Show TATE STATE PAYROLL t k GUT IN SALARIES October Checks Checks May Not Be Forthcoming If Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment Heads Refuse to Be Bound by Classification v. v State ma may find the payroll for or October so tied u up up that when they call all upon the the- auditor of of- tate state for the warrant for their s salary lary it will not be forthcoming The reason will be given that the I state tate board of ot examiners not having the payroll I as turned in by he several departments In accordance with the orders of or the department of finance and purchase as contained in bulletin No o. o 4 of the bureau and which made some of the reductions in II salaries al ries effective October 1 1 the auditor au- au is prohibited by law from paying he claims I Early in the month the department of f finance and purchase issued a buletin buletin bul- bul etin fixing the salaries of the em em- loyes in the various departments It was vas a standardization of the salaries and md and fixed the under various Some were reduced in alary in that the classification under hicl they were placed designated hem as stenographers and clerks Instead in- in tead stead of chief clerks or secretaries or other ither pos positions where the salary was at a higher figure There was cr cry raised against the bulletin and y against that part of it wh ch declared some of f the cuts ef- ef on on October 1 and others others' on 1 1922 EXAMINERS MUST APPROVE Adjudication has been talked of luring during th the month and now that the ate for the payment of the payroll raws near there develops the fact hat the auditor will wm refuse to pay he the payroll unless the state board of examiners approves it and It Js IS s out that if It this is done in ac- ac I with the bulletin of the de- de deI I art nent of finance and purchase that t will mean an approval of the buletin buletin bul- bul I etin which it is said the heads of many nany departments do not desire to do dond dond dond nd will not approve Under the provisions of the act assed d by the fourteenth legislature defines the duties of the auditor au- au of f state regarding claims it Is provided that the state auditor shall shallot not ot draw his warrant for any claim unless it las jas been approved by the oard of examiners nor in cases of expenditures or appropriations reo re- re o Quiring the approval and certificate of the he department of finance and purchase purchase pur- pur chase hase unless such expenditures or appropriations have been so approved and nd certified except for salaries or compensatIon of officers fixed by law Or r for moneys expressly appropriated y law DUE UE TO NEW DEPARTMENT This proviso was an amendment to section 2482 of the compiled laws and was vas made necessary by the enactment enact- enact ment nent of the law creating a depart depart- mont ment ent of finance and purchase VI It Is on n n this law that the state au auditor au- au stands and he has so notified he state board of examiners and the of finance and purchase I i A meeting of the state board of 1 examiners examiners was held late Thursday y afternoon at which Director Kelly of ot the finance and purchase department was yas present and the matter was gone oyer at length It Is said that a re revision re- re vision of the bulletin is being made particularly In the matter of classification classi classi- of ot the and that it ill be completed tonight so that Itcan it itcan can an be presented to the state board of examiners at a a. meeting which Is to tobe tobe Ibe be held tomorrow morning at 10 clock o'clock Unless an agreement Is Js jached ached at this meeting it is under under- i lood s that the October payroll will under under-I he be I proceed proceed- tied ted up and then mandamus proceedings ings be the next thing in order may I |