Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-22
CHARGE KLAUSS
PAID HIMSELF
S3,415 ILLEGALLY

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insurance departments. No date, no
vouchers, no affidavit. Approved by J.
P. Goodrich, Governor.
Governors emergency contingent fund,
| to o. L. KLAUS account insurance con-
| tlngent fund, $500. ]. P. Goodrich, Gov
ernOr.
Insurance examiners expense, claim
| filed Nov. %, 1920 o. L. KLAUS, expense
to Eft. Wayne and return, itemiZed, ST.. As.
No date, no vouchers.
Land department travelling expenses,
claim filed March 10, 1920; to Henry w.
Kramer, sworn to before Otto L. Klaus,
no vouchers, $47.79.
Claim filed April "a, 1920; W. II.
Kreamer. travelling expenses Of KLAUS
and Kreamer, no VOUCHERS; affidavit made
before KLAUS as notary, $9102.
Claim filed Nov. 6, 1920; Otto L. KLAUS,
railroad fare, etc, Gary and return, $55.
Incomplete affidavit, no date, no vouch-
ers, $50.
$500 TO KLAUS
ON ONE WARRANT.
Under the head Of office expense the
report shows that a warrant was issued
to Otto L. KLAUS, Nov. II, 1920, for trav-
cling expenses for insurance and bank
ing departments during the years 1917,
1918 and 1919, amounting to 5000. The
claim carries no affidavit or date of
vouchers, the report states.
The report also shows a number of
lesser alleged Irregularities. In one case
it is shown that 500 was credited to
the land department which should have
gone to another department. The money
was collected as rents on State prop
erty In another case the examiners
found a claim OF 500 forfeited to the col
lege fund enormously charged to State
lands.
Excessive payments were made by the
auditor for surveys, according to the re-
port In one case E. E. Doeppers was
paid $50 for surveying a plat OF ground
and examiners say they could find no
plat. They say there is no statute au-
thOrizing such payment for the amount
OF ground surveyed. Another similar
payment of $50 to Doeppers is listed as
excessive.
Another payment which the examiners
say was excessive was SjO650 paid to
Alfred A. Savery, surveyor of Starke
County.
The report has the following to say in
the matter Of the loan and credit de-
partment:
This department was organized under
the provisions Of the act of 1911. This
act does not provide for salaries and ex-
penses."
In the matter OF the bank examiners
salaries the report says:
THE regular appropriations act Of
1919 provides for the salary Of seven bank
examiners at $500 each, a total Of $17,-
500.
THE account shows an expenditure of
SIG. 75s. OF. This causes an overdraft of
So. 25707, which is apparently without
legislative authority"
The report shows that ten assistant
bank examiners were paid salaries Of
81. 1856 20 and expenses tOtaling So42 96,
making a total OF S2,323.68. The ex-
aminers say there is no provision in the
law for the employment of assistant bank
examiners or for such expenditures.
The report also shows a complete
statement Of the financial condition of the
state on Sept. 30, 1920. 1t shows that the
balance Oct. ], 1919, was 1894 S51.34;
that the receipts were $1741S,2S1,5 IS,
making q total of SCI 1893, 1929 The dis
bursements for the year. the report
shows. were S16,s24 1855, leaving a bal
ance sept 80 Of $4.56S,39I
During the last fiscal year the Gov
ernOrs onice spent $Eto,t-1'Uo' dSCoiuiHB
to the report This included payment
Of $4,000 from the emergency fund and
$4,000 from the civil and military con-
tlngent fund 1t also shows that the
Governor spent for alterations and re-
pairs Mt the Statehouse S22.77123.
The various strikes and riots in Indiana
caused an expenditure of $110.1726 from
the riot fund, the report shows, in addi
ton to S47, SS6.94 for the militia itself. The
total expenses of the adjutant generals
department were $167 .5S3.55.
The report shows the two special SEES
sions of the Goodrich Legislature cost
the State $35, 251.95.