Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-22

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(Voices in the audience: ("Rotten.")
(Applause).
For Pressing Clothes.
Il want to call your attention to just
two more items in this particular bill
and then l am through with 1t. 1t ap-
pears that from the exhibit attached
by the governor to this itemized &C
count. that on the eth of April he paid
$1.75 to have his suit pressed and on
the 2Sth he paid 1925 more for the
same purpose. daughter. applause
and cheerinG) This will all be printed
in the paper. my friends, and you can
go through it at your leisure and pass
judgment on 1t to suit yourself. That's
one Of the ways. though my friends. in
which the present administration has
been giving you q square deal in taxa
ton matters. Laughter) They have
been spending the money OF this state
in businessllke way. reclaiming arid.
waste places. daughter and applause. }
every dollar Of that money is in aheo-
lutte violation Of the constitution and
laws of this state. They had no more
right to take that money or any other
money and use 1t for that purpose than
had. and didn't have any right at all.
(Applause.)
Let me call your attention to section
10 of article Of the constitution:
No officer named in this section
shall receive for the performance
Of any official duty any fee for
his own use. but all fees fixed by
law for the performance by either OF
them Of any official duty shall be COL
lected in advance and deposited with
the state treasurer quarterly to the
credit Of the state. The legislature
may, by law. diminish or decrease the
compensation Of any or ali of the off,
GERS named in this section, but no such
diminution or increase shall affect the
salaries Of the officers then in office
during their term: Provided, however,
the legislature may provide for the pay
ment Of actual and necessary expenses
to the governor, lieutenant governor,
secretary of state, attorney general and
superintendent Of public instruction,
while travelling within the state in the
performance of official duty but not
without the state, my friends. and the
1911 session OF the legislature passed
this act which 1 have read to you al
ready and which Governor Hawley
signed. providing that itemized state
ments should be filed; and the morning
paper in this city, which claims to be
Republican, set this out this morning
briefly as an attack upon Governor
Hawley. but 1t forgot to tell you that
the chairman OF the Republican state
central committee of this state and Mr.
McDougall, the Republican attorney
general OF this state, were more Gull
pable in this matter than even Cover
nor Hawley. because they have not yet
filed any itemized statement showing
what they did with the money; and the
fact Of the matter Is that all three of
those men are working together in this
campaign. they are all controlled by the
invisible government: they are reac-
tionaries, they don't want to give you
people square deal. and they won't
do it. either in this administration or
any other. II they get one. (Applause)
Carey Act Trust Fund.
Just one thing more on the ques-
ton of taxation. The Carey act fund
under Governor Brady had expended
from 1t $4,000. That was in the two
years preceding this present admins
tration. Under this administration,
there has been paid out of that Carey
Act fund. $172,S54. and do you know,
my friends. that down yonder on the
King Hill project there are men and
women. Just as intelligent and just as
well educated as any OF you, college
graduates, business men, who have in
vested every dollar they possess on
earth, some Of them have already been
force to leave bankrupted. and unless
our state land board acts, and acts
speedily. the balance Of them will be
forced out of that project, bankrupted,
with the loss OF their Investments. the
loss of crops for three years, the loss
Of three years out of the best part of
their lives, because. forsooth. this state
land board Of this administration has
postponed and extended the time, time
after time. for the benefit OF the con-
struction company, over the protests
and against the applications and proof
OF those men and women.
And want to read to you now, from
what Governor Hawley will recognize
as the very best kind of authority. a
statement concerning that kind Of OFF,
cial conduct. that should be applied
to the present state land board. Not
only have they been spending your
money In a way In which they ought
not but they have been neglecting the
business interests of those projects In
shameful manner. Just how shameful
am going to let this authority tell you.
Referring to Governor Brady and the
Carey act projects, this authority says:
He. himself, as the head Of the state
government and of the land board. Ii
absolutely Responsible for these con-
ditions. 1t Is by reason OF the Gull
pable neglect OF duty on the part Of