broker case in Missouri
Broker has never been arrested on
a Kansas warrant in connection with
the Kansas State bank case at Sa-
lima, altho he has been in the state
two or three weeks.
Following the employment of al
special counsel to assist the attorney
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