Arizona republican., 1909-02-26
propriation for the fair for the next


 there was nothing to investigates; nc charges against anybody had been 1 lodged with the committee. MT. High i tower. who for the last ten minutes had been endeavoring to gain the no- tice of the chair, finally managed to observe, without it, 'T do not like to be recognized as out of order all the time. Common courtesy ought to give me recognition once in while" Then MT. Burns made the first def | mite move toward getting somewhere ] He moved for the report of the com 1 mittee which had been appointed to notify the governor of the hearing. l Then followed a series of short | speeches, all against the investigation. ] by Messrs. O'Neill, Woolf and Hunt. 1 and Mir. Peterson threatened to offer i a resolution for the appointment of a committee to investigate the legisla- ture.
 MT. Sutter asked for the reading of the original concurrent resolution. After some confusing discussion a vote was taken on the motion 6f Mir. l matter to a sub committee, which was ! AoSl by -1 NOle OI J lO II.
 Then came a proposition to hear the charges of the governor against the members of the commission, and after that the replies of the accused per- sons or their representatives. This ! brought from MT. O'Neill the state ment that such a proceeding would, be a violation of one of the rules of the caucus. that during the session outsiders must keep off the floor. President Hunt pleaded with the democrats not to engage in the wash ing of any republican dirty linen 'The democratic members are fools" said he.
 That's all right" cheerfully assent ed Mir. St. Charles; that's all settled"
 T know it is.' replied the presi- dent: it was, when they went into this thing"
 Descending to Business.
 There were several other votes on obstructing propositions and each one showed gain of strength on the part of the investigators. The opponents began to weaken and set about do- ing the next best thing, giving the proceedings some orderly direction. Chairman Bailey suggested that each side be allowed a manager, whereupon Mir. Hampton inquired if it was as- sumed that the legislature had taken sides in this affair as if it were a game of ball.
 In reply to a suggestion that the attorneys be allowed to state the cases of the accused commissioners. Mir. St Charles said: We want no lawyers; what we want now is facts Becoming imbued with the judicial nature of the proceedings he so far forgot himself as to address the chair man as Your Honor"
 At length the charges were forced to the front and read. They had been mailed by the governor to each of the commissioners. and. of course. were not intended to figure in such proceedings as were now under way
 The Charges.
 Though they had been drawn at great length, briefly they charged MT. Adams with having sought to influ- ence a decision in a horse race in favor of his horse, Custer, and that he had objected to Dr. Stone, the starter because the decision in close race had been given against him; that he had after that secured the dismissal of Dr. Stone after he had been en- gagged for another season; that on an- other occasion he had handicapped a race in which he was interested; that he had caused to be used the funds of the territorial fair for certain re- pairs on the grounds, which should have been made at the expense of the association, and that he had so man. aged the funds of the affair that many persons had been unable to secure payment of their claims when due and had been obliged to discount them.
 The charges stated that when the Stone affair was made known to tte governor he had written to MT. Adams and the other members of the commls- sion of the impropriety and indelicacy of those empowered to select judges of events being interested in the con tests to be judged.
 After the reading of the charges. another attempt was made to bring the investigation to an end on the ground that since the charges were not supported by any evidence, that the governor had declined to appear either in person or by representative. but had sent word that he was going to proceed in the matter according to law, meaning thereby that he was go- ing to remove the commissioners when the time came. Therefore. it was ar gued by the anti-investigationist there was nothing to be done; that the thing had ended precisely where it started.
 Mir. Adams Reply.
 But the friends of the commission were determined to see the thing through, and no opposition was of fered when MT Adams was invited to speak in his own behalf Beginning. he denied that the governor had pow CT to remove him except for malfeas- ance or misfeasance. and he was charged with neither of these offenses. As to the Stone episode, he said he had not objected to Dr. Stone because the decision had ben against Custer. but because Stone had taken part in it at all. Stone, he said, was a starter. and was expressly forbidden by the rules of the trotting associa- tion from interfering with the deliber- ations of the judges. In this case, he said, Stone had announced the decision when none had really been made. He read a letter from J. NJ Ormsby of Tucson, one of the judges. congratu- lating him on having succeeded in preventing the appearance of Stone at