The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-05
MEEKER AND nEANY,
Ex-Exeeutive Stirring Up the
Worlds Fair Commission.
FORMAL ACCUSATION FILED.
The Committee and the Press Agent
Charged With Dfverting Funds
From Their Proper Uses.

/ OLYMPIA, Feb. 4-ISpecial. The house
/ Words fair committee continued is il
/ vestigetion today and listened TO further
/ statements from Messrs LaFollette and
| Rochester. OF the fair executive commit
/ tee, in explanation and defense of the acts
| Of the COMMITTEES. STATE Auditor Grimes,
/ who il member OF the executive COM
| rnItEee, also addressed the legislative COM
| rnistee, indorsing what his fellow commit
| teemsn had said and describing the WORK
| that hal been done.
Era Meeker then fled formal written
| charge. With the investigating committee
| and the latter named Thursday next as
the tine when il would hear evidence in
sahs.antiation Of the accusations. The
I charges are as follows:
charge thai q; the first meeting IN Olympia
an attenp. was made 10 devote 81 go OF the ap-
propriatiors TO he payment OF a private obiiga-
tioa OF Dr.. Blsi0ck and others.
charge that the majority OF the executive
Committee obts!re1, uIsde. g2ise o! expenses
attending coE mi;tee AID cor. missioner meet
iugs, more :Aea they paid out, certified upon
their houo. that It was true account when, il
fact, il vas not
Ichsrgs tina, Edmond 8 Meaay was elected as
press agent " the executive committee aa1
from the FIRST day OF the organization pat upon
never have oeen nee1e3. aud, in fact, his acts
econ tecame Obstructive and nleddlesol7 aad q
positive interference With The WORK; and
further, this appointment was Illegal. az the
functions OF the executive eomL.ittee are super
visory oaIy. Ina: the said Aeany las drawn a.
ssIary s3.l09, and, approximately, $3.50 additional
Is expenses which should be returned 20 che
state treasury.
charge tina. q meeting Of the commission
was held at Ellensburg on May y that cost he
state 81 ,Gs1, that was unnecessary AID waste OF
time and loss OF money - the state
Ichsr-e that az the first meeting o: the exscu-
tive committee, iInIne: lately alter tie election
Of al executive coEnuliss ioae- al Ellel-burz al
attempt was made to appoint fifteen superia-
te.dents OF departments. when in FAC. none
were needed, and which If done would eifecsG-
ally dispose OF the functions CT the executive
commissioner who alone has the authority 10
s.po.ut assistants as needed This same az
tempted action was repeated at the meeting OF
the committee ~ NalIa Waila month later.
aad wss only prevented By the announcement,
OF the executive commissioner that ii such &C.
ton was taken he, the commissioner, desired
tina, the commission he called together 10 exec,
another executive commissioner, as lie would
resign.
charge tAs. thereafter and from that date a
majority o! ihe executive COMMITTEES became OBJ
ssfucsiye and by their acts IN refusing funds
with which 20 procure Jars, defeated the at
tempt made 70 obtain and preserve fruits OF tee
seas on OF 1881, and which caused an irrepsrsb.e
loss. Farther, were obstructive through their
employe, Mesny. Il thai al appointments made
D. the executive Commissioners were notified 70
stop Work, and thai Ar. Henderson, OF Olympia,
in the forestry and botanical department: Mr..
Fisher, OF Spokane, In the mining department;
Mr.. Hume, OF Tacoma, II the fisheries depart
meat, and Mr Richardson, of Saa-.ie. in the
educational department.. all OF whom were in
the Geld, did stop work because Of said notice,
ana the WORK was thereby greatly delsyed and
hiniers1, iulpsi-iug the usefulness OF the sp-
pro2ria;ion to properly procure snd make the
exhlbl, il behalf 0: the sIa:a.
] charge that by this act four competent men,
eulnent.y suited 70 theIr l.ae OF wo.S, were
lost 70 the work. and thereby the opportuas
time was lost 10 secure full exhibit OF ash,
: and OF cur winter growth, evergreen, for the
| terraces a. Jackson para, Chicago.
charge that this act Was who'll? obstructive
on the part OF the executive committee and
wrought al irreparaoe loss.
charge that the management. has been waste
| sul in the extreme III this, to-wti: Expanding
| $4,000 for building which is yet unfinished,
| When the whole cost first submitted would
have been $500 completed; in paying archi-
Tee: prizes o! 1900; in expanding sl25el.7i il
|. the administration department; in collecting
10 tons OF minerals and expen9ing therefor
$50, when & complete exhibit could have been
procured through the assistance OF mine owners
al cost Of ne. exceeding $3.50 for the state: in
axpeuding $4,000 iOr executive committee meet
iugs when the act expressly provided that the
executive commissioner shall have charge OF
The work; III exrencing size for the ho.sieul-
tural department, in which over st.040 OF the
arnonn. appear. ss salary; in that more than
mali Of tbs expenditure in its agricultural de-
partmen. has been Illegally paid 70 Mr.. LAFoi-
let:e. q member OF the executive committee.