Arizona republican., 1890-10-18
THE zuLICK PRISON BOARD.

When Council resolution was passed
 by the Fifteenth Legislature providing
 for the appointment of special com
 mittee to investigate the Territorial University and Territorial Prison, c.
 Meyer Zulck vetoed the bill and thereby
 allowed the Territory to be robbed of
 thousands of dollars.
 In this veto, which bears date of
 March 6, 1889, he says:
 Full annual reports of these respective public institutions, from the officials, were submitted by me to the Legislative Assembly at the open,
 ing of the session which elaborately and in
 detail deal with the needs and requirements of
 these institutions That both have been hon estly and efficiently managed in the peoples
 interest, none will question, or even intimate,
 The Territorial Prison expenditures show a large saving each year, and it's management, all attest, is both able and honest
 Let us look at one of the annual re-
 ports submitted to the Governor. Take
 that of Auditor John J. Hawkins, for
 instance, and on page of the printed copy we find the following:
 The expenses of maintaining the Territorial
 Prison for the years lSS7-S aggregate the sum of SlOl OS5.S7, which does not include all of the special appropriations made for said prison by the Legislature of 1887 Some means should | be devised to curtail this enormous drain upon the public treasury
 | The United States should be required to pay the Territory for keeping their prisoners in the Territorial Prison, and such payments should be made to the Territorial Treasurer, who should ] N.N. tl. Territory. If the Federal Government has paid anything for keeping it's prisoners in the Terri torial Prison, no report of the same has been | made to my office.
 Governor Zulick knew, or if he did not know he is equally culpable for his | ignorance, that the United States Gov ernment made quarterly remittances to the Prison Commissioners for the main tenanCe of it's prisoners. Peter R. Brady and Thomas Halleck knew this also, and yet in the face of the Auditors report they make no effort to compel George II. Stevens to turn this money over to the Territorial Treasurer.
 That both have been honestly and efficiently managed in the peoples in- terest, none will question or even inti- mate," says Governor Zulick, and yet he could not possibly have escaped all the rumors of that time, which were loud and deep, that the Terri torial money was being stolen at the Peniten- tiary. Nor is it possible that he did not know that George II. Stevens had been indicted in Graham County for present. ing false vouchers while Sheriff, and only escaped conviction by a mere scratch, the Court severely reprimand- ing him even after the verdict of ac- quittal had been rendered.
 Again this New Jersey reformer says: "The Territorial Prison expenditures show large saving each year and it's management, all attest, is both able and honest" The prison books show that this statement is untrue in every par ticular. The expenses for 1888 exceed those for 1887 by $72l9, and under Behan they were the largest ever known, the average daily cost of main tenance of the prisoners being $l.35 per capita. During the last quarter, under Captain F. s. Ingalls,, it has been 90 cents per capita per day.
 When the Zulick Prison Commis- sioners held their last meeting, just be- fore Stevens departure for new fields, he informed his fellow members of the Board that he had left the money re- ceiyed from the Government at his home in SOlomonville. Visiting Phoenix immediately after that meeting MT. Brady said to friend in this city: q guess Pm in for it, Stevens has not turned in any of that money" If Mir. Brady felt at that time that George II. Stevens was defaulter, why did he not immediately have him arrested? If he felt that he was "in for it" why has he not made good the amount? Why should Brady, Zulick, Halleck, Behan and Parish be so anxious to get into the Legislature if they have no fear of an investigation of the prison? If the was so honest and econom- ical as c. Meyer Zulck in his veto mes- sage claimed It was, why should he have | refused to allow an investigation to be made?
 TIE REPUBLICAN affirms that Peter R. | Brady and Thomas Halleck are not eli | gible to office in this Territory and our reasons for this assertion are to be found | nf of under Title XII: 675. Section 675) Every officer of this Terri | tory, or of any county city, town or district of | this Territory, and every other person charged | with the receipt safe-keeping, transfer or dis of public moneys, who either
 l. Without authority ot law, appropriates the same, or any portion thereof, to his own use, or to the use of another; or
 2. Loans the same, or any portion thereof; or 3. Fails to keep the same in his possession until disbursed or paid out by authority of law; 1. Without authority of law deposits the same, pr any portion thereof in any bank, or with my banker or other person; but he may deposit he same on special deposit for safekeeping; or D. Changes or converts any portion thereof rom coin into currency, or from currency into ,oin or other currency, without authority of aw; or
 G. Knowingly keeps any false account, or makes any false entry or erasure in any account ,f or relating to the same or
 T. Fraudulently alters, falsifes, conceals, de- troys or obliterates any such account; or
 8. wilfully refuses or omits to pay over, on demand, any public moneys in his hands, upon he presentation of draft, order, or warrant lrawn upon such moneys by competent author ty; or