Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
THE'H1LL INVESTIGATION.
Abstract Of The Hercrt of the, Compaittese lee
-Conciusions Reached Hardly salts
factory tS Either side-Hili Net Gnllty
OF Corruptios In once, but Csnsur.
able. for Malsddtinistratton-surc'
SAyarelY Handled. .....

WASHINGTON, August %. - The re-
port of the treasury committee which
has been investigating the office OF the
supervising architect is in preparation,
and will he completed to be banded to
Secretafy Folser Monday, when the
latter will resume the duties OF his
office. The main points tf the report
have already been determined ttpon.
The evidence is being analysed and
collated. ., The report will he a
disappointment to both the trends
and opponents of Mr.. Hill, the su-
pervisipg architect. Among other
things, it will find the following facts:
The office of supervising architect ls
branch of public service that has grown
Up without having been created by any
specific statute: The only authority
under which the supervising architect
acts is that which ls contained ia the
various appropriation bills. Originat-
ing in this way, the Office is not con-
trolled by statute, and the supervising
architect has been mainly a law INTO him
self. Yet, while congress has neglected
either to create the Office or to regulate
it by law when it had been created al
most by inference, that body has i'm
posed upon it continually y-increasing re-
sponsibilities, 80 thnt now there is no
bureau in any department which dis
burses SO large an amount OF meney.
Yet the supervising architect is not even
bonded officer. AS consequence OF
this ill-defned jurisdiction and lack OF
responsibility, methods Of sdministra
tion have been adopted which il, them
e,fIxy snH L., ko al
and which are condemned. The
committee will recommend that
the system shall be changed and that
legislation shall be provided which will
furnish better system of accountability
and more adequate safeguards to the ex-
penditures of money. The committee
do not find that tho charges of per-
sonal corruption on tbe pat Of Mr.. Hill
which have been made by Mf. Murch
are sustained by the evidence. There is
no passage in the Soluminous testimony
to indicate by duplication that Mr..
Hill has had any pecaniary inter
est in any contract directly
or Indirectly, or that he has
in any way prof'cd by reason of hold
ng the Office. This branch of the re-
port will deal very severely with MIR.
Murch, and it will show that he himself
has furnished very little to sustain the
charges which he so loudly made. The
committee will criticise MIR Hill Tor
some features of his administration, and
it is not improbable that he will be GEN.
sured for having employed as an ex-
pert. to examine the heating apparatus
in the Chicago public building
a young man little more than 20 years
OF age who YVES formerly III the employ
of the contractors, and who, having cou-
cluded his service for the government
Immediately returned to tie service Of
the contractors, The report will find that
the heating apparatus at that building
is not up to the standard OF the con-
tract and should not have been accepted.
The report will make five newspaper
columns. .G