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committee, might be found to have
profited bit in irrigated sections.
"Do you know about the Fremont
county lease, Governor Brady? Was
that lease practically arranged when
| came to the meeting? Did you not
come to me when | asked that $4,000
acres be exempted from that lease and
try to get me to agree to 10000
acre exemption? Did you not want
to compromise with me on a $4,000
acre exemption and then 10000
acre exemption? Is your memory
working, Governor? Did you not
want the lease to 60 through without
an exemption, Governor, in order that
you might play little politics with
the boys in Fremont who were sup
posed to handle things down there?
Didn't you finally give in to the
2O,OOO-acre exemption on this lease,
Governor?
"Do you know, Governor, that the
state land commissioner, George A.
Day, who made the plat and appraised
the lands in the Fremont county lease,
carries check book and buys at will
for Austin Bros. of southern Idaho?
Did you know, Governor, that Mr..
Day has Carey act lands in the Goose
Creek project? Did you look into the
record, Governor, and see if the lands
owned by Day and the attorney gene
raj are paid for? Such matters are a
matter Of public record, are they not,
Governor?
"Did you ever examine the public
records, Governor Brady, to see how
much l have paid the state and gov
ernment on the lands l hold? Did
you ever inquire into it and see that
| had paid the state and government
all moneys required by them? A lit
tie investigation along this line, Gov
ernor, would shed light to mortals of
average intelligence, which for the
sake of argument, will grant you
possess. Would it not be well, Gov
ernor, for you to lay aside the religious
cloak and the pose Of piety you have
sailed under long enough to clean up
some Of the lines | mention? At the
same time, Governor, you might look
into the failure of the Idaho State
bank at HALEY and see if your bank
commissioner had any paper in the
institution at the time it failed.
Look into it, Governor; take the
time.
Did you read the sixteenth report
Of the Idaho supreme court that gives
your record on irrigation matters in
plain English, Governor? In the
meantime, Governor, keep right on
explaining to the people just how
one member is responsible for the
shortcomings Of the land board. 1t
looks reasonable to anyone with brains
that that could not be true, and that
your holding up your hands in holy
horror now, will be sufficient excuse
and explanation for the acts of the
board of which you are chairman and
at whose meetings you preside, and in
order that you may make your acts
plain to the people, explain your vote
on the Mackey dam, which was con-
demned by an engineer that cost the
state $50 day and expenses.
"The fact that you had knowledge
of the Carey act holdings of the mem
bers of the land board is shown by the
following resolution: 'It was ordered
by the board that no residence on
Carey act lands be required if the en-
tryman has made his entry prior to
his election to any office requiring
residence at the state capitol or county
seat, providing residence on said lands
is required during his term of Office.
Present:
JAMES H. BRADY, Governor,
ROBT. LANaDON, Sec. of State,
d. G. MDOUGALL, Atty. Gen.
M. /. CHURCH, Register.
Dated May 8, 1909.
81 have 100 acres of land at Je-
rome, which | drew in open competi-
ton with other people who drew in
that opening. My land was acquired
! in the same manner and at the same
time as the others. | simply took my
chance with the others and filed on the
land when my number was called.
have done my work on the land, have
part of it under cultivation and have
made the necessary payments to hold
and claim it as have many others il
that section.
Il have 240 acres Of desert lane
near Gooding which has been handled
in the regular way. | have done
work offered nroof and have nv WateI