The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-20
n. employees
PAYROLL GETS
WARM DEFENSE
Publication of List of Salaries
Leads to Reaction in the
State Capitol
COMPARISONS ARE MADE

Many hands have sprung to the
defense of employees of the state
and to the administration that en-
ploys them.
Publication by I. j. Moe of Valley
City of a list/of state departmental
salaries caused the flare back. Not
only do employees assert that salaries
are not unreasonable, but Independ-
ents in the present administration
declare that the salary payroll has
been reduced in the last three years.
The payroll published was for the
month of April, 1924. This led
members Of the Nestos adminstra-
ton to inquire into comparable
payroll under the Nonpartisan
League administration of Governor
Frazier. While the payroll as shown
by ONE and league papers was $52,-
999.04 in April, 1924, under Nestos,
it was $57,775.17, or $2,77713 great
er in April, 1921, under the Nom
partisan administration.
The payroll, also, they say, con-
stitutes small part of the states
general expenses, most salaries are
fiyed by a budget committee COM
posed Of, members Of both political
factions, and is fixed by the legis-
lature is most cases.
The comparison also stirred An
dependents to go further.
Record in Bank
One of the first attacks made on
expenses by the Nestos administra-
ton was in the Bank of North Da-
kota, where the payroll under the
Nonpartisan League administration
reached $1O7,397.2O in 1920, indie
pendents assert. C. r. Green, the
manager named by Goveror Nestos,
Attorney Shafer and Com
missioner of Agriculture and Labor
j. A. Kitchen, constituting the In
dustrial Commission, following their
election, Immediately began to spare
expenses.
Expenditures in the bank proper,
with respect to-payroll alone, were
cut from $107,397.2O in 1920 to $42,-
204.20 in 1922. Since the farm loan
department of the bank was Writ
ually imperative under the League
administration not a great part of
the $lO7,397.20 included salaries for
this department. Salaries paid by
the Nestos administration in the
farm loan department in 1922 when
it became active, amounted to SAL
665.68.
The combined salaries of the bank
proper and the farm loan depart
ment of the bank in 1923, under the
Nestos administration, reached $685.
473.O2 as compared to S107 1920 un-
der the League administration in
1920, and the expenditures for 1923
included $48,492.09 for the farm. loan
department. The expenditures of
the proper amounted only to $45,-
O3O.93.
Other Cuts
The Nestos industrial commission,
it was pointed out, on assuming Of
flee began slashing big salaries. 1t
cut the salary Of $4,000 year
Which the Nonpartisans had paid to
F.. w. Cathro as director of the
Bank of North. Dakota to $4,000, re-
dused the salary of the manager of
the farm loan department from
$4,000 to $4,000; reduced the salary
of the secretary Of the Industrial
Commission from $4,000 to $4,000,
the salary of the manager of the
Home Building Association from
$4,000 to $4,000, the salary of the
manager Of the Home Building As
ISOLATION from $4,000 to $4,000 and
the salary Of the manager of the
small Drake> mill from $4,000 to
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