The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-21
ADMIT The LAW
WAS. VIOLATED.
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DUNN DEFENDERS OWN TO TRUTH
OF REPORTS. 81
Contend Only that the State Lost Moth
ing by the Settlements Made-At-
tempt to Secure Such an Admission
from johnson Fails -Accountants
Promise Counter Charges Against
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JOHNSON. -. Ftt2E :tfTa&t ."t't a,--as " .sI

The house. pu bile accounts committee
resumed it's sessions yesterday afternoon
with 8. r. Johnson,d former public ex-
aminer. The hearing was not finished,
and will be resumed Thursday when
Mr.. johnson returns from a short trip.
Several more. cases of permit settle
ments and trespass matters were cited
during the afternoon, and in every case
it was shown that the law had been
violated. State Auditor Iverson and
Swan B. Molander, who were looking
out for the auditor s office, made ex-
plantations Of each case, but had to ad-
nit the violation of law. Messrs
Thayer and Wyman, the lawyer mem
beers of the committee, went after Mr..
make him say that the state had not
lost any money by the transaction cited.
| He refused to say it, but stuck to his
text, declaring that. the violations of
law had been produced from the Records
The law was framed for a purpose, and
if it could not be observed, the auditor
should have recommended its repeal.
the violations had given opportunity
for loss to the state, He had never said
transactions. Neither had he given out
his reports to the press. He. had
transmitted them to the governor as his
duty required. - -. -
The. two expert accountants in the
service of the COMMITTEES have been ex-
amining the books of the public ex-
aminer, and promise ITO present some
nection with his administration. S. P.
Spates, the head accountant, says some
interesting disclosures will be made.
At the hearing yesterday R. H. Jeffer-
son asked what had been done by the
experts. He inquired W neither they had
found any discrepancy between the
facts reported by, Mr.. j ohnson and the
records of the auditor IS office. Mr..
Spates replied that they had not, so far
as they had gone. s'@'' - = ... -. /.
Not Working for Bill. -. :
At the outset, State Auditor liver
son made a statement in reference tc
the bill to legalize extensions Of Ger
tain timber permits during his admin
istration. One member of the commit
tee had stated that he was urging the
passage of the bill. This was incor
rect He had nothing to do with the
bill or with the petition urging its pas
sage; He had only explained as AL re
board allowed the timber cut.
R. H. Jefferson the member VIII
made the statement, said he had in
ferred from. Mr.. Iverson s justification
Of the. act, that he favored the bill
legalizing it. s -.
Cut After Permit Expired.
s. T. johnson then took the stanI
again and produced a. permit case in
.volving section 1675s.26, On which tn
permit holders cut'.2, $4,000 feet afte
the expiration of the permit, but wer
allowed to settle at the sale price, alth
it was clearly. trespass, and an add
:: stionaI $6 ,692,61 should have been col
lected according to law He also rea'
letter from Cruiser Dedon, who looke'
! at the timber the year Before the tres
pass cut, and complained that only
, per cent of the logs were being marke'
NJ. l. N. He favored a rescale, decla1
/ ing that it would repay the state sew
. eral times over. There was no evidenc
Of rescale or any attempt to collect O
, of any attempt to make the lumberme
:: mark the logs as required by law
Could Not Explain.
, Swan Molander said they had dc
7 manded a rescale of the surveyor ger
eral, but none was made.
eff you know, tell us why no rescal
was made said George H: Wyman.
Ana don't 2 ane sa iep Grab M hE
: Dunn had waited till the final cut, ant
. finding that it overran the estimate
. decided it would not. pay to- rescal'
. Asked whether it would have been pral
/ tical to scale the logs on the land, b
: said it would, and that the law require
: the logs to be so scaled. -
9 Last Friday Mr.. Molander said
|, not practical to scale on the land, an
e it was never done, tho required b
:. law,' said johnson. .-':'~1~
:: Molander denied having made til
j statement. 80