Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1905 — DOUGH NOT PROVIDED [ARTICLE]

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Legislature Was Not Lavish with Money for the Railway Commission. ONLY $3,000 FOR EXPENSES How a Professor Gulled a CollegeHeavy Storm Sweeps the State —Hoosier State News. Indianapolis, May 5. Union B. Hunt was chosen chairman of the Indiana railroad commission at its first formal meeting. The chairmanship carries no additional duties or sibilities other than presiding at tlie meetings of the commission, and the salary for the chairman is the same as that for the other members of the commission, $4,000 a year. Charles B. Kiley, of Rushville, was officially selected as secretary, and Gilbert IL Warner, of this city, was chosen the commission, with salaries of $2,51)0 and $1,500, respectively. Napoleon of Finance Needed. A financial problem is the first that has confronted the commission, and the aid of Attorney General Miller has been called upon. Section 24 of the law creating thecommisslon states that “the sum of $19,000, or so much thereof as may l>e necessary, is hereby appropriated for the payment of the salaries of tlie members and employes of said commission, and of the expenses necessary to effectually carry out the provisions of this act” In addition to this appropriation In the commission bill, the general appropriation bill carried an appropriation of $3,000 to be expended by the commission—and that Is all. Only *3,000 I* Left. Now the members of the commission have pointed out that the salaries of the commissioners and the secretary and clerk aggregate $16,000 a year to begin with. The $3,000 in the general appropriation bill Is made for only one purpose, that of employing special counsel In particular cases. There Is left, therefore, the sum of $3,000 to pay all the other expenses Incident to carrying out the provisions of the law. "Liberal” Interpretation Wanted. So the attorney general has been asked whether the specific appropriation limiting the amount is not overridden by the many demands in the body of the law, and whether or not a liberal interpretation of the law would not give the commission all the funds necessary to carry out the provisions of the law, even in excess of

the $19,000 appropriation. Attorney General Miller has not given his opinion as yet. BE GULLED THE COLLEGE Gar* It a Big Block of Stock on Which Be Borrow* *l3,ooo—Stock Turn* Out To Be Worthies*. Indianapolis. May 5. Dr. James Johnson, an alumnus of a medical college here, last wirter presented the college with sl3o.(M.<> of the stock of the Ora Cnrltn Mining and Milling company, of California, a corporation which he had organized and had capitalized for $3,000,000. The college sold the stock at 50 cents on the dollar and loaned the doctor $15,000 to meet expenses while in Indiana. While spending the $15,000 Johnson met a young girl in an Anderson store and created quite a sensation by offer* Ing to adopt her and educate her in Europe. In the trial of Charles E. Winnie, charged with embezzling part of the school's funds, Dr. Johnson admitted that he owned nothing to back the Ora Carita company but a hill six-ty-five miles from Los Angeles, Cal., which he had never visited, but which was said to contain gold. Harry New tn the Cabinet ? Indianapolis, May 5. A A news Washington special says: "Some of the friends of Harry S. New here are picking him as the new postmaster genera), in case the way shall be opened for Cortelyou to take the presidency of the Equitable Life Assurance society. ■ Notwithstanding the denials that have been sent out from New York it Is known positively here that Postmaster General Cortelyou has received a tentative offer of the presidency of the insurance company.” Senator Heinen way’* Niece Married. Evansville, Ind., May 5 The marriage of Charles Wilder, of this city, and Miss Adda Hemenway, of Bernville, Ind., took place In this city. The ceremony was performed at the Jefferson Avenue Cumberland Presbyterian Church by the pastor, Rev. Ashburn. The bride is a niece of United States Senator James A. Hemenway. Disastrous Storm I* General. Indianapolis, May s.—Rain and electric storms were general throughout the state, according to Information contained In dispatches received here. In many sections the storm was accompanied by wind and hall, considerable damage having beendone to fruit trees, electric light, telegraph and telephone wires and interurban systems. Will Give Him Another Trial. , Wabash, Ind., May 5. R. P. Coapstick, ex-cashier of the Big Four railway, and whose accounts as cashier In the local freight office were found $4,000 short, has reentered the service, this time as night bill clerk In the employ of the Wabash railway at Fort Wayne.