Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-05-27
PUSHING The PROBE |
Exhaustive Probe of Acts of OtfjCi.
ais at College, North Yakima and
Medical Lake to Be Made. State
College aud Bank in joint Opera.
tiOn.

OLYMPIA, May 26-After a furth-
er investigation by the special COM
mittee into the seriousness of the
charges against the management of
the state fair at North Yakima and
the alleged loose way the trustees
of Pullman College are spending mon
ey given that institution, the legis-
lators decided that instead of sending
three members east of the mountains
to investigate that the whole body
will visit North Yakima, Medical
Lake and Pullman.
Senator Pliny l.. Allen, chairman
of the committee, said that the COM
mittee would go east some time dur
ing the second week in June and
probably stay on that side from ten
days to two weeks and then return
to Olympia.
81 should say that we would en-
anime witnesses while we have them
at hand" the senator said, "and then
olution appointing us, hold an open
session when we get back to the capi-
tai. Since a trip east seems impera-
tive we will save time and the state
much money by questioning those we
will have to meet"
The stop at Medical Lake will be
to go into the charges made by Sena-
tor Dick Hutchinson, of Spokane, that
the specifications for building the
Eastern Washington hospital for the
insane were not lived up to by the
contractors or insisted upon by the
state board of control The legisla-
tors will then proceed to Pullman.
Representative w. M. Beachs let
ter last week to the committee has
called attention of the public to the
the fact that the State Agricultural
College receives $4,000 from the
federal government for agricultural
and other scientific purposes and that
too, while that institution had sue
ceeded in getting through the last
legislature an appropriation for all
purposes of $575,754.
The board of regents Of the state
college is composed of Lee A. john
son, of Sunnyside, president; J. j.
Brown, Of Spokane, vice-president;
Frank J. Barnard, of Seattle, treas
urer; DR.. ]. S. Anderson, of Asotin,
and Peter McGregor, of oper. The
secretary of the board is NE presi-
dent of the college. Enoch A. Bryan.
What has caused the most unfav-
orable comment at Olympia is the
fact that teachers in the college are
officers and stockholders in the First
National bank of Pullman, which
Treasurer Barnard selected as the de-
pository. Barnard is the representa-
tive here of the American Book COM
pany. The charge is made that he
personally receives the interest on
the federal deposit and it is said that
this sum goes to defray the premium
on his bond and toward forming a
nucleus for regents prize fund.
In this connection the fact is re-
called that the original school code
introduced in the last legislature,
known as Amendment Bill No. 6,
provided for the transfer to the
treasurer of the state college board of
the whole sum appropriated at the
request of the trustees. Stripped of
the legal verbiage, the section was to
| the effect that whenever there was
any money in the state treasury to
the credit of the college the state aud
| itor, on the request of the board of
favor of the college treasurer against
the specific fund belonging to the in
stitutiOn.
When the bill was under consid-
Grafton in the senate, Senator Allen,
of King, objected to the phraseOlo-
gy of this section and succeeded in
having it changed so as to read that
whenever the state college incurred
an Indebtedness the auditor should is
sue warrants against the college fund
upon the presentation Of the properly
authenticated vouchers. That is the
| law and it makes it as impossible for
the state college to withdraw its
whole appropriation at will as it does
| for any other institution.
At North Yakima the committee
will seek to learn the methods EN-
ployed by the majority of the trus-
! tees OF the state fair and how it tran