Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-04-26
GRAND JURY REPORT "
NOT WELL RECEIVED

Members of the Grand Jury:
Gentlemen:-I must refuse to al
low myself to go on record as en-
dor>ing the majority report of thi:
body. To all of that portion pur
porting to be a plain statement O
statistical facts. it is obvious no OBJ.
lection can be made, but | canno,
agree with the conclusions drawr
either in this or in the former repor,
OF the committee. | surmise that nc
business concerning the county is able
to conduct its years business with
out some error creeping into its
| transactions. see no reason to ex-
| pcct county officials to be less liable
/ to human error. Perhaps it were
we'll for Your committe to call atten-
ton to these details as it found them.
but by cmbodyine them, or rather a
description of them into a Grand Ju-
ry report. you have given them an
Importance they do not deserve Per
lection is impossible and we can only
| ask 4 reasonable approach to it.
From one angle or another you
have questioned the efficiency of
nearly every county official.
County government is largely vest
ed in 4 Board of County Commits
sioners. 1t chances that this Board
has performed some very important
works during the past year You have
been particularly severe in your crit
icismS of their methods ond of their
their office 1t is no part Of my duty
neither is it my inclination to de
fcnd the Board of County Commits
sioners against the charges a major
ity OF this body has made. 1t might
even be possible that investigation
would show your restrictions Justi-
fed. but YOU went entirely outside
your duty as Grand Jurymen. or as
citizens Of the county, when you CEN
surcd. unqualiicdly and unreservedly,
without proper investigation. Your
investigation into the motives or
methods of this Board was simply no
investigation at all, You have
brought charges against them. which
by their seriousness. demand i'm
parchment or resignation, and yet
you are not in tticially
at lcast-to substantiate any consid-
cradle portion of the accusation and
insinuations you are the authors Of.
You have taken the minutes of the
proceedings of the Board as final and
conclusive evidence of the motives
and intentions of the Board. and |
will not question the value of this
evidence SO far as it goes. But the
minutes are only the Clerks own in
divilual idea OF what is of sufficient
importance to become record
Qualifying discussions and comments
which have proven of great impor-
tancc subscqucntly-in the light of
this investigation at the time may
not have appealed to the Board or its
Clerk OF sufficient moment to pre-
serve in written form Because dis
cusSiOns of some matters do not ap
pear on the minutes "f the Board of
County commissioners you assume
that the subject was not considered
and not discussed. when you had it
in your power ut all times TO have the
members of the Board before you
for personal examination and ex-
PLANTATION.
Your charge that money was i'm
properly spent upon the extensive
road work which has been perform
ed, is based upon mere gossip, so far
;s the presentation OF any real testi-
mony before your body is concerned
To bclittlc this road Improvement BY
inuendo and sarcasm, and at the
| same time avoid specific charge, is
not in keeping with the dignity in
| which a legal investigation should be
| clothed. If this body had reason to
believe that public money was i'm
properly expended it should have
made the proper investigation.
| Not many of us are constructive or
bridge engineers. but it would be but
a simple matter to have established
by expert and competent witnesses
| what the various items of the road
building could reasonably be expect
ed to cost I suppose a Board of
| Couptv Coop,;c S;oparc c,, nro,,rI, y,
be qualified as human, and if so it is
quit likely that its members are not
specialists in every line of admins
trative duty They may not be con-
struction engineers either, and may