Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-05-24
GOING ONSTILL HUNT
The INVESTIGATING Committee
TAKES ten DAYS RECESS.
will Make Individual Inve StiqaiiOnS
OF Institutions. Governor vii
Await Final Action of Committee
Before Calling Extra Session. will
Make Findings in One Report.

OLYMPIA, May 21.-It was ex-
planned today that the reason Gov
ernor Hay and the special legislative
Investigating committee decided to
make no separate report on the probe
OF the office of j. H. Schively, state
insurance commissioner, was that the
resolution creating the committee
does not specify separate reports and
that much more satisfactory way
will be to hand in one report on all
state offices. The resolution pro-
vides that the committee shall make
report on a report of it's investi-
cation to the governor on or before
July 12, and that the committee will
do SO as soon as it completes it's la
bors.
1t is believed that it will also
mean a saving Of money to hand in
only one instead of perhaps dozen
reports. Also the information ON
conditions will then be in compact
and concrete form and the governor
will be better able to determine
| whether or not it is advisable to call
a special session of the legislature
to consider the findings and report of
the committee.
This morning the committee met
for brief period and then adjourn
ed subject to the call of Chairman
! Allan Tho r,oroharc uh;1a " will
act in the capacity of subcommittee
and will probe into some of the state
institutions against which charges
have been made.
1t is known that the state college
will be visited and the serious charge
made by DR.. W. M. Beach of Mason
county investigated He alleges in his
complaint that the appropriation
given the school by the government
is deposited in the name of the col
lege treasurer, and draws down the
interest. This is the most serious
charge that has been made against
any state educational institution and
the committee will sift the matter to
the bottom.
While the members of the commit
tee are east of the mountains they
will also look into the complaint
made by Senator r. A. Hutchinson
against the manner in which one of
the buildings at the Eastern Wash
ington hospital for the insane at
Medical Lake was constructed. Hut
Crimson charges that the building
was improperly built and that the
state was "buncoed" on the contract.
The state fair deficiency is also to
be brought into the limelight. The
$1O,699 which Beach asks about will
be examined into by the committee
and it will be determined whether
or not the commissioners are liable
for creating a deficiency.
The members of the committee will
be gone for week or 10 days, if
not longer. While away they will
work singly and in pairs endeavoring
to find leads that may bring forth
something it certain state officials are
called before the committee to give
testimony.
Upon their return to Olympia,
which will not be until after the fair
| is opened, the committee will COM
pare notes and make separate reports
| for the benefit of the other members
of the comittee. If the individual
members find anything that they
deem needs further investigation.
then the committee will call Witness
es before them in open session.