The herald., 1893-02-02
KELLYS SERIOUS CHARGES,
He Uses Strong Language
About Walter Moore.
Allegations That Moore Approved
Bills Based ON False Affidavits.
Later Developments in the Scandal
About the State Forestry
Commission Appropri-
alton Fund.

The San Francisco Examiner OF Tues.
day follows its exposure of the state
forestry commission, begun in its issue
OF Monday. From the latter article the
following extracts are taken:
Frank J. Moffitt of the Oakland Times
is no longer member of the state board
of forestry. His resignation has been
presented and has been accepted by
Governor Markham.
Determinations Moffitt said yester-
day: "That there are men better fitted
than the present commissioners to be
appointed on the board is true, 1t re-
quires men with technical knowledge
OF trees and forestry matters to do full
justice to the positions. 1 don't profess
to be forester. know Mr.. Spreckels
doeH not, and don't think Mr.. Moore
does. I did not think the board
was as efficient as it should be, and 1
wanted to put some new life into it.
Accordingly | dug up and employed
Allen Kelly. For year after began
we were hampered by reason OF hitch
in the state board of examiners on ac
count of Prof. J. @. Lennon. We final
ly settled that, under the direction OF
the governor and the attorney.gen
who assumed entire responsibility for the
settlement. think it quite likely that
at this end OF the state we may have
employed some useless help. Realizing
this, wrote letter to Kelly, telling
him to make an examination and let me
know where we were wasting money.
His recommendations we're adopted and
all the barnacles thrown off. The ex-
perimental station in the southern part
of the state was almost exclusively un-
der the control of Commissioner Moore.
[ don't know of anything irregular
there. l don't believe there was any
thing.
"While I do not agree with all of Mr..
Kelly's remarks printed this morning,
believe he is in the main correct. l
have been threatening to resign for
year and half, and would have done 30
long ago had it not been for my friend
ship for Sands Forman, the secre-
tary.
ernor makes some very valuable sugges-
tions. I signed and approved it, and
sent it to the governor. II anything
was stricken out Kelly knows as we'll as
I who did it.
II also know that Spreckels has
been wanting to resign for two years."
John D. Spreckels said yesterday after
noon that he had not read as yet the
charges made by Chief Forester Allen
Kelly.
"However," he added, 81 am friend
of Mr.. Kelly, and nominated him for
the position which he has held lor a
year or so.
II am particularly interested in the
preservation of the forests OF California
because feel sure they are important
in sanitary and commercial way. But
I am thoroughly opposed to the misuse
of funds in the matter OF protecting our
forests. 1 do not believe, however, that
any member of the commission person
ally and illegally profted by the fund"
Chief Forester Kelly, when shown
what Commissioner Moffitt had said in
relation to the charges against the board,
said:
"Moffitt is quite frank about the mat
that he will tell all he knows.
ut is true that Mr.. Mofitt announced
to me the discharge of all useless en-
RiOy Ccy Uub AO WINS OAly OAO vi tu6 UOdIu
and the reform didn't last week. Wal
ter Moore put new names on the payroll
very promptly. When Mr.. Moffitt says
he believes there was nothing irregular
at the Los Angeles Office he stretches
official courtesy. / am positive that he
does not believe that all the money sent
down there was expended legitimately.
l assert that the money of the state sent
down there was not used for the benefit
OF the state, and that the affidavjts upon
which the bills were paid.were false, and
that Walter Moore knew them to be
false when he approved the bills. as
sert that Walter Moore held out legiti-
mate bills in order to work in his polit-
ical heelers on the small remnant of the
appropriation, and that he explained his
action by saying that he didn't want the
board of examiners to get on to- his ex-
travagant use OF the funds.
"It is true that Frank Mofitt talked
about resigning long ago, and thathe re-
Trained from doing 30 because Of his
friendship for Sands Forman. In fact,
the board of forestry owes it's existence
for the last two years, not to say its very
inception and organization, to friend
ship for Sands Forman and the desire of
his friends to create berth for him.
Friendship for Sands Forman was NOT
incompatible with efficient work for the
state in the line of forestry, and if the
commissioners had combined with their
commendable good nature little inter-
est in the duties which they undertook
to discharge, the board might have ac-
complished something.
II have not charged and do no. be-
lieve that Mr.. Mofitt personally took
dollar that he was not entitled to. But
when say that the appropriation was
looted know what l am talking about
and do no injustice to anybody.
II am agreeably surprised to learn
that Mr.. Spreckels remembers that he
nominated me. thought he had for
gotten all about that circumstance. 1t
is due to Mr. Spreckels that he should
be absolved OF all knowledge of the af-
fairs of the board. Unfortunately when
he desired to know something about the
business he consulted with Walter
Moore, and didn't ascertain the facts.
have no doubt that what I said yester-
day will be news to him when he finds
time to read it. Mr.. Spreckels was alb
sent from the state for about year, and
did not know how the funds were being
wasted. believe if he had been here
and had attended the meetings of the
board the Los Angeles end OF the insti-
tuition would not have been 30 bold in
its raids upon the treasury. 1t is un-
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