Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1906 — GOVERNOR HANLY IS COSTLY. [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR HANLY IS COSTLY.

Claud Matthews, the last Democratic governor got a salary of $5,000 and was allowed nothing for house rent. J. Frank Hanly, the present republican governor, gets a salary of SB,OOO and is allowed SI,BOO a year for house rent. Governer Matthews’s secretary received SI,BOO a year; Governor Hanly’s secretary gets $2,400. Governor Matthews’s clerk got SI,OOO a year; Hanly’s clerk gets $1,200 a year. Governor Matthews’s messenger got s72oa year; Hanly’s messenger gets SI,OOO. Governor Matthews was allowed a civil and military contingent fund of S3OOO. to which was attached a proviso "that no portion of these contingent funds shall be need for any purpose but to execute the civil ana military laws of the state in any emergency not provided for, and that no more of either anch funds shall be drawn or expended for the respective purposes for which they afresever-

ally apportioned than may be necessary.” Gov. Hanly is allowed a civil and military contingent fund of 110,000 and an emergency contingent fund of $30,000, and there is no proviso of any sort attached to the appropriation. There are some of the items which show the difference between the economy of the Democratic legislature of 1893 and the extravagance of the republican legislature of 1905. _ If Governor Matthews needed a restricted contingent fund of only $3,000, why does Governor Hanly want a contingent fund of $40,000, with no string tied to it. . _— Gov. Matthews served the state, faithfully and well and went out of office with the respect of the whole people. Can Hanly do as well, even with his big- contingent fund?