Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-29

/ win tell you what they did. the
first thing they did was to leave a
deficit from the Steunenberg admin
istration Of $4,000. and instead of
paying that deficit they issued bonds
for Il and never paid a dollar of it;
remember that. for | want to talk to
you about that later on. The first
thing, then, they left q deficit in the
first administration of $4,000, and |
then issued bonds for it during the
next administration; then they pro-
cecded to sell land. You have heard |
something about land boards; I will
come to that later on. They had
land board and they sold for 100000
timber on your lands that is today
worth $10,O0O,O00, more money than
has ever been collected in this state
(applause) in taxation for 10 years
That is what they did. Now. as to
the auditor; he told you that we had
appropriated 100000 for the auditor
and they had appropriated S10.600
for their auditor. That is true, but he
didn't tell you what we did with it.
They handled S,451 claims and they
handled them at cost to you Of
S126 a claim; we handled 36,2O4
claims. and handled them for you at
cost Of about so cents a claim less than
that; our claims cost 76 cents and
theirs cost $1.26 a claim; we saved
you so cents on each claim that we
handled in the auditors office: that
is the difference between my admin
istration and theirs; we handled over
10000 claims and they handled over
5000 claims. And the next thing we
come to in their administration and
my administration to comparable
wanted a record, here IL is. They had
$t4,S50 and lost 1915 on that office,
an actual loss of that amount to this
state under the management of the
t.. 4 ,fa.fa Hon hut
what have we done, we have saved
YOU $33.S79; they lost you over $500.
Now, my friends, that's the compari-
son. and that's the kind that goes on
here all the way through. This is not
mine-these figures will be shown to
YOU and if there is a statement here
that Is not true, don't you vote for
me: If it is true, it makes an awful
showing for them. and a splendid
showing for us. The next is the state
engineer They lost $4,000 on this Of
flee; we gained SIS, 450-some differ
ence there, isn't there? The next, the
game warden, they lost $500 on that
office; we gained $1,000, and re-
member that these figures mean just
up to todayI have three months to go
on yet, and we will cut them down
more. The next is the livestock com
mission; they lost $500. we gained
you $1,000. The next the insurance
commissioner. Here is where they
made some money, $36,2S2-we made
you $76,310 up to date under this adj
ministration, and we have made
$50. 900 more than they did. Mr..
Hawley didn't tell you anything about
this, did he? And the next thing is
one that / am proud of; it is the law
that your executive recommended and
the law that was passed by Republic
can legislature, that your money
..f... 4 nd xrnft
you slept, and it has been done; that
is the state treasurer's office. In this
office they lost you $5S75, an actual
dead loss to this state. with $2,OOO,OOO
| dollars laying there in the treasury
| loaned out to their friends. What did
we do? Why we have made for you
$7O,125. and yet they talk about mall
feasance i'm office, running around
over the state saying things of that
character. when we have made for
YOU over $4,000 profit to their $4,000.
And now we come to the final COM
plete comparison. They, after paying
all expenses had a profit on the last
administration of $22,671, and, now
we don't include the 100000 of bonds
that was issued by the other Demo-
cratic administration, the deficit, but
we have shown to you net pront
over the last Dem ocratic administra-
ton of $35S.622 That's what we did
AGAINST their $4,000. Now don't
Won think. if you were Mr. Hawley-
that you would try to hunt up some
Carey act proposition or something
of that kind. or a farm loan or some-
thing else.
And now. my friends. I want to
talk to you just a moment on the land
board business. My good friend Haw-
ley took an hour of your time talking
about that | believe and l believe
that an hour is long enough Tor any
man to talk. and | am going to have
all this matter printed and / am GO
ing to send it out to you, and then
next spring, when we all have time
and | am serving my second term,
will come up here and try to deliver q
speech that will be interesting ano
not all figures.
Now. another thing l want to cal
vour attention to is the fact that
am on II different boards Now
when our state was admitted into the
Union we adopted n constitution. anc
we nut upOn the land board the at
torney general, the secretary of state
the state superintendent and the gov
ernor. and the state engineer; you pu'
us on that board. At the time tina
thew adOpted the constitution they
didn't believe that they would have
work enough for them to do-theN
never thought of any such thing az
the Carey act-and they put all tho
duties of chairman of these II boards
on your executive; and in addition e
that they put all the work of the
transferring of funds. that Is tn
transfer of funds from one depart
ment to another. upon your executive
and he has to sign these transfers. II
other words. I do a business of So,
soc. 600. that's a pretty good bankini
business to do. that. in addition to al
the other duties I have to perform
and i'm addition to that your executive
has to sign personally every claim
that is allowed-26. 600 of them You
executive has something to do, hasn'
he?
Let me call your attention to the
fact that when 1 went on those
boards, as soon as l was elected,
made up my mind that this board
didn't have the time to attend TO thu
Carey act proposition. Here was
new proposition that was brough
onto our state within the last II
years. and for the benefit of onl,
three-fifths of the whole state; that
what it did. And let me tell yol
something about what we have done
on that board; we have had IL